Crowded Fire Theater Company
For General Operating Support
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/27/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Known for developing and presenting innovative and provocative new plays, Crowded Fire contributes to the creation of a contemporary canon that reflects the diversity of the Bay Area, and is instrumental in introducing the region to new writers. In addition to three mainstage productions each season, it offers a robust new play development program that includes commissions, in-house workshops, and an annual free public reading series. One of three resident theaters at Potrero Stage in San Francisco, Crowded Fire reaches more than 3,000 audience members annually, and serves nearly 100 artists. A first-time grant will support its annual season, the development of four new plays, a writing lab, a mentorship program for aspiring theater production artists, and increase the organization’s operational capacity.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.crowdedfire.org
Address
1695 Eighteenth Street C101 Annex, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
Crowded Fire Theater Company develops theater artists and produces new works from communities that are under-represented in American theater. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion, and diversity. Strengthening an organizations’ equity-focused competencies supports its practices and outcomes and contributes to a Bay Area arts ecosystem that has examined and reflects an understanding of equity in the arts. Support for Crowded Fire Theater advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Crowded Fire Theater trains and supports theater artists, and produces new works from communities historically underrepresented in American theater. In addition to developing and presenting an annual season of one to four mainstage productions each year, the organization offers programs that support the development of playwrights, actors, stage technicians, and designers. In a typical year, the theater reaches as many as 2,500 audience members and works with approximately 100 theater artists. Support of Crowded Fire Theater Company aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Crowded Fire Theater Company produces new plays that contribute to a contemporary theater canon by training, supporting, and presenting artists from communities historically under-represented in American theater. In addition to an annual season of two to three mainstage productions, it offers several programs that support the development of playwrights as well as stage technicians and designers. One of three resident theaters at Potrero Stage in San Francisco, Crowded Fire Theater reaches more than 3,000 audience members and approximately 100 artists each year.
