1998 Advanced Study Fellowships
Benesch, Vivienne : $3,600 for classes at the Actors Center
Duva, Christopher: $3,600 for classes at The Actors Center
Rothe, Lisa: $3,600 for classes at The Actors Center
1996 Drama School Fellowships
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Loke, Kwong: $12,000 to travel to Bali and Singapore to observe threatre, dance, music, mask work, and storytelling
Palmier, Deva: $10,000 to develop filmmaking skills in New York and take a course on writing and directing short films
Spriggs, Jeremy: $10,000 to study at the Volkbuhrn Theatre in Berlin
Juilliard School
Breckenridge, Robert: $10,000 for research in the Western U.S. and Colombia leading to a multi-media dance theatre piece
Martinez, Marcos: $8,300 to attend the International Theatre Anthropology conference and work with an Israeli theatre group
Poretta, Greg: $5,400 to apprentice with a composer and writer
Rainey, David: $5,000 for workshops with the Juggernaut Theatre
Valdes-Lim, Ana: $10,000 for an outreach program to teach drama in the Philippines and a manual on voice and improvisation
Zito, Ralph: $12,000 for training to become a certified instructor in the Alexander technique in New York
National Theatre School of Canada
Campbell, Shawn: $7,667 to observe the processes of two theatre companies
DeGrandpre, Frederick: $7,667 for voice and body training
Holmes, Eda: $7,667 to develop and produce a performance piece entitled "Hermine"
Horacek, Michelle: $7,667 for a post-graduate program in Czech theatre performance
Hubert, Isabelle: $7,667 for a residence in France involving writing and acting
Thompson, Severn: $7,667 for a residency with the Footsbarn Traveling Theatre Company in Paris
Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
Barr, Drew: $7,000 for musical training at the Greenwich House School of Music
Borsay, Latonya: $10,000 to travel to Ghana to focus on aspects of African culture as they relate to the theatre
Giobbe, Anney: $6,500 for classes at the Actor's Center and a workshop at the RSC in London
Kirsh, Robert: $9,500 for workshops on clowning and physical theatre in New York, California, and Wisconsin
LaVecchia, Antoinette: $6,000 for classes on clowning, Chekov, and Shakespeare at the Phillippe Gaulier School
Mwine, Ntare: $6,000 to travel to South Africa to study a cappella singing with Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Wadsworth, Oliver: $9,000 for research into the work of Delton Welsh in Texas and Britain
Yale School of Drama
Blinkoff, Daniel and Eaddy, Michael: $15,000 to mount a tour of the play "The Blood Knot" and conduct educational programs
Farlow-Chalawsky, Max: $10,000 to study "Clown through Mask" and for a collaboration with D. Sklar on playmaking
Lane, Preston: $12,000 for research in Appalachia and Britain on Southern Appalachian culture
Melrose, Rob: $15,000 to travel to Germany, France, and Italy to observe productions of Shakespeare
Memran, Steve: $10,200 for travel in North Africa and the Middle East to understand how separatism affects culture
Steven, Susan: $7,700 for workshops in stage combat
Talbott, Jeff: $9,250 to learn sign language and translate Hamlet's soliloquies into American Sign Language for videotaping