RBMM JOB #: 3BON140002_TACA Playbill 2014 ad_01 AD SIZE: 4.625" x 7.75" PLAYBILL TRIM 5.375" x 8.5" CLIENT: TACA LIVE: - PUB: Playbill BLEED: non RELEASE DATE: 02/03/14 COLOR: CMYK FOR QUESTIONS CALL: Julie Ramirez (214.987.6500) 2014 TACA B ENEFIC I A RIES African American Repertory Theater Arts District Chorale • AT&T Performing Arts Center • Avant Chamber Ballet Big Thought • Bruce Wood Dance Project • Cara Mia Theatre Company Chamber Music International Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas Dallas Bach Society • Dallas Black Dance Theatre • Dallas Chamber Symphony Dallas Children’s Theater • Dallas Symphony Orchestra • Dallas Theater Center • Dallas Wind Symphony • Echo Theatre • Fine Arts Chamber Players Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra • Irving Chorale • Junior Players • Kitchen Dog Theater • Lone Star Circus Arts Center Lone Star Wind Orchestra • Lyric Stage Nasher Sculpture Center • One Thirty Productions Matinee Series • Orchestra of New Spain • Orpheus Chamber Singers Plano Symphony Orchestra • Sammons Center for the Arts • Second Thought Theatre • Shakespeare Dallas • SMU Meadows School of the Arts • Teatro Dallas • Texas Ballet Theater • Texas Winds Musical Outreach • The Dallas Opera • Theatre Three, Inc. • TITAS Turtle Creek Chorale • Undermain Theatre Uptown Players • Voices of Change WaterTower Theatre • WordSpace We’re supporting the performing arts in North Texas with 1.4 M I L L ION DOLLARS IN GRANTS TACA champions artistic excellence Photo courtesy of Texas Ballet Theater in performing arts organizations and encourages innovation, collaboration, and engagement through financial support, stewardship, and resources. A STAGED READING 214.520.3930 taca-arts.org 3BON140002 Playbill ad 2014_NoBleed_4n625x7n75_02ef.indd 1 2/4/14 12:25 PM Thank you to our donors that support Undermain’s mission and make it About Jackie Sibblies Drury possible to bring affordable, professional theatre to Dallas! Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based Corporations, Foundations, Organizations, playwright. Her play We Are Proud to Present a and Government Agencies Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly 1/1/2013-3/1/2014 Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 had Pillars of Undermain Anonymous (2) TACA its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation TACA Donna Wilhelm Family New Works Chicago and its New York premiere at Soho Rep in Ben E. Keith Foundation Fund City of Dallas, Office of Cultural Affairs Texas Capital Bank Fall 2012. Jackie’s work has been featured at Communities Foundation of Texas Texas Commission on the Arts PRELUDE’11, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Shubert Foundation Westdale Asset Management Victory Gardens 2010 Ignition Festival, American Patrons Theater Company’s 10 x 10 Festival, and The Magic AT&T Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation Community Theatre’s Virgin Play Festival. Jackie received a Strasburger and Price, LLP Summer Job Program 2012-13 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. Thespians She was a member of the 2011-12 Soho Rep Dallas Arts District Fund Stephen B. Chambers Architects Writer/Director lab, a 2010-12 New York Theater Supporters Workshop Emerging Artist of Color Fellow, and Louise Kahn Endowment Fund of the Dallas Foundation Employee Corporate Matching Grants member of The Civilians’ R&D Group. She was the AT&T Foundation USB dramaturg and contributing writer for Zero Cost Special Thanks House, a collaboration between Pig Iron Theatre Jorge’s Company and Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada. Courtroom Sciences Inc. Jackie is a NYTW Usual Suspect and a MacDowell Colony fellow and is on committees to organize classes for Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops and The Public School New York. She is a graduate of Brown’s MFA playwriting program, where she received the David Wickham Prize in Playwriting. Her play Social Creatures was commissioned by Trinity Repertory Theater Company in Providence, RI and premiered there in March 2013. Jackie is the inaugural recipient of the 2012-14 Jerome New York THOMPSON’S QUICK PRINT MTC Printing, Inc. dba Thompson’s Quick Print Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center. HUB Certified - Women Owned making impressions that last CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS UNDERMAIN Executive Producer Artistic Director Associate Producer Undermain Theatre welcomes the support of companies which enables us to Bruce DuBose Katherine Owens Suzanne Thomas present the highest quality theatre at a price affordable to all. Benefits for your company include Internal Recognition, External Promotions, and Hospitality Presents Benefits for you to use to entertain clients or employees. For more information, please call the Development Department at 214-747-1424. The Regional Premiere of CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP $500 – $999 Supporter We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about In appreciation for your support, Undermain is pleased to provide your company the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as with: • Listing in all programs and Annual Report and on website South West Africa, from the German • Subscription to Undermain quarterly newsletter • Advance notice of Special Events Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - • 2 complimentary drink vouchers to performance of your choice • 2 complimentary tickets to Preview Night performance of your choice 1915 • Two complimentary Undermain Theatre T-shirts • Invitation for 2 to Undermain’s Donor Appreciation Event By Jackie Sibblies Drury $1,000 – $2,499 Thespian All the benefits of Supporter, plus: Directed by Dylan Key • High priority donor recognition on all programs and on website with • 2 additional tickets to a performance of your choice (4 total) • Exclusive invitation to Special Events and Receptions Jake Buchanan, Blake Hackler*, Shannon Kearns-Simmons*, • Have your photo taken and displayed in the Undermain Lobby Ivuoma Okoro, Christopher Dontrell Piper, and Bryan Pitts* $2,500 – $4,999 Patron All the benefits of Thespians, plus: Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Properties Design • 2 complimentary Season Passes Robert Claudia Steve Linda • Invitation for 4 people to attend each DMA Reading event • VIP Backstage Tour for you and 3 guests Winn Stephens Woods Noland • “Name Your Night” – one evening performance dedicated to you! Sound Design Choreography Stage Management SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Bruce Millicent Ryan Pillars of Undermain Theatre support our myriad of programs through: DuBose Johnnie Lescalleet* • Sponsor of Undermain Theatre Opening Night Parties (3) for one year WE ARE PROUD .... was developed at the Magic Theater's Virgin Play Reading Series, the Bay • Sponsor of Undermain Program Book for one year Area Playwriting Festival/SF Playwright's Foundation, Victory Garden Theater's Ignition Festival • Publication of Undermain Theatre House Scripts for one year and received its world premiere in April 2012 at Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, Illinois; • Sponsor of Undermain Newsletter and Annual Report for one year directed by Eric Ting; Chay Yew, Artistic Director; Jan Kallish, Executive Director • Sponsor of Undermain @ DMA Reading Series WE ARE PROUD... had its New York Premiere at Soho Rep., Sarah Benson, Artistic Director, • Producing Sponsor of One Play at Undermain Theatre Cynthia Flowers, Executive Director • Commission of Playwright for a New American Play • World Premiere Production of a New American Play • Underwriter of a one year residency at Undermain Theatre for a Literary *The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this Manager production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in • Underwriter of one year residency for a Playwright–in-Residence at the United States. Undermain Theatre INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP LEVELS AND BENEFITS UNDERMAIN THEATRE PRESENTS The Regional Premiere Of The average price of an Undermain ticket is $20. If we had to charge the full price to cover all of the costs of running Undermain Theatre and producing We Are Proud to Present a Presentation shows of the highest quality, we would have to charge $165 per ticket! about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly To fill the gap between our ticket prices and what it costs, Undermain sells concessions, fills out foundation and government grant applications, finds Known as South West Africa, from the corporate sponsors, requests in-kind support, and solicits contributions from German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years individuals. 1884-1915 Every gift helps keep ticket prices affordable for everyone! Please show your support for Undermain by joining our membership circle with a tax- By Jackie Sibblies Drury deductible donation. Directed by Dylan Key $100 - $249 Friend $2,500 - $4,999 Patron Donor recognition on all All the benefits of Thespians, plus: programs and on website 2 complimentary Season Passes Produced by special arrangement with DRAMATIC Subscription to Undermain Invitation for 4 people with quarterly newsletter priority seating to attend each PUBLISHING, Woodstock Illinois. Advance notice of Special Events DMA Reading event 2 complimentary drink vouchers VIP Backstage Tour for you and 3 to performance of your choice guests Cast “Name Your Night” – one evening Jake Buchanan $250 - $499 Supporter performance dedicated to you! Actor 1 / White Man All the benefits of Friends, plus: Actor 2 / Black Man Christopher Dontrell Piper 2 complimentary tickets to $5,000 - $9,999 Benefactor Blake Hackler* Wednesday or Thursday non- All the benefits of Patrons, plus: Actor 3 / Another White Man Preview performance