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DocuSign Envelope ID: F6F24E9A-E685-4D51-AA37-BB7ACA9A687F Orange County Arts Commission Spring 2015 Arts Program Grant 2 ArtsCenter Stage production of 10 By 10 in the Triangle Arts Program Grant— Spring 2015 Orange County Arts Commission Proposed Use of Grant Funds ArtsCenter Stage production of 10 By 10 in the Triangle 2015 marks the 14th installment of ArtsCenter Stage's Annual 10 By 10 in the Triangle, an international festival of ten ten-minute plays. All performances will take place July 10-26, 2015 in the Earl and Rhoda Wynn Theatre at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, North Carolina. Community theatre at its most professional, 10 By 10 features local actors, directors, and designers working alongside local, regional, national, and international playwrights. The ArtsCenter respectfully asks the Orange County Arts Commission for a grant of$1,500 to help support the fees for emerging, homegrown, world-class artists. From over 500 scripts submitted from all over the world, a panel of theatre artists scored plays through three rounds of reading and selected 35 plays for the semi-final round. Local, Triangle- based directors for 10 By 10 in the Triangle will select the final ten plays for this production. The ten plays are new scripts and world premieres by critically acclaimed playwrights as well as up-and- coming artists. This script selection process extends from January to May and includes several rounds of reading and scoring. Final selection of plays will take place May 22, 2015. As the majority of theatre companies are wrapping up their seasons in late spring, The ArtsCenter is hard-at-work preparing for its biggest theatre event of the year. The 10 By I 0 in the Triangle works with local theatre practitioners during the "off-season" and fills an important niche in cultural events programming. Bringing the best of the ten-minute-play format to the Triangle since 2002, 10 By 10 is a summer tradition. In July 2014, 10 By 10 in the Triangle drew over 1800 patrons to Carrboro for its three-week run. 10 By 10 serves audiences representative of the diversity of The ArtsCenter's constituency: 21 African-American, 8% Asian-American, 10% Latino, 2% Native American, and 59% Caucasian. Patrons to 10 By 10 come from all over the Triangle and Triad areas: Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, Raleigh, Pittsboro, Hillsborough, Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, and Greensboro. Patrons traveled from as far away as Concord, Fayetteville, Grafton, and Lincolnton NC as well as from other far-flung North Carolina locations. Last year's production also drew patrons from throughout the southeast: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia; and from as far away as California, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Utah. 10 By 10 is a rare opportunity to introduce audiences to the theatre-going experience. As Susan Broili wrote in The Chapel Hill Herald July 9, 2004: "For many, the festival marked the first time people had been to the theater judging from the number of hands that went up when [Lynden] Harris asked audiences if they were there for the first time. People seem more willing to take a chance when the plays last only ten minutes."