Tectonic Theater Project
Tectonic Theater Project is a nonprofit theatre dedicated to exploring
theatrical language and form and was established in 1991. Its first
production, Women in Beckett, was the collection of all of
Samuel Beckett's short plays for women performed by a cast aged
65-80. Tectonic has produced works by emerging playwrights such
as Naomi Iizuka (Coxinga and Marlowe's Eye); stage classics
such as Beckett's Endgame and Sophie Treadwell's Machinal;
and a highly-acclaimed production of Franz Xaver Kroetz' The
Nest. With its hyper-real diorama of a set and its imaginative
use of puppetry (brought to life by acclaimed puppeteer Basil Twist),
The Nest was named one of the ten best productions of the
1994/95 season by The Village Voice. Tectonic dedicated two years
to the development of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar
Wilde, a new play written and directed by Artistic Director
Moises Kaufman. The play caused a popular and critical sensation
when it began in New York in the end of February, 1997. Gross
Indecency transferred to Off-Broadway and ran there for over
18 months. Tectonic's production was mounted by Mark Taper Forum
in Los Angeles, enjoyed a six-month run at Theater on the Square
in San Francisco, as well as successful productions in Toronto,
Ply- mouth and the West End in London. The play has also been produced
by over 40 regional theatres and internationally in Paris, Stockholm,
Montreal, Mexico City, Budapest and Germany. Gross Indecency
won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, the Outer
Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Garland Award for Best Play
(Los Angeles), the Caldwell Award (Florida} and the GLAAD Media
Award for New York Theater. Mr. Kaufman received the 1997 Joe A.
Callaway Award for Excellence in Direction given by the Society
of Stage Directors and Choreographers, as well as the Bay Area Critics
Circle Award for directing. The Vintage publication of Gross
Indecency won the Lambda Book Award. Tectonic Theater Project
received an Outer Critics Circle Award as the original producers
of the play. Tectonic Theater Project's development of The Laramie
Project was made possible in part by the generous support of
the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sullivan Foundation, the Sundance
Theatre Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, the Fan Fox and Leslie R.
Samuels Foundation, Leon Levy, Anne Milliken and Gayle Francis.
Tectonic Theater Project also receives funding from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and
the New York City Development of Cultural Affairs.
For more information, please visit the Tectonic Theater Project
website (www.tectonictheaterproject.org)
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