The Women (2021)
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VISION RESIDENCY THE WOMEN (2021) [WORKING TITLE] APRIL 8 @ 6PM ET Created by L MORGAN LEE & raja feather kelly Featuring Work by KIRSTEN CHILDS, DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI, DONNETTA LAVINIA GRAYS, CHRISTINE TOY JOHNSON, BIANCA LEIGH, CARMEN LOBUE & NIA WITHERSPOON Directed by raja feather kelly THE WOMEN (2021) [WORKING TITLE] APRIL 8 @ 6PM ET FEATURING DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI L MORGAN LEE KIM EXUM RONALD PEET JORDAN HO ANEESH SHETH LACRETTA THE TEAM Created by L MORGAN LEE & raja feather kelly Featuring Work by KIRSTEN CHILDS, DANE FIGUEROA EDIDI, DONNETTA LAVINIA GRAYS, CHRISTINE TOY JOHNSON, BIANCA LEIGH, CARMEN LOBUE & NIA WITHERSPOON Directed by raja feather kelly We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS and SAG- AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program. Ars Nova operates on the unceded land of the Lenape peoples on the island of Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape Homeland. We acknowledge the brutal history of this stolen land and the displacement and dispossession of its Indigenous people. We also acknowledge that after there were stolen lands, there were stolen people. We honor the generations of displaced and enslaved people that built, and continue to build, the country that we occupy today. We gathered together in virtual space to watch this performance. We encourage you to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technology and structures we use and to acknowledge its disproportionate impact on communities of color and Indigenous peoples worldwide. We invite you to join us in acknowledging all of this as well as our shared responsibility: to consider our way forward in reconciliation, decolonization, anti-racism and allyship. We commit ourselves to the daily practice of pursuing this work. ABOUT THE ARTISTS L MORGAN LEE (Creator, Performer) (she/her) is an award-winning actress and seeker of light. Her performance in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, A Strange Loop, garnered her an Obie award well as a Lucille Lortel nomination. That production gave L Morgan the distinction of being the first openly trans actress to originate a role in a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece of theater. Other credits include National and International tours, and projects with Long Wharf Theater, Musical Theatre Factory, Ars Nova, 5th Avenue Theater and more. She is dedicated to being a part of work centering underrepresented voices on both stage and screen. "She needed a hero, so that's what she became." For more info: lmorganlee.com raja feather kelly (Creator, Director, Vision Resident) is an Obie-winning choreographer, director, artistic director of the feath3r theory and a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School. In 2020, Kelly made his directorial debut at New York City's Second Stage Theatre with We're Gonna Die. Since 2016, Raja has choreographed extensively for Off-Broadway theater in New York City, most notably for Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Horizons. Frequent collaborators include: Lileana Blain- Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson and Lila Neugebauer. Other theater credits include choreography for Skittles Commercial: The Musical (Town Hall), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (SohoRep), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), GURLS (Princeton University, Yale Repertory Theatre), Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen), Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop), Fireflies (Atlantic Theatre Company), If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, nominated for the 2019 Lucille Lortel Award and the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography), The Good Swimmer (BAM) and Faust (Opera Omaha). Most recent work: Fairview (SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award finalist for choreography; Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA, and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), A Strange Loop (Obie Award winner and SDCF Callaway finalist for choreography; Playwrights Horizons, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). ABOUT THE VISION RESIDENCY Designed to foreground Ars Nova’s values through the creation of more equitable and power-sharing curatorial practices, the Vision Residency expands Ars Nova’s artistic vision by inviting seven artist-curators to populate our digital platform with their own work as well as work by artists they champion and admire. Each Resident is given broad support from Ars Nova’s full staff, and spends two months planning for one month of activity on Ars Nova Supra. Each Vision Resident is paid for their curation and administrative work, as well as allocated a program budget towards the creation, development and presentation of work during their curated month. Vision Residents are encouraged to invite other artists they feel inspired by, want to collaborate with or simply wish to amplify to make and share work using the budget and resources of the residency during their month of programming. The 2020/21 Vision Residents are: Starr Busby, nicHi douglas, JJJJJerome Ellis, raja feather kelly, Jenny Koons, David Mendizábal & Rona Siddiqui. Ars Nova's Vision Residency program is supported by The Miranda Family Fund. ARS NOVA 2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS TEAM JENNY STEINGART JASON EAGAN STEVEN DALTON MAKERS LAB FOUNDING CHAIR, CO-FOUNDER FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR IT CONSULTANT MANIK CHOKSI & ZI ALIKHAN ALISA LESSING RENEE BLINKWOLT JOHN WYSZNIEWSKI, CHAIR MANAGING DIRECTOR EVERYMAN AGENCY GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN, DANA KIRCHMAN EMILY SHOOLTZ PRESS REPRESENTATIVE DAVID MENDIZÁBAL, VICE CHAIR ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JOÉL PÉREZ & EMMA RAMOS JUDY BEDOL CASEY YORK LAURA GALINDO SECRETARY GENERAL MANAGER RESIDENT ARTISTS NIGHTDRIVE JASON KEMPER MAC INGRAM VISION RESIDENCY MICHELLE J. RODRIGUEZ TREASURER DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR STARR BUSBY JILLIAN WALKER RICH BATTISTA JES LEVINE nicHi douglas DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION NANCY BERGMAN JJJJJEROME ELLIS COMPANY-IN-RESIDENCE RENEE BLINKWOLT ERIC SHETHAR MANAGER OF ARTISTIC PROGRAMS raja feather kelly NICOLE BRODEUR ON THE ROCKS THEATRE CO. JAKE HAUNGS JENNY KOONS GREG CORRADETTI OPERATIONS & FACILITIES MANAGER DAVID MENDIZÁBAL JASON EAGAN KATE WEBER RONA SIDDIQUI NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST VICTOR EDOZIEN INTERIM BUSINESS MANAGER VAN LIER FELLOWS RICK FELDMAN JUSTIN SAMOY PLAY GROUP LAURA GALINDO DEEKSHA GAUR INDIVIDUAL GIVING & MICHELLE J. RODRIGUEZ SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGER MELIS AKER MEI LIN KWAN-GETT SARAH IVINS PRESTON MAX ALLEN GRETA MANSOUR MARKETING MANAGER SERENA BERMAN COMMISSIONED ARTISTS DAVID MINER SIMON LASS VICHET CHUM DOUG RAPPAPORT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR MELIS AKER GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN VIRGINIA B. 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