Vineyard Theatre And Workshop Center Inc

Programs: Fy17 marked vineyard theatres 34th season, and our 28th year at the 138-seat gertrude and irving dimson theatre in new york citys union square. We received acclaim for our three mainstage productions of this day forward by nicky silver, kid victory with music by john kander and a book and lyrics by greg pierce, and can you forgive her? By gina gionfriddo. Vineyard programming served 18,104 individuals in fy17. Each year, the vineyards education programs offered at no cost to students or schools and designed to inspire learning and self-expression and develop life skills served 600 local public high school students. In fy17, our mainstage access program served 414 students (at the academy for software engineering, gramercy arts, and the union square academy for health sciences) with matinee performances bookended by in-class workshops with teaching artists. Our theatre intensive during students spring break in april served 14 students with three days of hands-on workshops and a trip to lynn nottages pulitzer-winning sweat on broadway. This season, the vineyard expanded its partnership with developing artists to administer educational programs and launch the rebel verses youth arts festival from our stage for the first time, featuring 70 student performers and audiences of 606. Twelve students developed and performed their own original work in the vineyard theatre student ensemble in fy17. The vineyard hosted 22 professional internships this year. The vineyards ongoing new play development programs offer artists at all stages of their careers tailored dramaturgical and practical support in the form of workshops, readings, and residencies. In fy17, we produced readings of miller, mississippi by boo killebrew, laura and the sea (which also received a developmental lab production) and god is dead, lets make love by kate tarker, nostalgia is a mild form of grief by jerry lieblich, everything is here by peggy stafford, the sweetest life with a book and lyrics by stephanie fleishmann and music by saskia lane, and stand. Up. By michael kimmel. The vineyards paula vogel playwriting award is granted annually to a gifted emerging playwright and includes a cash prize and a vineyard residency; our 2016 awardee was kate tarker. The two-year susan stroman directing award, also offering a cash prize and residency, was awarded in 2016 to lee sunday evans. Among the vineyards many notable world premieres are two pulitzer prize-winning dramas, paula vogels how i learned to drive and edward albees three tall women, and five productions that have transferred to broadway john kander and fred ebbs the scottsboro boys, hunter bell and jeff bowens [title of show], bobby lopez, jeff marx and jeff whittys avenue q, nicky silvers the lyons, and most recently indecent by paula vogel. Our work has won 2 pulitzer prizes, 5 tony awards, 23 obie awards, 2 oppenheimer awards, and numerous new york drama critics circle, lucille lortel, and drama desk awards. The vineyard is proud to have been honored with a special lucille lortel award for outstanding body of work, a drama desk award for artistic excellence, and the first-ever ross wetzsteon obie award for support of artists and creativity in the theatre.