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FY24 Edith Lutyen & Norman Bel Geddes Fund Recipients

 

A.R.T./New York is proud to announce the FY24 recipients of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund! The following eight companies received a total of $75,750 for their upcoming productions.

Houses on the Moon Theater Company // Hotel Happy
To support Matt Acheson’s design and building of a beautiful, expressive, functional and durable donkey puppet for Camilo Almonacid’s Hotel Happy. 

KEVIN RAY | WORKS // WE
To support immersive projections for a devised play based on Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1921 science fiction dystopian novel WE.

Krymov Lab NYC // Onegin
To support the creation of 200 puppets for the performance of Onegin (In our Own Words). 

Red Snapper Productions // Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
To support puppetry and set design enhancement for Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month, a new work written and performed by Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte, directed by Jess Barbagallo, with immersive production design by Greg Corbino..

Rooted Theater Company // Linden Park
To support set design for a new play called Linden Park written by Brandice Peltier and Kareem Nemley.

Sinking Ship Productions // The Voyages of Egon Tichy
To support building a multi-layer toy theater for The Voyages of Egon Tichy, a hybrid-in-person/digital performance adapted from two science fiction stories by Stanislaw Lem, built by Sinking Ship in collaboration with Obie award-winning Theater in Quarantine.

Transforma Theatre // Bioadapted
To support the task of creating an avatar embodying AI system ​GPT​-3 for Bioadapted, a theatre reenactment investigative documentary about what our future might look like if AI propagates in unethical ways that don't serve humankind.

Christina Masciotti’s No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh
To support set and costume design for the world premiere of Christina Masciotti’s No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh. Set in a tailor shop, the vision is an abstracted workroom dominated by racks of clothing.

 

FY24 Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund Panelists

  • Rebecca Bickley Clayton, Freelance Technical Director & Scenic Carpenter

  • Sara Fellini, Artistic Director, spit&vigor

  • Joshua William Gelb, Theater in Quarantine

  • Kimberly O'Loughlin, Sound Designer

  • Ayumu "Poe" Saegusa, Freelance Lighting Designer & Production Manager

Reporting, Crediting, and Recipients

Reporting & Crediting

FY23 & FY24 Design Enhancement Fund Grant Reporting »

Grant crediting guidelines and language »

The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund was made possible by generous funding from the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation.

 

Header: Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Finian's Rainbow. Photo by Carol Rosegg.