Playwrights Daisy Foote, Adam Bock & Sarah Ruhl Among Space on Ryder Farm's 2016 Residents

SPACE on Ryder Farm, the non-profit artist residency program located on Ryder Farm, an idyllic 200 year-old working organic farm in Brewster, New York announces its 2016 season for The Working Farm, Family Residency, Creative Solutions Symposium and Artistic Residency programs. 2016 residents include playwrights Adam Bock, Cusi Cram, Daisy Foote, Adam Rapp, J.T. Rogers, Sarah Ruhl, recipients of the inaugural Relentless Award--Clare Barron and Sarah DeLappe--indie folk band Jamestown Revival, Pig Iron Theatre Company, SoHo Rep, and actor and playwright Hamish Linklater.

Founded in 2010 by Emily Simoness as a one-of-a-kind artistic home away from home for artists and innovators, SPACE on Ryder Farm counts among its alumni Academy Award winners, Tony Award nominees and winners, Pulitzer finalists, Guggenheim Fellows, Obie Award winners, and a MacArthur Genius Award winner.

"In a world that is increasingly fast-paced and distracted, it is more and more vital for artists and innovators to have time to slow down and grow something, be it their craft or a mission statement," said Executive Director Simoness. "We're thrilled to announce the 2016 residents at SPACE on Ryder Farm - individuals and companies who value the slower pace and literal and figurative space that time on Ryder Farm affords them."

Members of the 2016 Working Farm, SPACE's resident playwrights group are: Eliza Bent, Adam Bock, Alex Borinsky, Cusi Cram, Daisy Foote, Ryan King, Basil Kreimendahl and James Tyler. Past members of The Working Farm group include Rob Askins, Jeff Augustin, Sarah Burgess (who wrote Dry Powder - which just concluded its world premiere at the Public Theater - during her SPACE residency), Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Jen Silverman. The five-week fully-subsidized residency culminates in The Roving Dinner, an eight-course farm fresh meal paired alongside excerpts from the resident's new plays, and served at historic locations around Ryder Farm. Tickets to The Roving Dinner on September 17, 2016 are available to the public at www.spaceonryderfarm.org/upcoming-events.

Now in its second year, the Family Residency, in association with The Lilly Awards Foundation, hosts working artists and their children for a fully-subsidized weeklong residency designed to give parents space to work on their craft in a retreat environment with their kids close by. SPACE staff will facilitate creative and nature-focused programming for the children. The 2016 Family Residency participants are Beth Nixon, Louisa Thompson Pregerson, Deepa Purohit, Sarah Ruhl, Georgia Stitt, and their children.

The NYC Anti-Violence Project and members of the King's County District Attorney's Office Re-entry Task Force are among the participants in this season's Creative Solutions Symposium, a fully subsidized week long residency for activists and human rights organizations who are creatively addressing social justice issues. SPACE introduces a new initiative in 2016 - the Creative Collisions Residency - bringing together critical thinkers across disciplines to spur heightened discourse and new ideas around a guiding question. This season, eight activists, educators, artists and changemakers will convene and explore the prompt: How do we combat racial inequity?

SPACE on Ryder Farm is a non-profit artist residency program located an hour north of New York City on the grounds of Ryder Farm in Brewster, New York. SPACE creates an environment singular in its ability to invigorate artists and innovators and their work, and contributes to the sustainability and resourceful preservation of one of the oldest organic family farms on the East Coast. For more information about SPACE on Ryder Farm, its programs, and events open to the public, visit www.spaceonryderfarm.org.