No. 11 in 2009

No. 11 Productions is celebrating its first holiday season! Here’s a quick rundown of what this 8-month-old company accomplished this year and what is on the roster for 2009.

2008

• Received the first ever Stephanie Mnookin Grant from Skidmore College
• Debuted in the SaratogaArtsFest with an original adaptation of Lysistrata
• Presented the world premiere of We Three in the Capital Fringe Festival and FringeNYC, garnering some great reviews from DC Theatre Scene and nytheatre.com
• Collaboratively created a beautiful shadow play called Claire and the Ornithological Shadow, receiving another great review from nytheatre.com and piquing the interest of the Jim Henson Foundation
• We launched a website, a monthly email newsletter, a swell blog, a facebook group, recorded 2 podcasts, and conducted 1 late night radio interview
• Organized an extensive reading series (11 Celebrates 10) celebrating 10 years of the Plays and Playwrights anthology series with readings of 9 plays at 8 different venues

2009

• We’re performing Artaud’s Jet of Blood or the Ball of Glass in the Frigid Festival
• 3 more readings as part of our 11 Celebrates 10 series
• Currently applying to the Capital Fringe Festival, Berkshire Fringe, and maybe FringeNYC
• Post video clips of past and upcoming productions on our website and youtube
• Hoping to become a non-profit
• We can’t officially announce our spring show yet – but if all goes according to plan it will be killer!
• There’s also a murder mystery on our horizon
• Make this blog a premier source of theatre discussion for actors, directors, students, and theatre lovers alike

It has been an amazing, busy, wonderful 8 months for us. When we began No. 11 we vowed to be constantly producing work and I think we’ve met the goal. There have been growing pains, of course, and our numbers have diminished. But rest assured that we are small but mighty, our energy and enthusiasm is uncontainable, and 2009 is going to be our year!

Written by Julie Congress