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<br /> Proposed Uses Of Grant Funds
<br /> 2012 marks the eleventh installment of The /\rtsCenter's Annual /O By 10 in the Triangle, an
<br /> international festival of ten ten-minute plays. All performances will take place July 6-22, 2012 in the
<br /> Earl and Rhoda Wynn Theatre at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, North Carolina. Community
<br /> theatre azits most professional, /O By 10 features local actorn, directmrs, and designers working
<br /> alongside local, regional, national, and international playwrights. The /\rtsCenter respectfully asks
<br /> the Orange County Arts Commission for a grant of$1,500 to help support the fees for these
<br /> homegrown, world-class artists.
<br /> From nearly 500 scripts submitted from all over the world, a panel of theatre artists scored plays
<br /> through three rounds of reading and selected 20 plays for the semi-final round. Local, Triangle-
<br /> based directors for /0 By 10 in the Triangle will select the final ten plays for this production. The ten
<br /> plays are new scripts and world premieres by critically acclaimed playwrights as well as up-and-
<br /> coming artists. This script selection process extends from January to May and includes several
<br /> rounds of reading and scoring. Final selection of plays will take place May 25, 2012.
<br /> As the majority of theatre companies are wrapping up their seasons in late spring, The ArtsCenter
<br /> is hard-at-work preparing for its biggest theatre event of the year. The 10 By 10 in the Triangle
<br /> works with local theatre practitioners during the"off-season" and fills an important niche in cultural
<br /> events programming. Bringing the best of the ten-minute-play format to the Triangle since 2002, /0
<br /> By 10 is a summer tradition.
<br /> The ArtsCenter keeps 10 By 10 ticket prices at a minimum in order to make the production
<br /> accessible for members of the Triangle community. For the past ten years, 10 By /0 has served
<br /> audiences representative of the diversity of The ArtsCenter's constituency: 2 1%African-American,
<br /> 8% Asian-American, 10% Latino, 2% Native American, and 59% Caucasian. Patrons to /0 By /0
<br /> come from all over the Triangle and Triad areas: Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, Raleigh, Pittsboro,
<br /> Hillsborough, Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, and Greensboro. Patrons traveled from as far away as
<br /> Concord, Fayetteville, Grafton, and Lincolnton NC as well as from other far-flung North Carolina
<br /> locations. Last year's production also drew patrons from throughout the southeast: Florida,
<br /> Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia; and from as far away as California, Delaware, Louisiana,
<br /> Maryland, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas.
<br /> In 2011, 10 By 10 celebrated its I 01h Anniversary with a two-week run of The Best of/0 By /0. This
<br /> retrospective re-mounting of some of the best plays from the previous ten years drew over 1630
<br /> patrons. This was preceded by a two-week run of the 2011 /0 By 10 in the Triangle with
<br /> productions of new plays which drew over 1,575 patrons. The 10 By 10 audiences for these four
<br /> weeks totaled over 3,200 patrons. Based on the success of 2011, in 2012, 10 By 10 will expand
<br /> from its traditional two-week to a three-week run with additional Thursday night performances
<br /> /0 By 10 is a rare opportunity to introduce audiences to the theatre-going experience. As Susan
<br /> Broili wrote in The Chapel Hill Herald July 9, 2004: "For many, the festival marked the first time
<br /> people had been to the theater judging from the number of hands that went up when [Lynden]
<br /> Harris asked audiences if they were there for the first time. People seem more willing to take a
<br /> chance when the plays last only ten minutes."
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