MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK CITY:<\/strong> The 5 theatres that comprise the Generation Now partnership\u2014Latino Theater Company,<\/a> Ma-Yi Theater Company,<\/a> Native Voices on the Autry,<\/a> Penumbra Theatre,<\/a> and Children\u2019s Theatre Company<\/a>\u2014have awarded their first spherical of commissions to 4 tasks. These embrace One Small Alice <\/em>by Ifa Bayeza; Drawing Lessons <\/em>by Michi Barall; Comanche Girl on the Moon <\/em>by Dustin Tahmahkera; and a piece exploring the world of folkl\u00f3rico dance by the Latino Theater Company.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are thrilled to partner with these leaders and their extraordinary organizations to develop new ways of creating works for multigenerational audiences,\u201d Peter Brosius, inventive director of Children\u2019s Theatre Company, mentioned in an announcement. \u201cWe are eager to work together to support these remarkable artists in their journey to bring new stories, new perspectives, and new aesthetics to the field.\u201d <\/p>\n Generation Now brings collectively 5 theatres throughout the nation to fee and develop new works for multigenerational audiences by each established and rising BIPOC artists. All commissions will obtain not less than two developmental workshops on the co-commissioning theatres. The purpose of the partnership is to develop the canon of labor produced and to create a mannequin of transformative partnership for the theatre area.<\/p>\n Bayeza\u2019s One Small Alice <\/em>was co-commissioned by Penumbra and Children\u2019s Theatre Company. The play transposes Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland <\/em>and Through the Looking Glass <\/em>into the journey of a 9 yr outdated woman on the Underground Railroad. <\/p>\n Bayeza is a playwright, director, novelist, and educator. She is thought for the Till Trilogy<\/a>, which incorporates the performs The Ballad of Emmett Till<\/em>, That Summer in Sumner<\/em>, and Benevolence<\/em>. She can be the co-author of the novel Some Sing, Some Cry<\/em> with the late Ntozake Shange. A finalist for the Herb Alpert Award<\/a> and the Francesca Primus Prize<\/a> in 2020, Bayeza was the inaugural humanist in residence on the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/a> Bayeza is the recipient of two concurrent commissions from the National Trust for Historic Preservation<\/a> and is a 2022 MacDowell<\/a> fellow. A graduate of Harvard University,<\/a> Bayeza acquired her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.<\/a><\/p>\n Barall\u2019s Drawing Lessons was co-commissioned by Ma-Yi and Children\u2019s Theatre Company. The play follows Kate, a woman who has simply began center college and might\u2019t appear to speak to anybody, however can talk with Paul, a comic book strip artist at a newspaper. The play can be accessible for licensing with Plays for New Audiences<\/a> post-production.<\/p>\n Barall is a New York-based actor, playwright, and educational. Her dance-theatre piece Rescue Me <\/em>was produced on the Ohio Theatre by Ma-Yi in 2010. In 2017, her music theatre adaptation of Ibsen\u2019s Peer Gynt<\/em>, Peer Gynt and the Norwegian Hapa Band<\/em>, at ART\/New York.<\/a> Barall holds an MFA from New York University<\/a> and PhD in Theatre and English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University<\/a> and is a college member at Purchase College.<\/a><\/p>\n Tahmahkera\u2019s Comanche Girl on the Moon<\/em> was co-commissioned by Native Voices on the Autry and Children\u2019s Theatre Company. The play follows an imaginative however insecure Comanche woman, Petu, who discovers her late grandmother\u2019s rocket ship in Oklahoma. It can be accessible for licensing with Plays for New Audiences post-production.<\/p>\n Tahmahkera is a Comanche playwright and professor of Native media and sound research on the University of Oklahoma. His quick play 9-1-1 Comancher\u00eda<\/em> acquired finest play and viewers favourite awards at Native Voices on the Autry\u2019s current Los Angeles play pageant, and is a part of a collection of authentic quick performs in his e book, Comanche vs. the World<\/em>. Tahmahkera\u2019s earlier books embrace Tribal Television: Viewing Native Peoples in Sitcoms <\/em>from the University of North Carolina Press and Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger within the Media Borderlands<\/em> from the University of Nebraska Press. <\/p>\n Latino Theater Company\u2019s untitled folkl\u00f3rico play, which was co-commissioned by the corporate and by Children\u2019s Theatre Company, is a journey into the world of Mexican folkl\u00f3rico dance by means of the lens of younger folks confronting their roots, id, and reality. <\/p>\n Generation Now acquired funding from the Mellon Foundation in 2021 to co-commission and co-develop 16 new performs by each established and rising BIPOC artists for multigenerational audiences over 5 years.<\/p>\n
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