Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have recent recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club. The commissioned writers are Jeff Augustin (Little Children Dream of God), Courtney Baron (A Very Common Procedure) and Juliana Nash (Murder Ballad), Nell Benjamin (The Explorers Club), Madeline George (The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence), Tom Holloway (And No More Shall We Part), Nathan Jackson (Broke-ology), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon), Greg Pierce (Slowgirl), and Alexandra Wood (The Initiate). The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has provided a grant to Manhattan Theatre Club to support the development of plays that address themes of math, science, and technology and that depict scientists, mathematicians, and engineers as major characters. The aim is to bridge the divide between the “two cultures,” science and the arts. In addition to providing a grant for commissioning engaging plays with science and technology themes and characters, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has provided production support for MTC’s production of Sloan commissioned writer Nick Payne’s CONSTELLATIONS which will play a strictly limited 13-week engagement and will begin previews Tues Dec 16, 2014 for a Tues Jan 13, 2015 opening night at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47^th Street). Press contact: Boneau/Bryan-Brown (212/575-3030)...