2023 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 2023, finishing funds in the combined amount of $2 million were awarded to 97 music, theatre, film, and digital media projects led by artists who identify as women or coming from a female perspective. The 2022-23 cycle was the fourth round of a $7.5 million, five-year program funded by MOME and administered by NYFA.
2023 NYC WOMEN’S FUND FOR MEDIA, MUSIC AND THEATRE
Documentary Webseries
Rana Abdelhamid and Aziz Ramos, From Queens
Jackie Aude, The Comedians
Rose Lytle, Missing Sisters
Queer Futures, Queer Futures
Frieda Vizel, Discover Hasidic Brooklyn
Dolores Zorreguieta, I am an artist!
Panelists
Samah Ali
Tiffany Joy Butler
Lydia Cornett
Luz Zamora
Documentary Short
Izabel Acevedo, Marlen and the Peter Pan Syndrome
Desireena Almoradie & Barbara Malaran, UNTITLED KILAWIN DOCUMENTARY
Maya Cozier, San Juan Hill: A NY Story
Imani Nikyah Dennison, They Said The People Can Skate (working title)
nancy ma; 有一天，你不在（One Day You are Not Here)
Luna X Moya, Greyfields
Vaishali Sinha, PERSIS
Panelists
Melissa Friedling
Lana Lin
Ambreen Qureshi
Documentary Feature
Chelsi Bullard, Unfiltered
Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez (Directors), Slumlord Millionaire
Marisa Fox, My Underground Mother
Tami Kashia Gold, It’s Just a Job
Loulwa Khoury, We Never Left
Sandra Luckow, Vanishing: A Love Story
Alina Simone, Black Snow
Greta Schiller/Jezebel Productions, Love Letters (working title)
Ti Yu, Dissidents
Panelists
Tina DiFeliciantonio
Kristen Fitzpatrick
Barbara Ghammashi
Cynthia Kane
Den Quinsay
Fiction Webseries
Katherine Allen, L’alphabête Noire
Marine Assaiante, MOM TO BE
Sofiya Cheyenne and Julie Wyman, How We Look
Jasia Ka, Girls Aren’t Funny
Courtney Peck & Nino Tandilashvili, Sweeps
K. “Kween Kash” Sarvis, Homegirl TV Show
JT Tsou and Katie North, Events at Hemlock Manor
Panelists
Jennifer S. Clark
Le’Andra Le Seur
Claudia Zamora-Valencia
Fiction Short
KK Apple, The Launch
Stephanie Bencin, Greetings
Donna Di Novelli, WHEN LAST SEEN
Ar Ducao, The Great Tit is a Bird
Sophia Feuer, Flood Line
Maaa Film, There Were Trees
Cara Griffin, MY SAVIOR
Hivewild & Katherine Maxwell, a sigh of origin
Kathy Mitrani, Sombras Nada Mas (Nothing But Shadows)
Francesca Pazniokas, Dummy!
Catya Plate, Las Nogas
Alicia Ramírez and Izzy Stanish, Sam & The Universe
Sally Tran, Don’t
Raina Yang, Sink
Panelists
Carolyn Funk
Ivone Margulies
Easmaine Michel
Naomi Munro
Nashwa Zaman
Fiction Feature
Meryl Branch-McTiernan of Ex Files Productions, Katie’s Mom
Clementina Ojie and Orire Nwani (Director), Love in Seclusion (working title)
Sarah G. Waldron, Flying Lessons
Rachel Wolther, The French Italian
Panelists
Sharese Bullock-Bailey
Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Emilia Ferreira
Classical/Jazz/Experimental/New Music
Shayna Dunkelman, NOMON
Amanda Ekery, Árabe
Suzanne Farrin, Macabea
Luna Composition Lab, Luna Composition Lab Fellows 2022–23 Premieres
Shoko Nagai, Forbidden Lotus
Angélica Negrón, Chimera
Numina Records/Miriam Elhajli, Khadija El Warzazia & Bnat El Houariyat
Bonita Oliver (AKA French Leave), AR Arias: Sojourner Truth
Jessica Pavone, Chamber concerto “Clamor” for string sextet and improvising bassoon soloist
Sofia Rei, Folk & Futurism
anna rg, SONGS of SICK-LAND
Lacy Rose, Lispector
Melvis Santa, Jazz Orishas; IYALOSHAS
Teodora Stepančić, Works for Ensemble by Teodora Stepančić
Panelists
Cândida Borges
Elizabeth Hoffman
Cecilia Lopez
Fay Victor
Emily Wong
General Music
Ariana and the Rose, Ariana and the Rose Album #2 (working title)
Brittain Ashford, Hand Wringing/In The Wings
BETTY (Elizabeth Ziff, Alyson Palmer, Amy Ziff), Untitled
Bianca Bonetti (Director), Emu Haynes (Cinematographer), Natalie Barth (Artist and Performer), The Fvck Alone
Catherine Brookman/Sullivann; If a song fades out, it’s playing forever somewhere
Goussy Célestin, ANBA DLO: BENEATH THE WATER
Karina Daza, Viajera: Musica Sin Fronteras (Traveler: Music Without Borders) EP
Mizan K, Find Your Ruby
Grace Kim, Hypochondriac
Caroline Kuhn, Caroline Kuhn-Album
treya lam, otherland
Lourds Lane (Book/Music/Lyrics Writer and Violin-Playing Co-Star, SuperYou Musical), AND NOW I RISE–SuperYou Music Video
Moon Kissed, I’ll See You In NYC
The Narcotix, Dying
Joy Postell, At Ease
Jean Rohe, New Weather
Fatima Shaylin, La Reina Latina
Sabrina Song, Untitled
Panelists
Sheri Barclay
Erika Elliott
Violette Furton
Jennifer Le
Amy Rigby
Theater
Nehprii Amenii of Khunum Productions, HUMAN
Atlantic Theater Company, TBA
Maria Camia, The Healing Shipment
Jeesun Choi, To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지
Cayenne Douglass, Maiden Voyage
Salomé Egas, Más Que Un Pétalo (More than a Petal)
Epic Theatre Ensemble, ENEMIES
Alaina Ferris & Karinne Keithley Syers, Amanda+James; The Lydian Gale Parr
Pat Golden, Hyannis
HERE, Priestess of Twerk
Dena Igusti, First Sight: A Queer Indonesian Love Story
Kendra Jain and Sarah Shin, The Sitayana (or “How to Make An Exit”)
Yekta Khaghani (Playwright), Shadi Ghaheri (Director), and Diana Fathi (Dramaturg); You struck me with an ax, over and over, but there is no wound…only a sprout
Yvette Martinez, Director, One World Arts, Inc and ¡Retumba!; Titi Strikes Back – Evelina’s Return (working title)
Jennifer Miller/Circus Amok, Circus Amok Parks Tour
Nadira Simone, PLAY HERE [ ______ ]
The Classical Theatre of Harlem (Presenting Organization), Betty Shamieh (Playwright); Malvolio at Uptown Shakespeare in the Park
Marina Zurita, Riven
Panelists
Mia Chung
Cynthia Flowers
Susan Haskins
Nidia Medina
Shayoni Mitra
Hanna Novak
Isabel Quinzaños Alonso
Martine Sainvil
Adrienne Williams
Monica L. Williams
Image Credit: Courtesy the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment
