Tennessee Women's Theater Project

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1 Tennessee Women's Theater Project General Information Contact Information Nonprofit Tennessee Women's Theater Project Address P.O. Box Nashville, TN Phone (615) Fax 615 Web Site Web Site Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter At A Glance Year of Incorporation

2 Mission & Impact Statements Mission The mission of Tennessee Women's Theater Project is To present theatrical productions of the highest quality to Middle Tennessee audiencesto produce plays that express the human condition in the female voices To provide acting, directing, design and management opportunities for women in professional theater To bring live theater to new, underserved audiences Background When I grow up, I want to be just like you. I want to act and I want to type. Those words from her then 7 yearold daughter changed Founder and Artistic Director Maryanna Clarke s life; she resolved to give her child more to aspire to than the life of a part-time artist with a day job. She founded TWTP and created Women s Work, the only festival in our region celebrating women playwrights, actors, poets, filmmakers, dancers, musicians and visual artists. HistoryJune 2005 debut: A Single Woman, about Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to congress, with Vanderbilt Women s Center. May 2006: Collected Stories at Looby Theater. Dozens of Magdalene House clients were our guests. 2007: Nickel and Dimed attracted big crowds. 1st Pay-What-You- Make-an-Hour night. First Women s Work celebration: 11 days of plays, poetry, music, documentaries and art : First full season-defying Gravity, a study of human aspiration via astronaut Christa McAuliffe; the comedy Almost, Maine; Women s Work 2008, with Magdalene House poets, Chinese opera and more : US debut of Susan Coyne s Kingfisher Days; Lisa Kron s comedy Well. Women s Work featured Who Does She Think She Is? a film on women who choose careers in art : Warriors Don't Cry, a onewoman staging of a memoir by Little Rock 9 s Melba Beals; the comedy Secrets of a Soccer Mom. Clowns, plays, poetry, dance and more at Women s Work : US debut of Unravelling the Ribbon, about women touched by breast cancer; the comedy-drama Impressionism. Warriors Don t Cry seen by more than 3,000 Metro students. Women s Work 2011: circus acts, poetry, plays and THE. BEST. DANCE. NIGHT. EVER : Trying: an unlikely pair bridging differences of youth and age, culture and class; The Disappearance of Janey Jones: a hopeful, humorous look at depression and bipolar disorder. Healing Arts showed paintings by artists with mental illness; talkbacks with mental health professionals and the playwright. Women s Work featured Regina Taylor s Witness, commissioned by TWTP : 2 regional and 1 world première reading - Shooting Star, a comedy about the middle years of our lives; Distracted, about an over-busy couple facing the prospect that their 9 year-old has ADD. Women s Work- first reading of Voices of Nashville : World première of Voices of Nashville, followed by free performances at Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville Public Library, Casa Azafrán, and many other venues. Regional première of the Tony-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. 8th Annual Women's Work festival. Crowd funding helped us offer modest compensation to presenting artists : Regional première By The Waters Of Babylon, revival of our immigration play Voices of Nashville, plus the 9th annual Women's Work. We returned 60% of Women's Work ticket revenue to the presenting artists : First Nashville productions of The Taming and Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight, both by Lauren Gunderson, our first annual holiday show, The Twelve Dates of Christmas and our 10th Annual Women's Work Festival, plus free after-school theater classes at Looby Community Center : First Nashville productions of Annapurna by Sharr White and Sistas: The Musical, by Dorothy Marcic (which shattered our records for both attendance and revenue), our annual holiday show, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, a free Inauguration Day reading of Lauren Gunderson s The Taming at the Downtown Library and our 11th Annual Women's Work Festival, plus a second year of free after-school theater classes at Looby Community Center. 2

3 Impact Accomplishments : September 2016, Founder & Artistic Director Maryanna Clarke received the Phenomenal Woman in the Arts award at Scarritt-Bennett Center's inaugural celebration of the life and work of Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: That's Me! September 2016, TWTP received its third 50/50 Applause Award from the International Centre for Women Playwrights. On Stage: September May 2017, TWTP presents its 10th Anniversary Season at the Looby Theater. October: we opened with the regional premiere of Annapurna, by Sharr White. This two-person play depicts Ulysses, a rough-hewn cowboy poet whose ex-wife Emma shows up at his filthy trailer in the Colorado Rockies, to discover that he s a mess: hooked up to an oxygen tank, wearing just an apron, and terminally ill. Their tense reunion is an alternately funny and touching revival of old battles and enduring compassion. Amy Stumpfl of The Tennessean called the play "Smart, honest and terribly human." The Nashville Scene s Martin Brady said these "broken characters [earn] the viewer s empathy, never allowing sentiment to overpower the edginess of their precarious emotional situation." December: we reprised our holiday show featuring Rebekah Durham in Ginna Hoben's one-woman romp The Twelve Dates of Christmas. Critics love it: "Thoroughly delightful and wonderfully entertaining." Jeffrey Ellis, Broadway World Nashville Audiences agree: "Totally enjoyable! Great alternative to Santaland, particularly if you are looking for a fun girl's night out." "Wonderful writing and a magnificent actor. Simply a GREAT show. I am going again!" January: we partnered with the Nashville Public Library to present a free Inauguration Day reading of Lauren Gunderson s The Taming, a hilarious mash-up of beauty pageants, contemporary partisan politics, and the Constitutional Convention. Ours was one of 50 readings nationwide, thanks to the playwright, who offered The Taming royalty-free. February-March: The regional premiere of Dorothy Marcic's SISTAS: the Musical, smashed all attendance records, including several SOLD OUT performances. By show of hands, 50% of audiences at our performances were attending their first play at the Looby Theater. Many people attended the show twice, three times and more. Church groups, sorority sisters, Red Hat Society chapters and two busloads of women from the Centennial Club joined us. At our full-house final show, we were proud to have as guests 24 women of Thistle Farms/Magdalene House. Our guests also included 20 students from University of Georgia/IMPACT, a service club which does community projects on Spring break. Afterwards, our IMPACT volunteers helped with set strike and load-out, and shared a chili supper with the cast and crew. May: Our 11th Annual Women s Work Festival of performing and visual arts by women; submissions are still arriving. We ll soon announce the roster of 11 different programs on 11 performance days: Dance Night, Mother s Day Poetry and more. Women s Work has received support from The Women s Fund of CFMT. Free theater classes With partial funding from an ABC Grant, we continued free theater classes for children in grades 3-5 who spend afterschool hours at the Looby Community Center. Our professional instructors help provide a safe, criticism-free environment for self-expression and group and individual storytelling skills through theater arts. Goals Our mission mandates that we seek underserved audiences; the company will always work to create opportunities for cultural engagement and participation for people of all the ethnicities and economic strata in Nashville s increasingly diverse population. We do not aspire merely to attract a larger slice of the theater-going population. Our goals are to build a more diverse audience, and to become more useful to the community we serve. Our board is devising specific plans for attracting more first-time attendees, more first-time corporate and more individual donors. We expect to continue our neighborhood engagement with free after-school theater classes for children at the Looby Community Center. Our Season will include The Twelve Dates of Christmas, plus two other plays yet to be chosen. Sistas has opened new doors for the company, and we are working to find new venues for the show, and seeking other works which broaden appreciation of women and the colorful cultural fabric that we all weave. The season concludes in May with Women's Work. Needs Willing and capable and board members, who understand nonprofit operations, share our passion for TWTP's mission, and will actively use their professional and personal contacts to further and fund the mission.funding. We are a professional company, paying our artists a professional wage. We believe that attending professional theater should be within everyone's reach cost should not be an obstacle! So we keep our ticket prices lower than any other professional company in town, and lower than even community theater companies. Consequently, the gap between what we take in through ticket sales and what we pay out to artists, is wide. Storage space for set materials, props, set decorations, costumes and other items.hands-on volunteers during production to help with front of house chores, load in, strike, set construction, set changes, etc. Ambassadors and evangelists - we hope to turn audience members into fans, fans into friends and friends into people tell our story far and wide, and who bring others along to attend our shows. 3

4 Other ways to donate, support, or volunteer TWTP is very grateful to its donors and supporters. Here are some ways to be involved, along with some of our needs:please join our mailing list here: online by going to our website and clicking the DONATE NOW tab. Donations, payable to "TWTP," can be mailed to Tennessee Women's Theater Project, P.O. Box , Nashville, TN If you would like to make an in-kind donation, please contact Some areas of need include storage space, office paper/supplies, moving van, and graphic design. Would you like to be a TWTP volunteer? In addition to our everlasting gratitude, volunteers get to see our productions for free. We need people to help at the ticket table for shows, to act as parking lot monitors, to help backstage, and in a variety of other ways. Please contact us at info@twtp.org. Service Categories Primary Organization Category Arts,Culture & Humanities / Theater Secondary Organization Category Arts,Culture & Humanities / Performing Arts Areas of Service Areas Served TN - Cheatham TN - Davidson TN - Robertson TN - Rutherford TN - Sumner TN - Williamson TN - Wilson In addition to the counties surrounding Nashville, we attract audience members from Jackson (Madison), Signal Mountain and Chattanooga (Hamilton), Whiteville (Hardeman) and Clarksville (Montgomery), from Cleveland, OH, New York City and Asheville, NC. Board Chair Statement A biographical passage from Maryanna Clarke, written when she was nominated for the Athena Award: The concert pianist, Leon Fleisher, talking about how his career nearly ended when he lost the use of his right hand, said, the gods know where to strike you. And the gods knew where to strike me. I came to Nashville to be a singer, and I was losing my voice. A doctor finally put a name to my strained, strangled sounding voice: spasmodic dysphonia a neuro-motor disorder. Spasmodic dysphonia won t kill me and it doesn t hurt. But it s also incurable, and it ended the singing career I thought was my soul s journey. I found a new creative home in the theater. But the gods weren t finished with me yet, and spasmodic dysphonia also ended my acting career.when you think life can t throw you anything more, life shows you just how little you know and throws something more at you. In 1995 my husband s sister a single parent was killed in a car accident. Barbie had always said if anything ever happens to me, will you take care of Kate? And, we said what you say when someone asks you that, Of course we will! So, 6-year old Kate came to live with us.not long after, I was working as a legal secretary, and still pursuing my acting career. Kate came with me to an audition one night a typical audition with a million women and a handful of men trying out for a million male roles and a handful of female roles. The question I always ask is rooted here: If theater holds a mirror up to nature, why are there not as many women s faces in that reflection as I see around me? The drive home was quiet, and in the darkness Kate said, When I grow up I want to be just like you. She finished that sweet thought with, I want to act and I want to type, and I was stopped cold. I knew in that instant that I had to give her something more to aspire to. 4

5 But not only did I have to do something different with my life I had to do something that MADE a difference.in that moment in the dark, Kate planted the seed from which Tennessee Women's Theater Project has grown. It s the greatest gift I ve ever received and the greatest gift I have to give. CEO Statement "If theater holds a mirror up to nature, why are there not as many women s faces in that reflection as I see around me?" Tennessee Women's Theater Project (TWTP) was founded in 2002 by Maryanna Clarke, who has been active in Nashville theater for some 20 years. Educated in theater and entrepreneurship, she currently serves as the Founding Artistic Director. TWTP is a professional nonprofit theater company with a special focus on women which seeks to address the problems of gender inequity and gender discrimination through role parity for women as well as training and education in male-dominated areas of professional theater. Because we believe that theater is a stakeholder in the community, we work with other organizations to improve the lives of at-risk women in Middle Tennessee. TWTP is not feminist theater, or women's issues theater. It is not exclusive - it does not exclude men or the male perspective. Women comprise 51% of the population; women attend theater in even greater proportion. Yet, women are grossly underrepresented onstage, backstage and in theater management. Playwright Marsha Norman describes theater as a marketplace that is still dominated by the male aesthetic. Male characters tend to outnumber females, even in plays written by women. Offstage jobs in professional theater - from director to designer to stage manager - are predominantly held by men, and the management of professional theater is likewise male-dominated. Men are [perceived as] universal; women are specific. (Lisa Kron, New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Program, Report on the Status Of Women: A Limited Engagement?) TWTP strives not simply to address this mis-perception, but to correct it. 5

6 Programs Programs Main Stage Productions Description We present three professional stage plays each season at north Nashville s Z. Alexander Looby Theater, choosing works that embody and advance our mission Season:September - Women's Work (now in its new time slot) December - The Twelve Dates of Christmas, by Ginna HobenFeb/Mar - Every Brilliant Thing, by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny DonahoeMay - Sistas: the Musical, by Dorothy Marcic th Anniversary Season: October Annaourna, by Sharr White December The Twelve Dates of Christmas, by Ginna Hoben February-March Sistas: The Musical, by Dorothy Marcic We keep ticket prices low, and offer discounts, including "pay what you make an hour" nights. Our top regular ticket price is $20. Our Christmas show is a fundraiser, with all tickets priced at $25. We partner with half a dozen agencies serving at-risk women to offer free admission to their clients. Budget 70,000 Category Population Served Short Term Success Long term Success Program Success Monitored By Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Theater General/Unspecified, Females, Other Economic Level We aim to provide work for women in professional theater. Our designers are usually women and our casts are never less than 50% female.we aim to provide and a fair wage to everyone we hire. The wages we pay our actors and designers, female or male, are among the highest in Nashville s professional theater community.when people see live theater, they LOVE live theater. In the short term, our goal is to make theater accessible to everyone, where income level is not a barrier to attendance, and to introduce the experience of live theater to new and diverse audiences. By holding a less distorted mirror up to nature, our goal is to share with our audiences a world where women s voices are heard and women s stories are shared. We hope to have an impact on how local theater views and presents and represents half the sky. We draw information from:payroll records (detailing the number of artists we've employed)audience surveys, and stop and ask interviewsbox office reports (e.g., attendance at the Looby for our season has been the highest in TWTP history)published reviews, and audience commentsour commissioned piece, Voices of Nashville won high praise. Tennessean theater critic, Amy Stumpfl, said, "...we hear the voices of these new Americans, ringing out with strength, resilience and courage." From audience members:thank you for telling these stories and bringing HONOR and TRUTH to the beautiful journey.you simply MUST see this show! Bring tissues!we will never look at fellow shoppers, neighbors, people on the street the same way again. Thank you all for a truly transformative evening of theatre. 6

7 Examples of Program Success In our mission to provide professional work for women in theater, we have employed some 75 actors, most of them female, at the highest non- Actor s Equity pay rates in the area. Paid designers of lights, props, costumes and sets number 70. Stage manager and director positions, paid at the same rate as the actors, number 21 each.our recent move of our annual Women's Work festival, from May to September has proven to be a resounding success. Women's Work started the succession of performing arts/new play festivals that have since sprung up. Because of that competition, it became increasingly challenging for us to attract audiences and the performers necessary for the festival. For the 2018/19 season, we moved the festival from the May time slot, where it had been for 11 years, to September, with immediate success. We got larger and more diverse audiences, and more presenters. The festival has found a new home in September.Our dedication to underserved audiences includes standing invitations of free admission to clients of many agencies serving at-risk women. We ve had such guests at every production since The Nashville Scene s writers have distinguished TWTP with BEST OF accolades for Best One-Woman Show ( Warriors Don t Cry ) and Best Theater for Regional Premieres. We were recently honored with our third 50/50 Applause Award for Diversity in Programming, by the International Centre for Women Playwrights. In the two most recent seasons, more than 120 clients of Magdalene House, YW Shelter, Yana, The Next Door and Renewal House attended shows as our guests. 7

8 Annual Women's Work Festival Description Category Population Served Short Term Success Long term Success Program Success Monitored By Examples of Program Success Women s Work began in May 2007 as an emergency fill-in, when our artistic director suffered a back injury that sidelined her for months. Because she couldn t direct the play we had scheduled, and wouldn t let the company miss a chance to meet the public, Maryanna Clarke ed every actor she knew, asking what they would perform if offered a stage. The message was forwarded far and wide, and submissions flooded in. The first Women s Work showcase and celebration included presenters from middle Tennessee, and North Carolina, Detroit and Los Angeles, filling eleven different programs of play readings, poetry, films and onewoman shows. Among the artists were members of a poetry and essay class at Magdalene House, a playwright/actor and her accompanist from California, a local filmmaker s documentary about a female school principal, and a college teacher s one-woman portrayal of tent show performers of the late 1800 s. From films by an Oscar-nominated director to clowns, aerialists and a very popular annual dance night, every yearly edition of Women's Work brings new delights and higher artistic achievement. Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other General/Unspecified, Females, Other Economic Level Our top short term goal is dedicated financial support for the festival, to close the gap between expenses and ticket revenue, and to guarantee higher financial compensation for the presenting artists.another goal is to construct a marketing effort that draws audiences to the festival s onenight-only programs. A third is to improve our social media marketing, creating a kit to help the presenting artists promote their appearances to their own fans. Even as the curtain rose on the first Women s Work, Maryanna knew it would be an annual event. So it is: TWTP will staged its 11th Women s Work Festival in May Our long term goals are to provide a stage for an ever-wider variety of women artists, and for those artists, fair compensation and growing audiences to appreciate their work. We draw information from performer rosters, audience survey forms, stop and ask interviews and box office reports for much of the story, along with published reviews, and audience comments. In 2014, an IndieGoGo campaign raised funds to compensate presenting artists, an important step toward the company s goal to make the festival a permanent annual institution. Another sign of the success of Women s Work is the many other festivals that have sprung up in Nashville since we began: several new play showcases, two fringe festivals and more affirm the power of our original idea, which is that women especially need an affordable, nurturing space in which to present their work. In his preview of Women s Work 2014, Martin Brady of the Nashville Scene referred to the festival as an institution, an opinion with which we enthusiastically agree. 8

9 Touring productions Description Touring productions Rather than wait for audiences to find us, we take a main stage play on tour to meet them where they are, as often as practical. Our 2009 production of Warriors Don t Cry, Eisa Davis's riveting one-woman play adaptation of the memoir of Little Rock Nine member Melba Beals, toured widely. We performed at Scarritt-Bennett Center, at private schools including Harpeth Hall, MBA and USN, at Motlow State in Lynchburg, in Gallatin s Palace Theater even a lunch-hour show at HCA corporate headquarters. Warriors Don t Cry toured again in 2011; more than 3,000 students, teachers and parents attended free performances in Metro Nashville public high schools and middle schools. Voices of Nashville has appeared at Casa Azafrán, Scarritt-Bennett, the Downtown Library and Vanderbilt Sarratt Student Center, at Big Picture Charter High School, and in several churches. Budget Category Population Served Short Term Success Long term Success Program Success Monitored By Examples of Program Success Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other General/Unspecified, Females, Other Economic Level As Maryanna Clarke says of Voices of Nashville, "We see the play as a way of introducing neighbors to neighbors as humans, and not strangers. The goal is to reach, teach and inspire audiences to see themselves and their new neighbors in new ways.our most popular show ever, Sistas: The Musical, promises more opportunities for presentation in venues beyond the Looby Theater. Stay tuned as we work out the complex logistics of reassembling the cast, and moving a musical from venue to venue. Our long-term goal is make the magic of live theater available to new audiences, especially underserved populations. By reaching beyond the walls of our home theater to perform in communities throughout middle Tennessee, we also hope to increase the regular audience for main stage productions. We draw information from audience head counts, survey forms, stop and ask interviews and payroll records, along with audience interaction in postperformance talkback sessions. Warriors Don t Cry reached over 4500 people on tour. Harpeth Hall students spent a week on the Civil Rights era. Public school teachers led activities including letters to the teen-aged Melba Beals. A discussion at Scarritt-Bennett featured Bobby Cain, who as a student integrated Clinton High School in East TN, and Erroll Groves, one of the first African- American children to attend Nashville s Buena Vista Elementary. By show of hands, 1/3 of the 75+ people at the Casa Azafrán performance of Voices of Nashville were seeing their first TWTP show, and making their first Casa Azafrán visit. Audience comments:so much to talk about afterward and so beautifully presented. It's witty and poignant and laughout-loud funny and bring-tears-to-your-eyes gripping...such an incredible experience tonight! The characters were all so incredibly well written and acted...will never look at fellow shoppers, neighbors, people on the street the same way again....a truly transformative evening. 9

10 After school theater classes - Looby Community Center Description Beginning in September 2015, we have conducted free after-school theater classes for children in the neighborhood of our home venue, North Nashville s Looby Theater. In partnership with Metro Parks Theatre Division and the Looby Community Center, the classes engage children of 3rd to 5th grade age in learning drama, story telling and theater skills. We will measure progress using precepts devised by the choreographer, educator and consultant Liz Lerman. In fall and spring sessions with groups of up to 15 students each, experienced teachers provided by the company will work with the children to create, rehearse and perform ethnographic works that reflect their own lives and dreams, while providing a safe, uncritical space for self expression and self discovery. In the school year, our classes were geared to aid the Story Garden project of Metro Parks Theatre Department and the Looby Branch Library. Children attending our classes helped to create dozens of original stories which were performed on the Looby Theater stage by professional actors and musicians. Budget 7500 Category Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Population Served Children Only (5-14 years),, Long term Success Program Success Monitored By Examples of Program Success In their 3rd consecutive year, our classes remained popular. We offer continuity - the same instructors have taught since the beginning - and consistency, even as children come and go according to their parents' pickup schedules. TWTP Board Member Chris Clarke, collaborating institutions Metro Parks Theatre Department, Looby Branch Library. At a March 14performance, the children who created stories were thrilled to see them brought to life byactors (including their TWTP teachers) and musicians. CEO Comments Our greatest challenge is capacity. Our productions always earn admiring reviews and strong praise from attendees, but there is room for considerable audience growth. Most of our current capacity goes into the work of production and performance. Our current goals are to build audience, and to become more useful to the community we serve. However, we do not aspire merely to attract a larger slice of the theater-going population. To achieve our goals, we must assemble the human resources and capital required for effective marketing and broader audience building. Our mission mandates that we seek underserved audiences, which means the company must create opportunities for cultural engagement and participation for people of all the ethnicities and economic strata, who make up Nashville s increasingly diverse population. 10

11 Governance Board Chair Board Chair Ms. Susan Jakoblew Company Affiliation Community member Term July 2018 to Aug Board Members Name Affiliation Status Ms. Maryanna Clarke TN Women's Theater PRoject Voting Mr. Christopher C. Clarke Freelance Copywriter Voting Ms. Jennifer Haile-Ojwang National Fraternal Order of Police Voting Ms. Susan Jakoblew The Arc of Tennessee Voting Ms. DeeGee Lester The Parthenon Voting Mr. Scott Manners Waller Lansden Voting Ms. Sharon Taylor-Carrillo African American Heritage Center, Franklin, KY Voting Board Demographics - Ethnicity African American/Black 1 Asian American/Pacific Islander 0 Caucasian 4 Hispanic/Latino 1 Native American/American Indian 0 Other 0 0 Board Demographics - Gender Male 1 Female 5 Unspecified 0 Governance Board Term Lengths 3 Board Term Limits 4 Board Meeting Attendance % 100% Written Board Selection Criteria? Written Conflict of Interest Policy? Under Development No Percentage Making Monetary Contributions 100% 11

12 Percentage Making In-Kind Contributions 100% Constituency Includes Client Representation Yes Number of Full Board Meetings Annually 6 Standing Committees Executive Risk Management Provisions Commercial General Liability 12

13 Management Executive Director/CEO Executive Director Term Start Ms. Maryanna Clarke Founding Artistic Dir. Experience Founder and Artistic Director Maryanna Clarke has a degree in Theatre, with a minor in Entrepreneurship from MTSU. She chooses and directs the company s plays, curates its annual Women s Work festival and is responsible for TWTP's three play commissions. She traveled to Toronto in 2012 on a national Leadership (U)niversity grant from TCG, to meet and learn from 4 of the city s largest professional nonprofit theater companies. She has been an Athena Award nominee, and in 2010 became Nashville s first member of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is a member of Metro Arts/Vanderbilt Curb Center learning cohort on Racial Equity in Arts Leadership, a 2016 NBJ Women of Influence in Nonprofit Leadership, and the first Phenomenal Woman in the Arts honoree, in Scarritt-Bennett Center's annual Phenomenal Woman: That's Me celebration of Maya Angelou. She moved to Nashville as an aspiring recording artist. After spasmodic dysphonia (SD) claimed her singing voice, she found her true creative home: theater. A question nagged her. "If theater holds a mirror up to nature, why are there not as many women's faces in that reflection as I see around me?" When her SD also affected her speaking voice, acting was impossible. Maryanna s responded by founding TWTP. Since its 2005 debut, it has presented top-quality works that express the human condition in the female voice. Named BEST THEATER FOR LOCAL PREMIERS, The Nashville Scene praised Maryanna s knack for unearthing high-quality, under-the- radar fare that offers surprises and also directly suits her company's mission. Under her leadership, TWTP has earned a reputation for being: Daring - presenting regional premieres, a couple of national premieres and the world premiere of Voices of Nashville, a commissioned piece on Nashville s immigration experience from the perspective of its new Americans; First - introducing Nashville to the festival concept in 2007 with Women s Work, a showcase and celebration of all kinds of art created by women, now in its 10th year. Companies all over town have followed suit.different no other theater in the area pursues gender equity as part of its stated mission. Staff Full Time Staff 1 Part Time Staff 0 Volunteers 75 Contractors 15 Retention Rate 100% Plans & Policies Does the organization have a documented Fundraising Plan? Under Development Does the organization have an approved Strategic Plan? Under Development In case of a change in leadership, is a Management Succession plan in place? No Does the organization have a Policies and Procedures Plan? No 13

14 Does the organization have a Nondiscrimination Policy? Yes Does the organization have a Whistle Blower Policy? No Does the organization have a Document Destruction Policy? No Affiliations Affiliation Center for Nonprofit Management Excellence Network Year 2002 Tennesseans for the Arts 2007 Metro Arts Commission 2006 Tennessee Arts Commission 2007 Business Committee for the Arts - Affiliate 2008 Theatre Communications Groups - Constituent Theatre 2010 Metro Parks and Recreation 2005 Awards Awards 14

15 Award/Recognition Organization Year Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman - Arts (Maryanna Clarke) Women of Influence Award - Maryanna Clarke 50/50 Applause Award for diversity in programming Scarritt-Bennett Center 2017 Nashville Business Journal 2017 International Centre for Women Playwrights Grant Award Tennessee Arts Commission 2018 Grant Award Metro Nashville Arts Commission 2012 Grant Award Community Foundation 2012 ABC Grant Award TN Arts/Metro Nashville Arts Commission Grant Award Memorial Foundation 2006 Grant Award Grant Award Grant Award - Web Site Redesign Challenge America Fast Track Grant Challenge America Fast Track Grant James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Ann & Kurt Lance Krafft Charitable Lead Unitrust Frist Foundation Technical Grant Program National Endowment for the Arts 2011 National Endowment for the Arts 2012 Grant Nissan Foundation 2011 Best of Nashville: Theater -- Best Theater for Local Premieres Grant Best of Nashville: Theater - Best One-Woman Show: Warriors Don't Cry Nashville Scene 2009 Susan G. Komen, Greater Nashville 2012 Nashville Scene 2010 Senior Staff Ms. Maryanna Clarke Title Experience/Biography Founding Artistic Director Ms. Clarke holds a degree in Theatre from MTSU, with a minor in business (Entrepreneurship). She has directed, stage managed, worked in a variety of other capacities on many productions, and is an award winning actor. 15

16 Financials Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Start Sept Fiscal Year End Aug Projected Revenue $85, Projected Expenses $85, Endowment Value $0.00 Endowment Spending Policy N/A Endowment Spending Percentage (if selected) 0% Detailed Financials Revenue and Expenses Fiscal Year Total Revenue $71,562 $60,284 $66,542 Total Expenses $64,629 $77,177 $66,762 Revenue Sources Fiscal Year Foundation and Corporation $0 $0 $0 Contributions Government Contributions $0 $0 $0 Federal $0 $0 $0 State $0 $0 $0 Local $0 $0 $0 Unspecified $0 $0 $0 Individual Contributions $46,795 $44,600 $49,745 Indirect Public Support $0 $0 $0 Earned Revenue $24,767 $15,684 $16,797 Investment Income, Net of Losses $0 $0 $0 Membership Dues $0 $0 $0 Special Events $0 $0 $0 Revenue In-Kind $0 $0 $0 Other $0 $0 $0 16

17 Expense Allocation Fiscal Year Program Expense $60,346 $70,573 $54,312 Administration Expense $4,043 $6,424 $12,450 Fundraising Expense $240 $0 $0 Payments to Affiliates -- $0 $0 Total Revenue/Total Expenses Program Expense/Total Expenses 93% 91% 81% Fundraising Expense/Contributed Revenue 1% 0% 0% Assets and Liabilities Fiscal Year Total Assets $19,013 $12,080 $28,973 Current Assets $19,013 $12,080 $28,973 Long-Term Liabilities $0 $0 $0 Current Liabilities $0 $0 $0 Total Net Assets $19,013 $12,080 $28,973 Short Term Solvency Fiscal Year Current Ratio: Current Assets/Current Liabilities Long Term Solvency Fiscal Year Long-Term Liabilities/Total Assets 0% 0% 0% Top Funding Sources Fiscal Year Top Funding Source & Dollar Amount Contributions, Gifts and Grants $46,795 Contributions, Gifts and Grants $44,600 Contributions, Gifts & Grants $49,745 Second Highest Funding Source & Dollar Program Revenue Program Revenue Program Revenue Amount $24,767 $15,684 $16,797 Third Highest Funding Source & Dollar Amount Capital Campaign Is the organization currently conducting a Capital Campaign for an endowment or the purchase of a major asset? No Capital Campaign Goal $0.00 Capital Campaign Raised-to-Date Amount $0.00 as of 0 Capital Campaign Anticipated in Next 5 Years? No State Charitable Solicitations Permit TN Charitable Solicitations Registration Yes - Expires May 2019 Registration No 0 Organization Comments In the FY we faced the challenge of beginning the FY with a lower reserve than in previous years, and with less funding from the TAC than in We took a risk on our first musical, SISTAS: the Musical, by Dorothy Marcic. A show that was completely unknown to the local audiences, it broke all previous 17

18 attendance and box office records. As a result of that success, we now have an opportunity to bring the show to an outdoor venue this summer. We are negotiating corporate sponsorship to make that happen. GivingMatters.com Financial Comments Financials taken from the was prepared internally by the nonprofit. Comments provided by Kathryn Bennett 6/1/18. Created Copyright 2019 The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee 18