Heather Christian , the playwright and composer whose acclaimed, genre-defying 2022 musical Oratorio For Living Things is currently being staged in a revival Off Broadway, and Garrett Bradley , the filmmaker whose documentary Time was Oscar-nominated, are among the 22 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grants.

The grants – officially called MacArthur Fellowship grants – honor “Exceptional creativity” and “Promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishments.” The Foundation selects the fellows based on recommendations from peers, from a broad sweep of the arts and sciences.

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Christian’s Obie-winning Oratorio had its world premiere Off Broadway at Ars Nova in 2022 (following an earlier postp

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