CAC Announces the 2009 Residency in Applied Arts!
08/01/2008
Laura Jacqmin, a Chicago-based playwright, will be in residence in Milwaukee for three months in summer/fall of 2009. She will hold writing workshops with people with dementia and transform the materials into a play to be staged in both regional theatres and educational settings.
Jacqmin is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, the co-founder of the Yale Playwrights Festival, and is the winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize (a $25,000 award for emerging female playwrights given by the Dramatists Guild and the Educational Foundation of America). Her plays have been produced and developed by Victory Gardens Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Culture Project, Perishable Theatre, Collaboraction, The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic/New Voices at the Atlantic Theater, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, and the inaugural NNPN/University Playwrights Workshop at the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University, among others. Her play HAPPYSLAP was a winner of Aurora Theatre Company’s 2007 Global Age Project and was produced by the Ohio University School of Theater in their 2006-2007 season. She is the recipient of a 2006 Ohio University SEA research and development grant for 10 VIRGINS, which will receive its world premiere in Chicago Dramatists’ 2007-2008 season. She is currently working on a commission for Victory Gardens Theater, made possible by the Wallace Foundation. She earned an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University and a BA from Yale.
The CAC Residency in Applied Arts is designed to provide an intensive learning experience for artists interested in exploring the topic of aging and memory loss, supported by grants from the Helen Bader Foundation and the Brookdale Foundation. Artists receive a $20,000 stipend for three months. The residency also provides housing, travel funds, and up to $7,000 in supplies. CAC’s first Artist in Residence was nationally recognized documentary photographer Wing Young Huie. The current Artist in Residence is artist and musician David Greenberger, who is collaborating with musician Paul Cebar to transform interviews with people with memory loss into music. Greenberger and Cebar will share the progress of their work at the October 28th Milwaukee Aging Consortium’s Networking Fair.
The selection panel for the 2009 Residency in Applied Arts included Wing Young Huie (photographer), Lisa Dorin (Art Institute of Chicago), and Amy Horst (John Michael Kohler Art Center).
http://www.ageandcommunity.org/focus/creativity.html
