In order to control Prospect’s printing and mailing expenses as well as “go green,” we’ve created this private web page — which contains all the information we would normally provide in a company press kit or funder information packet.  Please feel free to click the links below to view documents online, or to download the required information.  Please contact Cara@ProspectTheater.org if any further information is required, or with questions.

ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Mission Statement – Company Bio – Board List
Production History:  Past 3 Years (2008 – 2011) / Full Company History (1999-2011)
Staff Bios (Current Season) – Artist Bios (Current Season)

FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS:

FY10 Audit – FY10 990
FY11 Financials (UnAudited)
FY12 Budget (As of Aug 2011)
History of Major Funders
Financial Overview: 1998-2012
IRS 501c3 letter

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS:

Press Clips Packets:  2008-2011 or 2003-2007
Prospect Artists Speak Out
June 2011 Program – I MARRIED WYATT EARP
Numerous Prospect Postcards / Brochures may be viewed on our graphic designer’s website.

EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION:

Sample Curriculum Packet, I MARRIED WYATT EARP (2011)
Letters from Student Matinee Attendees
2011 Summer Intensive Documentary Video

Since its incorporation in June of 1998, Prospect Theater Company has supported an outstanding and diverse group of emerging artists in NYC’s off-off-Broadway scene. Originally founded by five graduates of Princeton University, Prospect has grown to include a loose network of almost 700 artists.  To date, we have mounted over 30 full-scale productions, as well as numerous “dark nights” events (which have included many readings and workshop stagings of new plays and musicals).  Over the past decade, we have presented the New York and/or world premieres of more than 20 new musicals and 3 new plays.

Prospect actively cultivates and support a community of musical theatre writers, particularly through our annual music theatre laboratory program, commissioning new 10-minute musicals.  In 2010, we also launched a summer residency program in partnership with the Goodwill Theatre in Johnson City, New York to provide a summer workshop opportunity outside of Manhattan for new works in process.

Prospect performs in rental theater venues of 99 seats or less located in diverse neighborhoods in Manhattan. Some selected recent company productions include:

• The Blue Flower,  presented Feb. 2 – Mar. 2, 2008 at the West End Theatre.  Audiences entered the restless memories of artist Max Baumann on this Dada-inspired romp through pre-WWI Paris, the Great War, and Weimar Germany.  Striking video projections and inventive music were from the Jonathan Larson Award-winning team of Jim & Ruth Bauer.
• By founding company members Peter Mills and Cara Reichel, Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge (presented in April 2009 at 59E59 Theaters) was a new bluegrass musical that moved J. M. Synge’s classic Irish comedy The Playboy of the Western World to a setting in 1930’s Depression-era Appalachia and featured an onstage band / acting ensemble.
• I Married Wyatt Earp, a new all-female musical by composer Michele Brourman, co-bookwriter / lyricist Sheilah Rae, and co-bookwriter Thomas Edward West, re-interprets the events surrounding the infamous “Shootout at the O.K. Corral” in 1880s Tombstone, Arizona.  This production ran at 59E59 Theaters from May 20 – June 12, 2011.

Click here to view a full archive of company productions since 1999.

Prospect Theater Company 10th Anniversary from Cara Reichel on Vimeo.