THE WORKING FARM

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Kevin Artigue

Kate Benson

Vichet Chum

Mia Chung

Jahna Ferron-Smith

Jahna Ferron-Smith

David Greenspan

David Greenspan

Or Matias

Jenny Rachel Weiner

Jenny Rachel Weiner

FAMILY RESIDENCY

founded in association with The Lilly Awards

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The Bengsons

Sheila Callaghan

Sheila Callaghan

Cody Carvel

Ava Chin

Adriane Colburn

Adriane Colburn

Hillary Frank

Sarah Gancher

Julia Jarcho

Christopher Vu Gandin Le

Christopher Vu Gandin Le

Natalia Nakazawa

Natalia Nakazawa

Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister

Hope Wabuke

Darius Wadia

and their children!

creative residency

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Warren Adams

Frankie J. Alvarez

Frankie J. Alvarez

Lindsay Amer

Asante Amin

Kevin Armento

S. Erin Batiste

S. Erin Batiste

Rachel Bonds

Nadia Bowers

Marty Brown

Kristen Adele Calhoun

Kristen Adele Calhoun

Heather Christian

Heather Christian

Olivia Clement

David Cote

Erin Courtney

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen

Annalisa Dias

Andy Van Dinh

Colman Domingo

Kate Douglas

Gabriel Ebert

Rachel Farmer

Leah C. Gardiner

Leah C. Gardiner

Justine Gelfman

Justine Gelfman

Ame Gilbert

Sarah Hammond

Kana Hatakeyama

Kana Hatakeyama

Miranda Haymon

Celisse Henderson

Celisse Henderson

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Rupi Kaur

Seonjae Kim

Anna Lathrop

Chen Lo

Shayan Lotfi

Kareem M. Lucas

Kareem M. Lucas

Pooja Makhijani

Pooja Makhijani

Kylie Manning

David McDevitt

Grace McLean

Jennifer Mendelsohn

Jennifer Mendelsohn

Michelle Moncayo

Michelle Moncayo

Zakeya Monique

Chris Myers

Shakina Nayfack

Shakina Nayfack

Mara Nelson-Greenberg

Mara Nelson-Greenberg

Hallie Elizabeth Newton

Hallie Elizabeth Newton

Nancy Pappas

Ronee Penoi

Naomi Raddatz

Stephanie Rolland

Stephanie Rolland

Noah Rubenstein

Noah Rubenstein

Travis Russ

Ken Rus Schmoll

Ken Rus Schmoll

Phaedra Michelle Scott

Phaedra Michelle Scott

Keith Randolph Smith

Keith Randolph Smith

Brendan Spieth

Georgia Stitt

James Anthony Tyler

James Anthony Tyler

Zack Zadek

creative solutions symposium

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In the summer of 2018 Woods Ervin (they/them) and Joss Greene (he/him) received a seed grant from Columbia University to begin the first major national study ever conducted about trans femmes of color in the labor market. In their capacities as organizers for racial and gender justice, Woods and Joss were observing a changing economic landscape for trans femmes of color. This project sought to identify employment opportunities and ongoing challenges by interviewing trans women of color in five US cities about their personal work histories and what they saw happening in their communities. Over the course of a year, Woods and Joss visited and spoke with people in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York City. The research is intended to help organizations facilitate more positive work environments for trans femmes of color, and to serve as a resource for trans women as they conduct their own advocacy to improve their workplaces and advance campaigns for economic justice.

The mission of Justice for Muslims Collective is to dismantle institutional and structural Islamophobia through raising political consciousness and shifting narratives, community empowerment and organizing, and building alliances across movements with a focus on the greater Washington region. www.justiceformuslims.org

MINKA, means ‘Home of the people’. As a healers-led center for wellness and holistic living, we strive to create an inclusive environment where people can heal and businesses can thrive. We believe in the magical existence of human beings: we are here to hold space, so you can remember how to harness your inherent brilliance.Here we gather, learn and better ourselves as a community through the extensive list of healing modalities and workshops we offer, crystals, essential oils, herbs and natural incenses. We welcome all who strive to shed old skin and glow anew from the inside out.  MINKA is an inclusive space for healing and therapeutic professionals to host workshops, meetings, lectures, meditations, and classes.  We believe each of us has a role to play, a lesson to teach, and our very own special stone to place towards manifesting pure love in all its forms.  minkabrooklyn.com

The NYSYLC was the first undocumented youth led organization in New York. We work to empower immigrant youth through leadership development, grassroots organizing, educational advancement, and self-expression. Our goal is to give undocumented youth the tools and space to organize and create change in our communities. www.nysylc.org

Guadalupe Ambrosio (NYSYLC)

Guadalupe Ambrosio (NYSYLC)

Sunder Ashni (MINKA Brooklyn)

Sunder Ashni (MINKA Brooklyn)

Aki Hirata Baker (MINKA Brooklyn)

Aki Hirata Baker (MINKA Brooklyn)

Pamela Benitez (NYSYLC)

Pamela Benitez (NYSYLC)

Woods Ervin (Advancing Economic Equity for Trans Femmes of Color)

Woods Ervin (Advancing Economic Equity for Trans Femmes of Color)

Joss Greene (Advancing Economic Equity for Trans Femmes of Color)

Joss Greene (Advancing Economic Equity for Trans Femmes of Color)

Dr. Maha Hilal (Justice for Muslims Collective)

Dr. Maha Hilal (Justice for Muslims Collective)

Jordan Catherine Pagán (MINKA Brooklyn)

Jordan Catherine Pagán (MINKA Brooklyn)

Darakshan Raja (Justice for Muslims Collective)

Darakshan Raja (Justice for Muslims Collective)

Angy Rivera (NYSYLC)

Angy Rivera (NYSYLC)

Maria Vera (NYSYLC)

Maria Vera (NYSYLC)

film lab

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Caitlin Craggs

Justin Luis Denis

Justin Luis Denis

River Gallo

Anne Hu

Crystal Kayiza

Lauren Minnerath

Lauren Minnerath

Eleanore Pienta

Eleanore Pienta

greenhouse residency

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Kaitlyn Curry

Celeste Jennings

Celeste Jennings

Janelle Lawrence

Janelle Lawrence

Romel Martinez

Brett Miller

Karim Nematt

Arthur Night

Institutional Residency

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In honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who relentlessly sought out truth in his work and demanded the same from his collaborators, The American Playwriting Foundation has been established to make annual grants to new American plays. https://www.americanplaywritingfoundation.org

Audible is a rich listening destination that offers insight and inspiration to millions of listeners and is the world’s leading audio and spoken-word media service. Audible’s theater initiative unleashes the artistic creativity of playwrights around the globe to deliver language-driven storytelling and inspire captivating performances on stage and in audio. In 2017, Audible launched a five million-dollar Emerging Playwrights Fund that identifies, nurtures and invests in emerging playwrights, making their works available to millions of listeners around the world. www.audible.com/theater

Celebrating over 78 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in 14 million musical works created and owned by more than 900,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI’s repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit  bmi.com , follow us on Twitter  @BMI  or stay connected through Broadcast Music, Inc.‘s  Facebook page . Sign up for  BMI’s The Weekly ™ and receive our e-newsletter every week to stay up to date on all things music. www.bmi.com

The Debate Society creates new plays through the collaboration of Hannah Bos (writer/performer), Paul Thureen (writer/performer) and Oliver Butler (director/developer). thedebatesociety.org

DGF protects the future of American Theater by supporting the writers who create it. dgf.org

Arts and culture workers need access to opportunities, resources, funding, advice and information to bring their visions to life. Founded in 1986, it is The Field’s mission to provide this access for artists, with an intentional focus on those who experience barriers to advancement based on race, cultural identity, ability, sexual orientation, or other identities. These values are manifested in our programming, staffing, and advocacy. The Field is intentionally practicing, implementing, learning, and doing. The work is constant and consistent. We are a work-in-progress. Ultimately, it is our goal to create a vibrant cultural community that authentically and intentionally includes a representation of resilient and self-determined artists and makers of all identities. thefield.org

To encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs; To provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight; and achieve professionalism To improve the quality of college and university theater in America; To encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works. MICHAEL KANIN AWARDS the forty-eight year commitment to new work represented by the Kennedy Center’s playwriting programs (either the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards and the attendant award residencies, or the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, produced annually at the KC in association with the National New Play Network) has had, of all of the theatre disciplines our organization celebrates, the most significant and lasting impact on the American Theatre. It’s important to stress that we don’t take credit for their careers, but are enormously proud of having supported their work while they were students. kcactf.org

Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian and Asian American (A/AA) performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of A/AA artists’ words, and the presentation of A/AA bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established A/AA artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve. www.leviathanlab.org

National New Play Network is an alliance of professional, not for profit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays. http://nnpn.org

At New Georges , founded in 1992, we launch and sustain artists (who are women) of assertive imagination -- individually, as collaborators, and as a community --and advance their exuberantly theatrical new plays. We serve the largest ongoing working community of women and gender-nonconforming theater artists in New York City with career-transforming productions; a diverse slate of development programs; and The Room, our indispensable workspace for women theater artists, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. www.newgeorges.org

Page 73’s mission is to develop and produce the work of early-career playwrights who have shown a commitment to playwriting as a career but who have yet to receive a professional production in New York City. www.page73.org

Playwrights Horizons is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons' 48-year-old mission is unique; we are the only major theater in New York with this specific mission. We have distinguished ourselves by the caliber of our work and our steadfast commitment to the voice of the American writer. It is a mission that is always timely, and it is essential to the future of the American theater. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights Horizons encourages the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. We are among the few theaters in the US that maintain an open submission policy, and writers are supported through every stage of their growth with a series of development programs that comprise our New Works Lab. We present at least six productions annually on our two stages, each of which is a World, American or New York premiere. www.phnyc.org

Roundabout celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present and educating minds for the future. https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/

The Secret City presents ecstatic community art celebrations featuring storytelling, visual art, food offerings, guest performers, a live band, a community choir, group meditation and playful interaction. With events in New York, LA and the Hudson Valley, we are fostering am ever growing community connected by the creative spirit.  www.thesecretcity.org

SITM is a nonprofit organization increasing the number of women working in music - songwriters, engineers, producers, artists and industry professionals. We are an independent, global network that operates as a unifying organization for women from across the industry, creating strength and impact on a global scale. As an umbrella nonprofit, we also provide resources and support for female-focused initiatives that are working to create meaningful change - both through our own programs, as well as external efforts around the world. Programs include an all-female songwriting series, industry database of women creators and mentorship program, with more to come. Our initiatives serve women in the industry today while fostering the development of future generations. A first-of-its-kind collaboration spanning the music industry, SITM is powered by creators, publishers, record labels, talent agencies, industry groups, media companies, streaming services, and more. Together, we are creating change for women and building an equal future for music. sheisthemusic.org

The best place for podcasts.  Whether you're a creator who is making a podcast, or a listener who is trying to find the best podcasts, Stitcher is the place where all things podcast converge! The Stitcher podcast network is an industry-leading content creator, bringing you shows that range from scripted fiction ( Marvel's Wolverine ) to daily news ( Today Explained ) to investigative documentary ( Stranglers, Heaven's Gate ). And  o ur Stitcher app is one of the best places to discover allthe best podcast content, and to connect to the world of podcast fans. www.stitcher.com

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To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theater experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways. https://www.woollymammoth.net/

Jay Adana (DGF)

Jay Adana (DGF)

Benjamin Benne (Kennedy Center)

Benjamin Benne (Kennedy Center)

Zeniba Britt (DGF)

Zeniba Britt (DGF)

Brandy N. Carie (Kennedy Center)

Brandy N. Carie (Kennedy Center)

Emily Feldman (Playwrights Horizons)

Emily Feldman (Playwrights Horizons)

Eric Micha Holmes (Audible)

Eric Micha Holmes (Audible)

Zora Howard (Page 73)

Zora Howard (Page 73)

Daniel K. Isaac (Page 73)

Daniel K. Isaac (Page 73)

Julia Izumi (Kennedy Center)

Julia Izumi (Kennedy Center)

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Woolly Mammoth)

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Woolly Mammoth)

Marisela Treviño Orta (Audible)

Marisela Treviño Orta (Audible)

Harrison David Rivers (Relentless Award Winner)

Harrison David Rivers (Relentless Award Winner)

Korde Arrington Tuttle (Playwrights Horizons)

Korde Arrington Tuttle (Playwrights Horizons)

Michael Walkup (Page 73)

Michael Walkup (Page 73)

Anne Washburn (Woolly Mammoth)

Anne Washburn (Woolly Mammoth)

Season Extension Residency

February 2019

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Will Arbery

Cusi Cram

Leslie Gauthier

Leslie Gauthier

Monet Hurst-Mendoza

Monet Hurst-Mendoza

C.A. Johnson

Emily Kaczmarek

Emily Kaczmarek

Jason Gray Platt

Jason Gray Platt

Ikechukwu  Ufomadu

Ikechukwu Ufomadu

2019 FINALISTS

SPACE receives an overwhelming number of exceptional applications each year. These finalists for our individual and small group residencies represent some of the most exciting artists today.

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