Operating Support
Operating Support
History Theatre entertains, educates, and engages through creating, developing, and producing new and existing works that explore Minnesota's past and the diverse American experience. Its work provides a unique lens which links our past to the present, explores our common heritage, and illuminates our understanding of what it means to be American.
Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Crystal Brinkman: Executive director, Kulture Klub Collaborative; Brenda Brousseau: Visual artist, app developer and software company owner; Michael Cook: Treasurer, Twin Cities Jazz Festival; retired banker; Sindiswa Georgiades: Project management and fund development professional; Betsy Husting: Retired fundraising consultant to nonprofit and arts organizations; Sonja Jacobsen: Retired office manager, Jacobsen Metal Fabrication; vocal and instrumental music teacher; board member, Mankato Symphony; Cheryl Kessler: Founder and principal evaluator, Blue Scarf Consulting, LLC; Philip McKenzie: Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts
ACHF Arts Access
Through exemplary mainstage productions, Minnesotan audiences better understand Midwestern and American history and its modern-day impacts/parallels. Press and critical reviews; pre and post-play surveys; focus groups; breadth and depth of conversations at facilitated post-performance conversations, and participation in our wall of memories. 2: History Here and Now and Seats to Stage participants reframe their personal experiences as history and begin to see themselves as history makers. Post-performance student and audience surveys and focus groups; formal and informal assessments of education and engagement programs and observed participation in engagement activities.
Through exemplary mainstage productions, 52,119 Minnesotans better understand Midwestern and American history and its modern-day impacts/parallels. Audience statistics were gathered through weekly sales tracking through our box office that included all ticket sales as well as discount and complementary tickets; critical reviews (digital and print) and audience surveys (paper and online). 2: 4,808 youth/adults participated in programming, and approx. 76% indicated they learned, changed or reframed their experience as history-makers. Attendance data was collected through matinee ticket sales (discount and free); teaching artists and class registrations. To assess value, what was learned and/or what changed: Post-show (including capstone performances) surveys, where possible, interviews with participants; teaching artist feedback, and partner organizations surveys.
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