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DocuSign Envelope ID: 73DDEA7B-A53F-4C65-88BD-4A6144142D20 <br /> Organizational Profile <br /> One Song Productions is a local,youth-run theatre organization founded in 2002 by Katie <br /> Yow and Daniel Elam,two Chapel Hill High School students, as a supplement to school <br /> dramatic programs. One Song's goals are to engage youth in every step of the creative process <br /> and offer new opportunities for learning and growth in the performing arts. One Song is run by a <br /> board of six to eight directors, all of whom attend high schools in the Durham-Chapel Hill area. <br /> Their aim is to provide students in the area with a fun, creative, and educational experience <br /> working on extracurricular productions. Additionally, all One Song events are produced, <br /> directed, and staged entirely by students from area high schools and colleges. <br /> One Song produces five different shows in a year's season, all of which are directed and <br /> cast by high school students from the Triangle area of North Carolina. One Song has continued <br /> to expand throughout its 11 year history as a result of the community's constant support and <br /> generosity, as the shows One Song produces are funded solely by donations and grant <br /> applications submitted by students. <br /> Current Programs and Services <br /> Each year, One Song Productions aims to produce a five-show season. One Song has <br /> three full-length productions directed by high school students, a summer show directed by a high <br /> school or college student, and a 48-hour theatre event, The February 48. The three main shows, <br /> all of which are selected and directed by the Board of Directors, provide material that students <br /> may not get a chance to work with in their school environments. These shows often push the <br /> envelope, giving participating students the chance to take on more challenging characters and <br /> content that they might not be exposed to in schools, as well as the opportunity to explore <br /> complex moral and ethical angles to modern issues. One Song also provides technical students <br /> with opportunities to be creative and branch out without the confines of a school tech <br /> department.All design and construction is headed by students, giving them the chance to apply <br /> technical knowledge they may have learned in school and take on full leadership positions <br /> usually regulated by school staff members. One Song's annual summer show provides many of <br /> the same opportunities as the main shows, but also gives local high school and college students <br /> outside of the Board of Directors the opportunity to choose and direct a show. Additionally it <br /> provides a way for students to remain involved in theatre over the summer,when the schools' <br /> departments are not active. <br /> The February 48 is also designed to push boundaries, especially the boundary of time. <br /> Unlike One Song's three main shows and summer show, The February 48 is not a full-length <br /> show, but rather a series of one-act plays, all of which are written,rehearsed, and performed by <br /> students over the course of a single weekend. Students are assigned to groups on a Friday night. <br /> Student writers are then given the beginning and ending lines of their plays and are asked to <br /> write a script over the course of that night. Scripts are passed out to groups on Saturday morning, <br /> after being reviewed by the Board of Directors, and each group is sent off to rehearse for the day, <br />