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MCC Theater Receives Grants to Expand Youth Theater Program

MCC Theater has received a $25,000 grant from The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation to launch a two year pilot program aimed at working with students from the George Washington High School Campus in Washington Heights. This grant was awarded after 12 years of success with the MCC Theater Youth Company.

MCC Theater intends for this program to expand to future satellite companies around the five boroughs, creating a city-wide network of high school ensembles connected by a common mission of providing teens with a safe, artistic environment in which their voices are heard and celebrated. The Youth Company at George Washington Campus began in December and will run until the end of the school year. The pilot will continue through the 2012-2013 school year.

In addition, the Youth Company has received a $90,000 Theater Subdistrict Council grant which will enable MCC Theater to expand and strengthen their ongoing efforts. The grant, which is awarded to 10 organizations annually for various projects that foster the creation of new theatrical work and audience development, will increase the production value and length of the Youth Company’s thriving outreach programs. Additional funding for the expansion of MCC’s education programs is provided by Harold Newman, an MCC board member (and graduate of George Washington High School) who, since 2005, continues to fund an in-school partnership between MCC and HS for Media and Communications.

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