OPEN: The New Jewish Theater Residency At the 14th Street Y
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y and the Jewish Plays Project are seeking five collaborative teams of theater artists for a three-week pilot residency program. Modeled on the Space residency at Mabou Mines (and to some extend ART-NY’s Creative Spaces Grant), the residency is designed to give selected artists time, space and support to create vibrant new work that extends the Jewish conversation through cutting-edge theater forms and techniques.
Selected artists will also participate in the revolutionary artists’ Beit Midrash process developed at LABA, learning how ancient texts can inspire and inform their artistry.
IMPORTANT NOTE: THE CONTEST IS OPEN TO ARTISTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, DENOMINATIONS, FAITHS, CREEDS, RELIGIONS and other IDEALS. We believe that Jewish identity and culture are specific manifestations of universal human cravings for spiritual, ethical, moral and worldly joy. “Matrilineal descent” is neither important nor necessary.
The key to the residency is the collaborative team attached. LABA and the Project are not interested in single playwrights submitting work, actor’s with a vanity piece, or director’s with a single-minded concept. We want to gather thriving teams of multidisciplinary artists committed to their projects and to each other who are excited about gathering together with like-minded artists to seek a new, contemporary, cutting-edge direction for Jewish theater in New York City. In an ideal world, each team would have a performer, a visual or sound designer, and a key content artist (playwright, director or composer).
The Residency runs from June 11 – July 1, 2012 plus three meetings prior to the start of on-site rehearsals.
For full details on applying, visit www.jewishplaysproject.org/laba
For questions, call 347.878.5771
