Cutting Ball Theater
For General Operating Support
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Amount$120,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/20/2009
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The Cutting Ball Theater is one of the Bay Area’s only theater companies devoted to the professional staging of experimental works and as the numerous accolades from its first ten years attest, it is the best. Nesting thorny works by Gertrude Stein, or new works by up and coming locals like Eugenia Chan and Marcus Gardley, in a season that also includes avant-garde classics by Sartre and Beckett and inventive interpretations of Shakespeare too, the company has consistently filled houses and grown an audience for challenging art. Now in residence at one of fellow Hewlett grantee Exit Theater’s stages in down town San Francisco the company has recently brought on full time administrative staff and with first time general operating support will be able to support the increased overhead it has invested in to continue its five-show seasons and expand the audiences for exceptional daring work.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.cuttingball.com
Address
141 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102-2802, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for building CRM program and web site overhaul
Cutting Ball Theater is an avant-garde theater that produces re-envisioned classics and new works that are experimental in theme or form. Each year, it reaches approximately 3,000 people through a three-play season, and up to 10 workshops and readings. Cutting Ball Theater, located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood since 2008, is also home to an education program that offers neighborhood youth access to performances, on-site theater classes, and paid internships. Support for improvements to Cutting Ball’s communications and cultivation infrastructure will enable CBT to better strengthen its relationships throughout its community, leading to broader and deeper impact for its programs, new opportunities for institutional growth, and stronger financial sustainability.
for general operating support
Cutting Ball Theater is an avant-garde theater that produces re-envisioned classics and new works that are experimental in theme or form. Each year, it reaches approximately 3,000 people through a three-play season, and up to 10 workshops and readings. Cutting Ball Theater, located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood since 2008, is also home to an education program that offers neighborhood youth access to performances, on-site theater classes, and paid internships.
for general operating support
Cutting Ball Theater produces experimental new works and re-visioned classics. It reaches 4,000 people each year through a three-show season, experimental new play festival, and numerous workshops and readings. This supplemental grant will support Cutting Ball Theater’s ability to attract and retain a new managing director who possesses the necessary skills to build on the organization’s recent growth and strong reputation among critics and audiences alike.
