| WP Theater Announces Julia Miles Playwriting Residency Recipient and Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award Winner | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 08:10 pm EDT 07/31/24 | |
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| WP THEATER ANNOUNCES JULIA MILES PLAYWRITING RESIDENCY RECIPIENT: REHANA LEW MIRZA AND DARYL ROTH CREATIVE SPIRIT AWARD WINNER RACHEL WAX (New York, NY – July 31, 2024) WP Theater (Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty and Managing Director Michael Sag) is thrilled to announce acclaimed playwright Rehana Lew Mirza (Hatef*ck, Bhangra Nation) is the recipient of the Julia Miles Playwriting Residency and magician and comedian Rachel Wax is the winner of the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award. WP Theater Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty said, “We couldn’t be more grateful to Marya, Lisa, and Daryl for sponsoring these transformative residencies, which provide us with much-needed resource and time with these incredible artists. We can’t wait to spend the year to come with Rehana and Rachel, and look forward to all the brilliance they’ll share during their residency. It’s also so meaningful to me that these residencies each honor a game-changing woman in the field–we so love celebrating Julia and Daryl in this artist-forward way!” The Julia Miles Playwriting Residency was created in 2023 by WP Theater Founder Julia Miles' daughters Marya Cohn and Lisa Miles, to honor their mother's legacy of advocacy for women artists, by funding an annual commission and residency for a Woman+ writer over 35 years old, at the theater she founded in 1978. The Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, presented annually, honors a gifted theatre artist, and provides them with support as they develop new work in an artistic residency at a theater company. Wax’s residency will be with WP Theater and will be shaped in collaboration with its Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty. WP will provide a place to work, allowing Wax to interact and become part of the life of the company. The inaugural creative spirit award was given to Michael Mayer in 1996’ and has been granted annually since then. ABOUT REHANA LEW MIRZA Rehana is thrilled to be the Julia Miles Playwriting Residency recipient with WP, where her play Hatef*ck world-premiered (with Colt Coeur) in 2019. The play later received a Bret Adams grant and premiered in Chicago with First Floor in 2023. She recently held a prestigious National Playwrights Mellon residency at Ma-Yi Theatre in New York from 2016-2022, after also being a playwright in residence at La Jolla Playhouse, where her musical Bhangin' It (now Bhangra Nation) (2019 Richard Rodgers Award) premiered in 2022. It recently had its UK premiere at Birmingham Rep in Feb of 2024. Awards/Honors include a Kleban award, Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Residency, Cape Cod Theatre Artist in Residence, NYFA Artist Fellow, Tofte Lake Residency, Colt Coeur Company Member, TCG Fellowship with New Georges and an HBOAccess Writing Fellow. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. ABOUT RACHEL WAX One of the most in demand magicians in New York, Rachel brings her quick wit and signature comedy style to every performance. Those who've seen her perform know she leaves her audiences laughing and in awe. She is regularly featured at New York’s hottest venues, and has brought her craft all across the country. Her engaging and personal brand of comedy magic has been featured on Penn and Teller’s Fool Us and in the New York Times. Rachel will be the life of your party, delighting and roasting her audiences every chance she gets. WP THEATER is the nation’s oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of Women+ at every stage of their careers. WP’s focus on Women+ supports people who are cis women, trans, non-binary or gender-nonconforming, and all gender identities systematically oppressed throughout history in the theater and beyond. For 46 years, WP has served as leaders of a global movement towards gender parity, and the example they set and the artists they have fostered have grown into a robust, thriving community in the theater field and beyond. WP empowers Women+ artists of all kinds to reach their full potential, challenging preconceptions about the kinds of plays they write and the stories they tell. To date, WP has produced more than 700 Mainstage productions and developmental projects and published 11 anthologies of plays by Women+ artists. WP Theater is proud of the ways in which they have made a difference in the artistic landscape of New York and beyond, and continues to forge forward by offering artists a platform to develop and present their stories. WP Theater received a 2018 Lucille Lortel Award and a 2019 Obie Award, both for Outstanding Body of Work, and a 2020 Special Drama Desk Award recognizing WP and the legacy of its founder, Julia Miles. As the premier launching pad for some of the most influential artists in theater, television, and film, WP’s work has had a significant impact on the field. Nearly every notable female theater artist has been through its doors, including: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner Katori Hall; 2019 Tony Winner Rachel Chavkin; two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner Lynn Nottage; 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner Martyna Majok; 2018 MacArthur “Genius” Grant Winner Dominique Morisseau; 2013 Tony Winner Pam MacKinnon; and 2013 Tony Winner Diane Paulus. At WP, these powerful women found an early artistic home and are a testament to our role as a driving cultural force. Women+: cis women, trans, non-binary, or gender-nonconforming people and all gender identities which have been systematically oppressed throughout history in the theater and beyond. For additional information, please visit WPTheater.org. |
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