American Conservatory Theater
For General Operating Support
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Amount$420,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/17/2012
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
A Hewlett Foundation grantee since 1983, the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) has positioned itself as a developer of diverse, contemporary works; a leading actor training conservatory; and a provider of education and literary programs. It presents seven main stage productions and fourteen Conservatory productions to more than 250,000 people annually, and its education programs reach almost 10,000 youth onsite and in Bay Area schools. In addition to the 1,000-seat Geary Street Theater that serves as its home, ACT recently opened an intimate, forty-nine-seat venue, The Costume Shop (in the company’s actual costume shop space), and is renovating a new, additional performance venue, the Strand Theater, in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood. As ACT builds its physical presence in an effort to engage community and audience members more deeply, the new executive director (as of 2010) intends to focus on the organization’s capitalization needs to ensure this expansion advances to ACT’s mission and goals.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.act-sf.org
Address
415 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an executive search
The American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco consists of: a core company that stages an eight-play season in the 1,000 seat Geary Street theater, a conservatory that is one of the nation’s leading Masters in Fine Arts programs for actors, multiple youth and adult acting training programs and a new-play publications program. Founded in 1965, A.C.T. has been led by artistic director Carey Perloff since 1992 and executive director Heather Kitchen since 1996. In the past decade the company has grown into a $20 million a year operation presenting work to over 200,000 audience members annually and employing over 250 full and part time theater artists, technicians and teaching artists. In the summer of 2009 executive director Heather Kitchen left th eorganizxation and with organizational effectiveness support A.C.T. will hire an executive search firm to recruit and contract with a successor to become the organization’s new executive director by June 2010.
