New York Stage and Film announced today that jeremy o’brian is the recipient of the 2021 Founders’ Award. New York Stage and Film has also announced that Elisa Bocanegra has been named the 2021 recipient of the Pfaelzer Award.
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s New Short Film Reflects on Race and the Difficult Questions Surrounding Identity “We have been rewired by the time we spent in Oregon. Our atoms had been rejiggered anew, but we look the same.” (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) Updated February 23 For nearly 90 years, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has been one of the state s landmark artistic institutions, drawing both international theater talent and audiences to Ashland. But last July, OSF artistic director Nataki Garrett called Shariffa Ali, hoping the acclaimed New York stage director and the festival s 2020 artist-in-residence could help save it. At the time, Ali had sheltered in Ashland for months after COVID-19 shut down her production of