Community Arts
Funding to produce and present Plaza Suite by Neil Simon. Performances will take place at Central High School in Norwood Young America in August 2016.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Jill Anfang: Roseville Parks and Recreation Program Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher and performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair El Arco Iris; Anthony Galloway: Actor, storyteller, West Metro Education Program; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer and performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Kathy Mattson: Organizational development, volunteerism, fundraising; Hayley Johnson: Audience development, fundraising, administration; Erin Gardner: Artistic, disabilities specialist, Community Education; Robert Cuerden: Audience development, fundraising, organizational development; Janelle Doyle: Education, Community Education, youth programming; Dave Browne: Fundraising, general administration, youth programming; Kathleen James: Youth programming, administration, audience development; Noel Nix: Community service, administration, organizational development.
ACHF Arts Access
Thirty different people will be directly involved in the project development and performances and 600 audience members will attend the three shows. 100% of those directly involved in the development of the production will indicate they have increased their arts knowledge and feel they were able to add to the creativity of the production. A count of audience members will be kept each night. Audience members will also be asked to complete a survey after the show. All members directly involved in the production will also be surveyed. Both surveys will be reviewed by the board of directors.
The committee does feel that the Artistic goals have been met. We provided an avenue for local resident to be a part of in theatre; We did pull off a high quality and affordable show to our community; We engaged community members by volunteering to be part of the show, volunteers in the show development, and volunteer drivers to get people to the show; We expanded the knowledge of Centre Stage Theatre as 7 of our actors were new to Centre Stage plus the expanded coverage in the newspaper made us well known in the community; A sense of community was developed as we all came together, in some difficult situations, and went above and beyond to pull together a quality production. We had some difficult times with our new director and without help from the community, this production could have failed. This productions was mainly for adults and that is the group we hit. We had enough adults try out to make sure we had the right person in the right role and the audience we had hoped would come did. Our actual audience numbers were down from what we would like to have seen, but overall we had a good turnout for the production. We feel the numbers may have been down due to the nature of the show and it being an adult show. We did not get as many senior citizens to attend as we have in the past. I would say on stage we had a big diversity represented. We had many different cultures, backgrounds, and experience levels take part in this production. I believe our community diversity was well represented in this theatre experience. In order to reach everyone information about the production was put in the local paper, posted on flyers all around the community, posted at churches and advertised through the local Chamber Club. Every community member had plenty of opportunity to learn about the production and how they could be involved. 90% of the actors were new to the stage and all indicated this as a positive experience and learned a lot about productions. Based on the surveys returned, 30% of our audience was new to one of our shows and 75% of the people in attendance would prefer to have Musical Performed instead of comedies. 100% of the people involved in the production indicated they would be back next year.
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