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Toronto, April 13, 2012 - Tarragon Theatre is pleased to announce that the Urjo Kareda Residency Grant, has been awarded to playwright, actor and director Adam Paolozza. The grant, valued at $15,000, is made possible by a donation from The Youssef-Warren Foundation for an emerging professional theatre artist who has demonstrated a strong interest in and potential for working in theatre.
Beginning in August 2012, Adam will spend twenty weeks at Tarragon apprenticing in direction and artistic direction with Tarragon Artistic Director Richard Rose while further developing his own practice as a theatre-maker, in part as a member of the Tarragon Playwrights Unit.
Upon accepting the residency, Adam offered the following remarks: "The Urjo Residency has come at a fortuitous time in my artistic journey. An artist is like a sponge, absorbing influences, ideas and energy from their surroundings. I can't wait to soak up all I can at Tarragon. I'm honoured to be able to develop my work in such a rich, stimulating, supportive environment with Richard and the team at this point in my career."
Adam is an award winning Toronto-based theatre artist and co-founder of TheatreRUN (http://theatrerun.wordpress.com). His recent works include co-writing, directing and performing in TheatreRUN's The Double, a musical mime-based adaptation of Dostoevsky's novella with Protest The Hero double bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi; and developing The Pasolini Project, a new adaptation of Pasolini's tragedy Pylade, with Coleen MacPherson, as well as projects in French including Artaud: un portrait en décomposition in co-production with Théâtre Français de Toronto. He is also a regular collaborator with Theatre Smith-Gilmour, co-creator with Why Not Theatre of SPENT (for which he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role with Ravi Jain) and creator of Chekhov's Heartache, Katherine Mansfield and Lu Xun Blossoms, which Theatre Smith-Gilmour co-produced with the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, toured across China and presented as part of the Luminato Festival.
Adam is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School and École International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris where he also studied mime with the Decroux company Intrepido.
Tarragon Theatre congratulates Adam Paolozza on the Urjo Kareda Residency Grant and acknowledges the generosity of The Youssef-Warren Foundation which made this residency possible.
2012-04-13
Toronto: Adam Paolozza awarded the Tarragon Theatre Urjo Kareda residency Grant