Maine Theater
2023 Grants
- Celebration Barn Theater, for the 2024 series and pay-what-you-can ticket program: $5,000
- Chocolate Church Arts Center, to upgrade the Annex Blackbox theater lighting and sound technology: $5,000
- Community Little Theatre, for stage lighting and sound equipment: $5,000
- Deertrees Theatre Limited, to acquire the soundtrack for “An Evening at Dave’s Sauna”: $5,000
- Good Theater, for the production of “A Man of No Importance”: $5,000
- LA Public Theatre, the for 2023-2024 subscription series with a focus on new plays and playwrights: $5,000
- Mad Horse Theatre Company, for general operating support: $5,000
- Maine State Music Theatre, for its pay-what-you-want and student ticket programs: $5,000
- Penobscot Theatre Company, for its production of “Constellations”: $5,000
- Portland Stage Company, to produce its 2023-2024 season: $5,000
- Rangeley Friends of the Performing Arts, to support community theater productions: $5,000
- Royal River Community Players, for its 2024 production of “Heidi”: $4,965
- Saco River Grange Hall, for general operating support: $5,000
- Schoodic Arts for All, to purchase guard rails for theater risers: $3,979
- The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine, for its production of “The Sorcerer”: $5,000
- Theater at Monmouth, for its 2024 summer repertory season: $5,000
- Waldo Theatre, to grow the Community Theatre Program and establish a Community Theatre Working Group to increase access and inclusivity: $5,000
- Winter Harbor Music Festival, to produce the operas “Cosi fan tutte” and “Don Pasquale”: $5,000
2022 Grants
- Center Theatre, to upgrade its audio board and QLab software: $2,850
- Good Theater, for six productions for its 20th anniversary season, including “Carousel” and “You Can't Take It with You”: $5,000
- Heartwood Regional Theater Company, for its production of “Hamlet”: $5,000
- LA Public Theatre, for its production of “Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World”: $5,000
- Mad Horse Theatre Company, to hire theater artists to produce four plays
- Mayo Street Arts, to replace audience risers and add additional chair stops and handrails: $5,000
- Opera House Arts, to upgrade theater lights to new, energy-efficient, LED lights: $5,000
- Penobscot Theatre Company, for its production of “Queen,” a play by Madhuri Shekar: $4,000
- Portland Lyric Theater, to replace its emergency exit stairway: $3,135
- Portland Stage Company, to produce its 2022-2023 season and develop a strategic plan: $5,000
- Rangeley Friends of the Performing Arts, to support its 2023 productions: $5,000
- Saco River Grange Hall, to support its 2023 season: $5,000
- Snowlion Repertory Company, for a concert performance of the musical "The Christmas Bride": $5,000
- Stage East, to support its only staff position: $5,000
- Theater at Monmouth, to support strategic planning: $5,000
- Theater Project, to produce "Squeeze Me!,” an original musical by Maine playwright Brian Daly: $5,000
2021 Grants
- Acorn Productions, to produce the 2022 Maine Playwrights Festival world premiere plays in a two-week, in-person celebration of Maine playwriting: $3,500
- Meetinghouse Arts, to produce a community-based theater production of “Our Town” with a multi-generational cast of local residents in collaboration with visual artists, musicians, and theater professionals: $5,000
- Center Theatre, to upgrade theatrical sound equipment: $3,000
- The Playhouse, to reoccupy the theater and begin programs again by meeting CDC safety guidelines for theaters with equipment that improves air circulation and filtration: $2,000
- Everyman Repertory Theatre, for the 2022 season to celebrate the reopening of theaters across the world: $5,000
- Good Theater, to provide streaming productions: $5,000
- LA Public Theatre, to reopen and produce a three-play subscription series: $5,000
- Mad Horse Theatre Company, to support pay-what-you-decide ticketing for the 2021-2022 season: $5,000
- Maine State Music Theatre, to fund a Zoom master class for its educational fellows by South African dancer/choreographer Joyce Hopane: $2,000
- Mayo Street Arts, to transform the balcony level of the main hall into permanent seating and an office/technical theater suite: $5,000
- Monmouth Community Players, to use projected scenery equipment and software to reduce set costs: $5,000
- Portland Stage Company, to safely produce the 2021-22 season during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and offer as many avenues for engagement as possible: $5,000
- Sandy River Players, to produce and perform the play “Lend Me A Tenor” by Ken Ludwig: $5,000
- Schoodic Arts for All, to upgrade lighting and sound for outdoor and indoor venues: $3,500
- Stage East, to establish a group of trained theater artists in Washington County: $4,800
- The Portland Players, for general operations to recover from financial losses during the pandemic: $10,000
- Waldo Theatre, to support adult theater productions in 2022: $5,000
- Waterman's Community Center, to support a 20th-anniversary revival production of “Islands” the dramatic and musical portrait of North Haven performed on Broadway in 2001: $5,000
- Waterville Opera House, to purchase a wireless communication system to increase safety and staff efficiency through improved communication between production staff: $5,000
- Watts Hall Community Players, to purchase four digital wireless microphones: $5,000
