With support from the California Arts Council, Ophelia’s Jump Productions will partner with three nonprofit organizations to produce free staged readings or cabaret style performances to raise awareness and/or funds in support of their missions. The three partner organizations are Aging Next which supports Seniors with resources and assistance to allow them to age at home, Children’s Foundation of America which identifies and accesses resources to support foster care, adoption, residential treatment, mental health and community-based programs of the highest quality, so that children in need or who have been the victims of trauma, abuse, neglect or abandonment may lead healthy, productive lives, and Uncommon Good which aims to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty for underprivileged children through a variety of programs that promote health, education, and environmentalism.
OJP produces 4 “main stage” shows annually at our 70 seat theater in Upland and additional programming in our 50 seat studio theatre; we also present staged readings of works in development, and each July we put on the Midsummer Theatre Festival at the Sontag Greek Theatre in Claremont which is co-produced with Pomona College. We have a strong improv and “alternative performance” program and present improv, open mic, performance art, and a wide variety of music shows (such as Flamenco, Appalachian, Middle Eastern and other culturally specific music) on weekends when our main productions are dark. OJP’s Theatre for Good program partners with other nonprofit organizations to raise funds for social justice and community welfare projects by presenting free staged readings of plays coupled with informative presentations and talkbacks.

