Ground Floor At Berkeley Rep

Tune in to method to the madness on friday february 28th noon as madeleine oldham director of the ground floor at berkeley rep joins host ali nazar to discuss the ground floor s innovative programs to facilitate original work and one particular playwright s journey from an idea at the ground floor to a pulitzer prize.

Ground floor at berkeley rep.

Over the years as we ve increased the amount of new work we develop it became clear to us that the regional theatre is very good at rehearsing and producing plays that have been done before and whose scripts are relatively set and fixed. Berkeley rep s center for the creation and development of new work was launched in 2012. Berkeley rep s center for the creation and development of new work announced the 21 projects selected for its 2018 summer residency lab. To formalize enhance and expand the processes by which berkeley rep makes theatre the ground floor.

Berkeley rep s center for the creation and development of new work champions new work from playwrights and theatre artists. This innovative program for the support and incubation of new theatre became possible last year partly due to. A ground floor ambassador serves as a liaison between berkeley rep staff and ground floor artists. It is the center of berkeley rep s play commissions and hosts a summer residency lab.

Chosen from a new record of 690. About the ground floor. Berkeley rep received the tony award for outstanding regional theatre in 1997. Volunteer ambassadors help berkeley rep staff facilitate a generative environment for ground floor artists during their stay in berkeley.

The ground floor is supported by louise gund frances hellman warren breslau michael sue steinberg and other individual supporters of berkeley rep s create campaign. The ground floor berkeley rep s center for the creation and development of new work will have its second summer residency lab this june and a slate of very impressive artists will be working on some interesting and diverse projects. Additional funding is provided by the national endowment for the arts the tournesol project and bank of america.