Fresh Meat Productions

Fresh Meat was founded in 2002 and in the past decade has emerged to become one of the nation's foremost transgender arts organizations. The company offers three year round programs including Sean Dorsey Dance, a resident dance company performing the artistic director's choreography for audiences in the Bay Area and around the country; the Fresh Meat Performance festival providing a venue for over 150 transgender performing, visual, and literary artists; and the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. The Bay Area is home to the largest transgender population in the country (estimated at approximately 12,000) and this small budget organization has demonstrated a unique ability to create outstanding and original work for and by this community. With first time general operating support the organization will add administrative staff so that artistic director can focus more attention on ensuring the quality of the organization's creative products and generating new choreographic work which will contribute to the organization's capacity to reach its artistic and its financial objectives and to serve a historically marginalized community.