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Shakespeare & Company's Bill Barclay awarded prestigious Fox Foundation Fellowship09:01AM / Thursday, November 20, 2008
LENOX, Mass — Shakespeare & Company is proud to announce that Company actor and Resident Music Director Bill Barclay has been selected by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) to receive a Fox Foundation Fellowship in the category of Extraordinary Potential to support his professional and artistic development.
Bill will travel with the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre to Bali to study traditional Balinese dance, shadow puppetry, music, and theatrical/religious ritual. In 2009/2010, he will devise new work as actor and composer in three 2-month residencies: with actor/playwright/composer Rinde Eckert; at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester, England; and with Compagnie Irina Brook in Paris, the theatre company founded by Shakespeare & Company’s Director-in-Residence, Irina Brook. Towards the end of his residency, he will develop his clown with Christopher Bayes. Bill then will help develop Shakespeare & Company's multi-disciplinary training aesthetic and will end his residency creating solo work with Tina Packer through a synthesis of poetry, music, movement, clown and ritual.
The William & Eva Fox Foundation and the Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for professional, not-for-profit theatre, recently announced its six recipients for its third round of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships. The program, supported by the Fox Foundation and administered by the TCG, is designed to support an actor’s individual professional and artistic development, to enrich relationships between actors and not-for-profit theatres and ensure continued professional commitment to live theatre.
There are two categories in which recipients may be selected: Distinguished Achievement, for individuals who have considerable experience in professional theatre and with a substantial body of work, who receive $25,000 awards; and Extraordinary Potential, for early to mid-career actors who have completed their training within the last fifteen years, who receive $15,000 with up to an additional $10,000 available to relieve student loans. Host theatre companies receive grants of $7,500 in support of the residencies.
“Applying for a Fox Fellowship challenged me to dream up a roster of residencies that would most inspire, stretch, and move me creatively and personally,” says Barclay. “Knowing now that I actually get the rare and incredible support to do them fills me with a feeling as multifaceted as the proposal itself: an overwhelming mixture of thrill, excitement, and above all gratefulness for the Foundation and their desire to support the unique passions of artists committed to making theatre. Above all I get to share this opportunity with Shakespeare & Company, who has provided me with my foundation as an actor and composer. I could not be more curious about what is ahead.”
Round three recipients (and their host theatres) in the Distinguished Achievement category are Ellen Lauren (SITI Company) and Kate Valk (Wooster Group); recipients in the Extraordinary Potential category are Bill Barclay (Shakespeare & Company), Tami Dixon (City Theatre Company), Hoon Lee (Lark), and Zishan Ugurlu (La MaMa). The recipients will serve a four-month residency with their host not-for-profit theatre company. The alternates are Jonathan Daley (Milwaukee Rep) for the Distinguished Achievement fellowship and Rachael Holmes (Epic Theatre Ensemble) for the Extraordinary Potential fellowship.
“I am extremely impressed with the depth, strengths and promise of this year’s field and as a result, I have extended the awards to include a well deserved sixth recipient,” said Fox Foundation president Mr. Warren. “The Fox Foundation is proud to continue its longstanding financial support of extraordinarily talented actors. I also want to note the excellent work that TCG performs in the preliminary selection process and in the administration of the Resident Actor Program. I believe that the current synergistic relationship between the Foundation and TCG has and will continue to allow both organizations to expand their reach and bring truly gifted and exceptional actors to national attention.” |
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