The Homestretch: You Can Help! [Updated 8-26]
Posted on | August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
[I'm cross-posting this bit of crowd sourcing from the Datablog.]
We’re closing in on the close of the PerformInk Season Preview Survey, and I have spent the last few weeks trying to reach out to as many companies as possible to try and make this the most comprehensive survey of our theater scene yet conducted.
My concern as we head into the homestretch is that the word hasn’t gotten to everyone – some of the direct invites and reminders I’ve sent seem to have been languishing in unread mailboxes or filtered out for one reason or another – possibly due to the necessarily link-laden format of the email.
Carrie Kaufman from PerformInk and Ben Theim from the League are helping by reaching out to the bigger companies that haven’t yet responded. I’m trying to get the word to the dozens of smaller companies – just to make sure they have the opportunity to participate. I started with a list of nearly 100, but was able to knock off a dozen or so from thinking of friends I knew who were company members or associates. I took the list backstage to Trust and the cast and crew told me who they could send a message to. We’re getting down to the last few dozen from the original invite list, and I’m sure that you all can help get word to rest.
Here’s all you have to do: just send an email or make a phonecall to whoever you know from this list, letting them know that PerformInk and the CTDB want them to be included in the survey! Just tell them to email me (at dan [at] chicagotheaterdb.com) and I can get a survey invite to them post-haste.
If the company is defunct or on hiatus, we want to know that too – it’s actually really important information in the grand scheme of things. But we’ll still want to get in touch with someone associated with the group, because we still want the company’s information for the Database – we’re going to record what the company did during its lifetime.
So please, take a look at the list below and help get the word out. I’ll start marking names off as they respond to the survey. Let’s make this happen, people!
And thanks.
500 ClownA Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Company
Actor’s Revolution Theatre
Albany Park Theatre Project
Albright Theatre Company
Alphabet Soup Productions
Apex Theatre Company
A-Squared Theater Workshop
Azusa Productions
Black Forest TheaterBlackbird Theatre Company
Blindfaith Theatre
bluemoonstudiotheater
Bruised Orange Theatre CompanyChicago Fusion Theatre
Chicago Opera TheaterCollision Theatre CompanyCovered Bridge Children’s Theatres
Democracy Burlesque
Dream Engine
Echo Theater Co.
Emerald City Theatre Company
EP Theatre
Fehinty African Theatre Ensemble
First Street PlayhouseFull VoiceGalileo Players
Garrick PlayersGayCo Productions
GroundUp Theatre
Hidden Talent Theatre
Hypatia Theatre
Illinois Theatre Center
Imagination Theater
Janus Theatre
Keyhole Theatre Company
Kidworks Touring TheatreKirk Players
La Costa TheatreLinks Hall
Marriott Theatre, The
Mary-Arrchie Theatre
MOB Productions
Mom and Dad Productions
MPAACT (Ma’at Production Assoc of Afrikan Centered Theatre)
National Pastime
New Branch Theatre Company
NightBlue Performing Arts Theater
Nightingale Group
Noble Fool Theatricals
Not Waiting Productions
Ouroboros Theatre Company
Pegasus Players
Peninsula Players TheatrePeople’s Theatre of ChicagoPine Box Theatre
pretty blue sky
Remarcable Productions
Riddlemark Theatre Company
Sandbox Theatre Project
Serendipity Theatre Collective
Silent Theatre
Soapbox Theatre Company
Stage WrightSteel Beam Theater
Striding Lion InterArts Workshop
The Box Theatre Group
The Journeymen
The Route 66 Theatre Company
Two Lights Theatre Company
Up & Coming Theatre
Virtuoso Performing Arts
Zombie Fortress Arts Collective
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August 26th, 2008 @ 9:16 pm
Apex Theatre Company is on hiatus- their artistic director is out of town getting his MFA.