Grantee Database
GRITTY CITY REPERTORY YOUTH THEATRE
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Youth Arts Action
Award Amount
$17,550.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Gritty City Rep’s theatre program in Oakland will provide a safe, healthy environment that builds community and fosters the creative abilities of youth of color through intensive, ensemble theatre training. GCRep pays local professional artists of color a living wage, and provides paid youth apprenticeships in acting, technical theatre, and arts admin to cultivate critical thinking and collaboration skills, and build pathways to careers in the arts.
Organization Summary
14-24-year-old youth from Oakland build theatre skills and community through rigorous extended training and performance, rehearsing 6 hours weekly from August to May, and performing 2 shows yearly, with a two-week-long run of each show. We help performers return to train and perform in multiple productions, providing paid apprenticeships in acting, technical theatre, and arts administration. We enhance Oakland by bringing new audiences to relevant, powerful, local, affordable theatre.
Organization
Gritty City Repertory
Address
1501 Martin Luther King, Jr Way
Oakland
94612
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 575-9427
Congressional District
California's 13th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 18
State Senate District
District 9
