The Marsh: A Breeding Ground for New Performance
For General Support
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/21/2008
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
The Marsh: a breeding ground for new performance was founded in 1989 to provide solo theater artists with an intimate performance venue and an environment that allows them the freedom to experiment and create new work. The company produces and presents nearly 400 performances a year at two theater spaces in its San Francisco Mission District complex. The Marsh, like fellow San Francisco Hewlett grantees Z Space and the Exit Theater focuses on the development of new talent and new work – its specialty is in producing solo shows including the 2007 Will Glickman award winner for Best Bay Area new play Tings Dey Happen by Danny Hoyle. On an $800,000 annual budget the Marsh runs a year round youth theater program involving 400 students from 35 Bay Area schools. The organization generates over 60% of its income through ticket sales and tuition fees for the youth programs and solo performance workshops. With ongoing general operating support will continue its artist training programs, expand its Marsh Rising emerging artist series and develop organizational capacity to increase individual donor support.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
themarsh.org
Address
1062 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110-2427, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Marsh supports professional and amateur solo performance artists to develop and perform new works. Each year, it presents 500 to 600 performances at its theaters in San Francisco and Berkeley, and offers year-round classes, an artist-in-residence program, and a theater arts program for children and youth for nearly 30,000 people. Funding for The Marsh will support its goals to develop and present performances, increase contributed income, and complete its first-ever strategic plan.
for general operating support
The Marsh supports professional and amateur solo performance artists to develop and perform new works. Each year it presents 700 performances at its theaters in San Francisco and Berkeley, and offers year-round classes, an artist-in-residency program, and a theater arts program for children and youth for more than 42,000 people. Renewed funding for The Marsh would support its goals of increasing contributed income and developing its business model to better support up-and-coming performers who do not garner the level of income that better known solo performers can command.
