2014-595-E Arts - The ArtsCenter for 2014 Arts Grant Agreement $1,500

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DocuSign Envelope ID:Al 391C8C-C731-4683-B498-D5B7783F86E4 Orange County Arts Commission Fall 2014 Arts Program Grant 3 ArtsCenter Stage production of Oh,What a Lovely War An overriding goal of ArtsCenter Stage is to provide opportunities for local theater artists to practice their craft and collaborate within an engaging and supportive environment. Theater artists working with ArtsCenter Stage are given the chance to expand and strengthen their abilities, gain new insights and push the boundaries of their respective field. In addition to gaining new ground in their areas, the following four production theater artists will provide new insights, collaborate on a shared artistic vision and teach new skills to the entire company of Oh What a Lovely War. Stage Manager Devon Abdo is an emerging performance techie in the Triangle. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, she lives in Carrboro, NC and has worked as a stage manager and lighting designer in the Triangle area for six years including such places as Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Communication Studies Department, Manbites Dog Theater and The ArtsCenter. Joseph Amodei, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, is a video/performance/installation artist and theatrical designer living and working in Chapel Hill, NC. His work often explores themes of technology, ritual, public space and language—with the ever-present aim of(re)contextualizing the present in order to provoke thought about the under and overlooked. Joseph has been awarded residencies at the Penland School of Craft in Spruce Pine, NC, Talct A.I.R in Berlin, Germany, participated in group exhibitions in Berlin, Germany, Ghent, Belgium, Richmond, VA, among many others including galleries and museums in North Carolina. Costumer Marissa Erickson is a Carrboro-based, self-taught seamstress embarking on her costume design career. Her work includes costume design for Into the Breach with ArtsCenter Stage, the initial and encore productions of Manbites Dog Theater's Best of Enemies, ArtsCenter Stage's Gem of the Ocean, costuming/ props for the project and production of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South at the Durham Arts Council, assistant costuming design for the Little Green Pig production of Our Town, and costume design for the SLIPPAGE/Wideman-Davis production of CANE. Upcoming costuming projects include All is Calm and Freight: the Five Incarnations of Abel Green. Chapel Hill-based choreographer Killian Manning has been malting dances for over 30 years. As Artistic Director of No Forwarding Address, she has received funding from numerous state and local arts agencies and presented her award-winning choreography in Salt Lake City, Boston, Chicago, Birmingham, and North Carolina. She has served on the dance faculties at UNC- Chapel Hill, Radcliffe, the Boston Conservatory, Repertory Dance Theater, and Samford University, and currently teaches at The Ballet School of Chapel Hill. Most recently she has been making new work at Durham Academy and the Carolina Friends School, and choreographing for Summer Glee at UNC Chapel-Hill. Her latest piece, Lines:the delicacy of endurance is premiering at The Carrack Modern Art gallery in November 2014. An Arts Program Grant for $1,500 from the Orange County Arts Commission will provide stipends for these four Orange-County based theater artists collaborating on Oh What a Lovely War. The skills and expertise they bring from their various fields will contribute to a most extraordinary theatrical event.