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The WorkShop Thanks Its Supporters!
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Important Message from the Managing Director -
Matching Grant Opportunity Now In Effect:
Dear Friends of the WorkShop,
Now is a very exciting time for the WorkShop Theater Company. This August, we begin our seventeenth season of developing new plays and presenting compelling theater on our constantly action-packed stages.
During a time when only 10% of Off-Off-Broadway theater companies have the ability to maintain long-term control of their own spaces, we've just signed a new ten-year lease that will allow our 175-member company to keep its creative two-theater home vital and active in the heart of Manhattan. This is a remarkable victory, and one in which we happily share with all of you, our friends and Supporters.
Right now there is no better time to help us with a tax-deductible donation as I am thrilled to announce that for all donations received between July 1, 2010 and this coming Thanksgiving (November 25, 2010), the WorkShop is the happy recipient of a very generous matching grant opportunity!
Through this matching grant, we will receive $1 for every $3 raised (up to first $30,000 donated) from the direct fundraising efforts of the company and our individual company artists. For instance, if you donate $30, the WorkShop gets an extra $10! This works for any amount you choose to send.
Your tax-deductible donation, along with its matching dollars, will not only keep our creative doors open, it allows us to continue to serve (and innovate with) our artists and audiences.
We love making good theater here, and are so grateful for the opportunity your donation dollars give us to do just that!
And please, click here to read more about the recent opportunities that our generous donors have provided the WorkShop and our valued company artists.
As always,
We couldn't do it without you!
David M. Pincus
Managing Director
WorkShop Theater Company
If you would like to donate by mail, please click the link below to print out a PDF version of our Fundraising Appeal Letter and enclose it with your donation to the address below. (Please write "2010 Appeal" on your check.):
The WorkShop Theater Company
312 West 36th Street
Fourth Floor East
New York, NY 10018
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Thank you so much for your consideration. We look forward to seeing you around the WorkShop!
Donations of $100 or more will be listed in our programs.
- Workmates $1-$99
- Apprentices $100-$249
- Journeymen $250-$499
- Craftsmen $500-$999
- Artisans $1,000-$2,499
- Artists $2,500-$4,999
- Masters $5,000-$9,999
- Creators $10,000-$14,999
- Angels $15,000+
*The WorkShop Theater Company is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization.
Where Do Your Contribution Dollars Go?
First and foremost, toward the development of new American plays...
Our process begins with the weekly Monday Night Writers Meeting, where playwrights workshop new ideas. The results are seen across the country and around the world:
LIBERTY, a monumental new musical, with book & lyrics by Dana Leslie Goldstein and music by Jonathan Goldstein, was developed at the WorkShop through concert readings and a two-week Play In Process production. It recently concluded a preliminary run at New 42nd Street and will open Off-Broadway in the fall.
Fred Glover’s THE FIRE SEASON won Beverly Hills Theater Guild’s Nesburn Award and his play SANCTUARY won Tribute Productions’ Sprenger-Lang Award. Both plays were developed extensively at the WorkShop.
On being the first recipient of the Julio T. Nunez Artists Grant, Glenn Alterman said, "Part of my winning the grant came about from the productions of my play GOD IN BED in Europe last summer, many of the monologues from which were developed in the Monday Night Writers Meeting." Also, Glenn’s THE SEALING OF CEIL, originally read at Sundays@Six and later developed at the Monday Night Writers Meeting, won him Georgia State University’s prestigious Arts and Letters Degree in Drama.
Rich Orloff's comedy FUNNY AS A CRUTCH, developed at the WorkShop, became a NY Times Critic's Pick last season and gets its European premiere in May. Plays from Rich's short play collections FOREIGN AFFAIRS and COUPLES, both originally produced at the WorkShop, have since had 39 productions in the United States and Australia.
Developed and produced at the WorkShop, Jon Lonoff’s full-length comedy SKIN DEEP was published by Samuel French, Inc. last spring. The play has subsequently been produced in Georgia and Ontario, Canada, and is scheduled for next season in Kansas City and San Diego.
Laurie Graff's THE SHIKSA SYNDROME, first developed as a solo show at the WorkShop, found another life as a full-length novel published by Broadway Books, Random House.
Timothy Scott Harris’ new full-length play, PROTECTED, has been selected for presentation in the 2010 FringeNYC.
WorkShop Artistic Director and One Life to Live staff writer Scott C. Sickles' BEAUTIFUL NOISES was recently published in Smith & Kraus' 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays and his full-length drama HAIRDRESSER ON FIRE was produced at San Diego's Compass Theatre.
...to keep the lights on at two of the busiest stages in NYC...
Rehearsing in the JEWEL BOX
Miss Lulu Bett on the MAIN STAGE
From the wildly varied Sundays@Six and Three-Day Staged Readings series to Plays in Process productions – all in the Jewel Box; from the monthly hilarity of VAUDEVILLE NOUVEAU and VERBATIM VERBOTEN to the riches of our annual WILL-A-THON, featuring the members of Charles E. Gerber’s Will’s PlayShop and honoring Shakespeare’s Birthday; from premieres, revivals and classics to special homegrown projects on our Main Stage, The WorkShop Theater Company is rarely dark. And, when we’re not in production ourselves, our reasonable rental rates provide a vital service to other companies not fortunate enough to have their own home.
...and to provide educational and community outreach programs.
We offer classes in Shakespeare and Musical Theater, post-performance discussions, and special celebrations. This February, we commemorated Black History Month with BLACK VOICE – a series of staged readings of scenes and plays by playwrights of color featuring over 50 talented artists, many of them new to the WorkShop. In honor of March’s Women’s History Month, we staged a revival of MISS LULU BETT, the first play by a woman to win the Pulitizer Prize, offering talk-backs with leading academics. It was one of the most popular productions in our history.
In 2009 many theaters, ourselves included, saw a decrease in overall funding, yet we had a 63% increase in the number of individual donors like you. This kind of support looks great on grant applications. So, your gift, in ANY amount, makes the WorkShop WORK!!
