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DocuSign Envelope ID:A1391C8C-C731-4683-B498-D5B7783F86E4 _ s,directors and designers of the year I Theater I Indy Week <br /> Now, a few words about DERRICK IVEY—or, as critic Kate Dobbs Ariail calls <br /> him, "He who does it all." It would have been hard to see independent <br /> theater in Durham this year without witnessing his work on stage, in moving <br /> studies including The Homosexuals, The New Electric Ballroom and The <br /> Best of Enemies. <br /> But then he also designed the sets in each of these productions. And did the <br /> costumes for Ballroom. And directed the Savoyards summer production of <br /> The Pirates of Penzance. And so on, as he has for years. <br /> Ivey's "done such great work with so few resources for so many theater <br /> groups for so many years," Ariail says, making "magic work on the stage [in <br /> a] quiet, almost self-effacing way." <br /> Here's a Zen arts-management koan: If a tree falls in a forest without an <br /> audience, it doesn't matter what kind of sound it makes. After moving here <br /> in 2010, TIM SCALES found an independent theater scene brimming with <br /> energy and talent—but frequently without much of a clue about how to <br /> market and promote its own work. A young professional arts marketer who'd <br /> already worked by then with New York's Roundabout Theatre and London's <br /> Gate Theatre, Scales saw a niche with a need—and started filling it. Ever <br /> since, he's been helping a growing number of companies such as Streetsigns <br /> Center, Haymaker, Manbites Dog and Little Green Pig, independent artists <br /> including Leah Wilks and Torry Bend, Chapel Hill's Office of Public and <br /> Cultural Arts and Carrboro Film Festival all get the word out about the work <br /> they do. They have grown because he has. May that work continue. <br /> SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HUMANITIES <br /> ArtsCenter Stage: Series: Walt, The Whipping Man, A Civil War Christmas: <br /> An American Musical Celebration <br /> Manbites Dog Theater: The Best of Enemies <br /> ArtsCenter Stage's Seri Lynn Schulke took a programming risk, slating a <br /> season of theatrical works to commemorate the Civil War sesquicentennial <br /> through three different perspectives. The payoff: a regional premiere in May <br /> of a music theater work that poetically placed the life of Walt Whitman on <br /> stage in his own words; October's five-star production of The Whipping <br /> Man, in which the remains of a Jewish family—two former slaves and their <br /> one-time master—find one another after the fall of Richmond; and Paula <br /> Vogel's panoramic A Civil War Christmas, which opened last week. <br /> It took two years for Mark St. Germain's stage adaptation of The Best of <br /> Enemies to premiere in the city where the events it depicts took place. When <br /> it did, it played on opening night to an audience that included surviving <br /> members of the original cast: activist Ann Atwater and organizer Bill Riddick, <br /> who risked their lives opposing racism on the streets of Durham in the <br /> 1970s, and whose struggles were depicted, before them, on stage. <br /> http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/honoring-the-best-plays-performers-directors-and-designers-of-the-year/Content?oid=3787897&mode=print 2116 <br />