MARIANA NEWHARD.
a Filipina-American creator/writer/performer specializing in hybrid/devised new work.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Mariana Newhard is a Filipina-American writer/performer. She was awarded a NYSCA Artists Grant for her opera, Queen of the Nile. World Premieres: Assembled Identity (HERE Arts Center), Big Leap, Alone and Perfect (Shorts, Capital Fringe D.C.) Residencies include: The Edward Albee Foundation, HERE, Rogers Arts Loft, Bethany Arts Community, the North American Cultural Laboratory and Drop Forge and Tool. Support and endowments include: The Puffin Foundation, The Drama League of New York, Axe Houghton and the Dorset Theater Festival. She is a member of The Women Artists Writing Group. Acting credits include: Theater: The Strange Case of Citizen De La Cruz (The New Ohio), La Negra (Hi Arts), The Lie Jar (Leviathan Lab), La Paloma Prisoner (Signature). Trade Practices (HERE), Elegy for a Midshipman (Dixon Place), and Three Graces (The Ohio). Film: Something Else (Best Actress Paris Film Festival) and The Wanderlust Room (SFC Cannes).FC Cannes).
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on April 20.
"I feel like art is the space that we can see. Our superpowers allow for a different kind of vision and a different kind of sight, alchemy, expression, especially... the performing arts, which is the art form of humanity, of articulating the human condition."
“Mariana Newhard and Lipica Shah perform a
FLAWLESS DUET:
relationships developing between eighteen versions of the same body remain
INTENTIONAL, DIVERSE, AND INTERESTING.
-THEATER IS EASY
GALLERY.
Discover photos and videos from Mari's work.
CREDITS: ASSEMBLED IDENTITY, HERE, Created by Purva Bedi, Kristin Marting, and Mariana Newhard
Directed by Kristin Marting, Performer, Mariana Newhard, Purva Bedi/Lupica Shah, video by Moti Margolin, workshop photos by Paula Court, premiere photos by Maria Baranova;TRADE PRACTICES, HERE at Governors Island, Creators Kristin Marting and David Evans Morris, Performers, Jenniffer Diaz, Megan Hill, Brooke Ishibashi, Mariana Newhard, Mary Rasmussen, Daphne Gaines, Dax Valdes, Mike Albo, photos by Carl Skutsch; LUSH VALLEY, HERE, Creators, Yana Landowne, Kristin Marting,Tal Yarden, Performers, Marc Bovino, Irene Longshore, Karen, Mariana Newhard, Abigail Ramsay, Rudy Speerschneider, Suzi Takahashi, Dax Valdez, Reed Whitney, photos by Carl Skutsch; THREE GRACES, New Ohio Theater’s Ice Factory at 3LD Arts Center, Created by Cafe Antarsia, Performers Mariana Newhard, Newton Pittman, photos by Alexander Sasha Karasev and Irina Kruzhilina;all other photos courtesy of the artist.