2022 Recipients
The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre Fund is a signature initiative by The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) to address the underrepresentation of all who identify as women in the entertainment industries.
In 2022, finishing funds in the combined amount of $2 million were awarded to 89 music, theatre, film, and digital media projects led by artists who identify as women or coming from a female perspective. The 2021-22 cycle was the third round of a $5.5 million, three-year program funded by MOME and administered by NYFA.
2022 NYC WOMEN’S FUND FOR MEDIA, MUSIC AND THEATRE
Documentary Webseries
Miah Artola, Sky
Crackhead Barney, Crackhead Barney & Friends
Gretchen Hildebran, The People Vs. Austerity/El Pueblo Vs. Austeridad
Sauda Jackson, I DIGRESS: The Intimate Insights of a Childhood Weirdo
Nari Kye, Woori Show: Second Season
Sharon M. Levy and Crystal Johnson, Switching Lanes
Maria Palacio, The Fighter in US
Panelists
Samah Ali
Bedatri Datta Choudhury
Alessandra Zeka
Documentary Short
Aisha Amin, Choir
Shelley Cheung Claudon, Laying the Last Track
Adetoro Makinde, In The Wake of Mourning
Brigid McCormick, Trashion
Marlo Poras, Icebreakers (working title)
Sarah Teale, Fogo Azul: A Powerful Noise
Kate C. Walker, Rise Root Revolution
Mimi Wilcox, The Sebastopol Siege
Panelists
Anto Astudillo
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Den Quinsay
Documentary Feature
Nesa Azimi, Driver
Jean Carlomusto, Esther Newton Made Me Gay
Ilya Chaiken, Pretty Ugly – The Story of the Lunachicks
Marta Effinger-Crichlow, Little Sallie Walker
Chithra Jeyaram, Our Daughters (Working Title)
Alexis Neophytides, Dear Thirteen
Pola Rapaport, Addicted to life
Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía Beba Contreras, Jillian Schlesinger, Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Diane Ng, Ana Rodríguez-Falcó; Hummingbirds
Panelists
Kathy Brew
Maria Cataldo
Nneka Onuorah
Chloe Walters-Wallace
Debra Zimmerman
Fiction Webseries
Sandie Cheng, Imposters
Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Alzar la voz / Raise your
voice
Aisha Jordan, #HashtagTheShow Season Two
Amanda Morris Hunt, Manda
Ana Mari de Quesada, Way Down
Erica Rose, Interested In, Season 2
Panelists
Abbesi Akhamie
Jennifer Clark
Christina Raia
Fiction Short
Ifeyinwa Arinze, August Visitor
Beatrix Chu, Yu Under Water
Anne Hu, Lunchbox
Haisi Hu, Shopping For Love (working title)
Averi Israel, Sequin
Alexandra Kumala, The Prayer
Justine LaViolette, The Boat
Cameron Morton, Soft Landings
Nessa Norich, Jelly Bean
Wendi Tang, The Storm
Panelists
Mahen Bonetti
Maggie Lee
Abbey Lustgarten
Courtney Muller
Naomi Munro
Fiction Feature
Jacqueline Christy, Magic Hour
Joy Jorgensen, Runner
Johanna Putnam, Shudderbugs
April Xiong, Sora
Panelists
Emilia Ferreira
Judith Kenny
Aliza Ma
Classical/Jazz/Experimental/New Music
Sound Brown (formerly Julie Brown), Data and the Disciple: Vol. 1
Borahm Chay (Sita Chay), The Ritual of Le Sac
Silvie Cheng, CHORINHO: Music for Viola and Piano from Brazil
Alia Haju, Bassara
Shelley Hirsch, Her
Ella J Moore, KUNTRY
Meg Okura, The Jewbberish Folk Tunes
Sirintip Phasuk, Carbon
Tanner Porter, One Was Gleaming
Olivia De Prato, Panorama
Alicia Waller, Louder, Then
Nikara Warren, Cinematic Themes from Flatbush
Panelists
Carla Cook
Martha Mooke
Mary Moreno
Mendi Obadike
Nina C. Young
General Music
Melis Aker, Jacinta Clusellas, and Tatiana Pandiani; AZUL
Brianna Barnes, Rathskeller: A Musical Elixir
Siyi Chen, New Shidaiqu
Funmilayo Chesney, FUSHA Kids
Ashni Dave, Where She Roots
Barbara Elysee, Steady Wins The Race
Queen Esther, Blackbirding
Markita J Ferguson, Black Orphan
Gisela Fulla-Silvestre (NOIA), gisela by NOIA
Ellie Kim, Queer Femme Love Music Video
Denice Dominique King, The 11th Hour
LADAMA, LADAMA’s Third, Full-Length Album (currently untitled)
Dianna Lopez, Metanoia (album title is still to be determined)
Yvette Massoudi, Noosh-e Jan (tentative title meaning “Bon Appetit”)
Adeline Petricien, Title Pending
Beareather Reddy, Beareather’s Rebirth
Valerie Seeley, SIGS on Seeley St.
Tracy Yang, Decoding Self _ Tracy Yang Jazz Orchestra album recording
Panelists
Paula Abreu
Lora-Faye Åshuvud
Christal Jerez
Jennifer Le
Theater
Raquel Almazan, La Paloma Prisoner
Ars Nova Theater I Inc., (pray)
Becky Baumwoll, BKBXKids! Asks Why
Melody Brooks, How to Melt ICE (or How the Coyote fell in love with the lizard who was really a butterfly)
The Bushwick Starr/Michelle J. Rodriguez, PRESENCIA
Meghan Duffy, Invisible Women
Anne Hamburger, Behind Closed Doors
The Hearth, happy life
MJ Kaufman, Galatea
Loose Change Productions, Export Quality: Monologues Drawn from True Stories of Mail-Order Brides from the Philippines
Winter Miller, Spare Rib
Mélissa Smith, BLAST OFF to SPACE the SHOW (working title)
Soho Rep., Untitled Work(ing) for Whitney
Rachel Sullivan, Layer the Walls Part Two
The Tank and Caitlin Saylor Stephens, Modern Swimwear
Gayle Waxenberg, Inmate Dot Com
Panelists
Melissa Crespo
Migdalia Cruz
Erin Daley
Laura Jellinek
Shayoni Mitra
Lauren Petty
Vickie Ramirez
Seret Scott
Lauren Weigel
Monica Williams
Image Credit: Courtesy the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment
