The Atlantic Center for the Arts is accepting applications until Tuesday, March 20, from actors, musicians, designers, directors and video technicians interested in collaborating on a new theater piece entitled, "The Mormon Project."
Playwright Eric Overmyer ("On the Verge"), one of three artists-in-residents supervising the piece, describes it as "a multilayered piece, not a play, about the Mormons and the Mormon experience, the Mormon aesthetic and the Mormon politik, as an American, home-grown phenomenon.""We will start the session with a rough text and add to it daily, responding to the work generated," Overmyer explained.
Assisting in the project are director JoAnne Akalaitis, a winner of five OBIE (off-Broadway) awards, and production designer Kristi Zea, who has done production and costume design work for several recent films, including "Married to the Mob," "New York Stories," "Silverado" and "Terms of Endearment."
Overmyer also wrote "In a Pig's Valise," "Native Speech" and "In Perpetutity Throughout the Universe." He received the LeComte Du Nouy Award and is also the recipient of both McKnight and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships. He is artistic associate of Center Stage in Baltimore. His "On the Verge . . . or the Geography of Learning" will be staged this spring at Southern Utah State College.
Akalaitis recently directed Jean Genet's "The Screens" for the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and "Cymbeline" for the New York Shakespeare Festival.
All artists wishing to participate in the three-week session (June 6-26) should contact the Atlantic Center for the Arts immediately for application forms and guidelines. Tuition is $200 and participants will be expected to provide their own meals, transportation and housing costs. The Atlantic Center will assist with housing arrangements.
For more information, contact the Atlantic Center at (904) 427-6975, or write:
Atlantic Center for the Arts
1414 Art Center Ave.
New Smyrna Beach, FL 12069