The Emerging Artists Luncheon is a celebration of Vineyard Theatre’s artistic development and education programs, which give artists support and resources to develop new plays and musicals, and offer free arts learning opportunities to local public high school students.

About Lee Sunday Evans:

Lee Sunday Evans is a director and choreographer of works for the theater. She
won a 2015 OBIE Award for A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES. Her work has been presented and developed at: Clubbed Thumb, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Sundance Theater Institute, CATCH, 59E59, The New Ohio, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Culture Project, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Guild Hall, Emerging America Festival/Huntington Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Dixon Place, LaMama, Coatesville VA Medical Center. As the Resident Director for CollaborationTown, she is currently developing THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TRILOBITE KINGDOM a new musical for young audiences commissioned by New Victory’s LabWorks, with original music by Nicholas C. Williams and puppets by Amanda Villalobos. Ms. Evans is a Time Warner Fellow of 2014-2016 Lab at Women’s Project Theater, part of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. She has also taught devising theater workshops for the Waterwell Drama Program at PPAS, Vineyard Theatre, and The International Theater & Literacy Program in Tanzania and Rwanda.

The Luncheon is generously supported in part by The Gander.