Albuquerque Theatre Guild Receives Two Grants

The Albuquerque Theatre Guild is pleased to announce that it has received two grants to promote its mission of raising public awareness of theatre in the greater Albuquerque area, encouraging the growth of theatre audiences, fostering cooperation and collaboration among the member organizations, and facilitating and assisting the work of individual members involved in all aspects of theatrical production.

The first grant, from the McCune Foundation in Santa Fe, provides general operating support.

The second grant, from The New Mexico Humanities Council, supports the ATG's Panel Discussion: Tennessee Williams Today: The Changing Legacy of a Great American Playwright in September 2011. Part of the 2011 Tennessee Williams Festival, the panel discussion, moderated by Dr. Brian Herrera, theater historian from the UNM Department of Theatre and Dance, brings together Dr. Lynn C. Miller, Professor Emerita, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas Austin; Dr. David Richard Jones, Professor of English, University of New Mexico; and Dr. David Savran, Distinguished Professor of Theatre, The City University of New York and the Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre. This discussion is free and open to the public.

"We're especially excited to be able to bring Dr. Savran to Albuqerque," says Preston Mendenhall, Albuquerque Theatre Guild president. "As one of the country's leading theatre scholars, he's studied and written extensively about Tennessee Williams and the playwright's influence on modern American and world theater."

About Albuquerque Theatre Guild
More theatrical performances take place every weekend here in Albuquerque than in any other U.S. city of its size. Our mission is to promote public awareness of theatre in the greater Albuquerque area, to encourage the growth of theatre audiences, to foster cooperation and collaboration among the member organizations, and to facilitate and assist the work of individual members involved in all aspects of theatrical production.

For more information, please contact Linda Lopez McAlister at info@abqtheatre.org. Visit www.abqtheatre.org.

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