Theater for the New City
Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike has a diverse and extensive work experience in the theater industry. Joanie Hieger began their career with The Living Theatre in 1987, where they worked as an actor, director, workshop leader, and composer. Joanie Hieger later founded and co-directed Action Racket Theatre in 1999, providing workshops and performances for people of all ages. Joanie also worked as a director and actor for DADAnewyork and contributed as a poet and photographer for MainTenant. Joanie Hieger has participated in various theater productions and festivals, showcasing their talents as an actor, writer, and organizer. Throughout their career, Joanie has been involved in the creative process and has presented workshops for people of all ages and abilities.
Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike began their education journey in 1979 at New York University. Joanie Hieger pursued a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Theatre/Theater and completed their studies in 1981. After this, no specific information is provided regarding their educational pursuits. However, it is known that they attended Los Angeles Valley College and Mt. San Antonio College, although no degrees or fields of study are specified during their time at these institutions.
Theater for the New City
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC’s Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Ma-Yi Theater Company, which won an OBIE Award for its 1996 TNC production, FLIPZOIDS. TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company’s 1997 production of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 40 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award.