Play by Holly Hughes Receives MAP Funding
Chicago’s About Face Theater has been awarded a grant from the MAP fund to support production of Let Them Eat Cake, a new theater piece by A&D Associate Professor Holly Hughes with Maureen Angelos and Megan Carney. Let Them Eat Cake provides an open theatrical forum that lets communities in different parts of the United States grapple with issues surrounding marriage equality.
The 2010 grants from The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation include 40 new projects spanning the disciplines of performing arts practices. A panel of peers selected this year’s grantees from more than 800 submissions.
For two decades the program has supported innovation and cross-cultural exploration in theater, dance and music. Among the longest-lived programs in arts philanthropy, MAP has disbursed over $20 million dollars to more than 800 projects. Since 2001, the program has been administered by Creative Capital.