Arts Activities Support
Project Details by Fiscal Year
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Sandbox Theatre
Recipient Type
Non-Profit Business/Entity
Status
Completed
Start Date
July 2012
End Date
October 2012
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Project Overview
Beatnik Giselle
Project Details
Funding to develop and stage Beatnik Giselle, a new play that combines the world of modern dance and Beat Generation writers. Performances will take place in October 2013 at the Southern Theater.
Competitive Grant Making Body
Board Members and Qualifications
Elin Anderson: Sound Designer, Park Square Theatre; Scott Pakudaitis: Board President, Bedlam Theatre; Pat Teiken: Executive Director, Twin Cities Womens' Choir; Janna Knittel: Institutional Giving Manager, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Amy Rummenie: Artistic Director, Walking Shadow Theater Company; Joe Hagedorn: artist, Minneapolis Guitar Quartet; Bill Cottman: Artistic Director, Salon 106; Steve Busa: Artistic Director, Red Eye Collaboration; Rebecca Cline: Assistant Director of Development, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Advisory Group Members and Qualifications
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
Conflict of Interest Disclosed
Yes
Project Details: 2012 Fiscal Year
Legal Citation / Subdivision
Laws of Minnesota 2011, First Special Session, chapter 6, article 4, section 2, subdivision 3
Appropriation Language
ACHF Arts Access
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Other Funds Leveraged
$17,100
Direct expenses
$27,100
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)
To foster a robust process that produces high-quality art that grows artists, delights audiences, and engages the community in vital conversations.Audience surveys; informal audience and artist feedback; press response; staff and artist post-mortem.
Measurable Outcome(s)
Created and presented an original ensemble piece heralded by media for being a polished work that was wholly engaging, visually, aurally and emotionally; largest production in company history with stronger audience numbers than anticipated.
Description of Funds
Source of Additional Funds
Other, local or private
Recipient Board Members
Andrew Lawrence Schiff, Ryan Hill, Heather Stone, Alexis Kantor, Derek Lee Miller
Project Manager
First Name
Ryan
Last Name
Hill
Organization Name
Sandbox Theatre
Street Address
2011 3rd Ave S Apt 204
City
Minneapolis
State
MN
Zip Code
55404
Phone
(612) 220-3194
Email
rh@sandboxtheatreonline.com
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