Central Square Theater Inc.
Mission
Central Square Theater has a mission to support its two theaters-in-residence (The Nora Theatre Company & Underground Railway Theater) while maintaining a shared vision: Artists & Audiences Creating Theater Vital to our Communities. CST offers the distinctive repertoires of these two award-winning companies as well as collaborative projects drawing on their creative synergy, designed to deepen relationships with schools, families and community organizations through outreach and educational programs.
Ruling year
2008
Principal Officer
Ms Catherine Carr Kelly
Main address
450 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
EIN
26-1323224
NTEE code
Theater (A65)
Youth Development Programs (O50)
Performing Arts Centers (A61)
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
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Community and Education Programs for Youth and Families
CST, through its resident company URT, provides high quality theater educational experiences to under-served children and youth in Cambridge and Boston communities, working with over 2,000 youth each year and making strong links to neighborhood and family. URT also provides opportunities for youth of varying ages and backgrounds to join their peers from different Cambridge and Boston neighborhoods to make theater together at Central Square Theater through partnerships with Dorchester's Jeremiah E. Burke High School and Roxbury's Madison Park Development Corp. and Hibernian Hall. A key component, Youth Underground (YU), offers stipend-eligible opportunities for youth to create theater together and in tandem with community-based organizations, presented at CST and beyond. YU also teaches students to be ""oral historians,"" creating theater that results from their thoughtful participatory research interviews with experts and those affected by important issues.
Central Conversations
This constellation of rich auxiliary programming provides context for the theatrical productions and creates dialogue around the themes that they engender. CST offers patrons the opportunity to become participants and ""actors"" in the unfolding of the multi-layered, immersive experience of theater. Pre-show panels, post-show conversations, story-telling events and interactive lobby installations engage audiences with artists, scholars, scientists and community members around the themes explored on our stage.
Catalyst Collaborative@MIT (CC@MIT)
CC@MIT is a unique collaboration between MIT and Central Square Theater (CST), located only blocks from the MIT campus. CC@MIT is dedicated to creating and presenting plays that deepen engagement with science, while providing artistic and emotional experiences not available in other forms of dialogue about science. CC@MIT is committed to furthering approaches for investigating science and technology as part of the fabric of theater and life.
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Best New Play (Orchids to Octopi), Small Theater (URT) 2010
Independent Reviewers of New England
Top Ten Productions of 2010 (Not Enough Air) (The Nora) 2010
The Boston Globe
Outstanding Actress, Stacy Fischer, (Hysteria) (The Nora) 2011
Elliot Norton Award
Outstanding Actor, Will Lyman (Operation Epsilon) The Nora 2013
Elliot Norton Award
Best Set Design, (Arabian Nights), Small Theater (The Nora & URT co-production) 2012
Independent Reviewers of New England
Best Costumes, (Arabian Nights), Small Theater (The Nora & URT co-production) 2012
Independent Reviewers of New England
Best Directing, (Arabian Nights), Small Theater (The Nora & URT co-production) 2012
Independent Reviewers of New England
Affiliations & memberships
Actor's Equity Association
AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals)
Theatre Communications Groups - Constituent Theatre
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Central Square Theater Inc.
Board of directorsas of 09/11/2017
Ms. Laura Roberts
Principal, Roberts Consulting
Term: 2017 - 2020
Betsy Groban
Mass Creative
Term: 2017 - 2020
Martin Blatt
Boston National Historic Park
Linda Lipkin
Boston Public Schools
Debra Wise
Underground Railway Theater
Laura Roberts
Roberts Consulting
Allison Coleman
Capital Link
Breton Leone-Quick
Mintz Levin
Jane Minasian
Minasian & Becker LLC
Carolyn Mugar
Farm Aid
Melanie Wallace
WGBH/NOVA
Downing Cless
Tufts University
Betsy Bard
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Brandon Ogubunu
The Broad Institute (Harvard & MIT)
Rakel Meir
Tufts Health Plan
James Kaufman
Suffolk University
Betsy Groban
MassCreative
Subrata Das
Founder, CEO Machine Analytics
Sallie Adams
Community Organizer
Simar Singh
Conflict Dynamics International
Lee Mikeska Gardner
The Nora Theatre Company
Mary Dill
IT Senior Business
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