MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC

MET's current Strategic Plan encompasses five overall goals:

GOAL # 1: Staff and Ensemble
We will ensure that MET is an artistically excellent, streamlined, professional organization with fully staffed artistic, technical, and administrative personnel.
GOAL # 2: Fundraising
We will identify and recruit dedicated, reliable, and sustainable funding sources to ensure MET’s financial goals are achieved.
GOAL # 3: Facilities
We will have and main facilities and equipment to meet our needs reflect our brand and anticipate advancements in our art form.
GOAL # 4: Audience Development
We will attract, grow, and sustain capacity audiences that are diverse who share an appreciation of and find value in the stories being told through the variety of MET programming.
GOAL # 5: Programming
We will sustain and enrich our unique MET programming and promote our brand locally, regionally, and nationally.

Strategies include:
- Properly staffing the administrative side of the organization, including development personnel & adequately paying our artists;
- align our Board of Trustees to a fiduciary board;
-establish an endowment;
-conduct a financial audit, availing MET of larger funding opportunities;
- maintain existing/form new community partnerships;
-manage and tout our brand;
-enhance current facility;
-sustain current audiences and grow new audiences; and
-continue to focus on education and MET original works.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) has been enabling our community to feel more, think deeper, and laugh longer for nearly 22 years. Dedicated to providing the highest quality theatrical experiences, MET is a professional ensemble theatre and 501(c)(3) located in the heart of the Arts & Entertainment District in downtown Frederick, MD.

MET’s Ensemble is comprised of 40 professional performers, directors, dramaturgs, musicians, designers of all things scenic, lighting, and sound as well as master technicians who pool their individual talents and share one 2,700 square foot theatre space to illustrate, incubate, inform, astound and create works of art for the benefit of our community. We, the Ensemble, collaborate in order to inspire passion for the arts.

In partnership with our community, we reach out to the public and promote theatrical experiences through courageous, relevant, accessible arts experiences & programs.

We believe we can help all patrons who enter MET each year enjoy and be emotionally affected by theatre. By making experiential changes for the benefit of the community we serve, we will provide Frederick with programs and a state-of-the-art facility that attracts a diverse array of audiences and artists, and remain the artistic main street destination that makes major contributions to the cultural and economic vitality of Historic Downtown Frederick.

MET's plan requires roughly 28 points per year to be marked completed in order to finish the plan within 5 years. In year one of MET's strategic plan, the following represents how many progress markers were addressed:

-22 started;
-28 completed;
-30 ongoing; and
-28 to be addressed.

In year one, MET has accomplished the following percentage of each of the five goals, vis a vie plan marker completion:
GOAL # 1, Staff & Ensemble: 29%
GOAL # 2, Fundraising: 17%
GOAL # 3, Facility: 39%
GOAL # 4, Audience Development: 0%
GOAL # 5, Programming: 6%