Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Signature Theatre celebrates playwrights and gives them an artistic home. Signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright’s body of work, producing several plays by each resident writer and delivering an intimate and immersive journey into the playwright’s singular vision. Founded in 1991 by the late James Houghton, the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre is now led by Artistic Director Paige Evans and Executive Director Harold Wolpert. Signature fosters a cultural community within our permanent home on West 42nd Street, the Frank Gehry-designed Pershing Square Signature Center, which boasts three theatres and two rehearsal rooms, including The Ford Studio, a flexible space that can be converted into a 99-seat theatre.
About
Signature Theatre's 2018/19 season featured six plays by a diverse and dynamic group of five celebrated writers: Will Eno, Lynn Nottage, Dave Malloy, Athol Fugard, and the late Sam Shepard. The work on our stages addressed issues and themes of class, race, isolation, mental illness, addiction, family, and healing. Whether a revival or a world premiere, all six productions brought powerful emotion and relevance to our stages. In fall 2018, legacy playwright Will Eno returned to Signature with his monologue Thom Pain (based on nothing). Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage began her Residency 1 with Fabulation, or the Re-education of Undine in the fall of 2018 and continued in winter 2019 with By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Legacy playwright Athol Fugard returned to his New York artistic home with his play Boesman and Lena in spring 2019. The season also honored legacy playwright Sam Shepard with a spring 2019 revival of Curse of the Starving Class, which originally premiered at Signature in 1997. For Residency 5, Signature commissioned, developed, and produced its first ever musical, Dave Malloy's Octet in summer 2019. Throughout our 2018/19 season, Signature continued to lead the field in arts accessibility by making our programming affordable to all through the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access. A significant barrier to cultural participation is cost, and the Ticket Initiative seeks to eliminate this obstacle. During Signature's 2018/19 season, tickets to the initial run of each season production (scheduled performances before any added extension weeks) were subsidized to $35 through the Ticket Initiative.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing clearly states the mission of the non-profit as “Signature theatre celebrates playwrights and gives them an artistic home. signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright's body of work, producing several plays by each resident writer and delivering an intimate and immersive journey into the playwright's singular vision.”.
When outlining its functions, they were explained as: “Founded in 1991 by the late james houghton, the tony award-winning signature theatre is now led by artistic director paige evans and executive director harold wolpert. signature fosters a cultural community within our permanent home on west 42nd street, the frank gehry-designed pershing square signature center, which boasts three theatres and two rehearsal rooms, including the ford studio, a flexible space that can be converted into a 99-seat theatre.signature conducts its programming at the center. residency 1, signature's founding playwright-in-residence program, is a year-long, intensive exploration of a single writer's body of work. residency 5, the only program of its kind, was launched at the center to support multiple playwrights as they build bodies of work. it guarantees each writer three productions over a five-year period. our legacy program invites past signature writers from both residencies to return for productions of premiere or signature plays.”.
- In compliance with legal regulations, the non-profit has reported their state of operation as NY.
- The filing records the non-profit's address for 2020 as 480 WEST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10036.
- As of 2020, the non-profit's form reports a total of 425 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$4,153,271.
- The organization has 21 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1991.
- The organization pays $7,334,711 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $1,451,583 in fundraising expenses.
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