Trinity Rep's Jennifer Canole Named to 2013 '40 Under Forty' List

Trinity Rep has announced that Associate Director of Development Jennifer Canole has been named to Providence Business News 2013 40 Under Forty award list.

Through fundraising and advocacy, Jen has helped ensure Trinity Rep's vitality for 14 years. A native of Amherst, NY, Jen moved to Rhode Island in 1999 for an internship with Trinity Rep and was recruited to join the development team in 2000. She was promoted to Associate Director of Development in 2004.

Jen's work at Trinity Rep focuses primarily on institutional funding, strategic messaging, and advocacy. During her tenure, Jen has raised more than $14 million from government, corporate, and foundation sources for the theater's programs, operations, capital projects, and endowment. Her work secured the seed money that launched Trinity Rep's Young Actors Studio (after-school and summer programs), Project Discovery Plus (in-school residencies supporting student matinee attendance), Trinity Rep Active Imagination Network (workshops and residencies serving children on the autism spectrum), and Open Access Theater (providing free tickets to constituents served by social service agencies). The projects, programs and activities she has helped fund have served more than 1.7 million people from across Southern New England.

Jen has mentored more than a dozen interns at Trinity Rep. Additionally, she has advised start-up non-profit organizations, graduate students, and early-career professionals on the basics of fundraising and grant writing. She is a member (and past board secretary) of Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts.

Jen graduated from Ithaca College with a BA in English and a theater minor. She lives in Lincoln, RI with her husband and two sons.

Providence Business News' 40 Under Forty winners are selected based on career success and community involvement. All are young professionals who have made a commitment to making a difference on a local, national or international scale. More than 100 men and women were nominated for the 2013 class; they will be honored at the Providence Business News' 40 Under Forty reception at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport on July 25.

Since its founding in 1963, Trinity Repertory Company has been one of the most respected regional theaters in the country. Featuring the last permanent resident Acting Company in America, Trinity Rep presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works for an estimated annual audience of approximately 145,000. In its almost 50-year history, the theater has produced 62 world premieres, mounted national and international tours, and, through its MFA program, trained hundreds of new actors and directors. This season marks the 46th year of Project Discovery, Trinity Rep's pioneering educational outreach program. Last season, Trinity Rep's educational programs reached nearly 15,000 Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut students through matinees as well as in-school residencies and workshops. Brown University/Trinity Rep offers professional training for actors and directors in a three-year MFA program. Subscriptions are now on sale for Trinity Rep's 50th Anniversary 2013-2014 season, which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath,the New England premiere of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, Lionel Bart's Oliver!, Intimate Apparel by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, the world premiere of Veronica Meadows by Stephen Thorne and A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard. For more information, call the box office at (401) 351-4242 or visit Trinity Rep's website at www.trinityrep.com.

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