SANDRA DELGADO RECEIVES THE $15,000 Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship from the William and Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group. Delgado, a longtime member of Teatro Vista, receives the fellowship for her “extraordinary potential.”
She will use the $15,000 grant and the support of the Goodman, the host TCG theater, to conduct interviews and research theater-making techniques for a new show, Para Mis Madres.
TCG also has applications available now for the Leadership U[niversity program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “One-on-One” grants of $75,000 will go to six early-career leaders from all areas of theater via mentorships at TCG member theaters.
Continuing Ed grants of up to $6,000 will go to eight mid-career-to-veteran professionals. One-on-One preliminary applications are due Dec. 12, and the Continuing Ed apps can be filed through April 9, 2012. Go here for information.
FEELING SKETCHY? You’ve got one day left to apply for the 2012 Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. The window closes on Oct. 15. Apps are online here.
PRIDE FILMS AND PLAYS, which has been developing new LGBT scripts for stage and screen via staged readings this past year, takes the plunge into a full production with Love Sucks, written by Rob Mersola.
The comedy, which follows six “romantically challenged philanderers” for 48 hours on the Lower East Side, runs Nov. 3-26 under John Nasca’s direction at Hydrate, 3458 N. Halsted. Tickets are $15 at 800/838-3006.
PFP’s executive director is David Zak, former longtime artistic director of Bailiwick Repertory (now Bailiwick Chicago).
NOTHING IS MORE FUN than Barrel of Monkeys, and the Illinois Theatre Association agrees. The company, which develops scripts in workshops with underserved Chicago public school students and then performs them publicly in the long-running That’s Weird, Grandma every Monday at the Neo-Futurarium, receives the ITA’s Award of Excellence in Children’s Theatre.
The ceremony on Oct. 24 at the Neo-Futurarium features current Monkey Cliff Chamberlain, who is also onstage at Steppenwolf in Clybourne Park through November 13.
SEAN MALONE OF THE TEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION, centered at the lovely Wisconsin home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (if you haven’t visited yet, you simply must), has been selected as one of the top 100 nonprofit/cultural executives in the country.
He will participate in a two-year Chief Executive Program run by National Arts Strategies. In addition to preserving the Lunts’ legendary home, the Ten Chimneys Foundation also provides an acting fellowship program for mid-career thespians.
AND FINALLY, if you want to sharpen your on-camera audition chops, longtime casting director Jane Alderman offers a unique seminar for Equity and Equity Membership Candidates on Monday, Oct. 24.
The focus is on how to handle on-camera auditioning for theater roles – a growing reality in the business, especially when dealing with out-of-town stage directors. It takes place at Acting Studio Chicago. Call 312/527-4566 for information.
Kerry Reid is a freelance theater critic and arts journalist. Her work appears regularly in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Reader. Please send news items to kerryreid@comcast.net.
