Azure D. Osborne-Lee News

by Stephi Wild - Mar 15, 2023
IndieSpace, an organization established to disrupt the ongoing displacement of small theaters and to create a new model for equitable funding for the indie theater community, recently distributed Milk and Eggs (Cost of Living) Grants to 81 NYC-based Indie theater artists in need of funds to offset the increases in cost of living.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 27, 2023
Parity Productions, the New York based theatre company dedicated to producing new work by women, trans, and gender-expansive playwrights has opened applications for playwrights to the 2023 Parity Development Award, formerly known as the Parity Annual Commission.

by Stephi Wild - Oct 26, 2022
Parity Productions, the New York based theatre company dedicated to producing new work and filling at least 80% of the creative positions (playwrights, directors, and designers) with women, trans, and gender-expansive artists, will premiere a developmental workshop of 2020 Commission Winner Jonathan Alexandratos’ (they/them) play Turning Krasniqi: A Non-Binary Play at the newly renovated AMT Theater.

by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 8, 2022
Parity Productions, the New York-based theatre company dedicated to producing new work by women, trans, and gender-expansive playwrights and filling at least 80% of the creative positions (playwrights, directors, and designers) with women, trans, and gender-expansive artists, has awarded two commissions to SAM MUELLER for 70.3 and JORDAN RAMIREZ PUCKETT for En Las Sombras.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 26, 2022
Founding Artistic Director George Strus has announced the complete cast and additional creative team members for the inaugural Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival. Curated by Strus, Dominique Rider and Josephine Kearns, Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival will feature seven evenings of work created and developed by TNB2S+ theatermakers.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 26, 2022
Tony Award nominee L Morgan Lee (she/her, A Strange Loop) will direct the final evening of Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival – an evening of 15 newly commissioned monologues created by members of the TNB2S+ community - on Sunday October 16 at 7:00pm at Theatre Row’s first floor space, Theatre One.

by A.A. Cristi - Nov 12, 2021
Theatre production company Parity Productions, the only New York theatre company that ensures that they fill at least 80% of the creative roles on their own productions—playwrights, directors, and designers—with women, trans, and gender-expansive artists and offers free tools to encourage the rest of the theatre industry to do the same, has awarded two commissions to Kelley Nicole Girod for This Stretch of Montpelier and M Sloth Levine for At Hotel MacGuffin. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, November 10th as a hybrid event over zoom and in person at the Manny Cantor Center.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 28, 2021
Parity Productions will premiere the filmed stage production of the world premiere play MIRRORS by Azure D. Osborne-Lee, 2018 Parity Commission Winner, at their 2021 Awards Ceremony and Celebration (AC&C) on Wednesday, November 10th.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 13, 2021
Center Theatre Group in association with UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television present “32 Acres,” a new uniquely enveloping outdoor soundwalk through Los Angeles State Historic Park offered July 14 through September 29, 2021, during park hours (8 am through sunset) at no cost through a free app in the Apple and Google app stores.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 15, 2021
Waterwell will present the 2021 New Works Lab world-premiere production of Red Rainbow by Azure D. Osborne-Lee (Mirrors, Crooked Parts, Glass), directed by Kevin R. Free (Welcome to Nightvale, “Gemma & the Bear”).