Emergency Grants

Ei Arakawa 
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2016

Ei Arakawa, a performance artist, received a grant in August to create and present Deda Bodzi (Mother Vertical) Love, Sex, SOS! as part of Tbilisi16 in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 1-4.

Jeremy Kilusan Bautista 
Performance Art/Theater
Bronx, NY
2016

Jeremy Kilusan Bautista, a writer and performer, received a grant in July to premiere TRANSCEND as part of the New York International Fringe Festival at the Alpha Omega Dance Studio Theatre in New York, August 12-28.

Kate Benson 
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2016

Kate Benson  a playwright, received a grant in December to premiere [PORTO] at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, January 10-February 4.

Agnes Borinsky
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2016

Agnes Borinsky received a grant in November to perform Weird Classrooms at The Performance Project, a performance space for contemporary performing artists at University Settlement in New York, NY, on November 18-19.

William Burke 
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2016

William Burke, a playwright and director, received a grant in February to premiere PIONEERS!#goforth at JACK in Brooklyn, March 24-April 9.

Cassils
Performance Art/Theater
Los Angeles, CA
2016

Cassils, a performance artist, received a grant in March to perform The Powers That Be at The Broad in Los Angeles, on March 20.

Nicholas Cotz 
Performance Art/Theater
New York, NY
2016

Nicholas Cotz, the producing director of All for One Theater, received a grant in October to remount My Name is Gideon: I'm Probably Going to Die, Eventually at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, November 11-December 12.

Ayana Evans 
Performance Art/Theater
New York, NY
2016

Ayana Evans, a performance artist, received a grant in July to perform during her extended residency at El Museo del Barrio in New York, June 1-August 20.

Carl Holder 
Performance Art/Theater
Brooklyn, NY
2016

Carl Holder, a playwright, received a grant in March to remount An Intimate Evening with Typhoid Mary at The New Ohio Theatre in New York, March 18-27.

Lars Jan 
Performance Art/Theater
Los Angeles, CA
2016

Lars Jan a writer, director, and designer, received a grant in November to present The Institute of Memory (TIMe) as part of the Divine Comedy Festival at the Malopolska Garden of Art in Krakow, Poland, December 9 and 10.