Marin Theatre Company
For General Operating Support
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Amount$165,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/15/2017
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Marin Theatre Company is a regional theater serving North Bay communities. Reaching annual audiences of 35,000 people, the company offers a season of six mainstage productions in its 231-seat Boyer Theatre in Mill Valley. The organization develops and produces new plays by American playwrights, including world and regional premieres each season, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards, new play readings, and workshops. It offers education programs for youth and teens, including student matinees, a young playwrights’ festival, afterschool classes, classroom workshops, and summer camps. Approximately 6,000 students participate in its education programs each year. Renewed funding will support Marin Theatre Company’s continued efforts to incubate new work, develop its education programming, create an annual forum for artists of color, and improve its tech capacity.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.marintheatre.org
Address
397 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941-2885, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Marin Theatre Company is a regional theater that offers a season of four main stage productions each year. The organization commissions, develops, and presents new American plays, regularly including the work of female playwrights and playwrights of color who have historically been under-represented in American theater. Each year, the company reaches 30,000 people, including more than 3,000 students who participate in its theater education programs. A grant to Marin Theatre Company advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Marin Theatre Company is a regional theater that offers a season of four mainstage productions each year. The organization comissions, develops, and presents new American plays, regularly including the work of female playwrights and playwrights of color who have historically been under-represented in American theater. Each year, the company reaches 30,000 people, including more than 3,000 students who participate in its theater education programs. A grant to Marin Theatre Company advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity (EID) capacity-building project
Marin Theatre Company is a regional theater that offers a season of mainstage productions and theater education. The organization regularly develops and produces the work of playwrights who have historically been 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 Marin Theatre Company advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
