New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) returns to 91吃瓜网 for the fifth year of its summer residency program.
returns to 91吃瓜网 for the fifth year of its summer residency program in the . From June 16鈥揓une 26, 2016, AUPAC and the will host NYTW鈥檚 2050 Fellowship retreat and developmental workshops focusing on director-driven projects. Together, NYTW and Adelphi have also hosted a number of forums for directors and artistic directors to discuss their practice.
Fore more than three decades, New York Theatre Workshop has been a home for groundbreaking, adventurous theatre-makers and theatre-goers. Its summer residencies provide both established and emerging artists with the time and space to devote to their works and opportunities to collaborate with their fellow artists.
As in previous years, Adelphi students will聽serve as聽interns for this program to gain hands-on experience and insight into the development of new work. This year, nine will join in the workshops and discussions, and to support the residency.
Notable Adelphi alumnus and creator of RENT, Jonathan Larson 鈥�82, workshopped the play intensively for two years at NYTW before a run of sold-out performances. During its subsequent run on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre, the play won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 1996, as well as聽the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
鈥淎delphi and NYTW have a natural bond through our mutual support of the late Jonathan Larson,鈥� said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Sam L Grogg. 鈥淥ur collaboration has been and will continue to be the support of diversity and inclusion in the development of new theatre artists.鈥�
Adelphi and NYTW (in cooperation with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society) also convene leaders from various aspects of the theatre community to discuss issues and challenges that are at the heart of the continuing development of American theater. This spring, Adelphi, NYTW and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation hosted theatre directors at Adelphi鈥檚 Manhattan Center for a forum entitled 鈥淒irecting the Future.鈥� Further programs as part of this initiative will be announced in the fall.
鈥淚 can’t think of another academic institution in the country that has made the commitment that Adelphi has to the support, development and betterment of both the practice of directing and the individuals who commit themselves to that discipline,鈥� says Artistic Director of NYTW Jim Nicola. 鈥淭he directors in the field are an endangered species–very little developmental support exists for them. And without this kind of support, they will not thrive, which would make the American theater a very diminished art form.鈥�
For more information about the AUPAC, visit . For details about 91吃瓜网鈥檚 Department of Theatre, visit . For more information about New York Theatre Workshop, visit . For more information about the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, visit .
About New York Theatre Workshop:
New York Theatre Workshop, now in its fourth decade of incubating important new works of theatre, continues to honor its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape all our lives. Each season, from its home in New York’s East Village, NYTW presents four new productions, over 80 readings and numerous workshop productions for over 45,000 audience members. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs, including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies and artist fellowships. Since its founding, NYTW has produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson’s Rent; Tony Kushner’s Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright’s Quills; Claudia Shear’s Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke鈥檚 Vienna: Lusthaus; Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen鈥檚 Aftermath; Rick Elice鈥檚 Peter and the Starcatcher; Enda Walsh鈥檚 Once; and seven acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW鈥檚 productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, seventeen Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards.