Troy Anthony is a composer, director, and actor living and working in New York City.

His “Open Call” commission, “The Revival: It Is Our Duty” is not a performance; it is a service. Designed to meet people in their sorrow, revivals offer a path to salvation and joy. With a stirring community choir and band, this revival is a musical event featuring powerful, grounding, original songs written by Anthony and performed through ritual to activate individual and collective liberation in celebration of Juneteenth.

CREDITS
Live performance footage excerpts courtesy Musical Theatre Factory.
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Visit [ Ссылка ] for more about “Open Call,” and to discover other original commissions ranging from pop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance.
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Launched as part of The Shed’s inaugural year program, “Open Call” is a large-scale commissioning program for early-career NYC-based artists. For this second iteration, artists and interdisciplinary arts leaders, including Shed staff, selected 27 artists out of 1,500 proposals to present work in 2021 and 2022. Selected artists each received a commissioning fee of up to $15,000 depending on the scope of their projects, robust production support, and resources to further nurture their practices and expand their audiences.

For the first iteration of “Open Call,” 52 artists and collectives selected in 2018 were commissioned to present boundary-pushing new work beginning in May 2019. The presentation of work by some artists was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They will present their work in 2021 and 2022 along with the artists selected in 2020.

Meet the other artists presenting in 2021 and learn more about their commissions here: [ Ссылка ]

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