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Founded in 1993, Z Space has become one of leading laboratories for the development of new voices, new works, and new opportunities in American theatre.
Z Space was created by founder David Dower to support a large and evolving community of theatre artists working together to develop Bay Area theatre and theatre audiences.
Z Space has been recognised with many local awards as well as such national awards as the Helen Hayes Award, the Kesselring Prize, the MacArthur Award, and two Pulitzer nominations.
From June 2001 through December 2005, fifteen different Z-developed productions earned Critics Circle nominations. In 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005, Z-produced projects have landed in the San Francisco Chronicle’s “10 Best Theater Events of the Year” list.
In 2005, The People’s Temple, developed over four years at the Z Space and premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre was awarded the Will Glickman Award for “Best New Play.” Lastly, in 2007, American $uicide, by Mark Jackson, was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the annual ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award, honouring new scripts produced outside New York City.
They pursue their mission in several ways:
- Z Plays, a new-play development program that commissions new works of theatre and supports artists and ensembles through the process of development.
- Word for Word, an in-house theatre company that transforms works of literature verbatim to the stage. Aside from its productions, through its YouthArts program Word for Word uses its proven method to teach in schools, reaching over 10,000 youth each year through workshops or residencies that promote literacy and engage students’ creativity.
THE TEAM
LISA STEINDLER, Executive Artistic Director
LORI LAQUA, Executive Director
JOANNE WINTER, Artistic Director, Word For Word, Director
SUSAN HARLOE, Artistic Director, Word For Word
JAMES FAERRON, Producing Manager
CARLOS LOPEZ, Business Manager
DREW YERYS, Production Director
LAURA BERGMAN, Development Director
Z Space administrative mailing address:
499 Alabama St. #450
San Francisco, CA 94110
USA
zspace@zspace.org
http://www.zspace.org/index.htm
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.