Art Project Grant

Renegade Theater Company is producing the regional premiere of The Whale in an effort to expand our audience base and increase the skills of our artistic community. This production has topical reach beyond our core audience and will allow us to gain new audience members from the LGBTQ community, the health industry and the faith and free-thinking communities. It will allow local artists to grow and expand their abilities by developing their skills. We also anticipate the offering of work of this challenging type will entice artists to stay in our community. We anticipate this production to grow our box office receipts, grow our core audience base and grow the talents of local artists. We will utilize box office reports to determine if we are increasing attendance and reaching new audience segments. We will solicit responses from audience members via comment cards, direct conversations, audience surveys and social media to determine if we accomplished our goal of offering local audiences the rare opportunity to see a high-quality production of this bold new work. We will solicit responses from cast and crew via direct conversations as well as private surveys to see if the experience was as creative, fun and challenging as we plan it to be, and will keep tabs on the cast and crew to see if they remain in the community and if their work continues to grow and improve.