Grantee Database
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,250.00
Project Description
With additional support from the California Arts Council, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) will sustain and enhance our year-round ACTsmart residency program, providing in-depth and empowering theater education workshops at four San Francisco high schools serving marginalized youth. Through writing and acting monologues, scenes, and short stories, students use theater as a tool to explore social justice issues relevant in their lives. Residencies are led by an A.C.T. teaching artist in collaboration with classroom teachers and help integrate theater into school curricula.
Organization Summary
Founded in 1965 by William Ball, A.C.T. opened our first San Francisco season at the Geary Theater in 1967. Locally focused yet globally renowned, our honors include a Tony Award for outstanding performance and training, the prestigious Jujamcyn Theaters Award, and most recently A.C.T. has been recognized as a Legacy Business by the City of San Francisco. The largest theater company in Northern California, in a normal operating year A.C.T. regularly employs more than 600 actors, directors, designers, technicians, faculty, teaching artists, and professional staff members each year. We serve an annual audience of nearly 200,000 people through transformational productions, visionary artistic training, and impactful educational programs.
Our core programming consists of: 1) a mainstage season of eclectic and relevant works, 2) intensive actor training in our Conservatory, and 3) ongoing community engagement.
Organization
American Conservatory Theater
Address
415 Geary Street
San Francisco
94102
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 439-2337
Congressional District
California Assembly District 12
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
