Silk Road Theatre Project joins San Francisco's Golden Thread
Productions and New York City's Lark Play Development Center
in creating a ground breaking
tri-coastal initiative.
The first ever national effort to actively cultivate and
support the
development of Middle Eastern American
playwrights and their plays.
Middle East America will provide to a
writer:
A $10,000 commission to support any play the selected writer wishes to write
Developmental support from the Lark Play Development Center
Staged readings and possible productions at Golden Thread Productions and Silk Road Theatre Project
Quotes about Middle East
America:
"Middle East America supports with dollars and deeds the stories and perspectives of
a still-marginalized community that has the potential to change our national - and global - conversation for the good."
--John Clinton Eisner, Lark Play Development Center Producing Director
"Silk Road Theatre Project was founded in response to the attacks of September 11,
2001, and the subsequent backlash against peoples of Middle Eastern and Muslim backgrounds. In establishing Middle East America, we are taking a
proactive stance in assuring that playwrights of Middle Eastern backgrounds receive the nurturing and support they deserve. It is high time that
Middle Eastern American voices be heard as integral to the mosaic of American storytelling."
--Jamil Khoury, Silk Road Theatre Project Founding Artistic Director
"It is critical in ensuring that Middle Eastern American playwrights continue to be
discovered, nurtured, and produced. Not only because their work is worthy of broader audiences, but more importantly because American audiences
can no
longer afford not to see this work."
--Torange Yeghiazarian, Golden Thread Productions Founding Artistic Director
For more information visit: http://www.middleeastamerica.org.
June 24th
