The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Grants Awarded
Following a highly competitive application and panel process, PTI awards direct project support to a number of Philadelphia-area nonprofit professional theatre companies, performing arts presenters, and independent theatre performance artists.
The following are some of the projects that have been funded by the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.
2009
The First Day of School
$65,000
Sunday in the Park with George
$110,000
Chicken
$20,000 – first-time grantee
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
$60,000
The AI Project
$20,000
August: Osage County
$76,591
Meanwhile…
$14,520
Freedom Club
$30,000
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
$25,000 – first-time grantee
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
The Sun Also Rises
$107,000
Golden Age
$110,000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$150,000 over two years
A Queer Divine
$20,000
MICROWORLD(s)
$20,000
Leaving
$110,000
2008
Candide
$110,000
Haunted Poe
$48,000
Cabinet of Wonders: An Impossible History
$25,000-first-time grantee
Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl
$20,000
The Andersen Project
$105,000
People’s Light and Theatre Company
The Persians
$110,000
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe
Operetta
$110,000
Grey Gardens
$110,000
Welcome to Yuba City
$75,000
Melancholy, A Comedy
$20,000
The MeLTING BRiDgE
$20,000
Scorched
$110,000
2007
Cherry Bomb
$100,000
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
MoLoRa
$100,000-first-time grantee
Assassins
$100,000
Unbuckled, Uncensored and Flashpoints/Unbreakable Objects
$28,000-first-time grantee
What You Will
$120,000-first-time grantee
Oedipus at FDR
$10,000-first-time grantee
House, Divided
$50,000
The Sea
$10,000-first-time grantee
The Lonesome West
$25,000
Fatebook: Avoiding Catastrophe One Party at a Time
$32,000
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
The European Lesson
$82,000
Isabella
$75,000
Sea of Birds
$10,000- first-time grantee
Roosters
$50,000
Eurydice
$100,000
2006
This Is the Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays
$50,000
Caroline, Or Change
$100,000
machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines
$10,000
A House With No Walls
$50,000
Edward Scissorhands
$100,000
Sweetie Pie
$10,000
Animal Farm
$80,000 over two years
BATCH: An American Bachelor/ette Party Spectacle
$20,000
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
The Emperor Jones
$75,000
The Happiness Lecture
$160,000 over two years
Chekhov Lizardbrain
$75,000
Out of Sight
$10,000
Flamingo/Winnebago
$10,000
Hearts & Soles
$20,000
The Galileo Project
$100,000
2005
Daughters of Genius
$50,000
Much Ado About Nothing
$10,000
The Foocy
$10,000
Winesburg, Ohio
$100,000
Suburban Love Songs
$10,000
Extinction: A Play
$25,000
Some Men
$100,000
Love Unpunished
$42,500
Cloud 9 and A Number
$100,000
2004
Always a Lady
$25,000
Punch’s Progress: A Pulcinella Story
$10,000
The Street of Useful Things
$40,000
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
$80,000
Fences
$50,00
Pinocchio
$10,000
all wear bowlers
$10,000
The Beauty Inside
$50,000
Death and the King’s Horseman
$25,000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$25,000
Planetary Enzyme Blues
$10,000
The Story
$80,000
Hell Meets Henry Halfway
$25,000
¡El Conquistador!
$10,000
Outrage
$80,000