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Actress Tami Dixon is one of six artists nationally to receive a Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship. She will use it for an artistic residency with City Theatre Company.

Dixon, who is also the producing artistic director for Bricolage Production Company, is one of three recipients in the program's Extraordinary Potential category.

She will receive a $15,000 award, with up to an additional $10,000 available to relieve student loans. As a host theater company, City Theatre will receive a grant of $5,000 in support of the residency.

The fellowship program, supported by the William & Eva Fox Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for American professional, not-for-profit theater, supports individual actors' professional and artistic development through relationships between actors and not-for-profit theaters.

Both Dixon and City Theatre make their home on Pittsburgh's South Side.

During a four-month residency at City Theatre, Dixon will develop "Slope Stories," a performance piece that will use stories from community members who live on the hillside areas of the South Side known as the Slopes.

"The stories that come from these hills are full of great pride and sacrifice, at once universal and uniquely Pittsburgh," Dixon says. "It is these stories I am interested in exploring for this fellowship. What are the experiences that shaped these industrious people? Who were their influences? How did economic opportunity affect their decision-making and how did the ever-evolving technology, and landscape, transform their lives?"

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