21Q: Capital Stage awarded $50K Irvine grant

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November 13, 2009

Capital Stage awarded $50K Irvine grant

Capital Stage theater company has been awarded a two-year, $50,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation for a program that will develop new dramatic works by and about women.

The grant will fund the theater company's Women In Theatre project - a two year effort that seeks to promote the work of women in theater, according to a statement from Capital Stage.

To do so, Capital Stage will create new plays through a workshop process. Two new plays will be developed through a two-week rehearsal process. This will culminate in four live performances.

Sacramento author Jayne Williams has been selected as one of the writers to be included. Her book "Slow Fat Triathlete" will be workshopped and developed into a one-woman show.

The project will also allow the theater to fully produce two premieres by women playwrights that feature strong roles for women. Those productions will be part of Capital Stage's 2010-11 season.

Also part of the project plans will be a symposium whose aim is to promote a dialogue among professional women theater artists about the current and future role of women in theater.

This is the second Irvine Foundation grant for Capital Stage, which was founded in 2005. In 2007, the company received a $40,000 grant to develop its Playwrights' Revolution program that allowed the development of new works. That grant resulted in the company's first world premiere production, "Erratica, an Academic Farce," last summer.

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