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2013-2014 Arts Program Grant—Spring 2 <br /> Orange County Arts Commission <br /> The ArtsCenter: School Show Series <br /> Celebrating our 27th anniversary in 2012, ArtsPower is one of America's preeminent nonprofit <br /> producers and presenters of professional theatre for young and family audiences.With over 750 <br /> performances annually, ArtsPower has amassed an audience of more than 12 million people in 47 states. <br /> Since our start in 1985,ArtsPower has created 27 original musicals and dramas, many of which are <br /> based on highly-respected books for young readers including: E.L. Konigsburg's Newbery Medal-winning <br /> book, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Paula Danzinger's Amber Brown Is Not a <br /> Crayon, Patricia Reilly Giffs Newbery Medal Honor Book Lily's Crossing, Marcus Pfister's The Rainbow <br /> Fish,winner of the 1995 American Bookseller Children's Book of the Year Award, Harry the Dirty Dog, <br /> Lois Lowry's Anastasia Krupnik,Judy Blume's Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, P.D. Eastman's Are <br /> You My Mother?, based on P.D. Eastman's classic picture book, Anne L. Fox's My Heart in a Suitcase, <br /> Four Score and Seven Years Ago, Anne of Green Gables, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, Olympic <br /> Spirit: The Jesse Owens Story, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Salem Justice, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, <br /> Patricia Reilly Giffs Fish Face, Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline and the Bad Hat, Lois Lowry's The Silent <br /> Boy and James Preller's Jigsaw Jones and the Case of the Class Clown.ArtsPower has performed in <br /> hundreds of regional theatres, cultural centers, university auditoriums, and schools throughout the <br /> United States. <br /> ArtsPower is led by Founding Co-Directors Gary W. Blackman and Mark A. Blackman. Greg Gunning <br /> serves as Artistic Director and resident playwright. Kim Wood is ArtsPower's Senior Booking and <br /> Theatre Field Trip Coordination and Karen Bibbo is Company and Production Manager. Our sets are <br /> built by Tom Carroll Studios. <br /> ArtsPower has received generous support from numerous corporate, foundation, and government <br /> sources including: New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Shubert Foundation, New Jersey Cultural <br /> Trust, Colgate-Palmolive, The Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation, Lillian Pitkin Schenck <br /> Fund, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation, as well as many valued individual donors.. <br /> Information from artist's website (h ttp://www.artspower.0 <br /> STAR TOURING THEATRE: Welcome to Bright Star Touring Theatre! Our upcoming <br /> season marks our eleventh anniversary of providing professional theatre to young audiences! This year <br /> we are touring from California to North Carolina, Florida to Massachusetts and all states in between <br /> expecting to provide more than 900 performances to young audiences in nearly every imaginable venue. <br /> We have actors joining us from across the nation,thirteen brand new shows and we are thrilled to <br /> welcome our westward expansion. <br /> Bright Star Touring Theatre was launched to provide high caliber, professional theatre at an affordable <br /> and all-inclusive price. Our objective has long been to make theatre as accessible as possible—and to <br /> reach as many young people as we could, a commitment we proudly stand by today. <br /> Our season is comprised of literary, curriculum- and character-education based classics that are as <br /> entertaining as they are educational. From historical productions like Heroes of the Underground Railroad <br /> to character-education based works like The Lady of Bullyburg and Sadie's Spectacular Saturday, Bright Star <br /> offers something for everyone. In fact,this year we have thirty different productions hitting the road <br /> with our season including puppets, science and nutrition shows for the first time ever! <br />