Project Grant

Upon successful completion of this project, we will have provided approximately 12 staff and 30 local volunteers with an opportunity to work in a supportive, artistic environment. The 12 staff will have received payment for work completed in their particular discipline, and will have added to their resumes and portfolios of work. Staff and volunteers will report back that they learned new skills or methods through sharing and working cooperatively together as a team. We will have provided an opportunity for approximately 16 performers, including at least 13 youth, to grow as artists and will have increased their skill sets in the performing arts discipline. We will have entertained audiences totaling approximately 600 people of all ages, economic and cultural backgrounds. We will have attracted at least 20 new people that have not been to or been involved in a previous Buffalo Community Theater production. We will have increased awareness of and access to Buffalo Community Theater in the community.Buffalo Community Theater will measure our outcomes by tracking the people who: audition, volunteer, perform in or attend our performances. We will solicit comments and reactions from audience members, actors and volunteers. An audience survey will help to provide feedback from the perspective of someone who attended the production. Questions regarding how the audience member heard about the show should help us track how well our marketing and publicity campaigns worked. Questions about home town, age, gender, etc should help us to further identify the demographic of our audience, and measure how often they attend Buffalo Community Theater productions, or whether this is their first one. A participant survey given to the staff, performers and volunteers, will help us gather data about how we can improve our procedures from auditions to striking the production.