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Great Performances' Biennial Scholarship Awards Program recognizes the talents and pursuits of its hourly employees, many of whom are working artists. With three grants of $4,000 each, recipients are able to fund projects that aim to advance their artistic careers. The Scholarship Awards Program enables us to give back to our "Great Performers" and keeps us anchored to our company roots as a support system for fellow artists. Read The New York Times article, profiling a past scholarship award winner. Read Liz's Huffington Post blog post highlighting this year's winners.
2011 Winners Pamela Jones: Relatively established singer/songwriter who has performed in small venues throughout the city. She has recorded part of an album and will use the funds to finish recording and production. Maura Kelley: Working Dog Park, a screenplay for animal-lovers. The funds will go to producing a stage rehearsal for possible investors and marketing the project. Click here for details about her upcoming performance on August 8th! Dustina Wessman-Smerdon: Working on a photography project about people in England in a particularly backward area that's just been modernized. She will use the funds to go back over there, take more photos, make gallery prints and start producing a book of the photos.
2008 Winners Tim Marback: Completed production of his play, Mend, under the direction of Olympia Dukakis. Michael Menger: Completed a stage production of his own work, "The Really Big Pirate Show". Charles Wulster: Completed production on his film, The Defenders of Belfast. 2006 Winners Ellen Christi: Completed a jazz vocal recording. Garry Novikoff: Completed the final mixing, mastering, and production to release his self-produced CD "Dog on the Moon". Christopher Carlson: Debuted a children's accessory line (christopher janneson) that he designed with his mother at the Children's Club Trade Show in New York in March 2007 - 25% of the proceeds were donated to the fight against breast cancer.
2003 Winners Naomi Martin Kenneth Britt Kevin Horne: Completed post-production of a film. He is an actor and aspiring director.
2000 Winners Trayce Gardner: Founded the Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Center, which promotes literacy, leadership, social skills, intergenerational exchange, and job training to under-privileged NYC youth through film studies and film-making. Joe Clancy: Started The Drilling CompaNY, which develops and produces new dramatic works by emerging American playwrights. After the initial scholarship funds, the Drilling CompaNY is now supported by funds from the NY State Council on the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 1996 Winner Steve Asciolla: Produced a voice-acting demo that catapulted him into a number of commercial jobs as well as a nationally-touring Broadway production.
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