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About Partners in Health
Founded in 1987 by Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health care organization based in Boston that works in 12 countries to deliver high quality health care and to break the cycle of disease and poverty.

PIH has been providing vital health care services in Haiti for more than 20 years and is one of the largest health care providers in the country, working with the Haitian Ministry of Health to deliver comprehensive health care services to a catchment area of 1.2 million across the Central Plateau and the Lower Artibonite Valley.

PIH had more than 100 doctors, 600 nurse and 4,000 employees on the ground in Haiti working from 12 existing PIH medical facilities in Haiti before the earthquake struck on January 12th.
STAND WITH HAITI: PIH Immediate Response to Earthquake in Haiti

• PIH quickly established field hospitals in Port-au-Prince, and currently has 20 operating rooms up and running, with 12 functioning 24-hours a day. PIH has been designated by the World Health Organization to serve as the primary coordinators of University Hospital in Port-au-Prince (HUEH).

• PIH established a relief transfer system to transfer patients from Port-au-Prince (HUEH) to PIH sites in the Central Plateau and Lower Artibonite Valley, which includes 12 clinical facilities already treating patients.

• PIH was one of the first NGOs to evacuate patients in critical condition to hospitals in the United States and Dominican Republic and is now coordinating the evacuation of patients in critical condition to the United States Naval Ship, the U.S.S. Comfort.

• PIH has sent 22 plane loads with more than 140 medical volunteers - orthopedic surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgical nurses and other medical professionals - and several thousand pounds of medical supplies to support the more than 4,500 PIH health care providers already in Haiti.

• The long-term ramifications in Haiti are going to be significant and far-reaching with a new, large group of vulnerable and displaced people. PIH has the experience and commitment to Stand with Haiti for many years to come.

posted by Steven Tartick on 09 February 2010

Ars Nova Announces 2010 Programming

New York, NY--Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director) continues its commitment to developing and producing theatre, comedy and music artists in the early stages of their professional careers through unique development programs designed to support outside-the-box thinking and innovative, genre-bending work.

Over a Maker's Mark at the Ars Nova bar, Artistic Director Jason Eagan said, "Thanks to the never-ending waves of undiscovered talent coming through our doors and the fervent curiosity of our supportive audiences, Ars Nova continues to thrive. Our 2010 will be jam-packed with artists full of new stories and innovative ideas for how to share them. This year we're finding even more ways to support these incredible talents as they launch their artistic careers."

The 2010 season kicks off this week with Missed Connections NYC, an evening of short plays and live music written by Ars Nova's writer's group, Play Group. This limited engagement runs this week only: January 27 to January 31 at 8pm.

Proving a commitment to developing and producing its commissions, Ars Nova's two additional 2010 mainstage productions will be world premieres by 2008 Composer-in-Residence Joe Iconis and 2008 Playwright-in-Residence, Carly Mensch.

Bloodsong of Love: The Rock'N'Roll Spaghetti Western, directed by John Simpkins, is a rip-roaring, blood-and-whisky-soaked new musical with book, music and lyrics by Iconis. The six-week run begins April 1, with an opening scheduled for April 15.

Carly Mensch's new play follows a pair of historical reenactors as they navigate the interconnected worlds of today's Lower East Side and the tenements of the nineteenth century. Artistic Director Jason Eagan will direct the piece (title TBA), which will run for a four-week limited engagement, beginning September 8, with an opening scheduled for September 22.

Throughout the year, Ars Nova will also invite four projects into residence and provide artistic developmental support to their creative teams. Each residency will culminate in a six-performance run. Chris Rozzi's Outré Island, directed by Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation) and featuring music by Raja Azar (Jollyship the Whiz-Bang), is currently in residence and will start performances February 4, running every Thursday until March 11. The remaining three projects will be announced at a later date.

In July, Ars Nova will launch its first ever Summer Music Marathon, a three-week celebration of musical innovation designed to showcase the off-kilter, dynamic music acts Ars Nova is known for. Submissions are considered on a rolling basis and the lineup will be announced this spring.

Offering an incredible array of All New Talent debuting new work, ANT FEST returns to Ars Nova in Fall 2010. Thirty acts will each be given a night to shine on the Ars Nova Stage over a five-week period packed with networking opportunities, artist salons and special events. The open submission process will begin April 12.

In addition to the aforementioned programming, throughout the year Ars Nova will continue to develop innovative, bold new work in its ongoing core series programs, Next Step and Out Loud, as well as in its musical theater series Uncharted and free monthly variety show, Showgasm. For details on how to submit to these programs, please visit www.arsnovanyc.com.

At the heart of Ars Nova's artistic community and crucial to its mission of supporting emerging artists is its Artist-in-Residency program. Ars Nova is proud to announce its 2010 Residents: Stephen Brackett (Director-in-Residence), Amy Herzog (Playwright-in-Residence), and Steven Levenson (Artist-in-Residence). During their yearlong residencies, each artist has access to the Ars Nova staff and resources and an artistic home. In return, they provide expertise to Ars Nova and are integral to artistic planning and production. Herzog and Levenson received 2010 commissions and Brackett will direct a new piece for the Ars Nova stage.

For a complete schedule of upcoming shows, tickets and more information, please visit www.arsnovanyc.com.

About Ars Nova

As New York's premier hub for emerging artists and new work, Ars Nova is committed to developing and producing eclectic theatre, comedy and music to feed today's popular culture. To that end, Ars Nova strives to create daring collaborations, meld disciplines and give voice to a new generation of artists. Past productions include Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed, Mel & El: Show & Tell, Two Girls for Five Bucks and the Ten Dollar Heartbreakers, Playlist, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Boom, From Up Here, Dixie's Tupperware Party, At Least It's Pink, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Holy Cross Sucks!, Freestyle Love Supreme and The Wau Wau Sisters. Ars Nova was founded in memory of Gabe Wiener.

posted by Steven Tartick on 29 January 2010

FOUND Continues its Sold-Out Run Feb 5

After four sold out shows in a row, FOUND is back at Ars Nova on February 5!

The Story Pirates dig through the Lost and Found bin for this night of musical sketches based on the eponymous popular magazine. Imagining the stories behind lost gloves, discarded love letters, and even the audience's exciting finds, one man's trash is the Pirates' treasure.

posted by Steven Tartick on 29 January 2010

Spend a Night on Outré Island!

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posted by Steven Tartick on 29 January 2010

Ars Nova Announces Play Group 2010

New York, NY--Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jon Steingart and Jenny Wiener Steingart, Executive Producers) proudly announce new members for its 2010 Play Group.

Play Group is Ars Nova's vibrant and eclectic group of emerging writers who gather twice a month at Ars Nova to share new work and get peer feedback. The group offers members the chance to develop their plays with peer support, form collaborative relationships and build a strong sense of community within Ars Nova. In addition, members receive dramaturgical support and artistic matchmaking advice from the Ars Nova artistic staff, priority consideration for Ars Nova's reading series (Out Loud) and industry exposure through a culminating group production at Ars Nova. Members of Play Group 2010 will create a show to be presented in January of 2011.

New members were selected through a competitive open application process and join for a two-year residency. The group is led by Director of Artistic Development, Emily Shooltz, who said: "The Play Group is at the heart of our community of artists, and we're delighted to welcome these six trailblazing playwrights into the mix. The response to our call for applications was overwhelming this year, and the range of voices, styles and experience in the 2010 group is truly inspiring. It will be a privilege to have all of these exceptional writers here sharing new work and inspiration."

New Play Group members include: Chad Beckim, Jenny Connell, Kara Lee Corthron, Molly Smith Metzler, Gregory Moss and Joe Tracz. They join second-year members: Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Matthew Lopez and Janine Nabers. Full bios for the new members are included below.

Play Group alumni include Annie Baker, Mike Batistick, Bekah Brunstetter, Evan Cabnet, Dylan Dawson, Ron Fitzgerald, Liz Flahive, Sam Forman, Etan Frankel, Kyle Jarrow, Nick Jones, Steven Levenson, Barry Levey, Liz Meriwether, Carly Mensch, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rachel Shukert, Mat Smart, Aurin Squire, Adam Szymkowicz, Samuel Brett Williams and Beau Willimon.

As New York's premier hub for emerging artists and new work, Ars Nova is committed to developing and producing eclectic theatre, comedy and music to feed today's popular culture. To that end, Ars Nova strives to create daring collaborations, meld disciplines and give voice to a new generation of artists. Past productions include Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed, Mel & El: Show & Tell, Two Girls for Five Bucks and the Ten Dollar Heartbreakers, Playlist, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Boom, From Up Here, Dixie's Tupperware Party, At Least It's Pink, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Holy Cross Sucks!, Freestyle Love Supreme and The Wau Wau Sisters.

In addition to its featured productions, Ars Nova supports and develops new work from the most promising emerging artists through its alternative comedy series (Tragedy Tomorrow), music series (Uncharted), public play-reading series (Out Loud), writer's group (Play Group), artist-in-residence program, and ANT FEST, a five-week festival of craziness showcasing fresh material from today's most exciting new talent. Ars Nova was founded in memory of Gabe Wiener.

Chad Beckim's credits include ...a matter of choice, `nami, Lights Rise on Grace (Winner, Outstanding Play, 2007 NY Inti'l. Fringe Festival),The Main(e) Play, That Men Do (selected for The Lark's 2009 Playwright's Week) and Mercy. He has also authored a number of shorts and one-acts, including Tha Bess Shit, Alexander Pays a Visit, Last First Kiss, Blac(c)ident, and Night, Shift. Chad holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College and is a co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of Partial Comfort Productions.

Jenny Connell's plays include Portrait, Summer People, Fire Escape, Chrysalis, Colony, There Be Dragons and The Psyche Project. She's been a finalist or semi-finalist for BAPF, the Heidemann, the O'Neill, and the Women's Playwright Festival. Jenny trained and performed as an actor at Steppenwolf and Court Theatres, and as a playwright at UT Austin, where she received her MFA. She is a member of Austin Script Works and The Gift Theatre of Chicago, and now lives and teaches in Brooklyn.

Kara Lee Corthron's plays have been produced and developed by the Vineyard Theatre, Center Stage (Baltimore), ACT Seattle/Hansberry Project, New Dramatists, Naked Angels, New Georges, Raw Impressions (HERE Arts Center), E.S.T., Page 73 Productions, ManhattanTheatreSource, Electric Pear Productions, The Shalimar, Penumbra Theatre, Horizon Theatre (Atlanta), African Continuum Theatre (D.C.), and Voice & Vision, among others. Last year, she was a staff writer for the critically-acclaimed NBC drama, KINGS. Kara's awards include the Princess Grace, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights and Lincoln Center's Lecomte du Nouy Foundation Award (three-time recipient). Kara is an alumna of the Juilliard School.

Molly Smith Metzler is currently a Playwright-in-Residence at The Juilliard School. Molly's plays--including Close Up Space, Carve and Training Wisteria--have been presented by Manhattan Theatre Club 7@7, The Kennedy Center, The Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Summer Play Festival, Tristan Bates Theatre (London) and HotINK, among others. Recent awards include the Lincoln Center Lecomte du Nouy Prize, The Kennedy Center National Student Playwriting Award, The Mark Twain National Award for Comic Playwriting, The David Mark Cohen Award (ATHE). Molly holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch and is also the playscript editor of American Theatre magazine (TCG).

Gregory Moss is a playwright and performer from Newburyport MA. His work has been developed with or produced by The A.R.T., Empty Space, Playwrights Horizons, PlayPenn The O'Neill Conference and NYTW. His play, punkplay will be published in Play A Journal of Plays in November 2009 and will be produced in February 2010 at The Steppenwolf Garage in Chicago. A new play, Orange, Hat & Grace, will premiere at Soho Rep in March 2010 under the direction of Sarah Benson.

Joe Tracz's plays include In the Woods Where Wolves Are (which received a staged reading at the Public Theater), Song for a Future Generation (premiering at Chicago's Lights Out Theatre Company in 2010), Boy Wonders and Phenomenon of Decline. He has performed his show Jim & Moonshine's Sock Puppet Social Issues Theatre at benefits for various Chicago non-profits, and he recently self-produced a Halloween play, An American Werewolf in Equus. Joe is a recipient of a 2009-2010 writing fellowship from the Playwrights Realm. Joe holds an MFA from Tisch and a BA in English from Kalamazoo College, Michigan.

posted by Steven Tartick on 07 December 2009

A Special Offer From Ars Nova Veterans!

Congratulations to Ars Nova's Play Group member Annie Baker and Jollyship the Whiz-bang director Sam Gold on their hit new play, Circle Mirror Transformation, now playing at Playwrights Horizons. The show has received raves across the board and has now extended to November 15th. Friends of Ars Nova can purchase $35 tickets (regularly $50) with discount code CMGR by CLICKING HERE or by calling 212-279-4200 (Noon-8pm daily).

Also, stay tuned for exciting news about the upcoming Play Group production at Ars Nova, featuring short works by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Amy Herzog, Sam Hunter, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers and Brett Williams!

posted by Steven Tartick on 02 November 2009

Ars Nova Offers Former Tony Voters Off-Off Broadway Consolation Package

New York, NY--In an effort to provide comfort to the theater critics and journalists no longer eligible to cast their ballots for the Tony's, Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jon Steingart and Jenny Wiener Steingart, Executive Producers) will offer every former voter a Super Nova membership along with a pair of complimentary tickets to a summer program of their choice.

As Super Novas, the aggrieved members of the First Night Press List will receive a free drink at the Ars Nova bar at every performance, along with a t-shirt and access to exclusive ticket offers. Unlike the Tony voting bloc, the Super Nova program is open to all and can be joined for FREE by clicking here.

In announcing this consolation package, Artistic Director Jason Eagan said, "Nothing will wash away the Tony blues quicker than a free drink at one of our incredible Summer shows. Cast your vote for emerging theater by becoming a Super Nova!"


Members of the First Night Press List can contact Steven Tartick to arrange their Super Nova membership and complimentary tickets by emailing startick@arsnovanyc.com

posted by Steven Tartick on 23 July 2009

Spin your batons to these free "La Batutera" MP3 downloads!

A fiery fiesta is moving into Ars Nova this Friday! The Spanish Rock Opera "La Batutera" is hitting the stage, and we've got some incredible tracks from their upcoming album to whet your apetito. Just click below to download the tracks, and be sure to check out La Batutera this Friday at 8:00 PM. Every ticket comes with a FREE CD, so you'll have even more latin beats to fill your summer!

MP3 Files (Right Click to Download)
Cheeze Treats.mp3

Tera Batu.mp3

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS TO LA BATUTERA, PLAYING JULY 10 AT ARS NOVA!

posted by Steven Tartick on 07 July 2009

See Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed online, LIVE this Thursday at 7:55PM!

Ars Nova is boldly going where no Off-Broadway theater has gone before! This Thursday we'll be offering a LIVE video broadcast of our latest show, Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed for FREE at arsnovanyc.com. Simply visit our site at 7:55 PM to watch the complete show piped directly from the Ars Nova Theater on 10th Ave to your own Mac or PC.

A lot of folks have been curious as to why we would broadcast a currently-running show for free in the middle of its scheduled run. Here's a few reasons:

• We want as many people as possible to see John Dixon and Matt Sax in action. These guys are incredible, and it's our goal to offer as much exposure to them as possible.
• Sax & Dixon have a pretty big out-of-town following that can't catch the show live anyway.
• Video will never be a replacement for live performance. We're hoping people who see the web stream will decide to catch a subsequent performance of Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed to get the full experience.

The broadcast will begin promptly at 7:55 PM EST at www.arsnovanyc.com. Tune in and enjoy the show!

posted by Steven Tartick on 16 June 2009

Behind the Scenes at Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed!

Join Jason as he ventures backstage at Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed to check in on the guys as they get ready for the world premiere of their new show at Ars Nova!

posted by Steven Tartick on 10 June 2009