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THIS AGREEMENT, entered into this 19th day of June, 2015, by and between Orange County
("County"), by and through the Orange County Arts Commission ("Arts Commission") and Deep
Dish Theater Company("Grant Recipient").
WHEREAS, the Arts Commission is a countywide arts agency that ensures the growth of
local arts experiences by providing funding and support for diverse high quality programs and
projects.
WHEREAS, the Alas Commission administers the Spring and Fall Arts Grants Program
to provide economic opportunities to Orange County artists and non-profit organizations
coordinating arts projects benefiting the citizens of Orange County.
WHEREAS, the Spring Arts Grants Program is supported by Arts Commission with
funds from the Grassroots Program of the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the
Department of Cultural Resources and the National Endowment for the Arts.
WHEREAS, the Grant Recipient was selected by the Arts Commission to receive the
Spring Arts Grant through the procedures duly adopted by the Arts Commission; and
WHEREAS, both parties wish to promote and maintain the integrity and clarity of the
Grant Recipient's ideas and statements and delineate the Grant Recipient's obligations to the
County;
NOW, THEREFORE, the County and the Grant Recipient, for the consideration and
under the conditions hereinafter set forth, agree as follows:
1. Approved Grant Project. Grant funds are provided under this Agreement for the project
("Project") described in the Grant Recipient's Grant Application, attached hereto and
incorporated herein as Exhibit A.
2. Grant Award. Grant funds in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000)
have been awarded by the Arts Commission to the Grant Recipient for the approved
Project. These funds must be matched at least dollar-for-dollar with cash from the Grant
Recipient's funds not derived from either Orange County appropriations or the North
Carolina Arts Council.
3. Contingency. This grant is contingent on North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots
Program funding to the Arts Commission. Final decisions on Grassroots Program funds
to the North Carolina Arts Council are subject to approval by the North Carolina General
Assembly.
4. Responsibilities of the Grant Recipient
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A. Implementation. The Project implementation shall take place between July 1,
2015 and June 30, 2016. The Project shall be implemented in the manner
described in Exhibit A. Time is of the essence in the implementation of the
Project.
B. Modifications to project. Grant Recipient shall present major changes to the
original proposal, including but not limited to changes in design, implementation
schedule and increase in Project budget by more than 10%, in writing to the Arts
Commission for approval. Arts Commission shall approve or disapprove Grant
Recipient's request for modifications within seven (7) days of receipt thereof.
Consent to project modifications shall not be unreasonably withheld. Arts
Commission's decisions shall be in writing. In the event the Arts Commission
fails to approve or disapprove the requested modifications within the time stated
herein, the modifications shall be deemed approved.
C. Non—assignment. The grant cannot be assigned or transferred to a different project
or artist without prior written approval of the Arts Commission.
D. Records. Grant Recipient must maintain records and other evidence pertaining
to costs incurred and revenues acquired during the Project implementation. Grant
Recipient shall maintain financial records pertaining to the Project for three (3)
years from the date of this Agreement, in case of audit.
E. Use of Funds. Grant Recipient shall not use the grant funds to repay outstanding
taxes or other debts of any nature. The grants shall be utilized solely for the
purpose of implementing the Project and Project related expenses.
F. Final Report. Grant Recipient shall submit to the Arts Commission a Final Report
on July 8, 2016 . The Final Report shall be in the format required by the
North Carolina Arts Council. Failure to submit the Final Report or late
submission of the Final Report, for any reason, shall be grounds for denial and/or
cancellation of grant funds for the Project and future grant proposals.
5. Responsibilities of the Arts Commission
A. Payment. The Arts Commission shall release the grant funds in the amount of
$5,000 to the Grant Recipient.
6. Publicity
A. Acknowled eg ment. Credit must be given to the Orange County Arts
Commission using the Arts Commission logo and if State funds are received
to the North Carolina Grassroots Program in brochures, news releases,
programs, and all other printed and online publications. Copies of such printed
materials must accompany the evaluation report. When no printed information is
used, verbal credit shall be given. In addition, all print and promotional material
must include the following credit line (check all that apply):
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i. County Funds Only. "This program is supported by the Orange
County Arts Commission. "
ii. x North Carolina Arts Council Funding. "This program is supported by the
Orange County Arts Commission with fiends from the Grassroots Program of
the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency. "
B. The Grant Recipient must enter all events, exhibits and performances open to the
public and related to this grant award on the ExploreChapelHillARTS.com
website and display ExploreChapelHillARTS.com publicity materials
(postcards, brochures, etc.) prominently and consistently at their venue or
performance space. In addition, the Grant Recipient must add a link to the
ExploreChapelHillARTS.com (ExploreChapelHillARTS.com logo preferred)
to their main webpage. The Grant Recipient shall contact the Orange County Arts
Commission for replacement ExploreChapelHillARTS.com publicity materials.
7. Indemnity. The Grant Recipient agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the County, the
Arts Commission and the North Carolina Arts Council and their officers and employees
from any and all claims or actual injury, damage or loss to a person, or real or personal
property that results from or is in any way connected to the use of the grant funds.
8. Independent Contractor. The Grant Recipient is an independent contractor and not an
employee, agent or other representative of the County and/or the Arts Commission.
Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to create the relationship of
principal and agent, or employer and employee, between Grant Recipient and Arts
Commission or Orange County Government. Grant Recipient understands and agrees
that he/she is not authorized to incur any expenses or any liability whatsoever on behalf
of the County or the Arts Commission and has no authority, expressed or implied, to
obligate or make representations on behalf of the County or the Arts Commission. In
addition, Grant Recipient agrees to maintain his or her own worker's. compensation
insurance for himself/herself and his or her employees for the duration of the art work's
installation.
9. Termination
A. In the event of any of the circumstances set forth below(hereinafter referred to as
"default"),the Arts Commission may immediately terminate this Agreement:
(i) Any fraudulent representation in any verification required to obtain
payment under this Agreement or other dishonesty on a material matter
relating to the performance of services under this Agreement.
(ii) Nonperformance, incomplete service or performance, or failure to
satisfactorily perform any part of the Project or to comply with any
provision of this Agreement, as determined by the Arts Commission in its
sole discretion.
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(iii) Failure to adhere to the terms of applicable county, state or federal laws,
regulations, or stated public policy.
B. In the event of default by the Grant Recipient, the Arts Commission has the
discretion to elect to terminate this Agreement, in whole or in part and/or require
the Grant Recipient to repay the grant funds within seven (7) from written notice
of default or allow the grant recipient the opportunity to cure the default. This
clause shall not be interpreted to limit the County's or the Arts Commission's
remedies in law or in equity.
10. Miscellaneous.
A. Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the attachments contain the final and
entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter of this
Agreement. All modifications and amendments to this Agreement shall be in
writing. This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties, their heirs, successors
and assigns.
B. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws
of the State of North Carolina and the Orange County.
C. Entire Agreement and Signatures. The parties have read this Agreement and agree
to be bound by all of its terms, and further agree that it constitutes the complete
and exclusive statement of the Agreement between the parties unless and until
modified in writing and signed by the parties. This Agreement together with any
amendments or modifications may be executed electronically. All electronic
signatures affixed hereto evidence the intent of the Parties to comply with Article
11A and Article 40 of North Carolina General Statute Chapter 66.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Orange County and the Grant Recipient have signed this Grant
Agreement, effective on the last date this Agreement is signed by both parties as indicated by the
dates set forth under signatures below.
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6/19/2015
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Deep Dish Theater Company Date
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Bonme Hammersley, County Manager Date
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General Arts Support Grant
ORANGE COUNTY ARTS 2015-16 Application Form
COMMISSION
Orange County Arts Commission
ORANGE COUNTY ARTS
COMMISSION
Promoting the artistic and cultural development of orange County, North Carolina
Evaluation Criteria
• Artistic merit of program.
• Populations served—impact for geographic&traditionally under-served populations.
• Feasibility of proposed activity&effectiveness in fulfilling applicant's mission.
• Organizational strength of applicant.
• Cooperation between organization and artists.
• Evidence of community support and responsiveness to community needs.
1 Applicant Information
Applicant Name Deep Dish Theater Com an
Organization Mailing Address PO Box 4382
Daytime Phone (919) 968-1515 Fax Number
Email Address deepdishtheatercoO-gmail.com Web Site deepdishtheater.org
Project Director Paul Frellick Title Artistic Director
DUNS Number 142809 388
2 Project Director Information Director or Chair must be Project Director for the General support grant category)
Project Director Home Address 109 Teagan Ct Chapel Hill NC 27516
Daytime Phone 919-225-2574 Evening Phone same
Email Address Pau lfrellick(cD-gmail com
3 General Support Request Summary
General Support Grant Request $5000
Total Cash Match $5000 (Match may not include funds from the North Carolina Arts Council)
Total Organizational Budget 2013-2014 $149,652
2014-2015 $145,965
2015-2016 $56.900 (projected)
Summary Statement for Proposed Uses of General Support Grant operating support of our 15TH
SEASON'S Fall Event: "Outside Mullingar"and"The Cherry Orchard" in rotating Repertory
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4 Budget Sheet—See Page Three
919/968-2011 —P.O. Box 1177, 131 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278—www.artsorange.org
2015-16 General Arts Support Application — Page Two
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APPLICATION NARRATIVE
Organizational Profile
The Deep Dish Theater Company is a Chapel Hill arts organization committed to the
presentation of compelling,provocative,human-centered dramatic work in an intimate
setting. It develops that work through the collaboration of its artists, striving always to
create productions which cannot be contained within a single imagination. It celebrates
the communal nature of creating and experiencing a theatrical work, and is determined to
include and reach out to the surrounding community in all its diversity.
Our organization is founded on the conviction that the theater can be a vital and
important part of the life of a community. Over the fifteen years we have been producing
in Chapel Hill's University Mall,we have developed long-term relationships with our
audience, artists, community organizations like the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce and the Chapel Hill Library,mall management and our merchant neighbors.
Our performance space seats 71 people,making for an intimate relationship between
performers and audience. We have found that relationship to be one of the most striking
elements of our productions. Audience members frequently comment on how engaged
they are by our productions,reminding us that there is magic in that audience-performer
relationship, and it is that magic that we work to leverage with our productions, looking
to create work that will live on in the collective conscious of our patrons.
In our fourteen seasons,we have amassed a vigorous and diverse body of work. Classic
work(The Misanthrope, Othello, She Stoops to Conquer, The Liar)has shared our stage
with acclaimed contemporary work(Lobby Hero, Body Awareness, Superior Donuts,
Next to Normal, Good People, A Kid Like Jake); issue-oriented plays (The Exonerated,
Cat's-Paw, Glengarry Glen Ross, After the Revolution)with sparkling comedies (Polish
Joke, An Ideal Husband); modern masterworks (Hedda Gabler, Summer and Smoke,
Radio Golf, Journey's End)with North Carolina and World premieres (Permanent
Collection, The Gratitude of Wasps, Mi Vida Loca, A Queer Kiss, The Landing, Native);
and plays from around the globe(A Lesson from Aloes, Nathan the Wise, The Cripple of
Inishmaan, Life is a Dream). With every production,we host discussions on issues
raised by the play, on the technical production challenges the play presents, and on a
book which is related thematically to the play. We have also been able to host
writer/performers like Barbara Bates Smith and Mike Wiley,
Audiences Served
Our audience comes to our theater from across the Triangle—Orange,Wake,Durham
and Chatham counties—with the majority of our patrons residing in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro. Many of our most loyal patrons live in retirement communities in the area, and
their regular attendance and willingness to explore new material with us has provided us
with a dependable and enthusiastic base of support.
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We have been developing our audience database over the last few years and are now
much better able to keep in contact with our patrons. Productions like Jitney, A Lesson
from Aloes, Body Awareness, The Clean House, Radio Golf and A Queer Kiss have
introduced our work to new audiences within our community and beyond, and have
afforded us opportunities to do outreach into new communities as well.
Increasing Diversity
We are proud of our efforts in this regard. Our programming, casting and staffing
continue to reflect the diversity of our community, and we rededicate ourselves to these
efforts with each project.
With casting,when ethnicity, gender or other specificity is important—or can be
important—to the story we're telling,we make sure we get those details right;when it's
not, as will be the case with our production of The Cherry Orchard, we embrace non-
traditional casting in an effort to break down assumptions and to create a world on stage
that at least in its diversity might serve as a model to the world outside the theater.
The breadth and depth of our actor, designer and director pools have increased
dramatically over the years, and we have expanded and diversified our board as well.
Current Programs and Services
Four mainstage productions,presented in a season that runs August-May
A two-week long New Play Workshop, in which a playwright and her unproduced play
have the opportunity to develop that work with a director and actors in our space and
gather feedback from audiences.
Book Talks, co-sponsored with the Chapel Hill Public Library, on books related
thematically to our productions
Pre-and Post-show discussions with scholars and artists
Occasional presentations by guest artists (e.g. Mike Wiley's Dar He and Susan Stein's
Etty)
"Cheap Dish"reduced-price tickets
Proposed Use of Grant Funds
University Mall has told us they can only guarantee that we can continue to occupy our
current space through December,2015. As we look for a new and larger space
elsewhere,we will conclude our 15 year residency in the mall by doing something we've
never done before.
We are requesting support for our Fall 2015 event: two shows in rotating repertory. The
productions are: 1) Outside Mullingar, a contemporary comedy by John Patrick Shanley
about two young Irish farmers trying desperately to hold onto their land and not to fall in
love; and 2)Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, one of the most admired and
influential plays ever written, in which the inhabitants of a provincial Russian estate find
their lives and their culture at a crossroads. These are very different plays, written over a
century apart and on opposite sides of the globe, and consequently emblematic of the
breadth of work we've been able to produce in our theater over the years;but they have
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much to say to each other and to us two plays about tangled skeins of life, love and real
estate (issues of which Deep Dish is acutely aware these days).
We will rehearse the plays simultaneously and then perform them in rotation, so that it
will be possible to see both plays in the same week or even on the same day. This
proximity will provide us with even more opportunities than usual to offer our audience
an array of contextual resources,including our dramaturg discussions, scholarly talks,
and conversations with the artists about the production, and we will continue our Book
Talk,reading and discussing literature related to the production.
The project will also further our exploration of the potential of a small theater space and
of the collaboration that is so central to our work, as two design staffs and two casts work
not only as individual teams but also in concert with one another, creating an experience
even larger than the two remarkable plays that comprise it.
Long Range planning
Long range planning has occupied much of our attention in the past two years. We have
contracted with Priscilla Bratcher of Armstrong McGuire and with the Executive Service
Corps to help us marshal our resources and focus our efforts to grow our audiences. We
are among ten Triangle arts organizations selected by the State Arts Council and the
Triangle Community Foundation to participate in a year-long multi-disciplinary effort to
address long-term planning within organizations and across our community. And as we
look for new space,we have drawn up a budget projections to help determine what we
can afford and what assumptions about growth we are prepared to make.
Challenges
Our top three challenges in the coming year will be(1)to find affordable theater space
amenable to our ambitions to create a sustainable organization; (2)to strengthen our
profile in the community to order to raise awareness and increase our institutional
support, and(3)to expand our board and our fundraising capabilities.
Thank you for your consideration.
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DEEP DISH THEATER FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR
ORANGE COUNTY ARTS APPLICATION FOR 2015 PROJECT
Grant
Cash Amount Applicant
Project Expenses Expense Requested Cash Match
A Personnel
Administrative staff $10,500 $10,500
Artistic stafff $9,600 $2,500 $7,100
Production Staff $8,500 $2,500 $6,000
B.Outside Fees and Servies Artistic Contracts $3,500 $3,500
C.Space rental $4,200 $4,200
D.Travel $0
E. Marketing $7,500 $7,500
F. Remianing project Expenses $13,100 $13,100
Total Cash Expenses $56,900 $5,000 $51,900
Project Income Cash Income
A.Admissions $42,000
B.Contracted Services Revenue $0
C. Other Revenue(Concessions) $200
D. Private Support
Corporate Support $0
Foundation Support $0
Other private $5,700
E. Government Support
Federal $0
State Regional $4,000
Local $0
F.Applicant Cash $0
G. Grant Amount Requested $5,000
OCAC Grant
TOTAL $56,900
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INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE FUNDED
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9:50 PM Deep Dish Theater Company
05/22114 Profit & Loss
Accrual Basis July 2013 through June 2014
Jul'13-Jun 14
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Ordinary tneome/Expense
Income
4000•Contributions/Grants/Donations
4100-Contributions
4110<Restricted Contributions 5,365.00
4120•Unrestricted Contributions 32,927.30
4130•Board Contributions 15,05.0.00
Total 4100•Contributions 53,362.30
4150•Miscellaneous Income 66.00
4200•Government Grants
4220<Unrestricted Government Grants 1,000,00
4200•Government Grants-Other 7,000.00
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Total 4200•Government Grants 8,000.00
4500•Inkind Donations 1,250.00
4600•Event Revenue
4610<Tickets for special events 3,265.00
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Total 4600•Event Revenue 3,265.00
`total 4000•Contributions/GrantsfOonations 65,943.30
4800•Earned Income
4830•Season Subscription Sales 19,160.00
4850-Concession Sales 894.00
4860•Single Ticket Sales 48,083.08
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Total 4800•Earned Income 68,137.08
Total Income 134,080.38
Expense
5000•Production Expenses
5050•Admin Production Wages 4,395.00
5100-Royalties Expense 4,475,00
5150-Costume Expense 3,099.59
5200<Prop Expense 402.78
5250•Set 3,057.42
5300•Light&Sound 834.92
5350•Scripts 634.34
5400•Cast Parties 1,291.63
5450<Production Supplies 121.71
8500•Stipends
5510•Actors 22,673.63
5520•Productions Staff 27,401.80
5525•Artistic,Director 0.00
$526•Wages for Artistic Director 5,000.00
5530•Directors 3,750.00
5540•Stipend-Other 125.00
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Total 5500<Stipends 58,950.43
5550• Miscellaneous Production Expens 86.56
5600-Rent 5,621.90
5610-Efix Fees 167.70
5650-Program Printing Expense 2,974.83
5700-Concession Expense 698.17
5750<Production Promotion
5751 Promotional Printing per Show 1,346.27
5752<Promotional Mailing per Show 306.72
5755<Production Promotion Photograph 49,34
Total 5750 •Production Promotion 1,702.33
5000•Production Expenses-Other 2.4.71
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Total 5000•Production Expenses 88,539.02
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05122/14 Profit & Loss
Accrual Basis July 2013 through June 2014
Jul'13-Jun 14
6000 •Solicitation Expense
6100•Solicitation Supplies Expense 989.72
6200•Solicitation Postage Expense 319.20
6300•Event Expense 1,587.21
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Total 6000•Solicitation Expense 2,896.13
6565 Employer Payroll Tax Expense 1,825.50
7000°DDTC Administration Expenses
7015-Licenses and Permits 332,00
7050•Admin-Non Program Wages 14,467.75
7100•Accounting&Legal Expenses
7110•Accounting 2,360.00
7120•Consulting 3,042.92
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Total 7100•Accounting&Legal Expenses 5,402.92
7150•Bank Service Charges
7163•Vendini Fees 1,937.10
7155°Credit Card/Merchant Fees 1,745.52
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Total 7150°Bank Service Charges 3,682.62
7200•Capital Improvements 749.00
7250 Repair&Maintenance 1,071.48
7275 Storage 1,058.00
7400•Insurance 376.30
7450•Miscellaneous 48.89
7500•Office Supplies 2,375.77
7550 Postage Admin 1,592.80
7650 Printing&Repro Admin Expense 20.00
7750•Utilities
7751 °Electric 2,882.72
7752°Telephone 2,388.28
7753 Trash 1,177.20
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Total 7750•Utilities 6,448.20
Total 7000•DDTC Administration Expenses 37,625.73
8000•Marketing
8110•Promotional Printing per Season 2,196.16
8111 •Promotional Mailing per Season 26.86
8112 Print Advertising 175.00
8113 TV/Radio Advertising 2,088.00
8114 Web-Based Services 121.50
8000•Marketing-Other 179.64
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Total 8000•Marketing 4,787.16
Total Expense 135,673.54
Net Ordinary Income -1,593.16
Net income -1,593,16
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05120/15 Profit & Loss
Accrual Basis July 2014 through June 2015
Jul'14-Jun 15
Ordinary Income/Expense
Income
4000•Contributions/Grants/Donations
4100•Contributions
4110•Restricted Contributions 5,067.00
4120•Unrestricted Contributions 21,869.20
4130•Restricted Board Contributions 9,810.76
4140•Unrestricted Board Contribution 16,000.00
Total 4100•Contributions 52,746.96
4150•Miscellaneous Income 236.50
4200•Government Grants
4210•Restricted Government Grants 5,000.00
4220•Unrestricted Government Grants 2,801.00
Total 4200•Government Grants 7,801.00
4300•Foundation Gifts
4310.Restricted Foundation Gifts 3,450.00
Total 4300•Foundation Gifts 3,450.00
4500•Inkind Donations 0.00
4600•Event Revenue
4610•Tickets for special events 2,065.00
Total 4600•Event Revenue 2,065.00
Total 4000•Contributions/Grants/Donations 66,299.46
4800•Earned Income
4830-Season Subscription Sales 27,231.50
4850-Concession Sales 298.00
4860•Single Ticket Sales 46,466.88
Total 4800-Earned Income 73,996.38
Total Income 140,295.84
Expense
5000.Production Expenses
5050-Admin Production Wages 3,975.00
5100•Royalties Expense 4,421.20
5150•Costume Expense 1,023.16
5200•Prop Expense 1,153,06
5250•Set 3,146.94
5300•Light&Sound 614.07
5350•Scripts 3,299.52
5400.Cast Parties
5410 Postmortem Expenses 15.39
5400 Cast Parties-Other 1,432.48
Total 6400•Cast Parties 1,447.87
5450•Production Supplies 43.46
5500•Stipends
5510•Actors 15,948.96
5520•Productions Staff 24,163.59
5526•Wages for Artistic Director 3,750.00
5530-Directors 5,500.00
5540•Stipend-Other 4,525.00
Total 6600•Stipends 53,887.55
5550•Miscellaneous Production Expens 18.54
5600•Rent 5,573.10
5650•Program Printing Expense 3,586.43
5700•Concession Expense 233.86
5000.Production Expenses-Other 403.82
Total 5000•Production Expenses 82,827.58
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05/20/15 Profit & Loss
Accrual Basis July 2014 through June 2015
Jul'14-Jun 15
6000•Solicitation Expense
6100•Solicitation Supplies Expense 1,495.91
6200•Solicitation Postage Expense 558.87
6300•Event Expense 1,203.26
Total 6000•Solicitation Expense 3,258.04
6565•Employer Payroll Tax Expense 1,597.41
6999•Uncategorized Expenses 285.21
7000•DDTC Administration Expenses
7014 Dues and Subscriptions 540.00
7015 Licenses and Permits 332.00
7050•Admin-Non Program Wages 13,156.07
7100•Accounting&Legal Expenses
7110•Accounting 2,785.00
7120•Consulting 3,450.00
7100•Accounting&Legal Expenses-Other -560.00
Total 7100•Accounting&Legal Expenses 5,675.00
7150•Bank Service Charges
7153•Vendini Fees 2,114.63
7155•Credit Card/Merchant Fees 3,581.69
7150•Bank Service Charges-Other -239.41
Total 7150•Bank Service Charges 5,456.91
7199•Sales Tax Expense 18.31
7250•Repair&Maintenance 203.27
7275•Storage 2,380.54
7400•Insurance 740.00
7500•Office Supplies 1,965.64
7550•Postage Admin 324.77
7600•PR/Marketing(Theater) 75.00
7650•Printing&Repro Admin Expense 101.71
7750•Utilities
7751 •Electric 4,544.33
7752•Telephone 2,459.48
7753•Trash 965.00
Total 7760•Utilities 7,968,81
Total 7000•DDTC Administration Expenses 38,938.03
8000•Marketing
8110•Promotional Printing per Season 55830
8113•TV/Radio Advertising 2,268.00
8114 Web-Based Services 282.65
8200 Incremental Advertising 5,431.01
8750•Production Promotion
8751 •Promotional Printing per Show 899.12
8752 Promotional Mailing per Show 188.23
8755 Production Promotion Photograph 1,130.07
Total 8760•Production Promotion 2,217.42
Total 8000•Marketing 10,757.38
Total Expense 137,663.65
Net Ordinary Income 2,632.19
Net Income 2,632.19
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Resumes of Key Artists/Administrators
Paul Frellick (Artistic Director) is in his thirteenth season as founding Artistic Director of the Deep Dish
Theater Company. He has directed many of the company's productions, from the inaugural production
of Endgame to last season's Next to Normal, and the recent world premiere of A Queer Kiss.
Elsewhere in the Triangle, he directed Adam Sobsey's Hang Town Fry in conjunction with A Southern
Season; produced and directed A Walk in the Woods and the American premiere of Rainshark for the
GlobalArts Initiative; and staged productions for Manbites Dog Theater Company, Burning Coal Theatre
Company, and the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. Before coming to North Carolina, he served as Artistic
Director of Chicago's Organic Theater, and he has directed for such theaters as the Indiana Repertory
Theater, the Denver Center Theatre Company, and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.
Kit Fitzsimons (Theater Manager)joined Deep Dish's administrative staff this past fall, overseeing all
daily business, development, and marketing tasks, and serving the board in whatever additional
capacity necessary. He is an active member of the improv comedy community, as both performer and
coach (DSI Comedy Theater). He has previously acted in a number of Deep Dish productions (How I
Got That Story, Is He Dead?, Baltimore Waltz).
JJ Bauer (Company Stage Manager) has been a stage manager, props manager, costume designer,
set designer and completely unwilling actor for various area theater companies, including Ghost &
Spice Productions, NC State TheatreFest, The Open Door Theatre, Street Signs Center for Literature
and Performance, and Wordshed Productions. She is the Deep Dish Production Stage Manager.
Tony Lea (Resident Director) has directed thirteen shows in thirteen seasons and will be directing the
upcoming A Kid.Like Jake. Most recently he directed Good People and She Stoops to Conquer. He
has also acted for area companies including Raleigh Ensemble Players and Burning Coal. He is
currently directing Blithe Spirit at Raleigh Little Theatre.
Contact information
Paul Frellick: 109 Teagan Ct, Chapel Hill, NC 27516. 919-225-2574. paulfrellick @c�mail,com
Kit Fitzsimons: 811 Northcreek Dr. Durham, NC 27707. 919-968-1515. info@deepdishtheater.org
JJ Bauer: 370 Wild Ginger Ridge, Chapel Hill, NC 27515. 919-824-0842. ibauer@email.unc.edu
Tony Lea: 2600 Oberlin Rd Apt S2, Raleigh, NC 27608. 919-247-3580,
Whirlwind dreamerCo)hotmail.com
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Artistic Director: Paul Frellick-(employee)
Theater Manager: Kit Fitzsimons (employee)
Production Stage Manager: Jon Bauer (contract)
Webmaster: Eric Swenson (volunteer)
Resident Director: Tony Lea (contract)
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A strong season opener in A Kid Like Jake
By Byron Woods
Photo by Jonathan Young
(L-R)Jim Moscater, Meredith Sause and Rasool Jahan in A KID LIKE JAKE
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n a sane world, Daniel Pearle's drama A KID LIKE JAKE, the incandescent season opener at Deep Dish Theater,
would be considered an out-and-out farce. It chronicles a professional couple's marriage as it's stretched to the
breaking point by the process of assembling their only child's applications—not to college, but kindergarten, in a
series of upscale private schools around New York.
As a result, the title character's behavior is closely parsed by parents Alex and Greg (Meredith Sause and Jim
Moscater), pre-school administrator Judy(Rasool Jahan)and the nonfictional Educational Records Bureau, creators
of the Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners, a standardized test that measures"verbal and quantitative
reasoning, early literacy, and mathematics skills"—in pre-kindergarten children.
When the search for a vaunted competitive edge begins at 4, Jake's current age, the parents find themselves judged
as closely as the child. They're the ones who have to fill out entrance essays assessing things like their"educational
values."Alex is stressing over one as the play opens.
Under Tony Lea's direction, Sause is at the top of her game as the tightly-wound Alex. As she veers between over-
analysis and denial, Alex's obsessive concern about Jake's future begins to make us wonder about the child's past.
Though a bit more low-key at the start, Moscater's Greg ultimately finds the dark side in this relationship.
Jahan delivers the crisp, professional performance we expect as no-nonsense administrator Judy, and Jess Jones
strongly serves in two supporting roles.
I'd like to say such madness is limited to terminal overachievers in major cities. But given assaults on public education
in North Carolina such as the one reported in last week's INDY, there are probably going to be a lot more kids like
Jake--and parents like these—in the future. More's the pity.
This article appeared in print with the headline "The overachievers."
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A Kid Like Jake: First Time Playwright's
Masterpiece at Deep Dish Theater
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Chapel Hill--(Fri.,Aug.29,2014-Sat.,Sep.20,2014)
Deep Dish Theater:A Kid Like Jake
Fridays,Saturdays,Sundays:Adults$25,Seniors/Educators$23,Students$21;Wednesdays, Thursdays:Adults$23,Seniors/Educators$21,Students$19--Deep
Dish Theatre, (919)968-1515,http://rviviv.degpdisliflieater.or. /
By Jeffrey Rossman
September 6, 2014 - Chapel Hill, NC:
On paper it may have seemed that Deep Dish Theater Company was taking a shot-in-the-dark by
producing a 28-year-old's very first play, but if it was good enough for Lincoln Center, just over a
year ago, it would certainly be good enough for a 70-seat theater at a mall in Chapel Hill (no
offense intended, Deep Dish). Daniel Pearle, a Harvard graduate, wrote A Kid Like Jake as his
graduate thesis at the New School for Drama and won the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award
that included a $50,000 cash prize plus $100K towards production of the play. Wow! I got a limp,
sweaty handshake from my adviser when I completed my thesis.
It was one of those nights that I was in no mood for what I stereotyped as some kid's attempt to
proselytize his immature concepts of relationships, raising children, and the absurdities of school
admissions for children barely out of diapers. Boy was I wrong. Within minutes I realized that I was
in the presence of a playwright with a perfect-pitch sense of how real people react and speak to
each other, plus superb actors that, pardon the cliche, inhabited their parts.
We meet Alex (Meredith Sause) and Gregg (Jim Moscater), a thirtysomething yuppie couple (are
these 80s terms obsolete?) living the relatively good life in New York City. When Alex speaks,
she, at first, has that "I'm an entitled rich girl" sound that makes you want to shake her conscience
awake. Thank goodness it evolves over the course of the play. She and her psychiatrist husband,
Greg, are discussing the application process for their son Jake —to Kindergarten! There are two
themes running through this play that forty years ago would have, respectively, seemed utterly
ridiculous for one and completely unimaginable for the other. The competitiveness and angst, plus
cost, of getting your child into the "best" elementary school was once culled for comic effect, but
it's a deadly serious business now. The concept of gender confusion/disparity was disturbing
enough for most in the dark ages of the 20th century, but the thought that a four-year-old can have
these feelings is as foreign as the surface of Mars. So we have here the travails of this couple
navigating, with a little help from a "friend," the treacherous waters of elite private elementary
school admissions for their son Jake, who is increasingly demonstrating "gender-variant" behavior.
The third player in this drama is Judy (Rasool Jahan), the advisor and admissions counselor in
Jake's pre-K program who guides the anxious couple on this perilous journey. Like the others, she
is so entrenched in this precarious reality that it is hard to tell whether she really has the "best
interest of the child" in mind, or she is just a mindless feeder to a system gone amuck. Jahan is a
tremendous talent who at first pulls you in as well-meaning and sincere, but grows ominous and
chilly as she spouts increasingly odd proclamations on what Jake's behavior might "mean." Her
suggestion that Jake's enjoyment of Cinderella and The Little Mermaid might be used to enhance
his diversity in the essays starts off another major conflict in the play.
Sause and Moscater were, well, perfectly human in their portrayals of this couple battling for their
son —and one thing is for sure: neither knows the answer. This could have easily fallen into an
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abyss of overacting, but it felt like I was listening in on real life. Their major fight, in the penultimate
scene, was so realistic and natural that it had veterans of these real-life encounters squirming.
The blame starts. While Greg accuses his wife of buying too many Disney "princess" DVDs, she
retaliates by asking him when he ever threw a baseball with Jake.
This is no laughing matter, but Pearle judiciously employs some great comical lines to break the
tension and further humanize the characters. The mention of public schools or McDonalds elicited
howls of disgust and derision. There are many nuanced topics touched on and then withdrawn
quickly from the burner: hypocrisy of some liberals, women leaving careers to take care of
children, white flight to suburbs for "better" schools, even reparative therapy to "cure" Jake.
This is a play which proves that an excellent script and great acting is all you need:
I'd watch them perform it in an empty room. However, the minimalist sets (Jenni Mann Becker,
scenic desitner) and lighting (Liz Droessler, lighting designer) did add another dimension to the
experience. The backdrop (Matthew S. Gaynor, graphic designer) was a colorful, quasi-
impressionistic cityscape that didn't necessarily identify itself as New York—which is where it's
actually set. The sets primarily alternated between the couple's simple living room and Judy's
office at Jake's current school. The set changes (about eight of them) were done quickly and
efficiently by stagehands on a darkened set while well-chosen music played. While there is a
costume designer (Pamela Bond), the dress was unremarkable everyday clothing.
In case the reader is wondering, Jake is never seen, except for a wonderful scene where Alex
imagines her son as female. Jess Jones, who also doubles in a small part as a Nurse, sensitively
plays the gender-realized Jake.
Directed by Tony Lea in a way that simply allows a well-written story to be told by a superb
ensemble, A Kid Like Jake is a magnificent study of people grappling with things they can't fully
understand and probably have no control over. There is no resolution, just more questions as the
final scene balances the silly with the profound. We are just at the starting gate of the 2014-15 arts
season, but A Kid Like Jake, has already positioned itself at the top of the list for Best Play of the
Year.
A Kid Like Jake continues through Saturday, September 20. For more details on this production,
please view the sidebar.
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Review: Strong Deep Dish production makes the most of'The Landing'
The play's first mini musical whets the appetite, but the succeeding two pieces are far less nourishing.
John Allore, left, and Neil Bullard in Deep Dish Theater's production of"The Landing." JONATHAN YOUNG
BY ROY C. DICKS-CORRESPONDENT
"The Landing" is composer John Kander's first attempt at writing with another lyricist after the late
Fred Ebb ("Cabaret" and "Chicago"). Although Greg Pierce's script and lyrics have many funny
and moving moments, the show's three separate musicals are sketchily drawn and have surprise
endings that need more coming before them to have real impact.
Nevertheless, Deep Dish Theater's first-rate production does its best to minimize any weaknesses
with fine acting, sensitive musical direction (Glenn Mehrbach), effective set design (Thomas
Mauney) and tight direction (Paul Frellick).
The first, and best, piece is "Andra," an affecting story of carpenter Ben (John Allore) who is
remodeling a house where young Noah (Neil Bullard) and his parents live. At first, the taciturn Ben
is put off by precocious Noah's interfering questions. But a budding relationship forms when Ben
gets Noah interested in astronomy, and their outings with a telescope are very father-and-son.
(Noah's stock broker father is never around.) Noah's mother (Erin Tito) firmly tries to squelch the
relationship, her reasons eventually made clear by what Noah inadvertently spots in his telescope
one night.
Allore and Bullard beautifully project their characters' hurts (Ben's marital problems; Noah's bully-
scarred days), subtly supported by the four-piece orchestra's intimate underscoring. This lovely
miniature whets the appetite, but the succeeding two pieces are far less nourishing.
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Again, each actor developed and performed his role to perfection.Trotter(Carl Martin)and Mason(David Hudson)were
notable in providing sufficient comedic relief during some of the play's more solemn moments,which were plentiful.The
audience both chuckled heartily and full out laughed throughout the show, and gazed upon the scene before them with
concern and heavy hearts.
The characters' pain and anguish was portrayed with the utmost authenticity, and the dry humor never failed to earn at least
a chuckle from the audience. Overall, Deep Dish Theater Company's March 6th presentation ofJoumey's End offered an
incredibly talented performance of a remarkably well-done story.
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Dishonesty is an artform in Deep Dish Theater
Company's The Liar; Hairspray comes to Temple
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You know, a play about lies(and the lying liars who tell them, inSenator Al Franken's immortal words) cuts a bit
close to the bone for us theater critics.We reward the most accomplished liars—those stage artists who best
convince us that they are who they are not—as a matter of professional practice. You could say that our job comes
down to vetting the best lies in town on any given week—and then recommending them,wholeheartedly, for your
consumption.
It is comforting to note that Dorante,the main character in French playwright Pierre Corneille's 17th-century farce THE
LIAR(Deep Dish Theater Company), appreciates these subtle nuances as well. At first, actor Roman Pearah's
nimble character seems a run-of-the-mill cad—a new-in-town jasper who may have just enough wit to flimflam his way
into a lucrative arranged marriage with a local swell's daughter.
But as adapter David Ives unfolds this tangled story, Dorante takes on an existential hue: less Groucho Marx and
more Albert Camus. By then, he's spun a tale to the credulous Alcippe (Scott Nagel)of a boating tryst to end all
water-borne seductions.When servant Cliton (Matthew Hager)determines it's a lie, Dorante calmly rejoins that"the
unimagined life's not worth living."
When Alcippe imagines his fiance as the one seduced, he challenges Dorante to a duel. As he narrates it in real-time,
as if it were the Mayweather–Pacquiao prizefight, and then recounts the thrilling blood-and-thunder of an equally
spurious shotgun wedding, Dorante hasn't just made his own life a bit more interesting. The truth is, he has done the
same for ours.
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Under Paul Frellick's deft direction, Pearah's Dorante whistles along some imposing self-erected precipices as he tries
to keep Cliton, father Geronte(robust Warren Keyes) and prospective paramours Clarice and Lucrece(glittering
Rebecca Bossen and soulful Maryanne Henderson) in the dark on different facets of his life. In their midst, Nagel's
cockeyed read on the bellicose Alcippe suggests a refreshing 15th-century take on"Weird Al"Yankovic.
The occasional snag is the iambic pentameter Ives employs throughout. When it works,well over half the time, the
practice is theatrical meringue. When the inevitable clunkers land, it's a fallen stage souffl6.
Dorante's improbable second-act credo begins with a tag on Shakespeare: "All the world's a lie, and the men and
women merely liars." But instead of using this to confirm some darker truth of human nature, Dorante finds liberation
and limitless possibility in it. When all meaning is a mere invention to distract us from the void, the liar"turns to poetry
our daily prose ... to dazzle us[and] reweave the tapestry with brilliant colors from his endless spools." In the right
hands, Dorante reminds us, a lie can be performance art.
As a culture, we used to know this. The popularity of The Monti and The Moth bids us to remember that our
predecessors once regularly held similar contests—called tall-tale competitions and fish-tale festivals—for the best-
told lies, instead of truths. Were those practices still commonplace, would we be more or less inoculated against far
less beneficial untruths—the ones that have crept into our politics and political reporting?
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® Matthew Hager and Roman Pearah in The Liar
Regional companies very rarely stage the same show in the same season. Since any given stage show has a finite
audience, two adjacent runs split that group—and potentially cut their houses in half.
Then there's the unwanted specter of head-to-head competition. For the thoughtful theatergoer, parallel productions
let us place two creative teams side by side and assess their differences in artistic vision and execution. But if you're
on the marketing and development side of either company, you might not want those comparisons made available,
much less inevitable, among the general public.
Temple Theatre closes its 2014115 season with HAIRSPRAY, the John Waters musical that Raleigh Little
Theatre performed in the same season in September. Director Peggy Taphorn and imaginative set designer Steven
Harrington don't force an able Emily Hubbard, as central character Tracy Turnblad, to open the show as
singlehandedly as the RLT production did last fall. Instead, opening number"Good Morning Baltimore"takes us on a
vivid and fully populated whirlwind tour—first of Tracy's teenage bedroom, then the scuzzy sides of her neighborhood
walk to school.
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Taphorn's kinetic choreography and witty stage composition propel the production through "The Nicest Kids in Town"
and"I Can Hear the Bells."As Penny, Tracy's teenage aide de camp, Kelsey Walston is a winning ultra-geek.
Through their quest to find fame, romance and civil rights on Baltimore daytime TV in the 1960s, they encounter
dragon lady Velma Von Tussle(a convincing Trish Hamilton) and ally Motormouth Maybelle(Rozlyn Sorrell, who
chalks up yet another show-stopper in the production's 11 o'clock number, "I Know Where I've Been.")
Stephen Moore seems a bit flat in the traditional drag role of Tracy's mother, Edna, but Ken Griggs helps cement the
family unit as Wilbur. In supporting roles, Timothy Houston is probably aging out as teen heartthrob Link, but Robyne
Parrish nails the jail matron in "The Big Dollhouse,"and Matt Lamb ingratiates as the Dick Clark figure, Corny Collins.
Harrington's sound design left the singers under-amplified against the pre-recorded orchestra through much of
Saturday night—the only other major drawback in an otherwise engaging production.
This article appeared in print with the headline "Sweet little lies"