2010.12.16: December 16, 2010: Senegal RPCV Rajiv Joseph Among 2010's USA Fellows for work in theatre
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2010.12.16: December 16, 2010: Senegal RPCV Rajiv Joseph Among 2010's USA Fellows for work in theatre
Senegal RPCV Rajiv Joseph Among 2010's USA Fellows for work in theatre
Like those who win the MacArthur grants, USA Fellowship winners can use the money as they wish. Nominations come from an anonymous group of arts executives, critics, scholars and artists whose membership changes each year; five-member panels of experts in each category recommend winners to the United States Artists board. Rajiv Joseph (36) was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Cleveland Heights High School. He graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1996 with a B.A. in Creative Writing. Following graduation Joseph joined the Peace Corps, serving three formative years in the West African Republic of Senegal. Joseph earned a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. He currently teaches Essay Writing at New York University with intermittent trips to Romania as part of the Ecrivains sans Frontieres (ESF) organization.
Senegal RPCV Rajiv Joseph Among 2010's USA Fellows for work in theatre
Rajiv Joseph Among 2010's USA Fellows
Date Submitted: Thu Dec 16, 2010
LOS ANGELES - "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" playwright Rajiv Joseph won a $50,000 prize from L.A. – based United States Artists – five times the cash value of a Pulitzer Prize that he and two other nominated playwrights famously did not win after the Pulitzer's ruling board, none of them theater experts, rejected the nominees proposed by a jury of drama experts.
Joseph and 49 other artists – including four from Southern California – were announced Dec. 7 as this year's USA fellows. The $2.5 million in combined annual fellowships, first awarded in 2006, dwarfs all of the nation's annual arts prizes except the MacArthur Fellowship.
Like those who win the MacArthur grants, USA Fellowship winners can use the money as they wish. Nominations come from an anonymous group of arts executives, critics, scholars and artists whose membership changes each year; five-member panels of experts in each category recommend winners to the United States Artists board.
Rajiv Joseph (36) was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Cleveland Heights High School. He graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1996 with a B.A. in Creative Writing.
Following graduation Joseph joined the Peace Corps, serving three formative years in the West African Republic of Senegal. Joseph earned a Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. He currently teaches Essay Writing at New York University with intermittent trips to Romania as part of the Ecrivains sans Frontieres (ESF) organization.
Joseph's first production, Huck & Holden, debuted at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2005. The play also had a West Coast run at the Black Dahlia Theater in Los Angeles the following year. All This Intimacy premiered at New York's McGinn/Cazale Theater in 2006. The TBG Theater featured Joseph's re-imagining of The Leopard and the Fox in 2007[Second Stage Theatre premiered Joseph's Animals Out of Paper in 2008. Subsequent productions of Animals Out of Paper have been staged at Boise Contemporary Theater (2009),[ and at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, Australia and San Francisco Playhouse in 2010.[
Joseph's Pulitzer finalist production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, directed by Moisés Kaufman, debuted at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, California in May, 2009.It will premiere on Broadway in March 2011, with Robin Williams playing the titular character.[9]
Gruesome Playground Injuries, starring Selma Blair and Brad Fleischer, had its world premiere in October 2009 at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas.
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