Repertorio Español Announces 2012-2013 Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship for Directors
By: Kelsey Denette Mar. 23, 2012
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL today announced the 2012-2013 Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship for Directors. This fellowship enables emerging Hispanic Latino directors the unique opportunity to mount two professional Theater Productions at Repertorio Español. The requirements for the Van Lier Fellowship include that candidates must be Hispanic Latino, 30 years old or younger, having completed a BA or MFA in dramatic arts and must not be currently enrolled in any university or a full time theatre training program. They must live in one of the five boroughs of New York City, plan to remain in New York City, and be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Ideal fellows have some previous experience in directing, an integral knowledge of classical Spanish theatre, contemporary Latin American theatre as well as a familiarity of Hispanic-American Playwrights. Three directors will be chosen to participate in the Van Lier Fellowship based on their production proposals and in-person interviews. Fellows will direct two distinct works in Spanish over two summers. The first round of productions will be contemporary works written in Spanish or works by Hispanic American Playwrights which will happen in the summer of 2012. Round two will be plays from the Siglo de Oro (Spain’s Golden Age), which will happen in the summer of 2013.
DEADLINE is Monday, April 9th, 2012 at 11:59pm (timestamp). For an application, please send an e-mail as soon as possible expressing interest to vanlier@repertorio.org with the words “Van Lier” in the subject line. More information is available on the websitewww.repertorio.org/vanlierThe Fellowship is funded by The New York Community Trust.
[The Van Lier Fellowship] “is unique in its scope and the amount of freedom and trust it puts in the directors’ hands. It is for this reason that I am extraordinarily thankful to Repertorio Español and the New York Community Trust for giving me the chance to direct these two plays as part of the Van Lier Fellowship. Thanks to them I have been able to take on ambitious projects I otherwise wouldn’t have had the chance explore.” –Julián Mesri (Van Lier Fellow 2009-2010)
“Repertorio Español has been this generous and nurturing space in which I could taste a new side of my work: the sweetness and lightness of my childhood mingled with the strength of Lorca's poetry. At the same time, it has been a great opportunity for dealing with aspects not very provocative but key in the development of any creative work: production. The Van Lier Fellowship has been an amazing exercise in making the theater I want real.” – Gisela Cardenas (Van Lier Fellow 2003-2004)
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