Unsettling Dramaturgy Announces Recipients Of 2021 Unsettling Dramaturgy Award
The award acknowledges self-identified Black, Black Indigenous, Black Native, and/or Afro-Indigenous theatre, dance and experimental performance makers.
The Unsettling Dramaturgy Colloquium has announced the recipients of the inaugural Unsettling Dramaturgy Award for self-identified Black, Black Indigenous, Black Native, and/or Afro-Indigenous theatre, dance and experimental performance makers, who are Crip, Deaf, Mad, Sick, Chronically Ill, Disabled, Neurodiverse. Recipients are at a variety of stages in their career/practice, and are all based in the so-called USA or Canada.
This award is the Unsettling Dramaturgy Colloquium's response to anti-Black racism and the intersecting systemic oppressions and exclusions that shape our performance arts ecologies. This award is an expression of our alignment with movements like Black Lives Matter.
The Unsettling Dramaturgy Award includes: a cash gift; web features of the recipient's work; an online event with awarded artists, being produced for the public in collaboration with HowlRound in later 2021.
AWARD RECIPIENTS
Anne-Audrey Remarais, she/her, Montreal, QC
Barak adé Soleil, Chicago, IL
Dedra McDermott, she/her, Toronto, ON
Drewcella Davis, they/them, Minneapolis, MN
Elbert Joseph, he/him/they/them, Boston MA
Jamal Jackson, he/him/his, Brooklyn, NYC
Joya Powell, she/her, Lanapehoking land colonially known as Harlem, NYC
Leroy Moore, Berkeley, CA
Lydia K. Valentine, she/her, Tacoma, WA
melannie monoceros, they/them, Treaty 1/Winnipeg, MB; home of the Métis First Nation and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Dene, Cree, Dakota and Oji-Cree Nations
Michelle Banks, she/her, Washington D.C.
Patty Berne, they/them
Rashid M. Bey, he/him, Kansas City, MO
Rene Fisher, she / her, Baltimore, MD
Rye, they/them, Toronto, ON
Siobhan Barker, they/them, Vancouver, BC
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E=MC² Einstein The Musical Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center (7/03-7/26) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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The Lightning Theif: The Percy Jackson Musical Canyon Theatre Guild (8/01-8/30) |
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A CINDERELLA Summer – an “Enchanting” Rudie-DeCarlo Family Theatre Musical for kids 2 to 102 Santa Monica Playhouse (6/06-8/30) |
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Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Rubicon Theatre (12/02-12/24) |
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DAVIS GAINES: LIVE AT CVREP Coachella Valley Repertory (7/30-7/30) |
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North by Northwest The Old Globe (7/03-8/02) |
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Dog Man: The Musical Kirk Douglas Theatre (9/12-10/18) |
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Wine in the Wilderness Gil Cates Theater (6/02-7/04) |
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The Lion King Pantages Theatre (12/17-2/13) |