Ars Nova Announces 17 New Artist Residencies and Commissions

1/13/2022 10:55am


Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Founding Artistic Dir;  Renee Blinkwolt Managing Director) has announced 17 new artists and groups selected in 2022 for residencies and commissions at Ars Nova. The Company’s slate of artist residencies and commissions supports outside-the-box thinking and encourages innovative, genre-bending work. By providing a protective environment where risk-taking and collaboration are paramount, Ars Nova amplifies the voices of a new generation of diverse artists and audiences. Designed to foreground Ars Nova’s values through the creation of more equitable and power-sharing curatorial practices, the Vision Residency was launched in 2020 with the goal of expanding Ars Nova’s artistic vision by inviting artist-curators to program our stages and digital platform with their own work as well as work by artists they champion and admire. Each Resident will be given broad support from Ars Nova’s full staff in their curation, which will result in events and performances in-person at Ars Nova and online on Ars Nova Supra. The 2022 Vision Residents are Legacy: a Black Queer Production Collective, River L. Ramirez, and Machel RossFounded in 2007, Play Group is a two-year residency in which members become a part of the Ars Nova Resident Artist community. In addition to biweekly meetings where members share new work and receive feedback from their Play Group peers, members also receive dramaturgical support and artistic match-making advice from the Ars Nova artistic staff; and the opportunity to further develop and showcase one of their plays in a weeklong workshop that can culminate in a public reading. The 2022-2024 members of Play Group are Keelay Gipson, Garrett David Kim, Johnny G. Lloyd, May Treuhaft-Ali, Else Went, and Bailey Williams who join the 2021-2023 cohort including Vichet Chum, Gracie Gardner, Dylan Guerra, Gethsemane Herron-Coward, Ife Olujobi, and Mara Vélez Meléndez.  Launched in January 2021, CAMP deepens Ars Nova’s commitment to early career comedy artists at a time when their support systems in NYC have decreased. CAMP provides an eclectic group of creators with peer support and artistic feedback as they work on developing new comedic work in weekly meetings facilitated by Co-Program Directors Mahayla Laurence and Matt Gehring. The 2022 CAMP resident artists are Jonathan Cohall; the trio of Makasha Copeland, Chase Doggett, and Gabrielle Silva; Sam Kebede; Preston Martin; Emily Olcott; and Sabrina WangArs Nova commissions new work with an eye for artists that work with nontraditional creative processes and projects that often combine generative artists across multiple disciplines to collaboratively create a piece of theater. Their adventurous, process-driven environment allows commissioned projects to develop organically and in an artist-focused way by committing to these groundbreaking, form-defying projects for the long haul over several years. New artists under commission include Manik Choksi and Khiyon Hursey who join Melis Aker, Kevin Armento & Sammy Miller, Michael Breslin & Patrick Foley, Heather Christian, nicHi douglas, Deepali Gupta, James & Jerome, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, On The Rocks Theatre Co., Ray Yamanouchi, and Zack ZadekMakers Lab provides a dynamic group of generative theater artists with individually tailored residencies designed to holistically support their careers and develop their new works. Working in a range of category-defying forms and disciplines, these artists, collaborators, and companies use Ars Nova as a home base for twelve-month creative residencies. Current resident artists include Guadalís Del Carmen, David Mendizábal, Joél Peréz & Emma Ramos, Laura Galindo, Michelle J. Rodriguez, and Jillian Walker. Rounding out the slate of 2022 Resident Artists, Melis Aker and Khiyon Hursey will be Ars Nova’s 2022 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows, who join continuing Company-In-Residence On The Rocks Theatre CoPlease visit https://arsnovanyc.com/about-us/ for more information. Press contact: John Wyszniewski/Everyman Agency (347/416-3881)...