Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Cultural & Ethnic Awareness, Theater
Mission: Under the leadership of founding Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann, Woolly Mammoth has come to be acknowledged as Washington''s most daring theatre company, as a regional and national leader in the development of new plays, and as one of the best known and most influential small theatres in America. The Company has garnered such a reputation by holding fast to its mission: "to ignite an explosive engagement between theatre artists and the community by developing, producing and promoting new plays that explore the edges of theatrical style and human experience, and by implementing new ways to use the artistry of theatre to serve the citizens of Washington, DC. "
Programs: Mainstage Programming: Woolly Mammoth has strived to be a theatre of undisputed national prominence in the field of new play development. The 2008-09 season contains five main stage production and a three show special event series. These eight productions consist of four world premieres, a comedy on fate, a work based on The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz, the consistent hit "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, " and a hilarious adaptation of MacBeth, featuring the voices of The Simpsons. Education and Outreach: Woolly Mammoth has committed itself to building an education and outreach effort capable of impacting the lives of under-served individuals throughout the District of Columbia. The ART OF PLAYMAKING uses playwriting and related theatre arts to foster important life lessons and skills and to create community among like-minded young people. During the course of the semester, ART OF PLAYMAKING teachers engage their students in writing, acting, play analysis and improvisational theatre games. Each student will be required to write an original work by semester's end. The best of these completed plays--as judged by a panel of theatre professionals and teachers--will undergo a two-week developmental and rewriting process prior to professionally staged readings at Woolly Mammoth, in our popular annual ART OF PLAYMAKING Festival. Subsidized Tickets: Four special economic accessibility programs make theatre available to hundreds of individuals each season. These include: Pay-What-You-Can preview performances (two per production); Seats to Service, providing free tickets to non-profit organizations city-wide; the Under 25 program, which provides $15 tickets to all performances for individuals under the age of 25; and Stampede Seats, which provide 10 $15 tickets two hours before most performances.
Mission: Under the leadership of founding Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann, Woolly Mammoth has come to be acknowledged as Washington''s most daring theatre company, as a regional and national leader in the development of new plays, and as one of the best known and most influential small theatres in America. The Company has garnered such a reputation by holding fast to its mission: "to ignite an explosive engagement between theatre artists and the community by developing, producing and promoting new plays that explore the edges of theatrical style and human experience, and by implementing new ways to use the artistry of theatre to serve the citizens of Washington, DC. "
Programs: Mainstage Programming: Woolly Mammoth has strived to be a theatre of undisputed national prominence in the field of new play development. The 2008-09 season contains five main stage production and a three show special event series. These eight productions consist of four world premieres, a comedy on fate, a work based on The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz, the consistent hit "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, " and a hilarious adaptation of MacBeth, featuring the voices of The Simpsons. Education and Outreach: Woolly Mammoth has committed itself to building an education and outreach effort capable of impacting the lives of under-served individuals throughout the District of Columbia. The ART OF PLAYMAKING uses playwriting and related theatre arts to foster important life lessons and skills and to create community among like-minded young people. During the course of the semester, ART OF PLAYMAKING teachers engage their students in writing, acting, play analysis and improvisational theatre games. Each student will be required to write an original work by semester's end. The best of these completed plays--as judged by a panel of theatre professionals and teachers--will undergo a two-week developmental and rewriting process prior to professionally staged readings at Woolly Mammoth, in our popular annual ART OF PLAYMAKING Festival. Subsidized Tickets: Four special economic accessibility programs make theatre available to hundreds of individuals each season. These include: Pay-What-You-Can preview performances (two per production); Seats to Service, providing free tickets to non-profit organizations city-wide; the Under 25 program, which provides $15 tickets to all performances for individuals under the age of 25; and Stampede Seats, which provide 10 $15 tickets two hours before most performances.
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