Open the doors to ACT by making a gift before December 31.

ACT is creating new opportunities for artists and audiences, developing and producing bold new work, anticipating changes in the marketplace and adapting in advance, leading the theatre world to new business practices.

ACT is a world of performance under one roof, and we're opening our doors to the whole community. ACT is thriving.

I ask you to join with me and many others to invest in ACT. We have a goal of raising $400,000 by December 31 in our Winter Campaign to achieve a balanced budget in 2011 and make sure ACT’s best work in 2012 can be accomplished.

I hope you will consider making a gift to ACT before December 31.

Every gift, from $5 to $5,000, matters. Thank you for your investment in ACT.

Donate now using the form below, or mail a check to:

ACT Theatre
700 Union Street
Seattle, WA 98101-2330

Donations may also be made over the phone by calling (206) 292-7660 ext. 1331

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If you would like to designate your gift to one of ACT's internal programs such as The Hansberry Project, Central Heating Lab, Young Playwrights Program, Pinter Fortnightly, etc., please make a note in the "Special Requests and Notes" field. Otherwise, your donation will be directed to ACT's yearly annual fund campaign.

For payment options, including installments, bequests, corporate gift matching programs, and stock transfers, please contact ACT directly at (206) 292-7660 ext. 1330. ACT is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and your donation is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

A message from Carlo Scandiuzzi

ACT is Artist-Driven.

Donor investment has powered ACT’s transformation from a typical regional theatre to a bustling community of diverse performance practices. Kurt Beattie’s vision of ACT as a “reef” and a “cultural engine” and the dreams of the ACT family for our downtown building are being fulfilled.

ACT is an artist-driven theatre – just this year we produced Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, a brand-new play by Seattle writer Yussef El Guindi. We listened to the dreams of Anne Allgood, Suzanne Bouchard and Victor Pappas and staged a new adaptation of Schiller’s Mary Stuart, which became a wild box-office success. When R. Hamilton Wright and David Pichette said they wanted to adapt Double Indemnity for the stage for the first time ever, we said yes.

In 2009 Frank Corrado started to explore the work of Harold Pinter with his Pinter Fortnightly series. Now, two years later, he and ACT have won a major national award and Pinter Fortnightly is the hottest ticket in town, exposing audiences not only to the British master’s work but to new plays of similar quality. In 2012, ACT will produce a Pinter Festival as part of our Mainstage Season. This success is the result of nurturing artistic relationships, a commitment to Seattle’s unique voices, and our wonderful audiences.

The explosion of the Central Heating Lab audience is proof that Seattle audiences are looking for new stories made right here. Our partnership with The 5th Avenue Theatre to produce Vanities proves that new experiences are possible through collaboration.

With eight new plays under commission, a Working Group of Affiliate Artists creating new work, and audiences streaming in, ACT’s future is as bright as ever. We even added a new theatre, our brand new black-box, The Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space.

ACT’s Business is Innovative and Growing.

More people than ever before are coming to ACT. This year’s total attendance is projected at over 120,000, a 41% gain over 2010. Two plays, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play and Mary Stuart both exceeded single ticket goals by more than 60%. Subscription numbers and revenues were up for the first time in many years, increasing by 5% from 2010.

Our ACTPass membership program continues to grow – we now have nearly 1,000 ACTPass holders active. The program is being copied throughout the country; the Ensemble Studio Theatre of New York City just launched the “ESTpass” – an all-you-can-see $25/month membership explicitly modeled on ACT. Our ACTPass is leading the way for theatres nationwide.

This year, in response to comments that full-price tickets are unaffordable for some, we embarked on a new strategy to welcome people to ACT. Now anyone can purchase a ticket after 1pm day of show for whatever they wish to pay. Since we launched this program, more than 2,400 people have taken advantage of “Pay What You Can.” Our early data tells us that these are people who probably wouldn’t have attended otherwise.

ACT’s Young Playwrights Program will teach 420 students in 17 schools to write a play – this is an enrollment growth of 71% from 2010. We are also partnering with Cleveland High School for the first time, a gift from ACT made possible by enrollees in our Adult Playwrights Program.

Contributions to ACT remain robust. Our gala, held here in the theatre for the first time in many years, was a great success. We honored Jean Falls with the Buster and Nancy Alvord Award for outstanding and long-term service, and the evening raised $292,165, exceeding our goal by 17%.

Donors open ACT’s doors.

Contributions to the Annual Producing Fund provide the resources that make ACT work – donors pay for the rehearsal time, costumes, sets, lights, and sound that create the magic you love. Donors also educate hundreds of children and keep theatre affordable for the whole community. Donors to ACT power a theatre that is leading the way in Seattle and nationwide as a hub of new work and new business practice. Donors make all this possible.

I hope you will consider making a gift to ACT before December 31.

If you have any questions about ACT, your giving, benefits, or anything else at all, our Development Director Josef Krebs would love to hear from you. He can be reached at 206.292.7660, ext. 1321, or josef.krebs@acttheatre.org.

From all of us at ACT and in the community we serve together,