Spotlight On
June 1, 2004
Organization Name: Playwrights Horizons Inc.
Year Founded: 1971
Contact Person: Jill Garland, Director of Development
Address: 416 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 564-1235
Fax: (212) 594-0296
Email: JGarland@playwrightshorizons.org
Website Address: http://www.playwrightshorizons.org
Mission:
Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off Broadway theater dedicated exclusively to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.
Background:
Since our founding in 1971, we have helped to launch the careers of hundreds of writers, served thousands of theater artists and audiences, made a significant contribution to the American theater repertory, and established a nationwide reputation as a leading advocate for new plays and musicals. Numerous works that premiered on our stages have transferred to Broadway, been subsequently produced at regional theaters nationwide and around the world, or been translated to film. Playwrights Horizons and its family of artists have been honored with numerous awards during the past three decades, including seven Tony Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes for Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s "Sunday In The Park With George," Alfred Uhry’s "Driving Miss Daisy," and Wendy Wasserstein’s "The Heidi Chronicles."
Current Programs:
Each season we present six full-scale productions, accept and evaluate approximately 1,000 new script submissions, conduct developmental play readings and musical theater workshops, and award new writing commissions. We offer a variety of audience outreach programs, train aspiring arts managers and theater students through our Resident Internship Program and the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and operate Ticket Central, a low-cost box office that serves small and mid-sized arts organizations around New York City.
We are engaged in a major Capital Campaign to construct a new building and to create a permanent endowment. Our new building is fully accessible and houses all of our programming, including a 198-seat Mainstage Theater and a 96-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theater (expandable to 128 seats). While the building ensures that we will be able to serve our constituents better and more efficiently on a daily basis, our permanent endowment will give us the necessary financial underpinning to continue serving them into the future.
Funding Needs:
In addition to general operating grants, Playwrights Horizons seeks earmarked support for its Resident Internship Program, audience outreach initiatives, musical theater development activities, Mainstage and Studio production underwriting, and Ticket Central sponsorships, as well as capital gifts for the building and the endowment fund.
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