Cutting Ball Theater
For General Operating Support
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Amount$105,000
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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
The Cutting Ball Theater, located at the EXIT Theatre (a Hewlett Foundation grantee), is devoted to the professional staging of experimental new works and re-visioned classics, reaching an annual audience of 4,000 people. Building on several recent box office successes, praise from both critics and audiences, and the hiring of its first general manager, the company is well positioned to advance its artistic reputation and infrastructure. With renewed support, the Cutting Ball Theater would continue to offer seasons with three productions and a new experimental play festival; diversify its revenues; and, through its participation in a comprehensive research study, investigate program ideas inspired by findings about how audiences are personally transformed by arts and cultural experiences.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.cuttingball.com
Address
141 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102-2802, United States
Grants to this Grantee
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.
