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Elizabeth LeCompte

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Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance and media. [1]

42 relations: Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Artforum, Bomb (magazine), California Institute of the Arts, Contactmusic.com, Dance, Doris Duke, Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Experimental theatre, Guggenheim Fellowship, Hamlet, Jim Clayburgh, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Kate Valk, MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Foundation, Mark Ravenhill, New Jersey, Peter Sellars, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson (director), Rockefeller Foundation, Ron Vawter, Royal Shakespeare Company, Skidmore College, Slate (magazine), Spalding Gray, TDR (journal), The Christian Science Monitor, The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The New School for Social Research, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Performance Group, The Wooster Group, Theatre Communications Group, United States Artists, Vogue Italia, Whitney Biennial, Willem Dafoe.

Anonymous Was A Woman Award

The Anonymous Was A Woman Award is given to women artists who are over 40 years of age, in part as a way of countering sexism in the art world.

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Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb is a quarterly magazine edited by artists and writers.

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California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, known by its nickname CalArts, is a private university located in Valencia, California.

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Contactmusic.com

Contactmusic.com is an online magazine of cultural criticism based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Doris Duke

Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American heiress, socialite, horticulturalist, art collector, and philanthropist.

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Doris Duke Performing Artist Award

The Doris Duke Performing Artist Award is a ten-year, 50 million dollar initiative undertaken by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in partnership with Creative Capital, designed to "empower, invest in and celebrate artists by offering flexible, multi-year funding as a response to financial and funding challenges both unique to the performing arts and to each grantee".

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Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre) began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Jim Clayburgh

Jim Clayburgh is a founding member of The Wooster Group and serves as the group's resident designer.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922.

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Kate Valk

Kate Valk is a founding member of The Wooster Group, a collective of artists who make new work for the theater.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is the 12th-largest private foundation in the United States.

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Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill (born 7 June 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars (born 27 September, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays.

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Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman (born June 10, 1937 in New York City) is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer.

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Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "'s – or even the world's – foremost avant-garde 'theater artist.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Ron Vawter

Ron Vawter (December 9, 1948 – April 16, 1994) was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Skidmore College

Skidmore College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer.

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TDR (journal)

TDR: The Drama Review is an academic journal focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.

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The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize or Gish Prize is given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life." It is among the most prestigious and one of the richest prizes in the American arts.

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The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.

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The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by an American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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The New School for Social Research

The New School for Social Research (NSSR) is an educational institution that is part of The New School in New York City, USA.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Performance Group

The Performance Group (TPG) was a troupe of experimental theater started by Richard Schechner in 1967 in New York City.

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The Wooster Group

The Wooster Group is a New York City-based experimental theater company known for creating numerous original dramatic works.

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Theatre Communications Group

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is a non-profit service organization headquartered in New York City that promotes professional non-profit theatre in the United States.

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United States Artists

United States Artists (USA) is an independent nonprofit and nongovernmental philanthropic organization based in Chicago and dedicated to supporting the work of living American artists by the granting of cash awards, called USA Fellowships.

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Vogue Italia

Vogue Italia is the Italian edition of Vogue magazine.

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Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States.

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Willem Dafoe

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor with Italian citizenship.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_LeCompte

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