Program areas at Dorset Theatre Festival
From june to september, the Festival mounts four main stage productions drawing from some of the country's most talented playwrights, actors and directors. ***under the recent leadership of executive artistic director will rucker, the Festival is changing the landscape of regional Theatre. Bold and innovative, Dorset Theatre Festival is garnering accolades for its commitment to new play development and is proud to encourage a new generation of playwrights to test their voices here. We discover new talent. We launch plays that go on to national acclaim and the lights of broadway, as well as mount regional premieres of tony award-winning plays to bring the best of off-broadway to Vermont. ***since 2010, our giving back program has helped expand the reach of our productions and educational initiatives by providing free and reduced-cost tickets to those who serve our community everyday and their families. These efforts reach a new generation of Theatre audiences by providing pathways for all members of our community to see world-class Theatre. Ems workers, firefighters, police, veterans and active-duty military, farmers, special needs community members, student graduates of the refuse to use program, habitat for humanity families and volunteers and neighbor to neighbor volunteers. ***in addition, since 2021 the Festival has offered buy-one-get one tickets to educators, an affordable ticket lottery for all performances, and complimentary sponsorships to minority-led businesses and groups through the community inclusion partnership program. ***Dorset Theatre Festival's new play development programs works with playwrights from conception to production, providing an incubator to help nurture new voices to speak from their own experience, engaging ideas that come from and return to our community. ***the pipeline series features new works and projects in process through a variety of presentation and workshop styles. One-night-only presentations, writer residencies, and extended workshops benefit. Today's top theatrical talents, as they travel to Dorset to work on brand new plays or to try out brand new collaborations. Many of the plays in the series will be featured in future Dorset Theatre main stage seasons. Connecting artists to the Festival through this development opportunity means our audience can say they were here when hits were born. ***the women artists writing group is a diverse group of mid-career female actresses and Theatre artists who are expanding their artistry through writing. The group's purpose is to meet the artists where they are as a writers, providing resources and support as they work to either discover their own voices or work towards completing writing projects. Writing gives agency to Theatre artists, who attest to the powerful liberating effect on all aspects of their individual artistic selves. ***
Who funds Dorset Theatre Festival
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Personnel at Dorset Theatre Festival
Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
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Diana Stugger | Treasurer | $0 | 2023-11-13 |
Mary-Anne van Degna | Vice President | $0 | 2022-12-31 |
Dennis Bolin | Secretary / Trustee | $0 | 2022-12-31 |
Constance P Beaty | Board Chair | $0 | 2022-12-31 |
Toby Barclay | Vice President / Trustee | $0 | 2022-12-31 |
...and 7 more key personnel |
Financials for Dorset Theatre Festival
Revenues | FYE 12/2022 | FYE 12/2021 | % Change |
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Total grants, contributions, etc. | $1,806,516 | $452,460 | 299.3% |
Program services | $338,004 | $0 | 999% |
Investment income and dividends | $1,194 | $135 | 784.4% |
Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
Royalty revenue | $0 | $0 | - |
Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from fundraising events | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from sales of inventory | $0 | $0 | - |
Miscellaneous revenues | $0 | $0 | - |
Total revenues | $2,145,714 | $452,595 | 374.1% |
Organizations like Dorset Theatre Festival
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Kentucky Shakespeare Festival | 501(c)(3) | Louisville, KY | $1,295,667 |
Mountain Play Association | 501(c)(3) | San Rafael, CA | $1,225,139 |
Solvang Theaterfest | 501(c)(3) | Solvang, CA | $1,095,478 |
Bay Street Theatre Festival | 501(c)(3) | Sag Harbor, NY | $4,875,850 |
In Series | 501(c)(3) | Washington, DC | $860,330 |
Moonlight Cultural Foundation | 501(c)(3) | Vista, CA | $2,374,691 |
The Wilbury Theatre Group | 501(c)(3) | Providence, RI | $645,150 |
Frigid New York | 501(c)(3) | New York, NY | $861,712 |
Minnesota Fringe Festival | 501(c)(3) | Minneapolis, MN | $666,124 |
Paramount Heritage Foundation | 501(c)(3) | Anderson, IN | $962,900 |
Data update history
May 18, 2024
Received grants
Identified 4 new grant, including a grant for $123,800 from Vermont Arts Council January 4, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
December 25, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
Nonprofit Types
Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsPerforming arts organizationsTheatersCharities
Issues
Arts, cultural, and humanities
Characteristics
State / local levelReceives government fundingGala fundraisersAuction fundraisersTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
- Address
- PO Box 510
- Dorset, VT 05251
- County
- Bennington County, VT
- Website URL
- dorsettheatrefestival.org/Â
- Phone
- (802) 867-2223
IRS details
- EIN
- 03-0267296
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990
- Year formed
- 1980
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- A65: Theater
- NAICS code, primary
- 7113: Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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