Uptown Players Inc.
Uptown Players Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theater that meets a rising demand in the community for audiences to see their life experiences represented on stage. We offer diverse productions with contemporary and alternative lifestyle themes that explore complex and varied situations such as relationships, family, prejudice, and values. We present plays and musicals that challenge our audiences artistically, build cultural bridges, and strive to create greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts. There is no other theater group with this unique mission in the Dallas area.
About
Uptown Players offers equity membership candidacy (EMC) program weeks for local artists and stage managers desiring enough credit to join Actors Equity Association. Uptown Players also provided work for 19 local professional (union) actors/actresses and 6 stage managers. TACA's support in 2018 helped Uptown Players continue their tradition of high quality, innovative, and challenging theater. Uptown Players produced seven mainstage shows during 2018: A Chorus Line; Broadway Our Way 2018; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; Perfect Arrangement; Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey; Straight; and A Judy Garland Christmas.The theater has won over 25 Leon Rabin Awards from the Dallas Theatre League, several hundred The Column Awards and 23 Theater Critics Forum Awards in its first ten seasons. It has also been named the best theater company by the Dallas Voice Readers and by the Dallas Observer and additionally was featured in D Magazine and on the WFAA A-list theaters.The program service expenses were play production expenses. These expenses included theater rental, royalty payments, labor for cast, crew, directors, and designers, lighting, sound, sets, costumes, props, travel, and ticketing expenditures.Uptown Players received support via donated services from the following sponsor:The Dallas Voice provided advertising sponsorship valued at $5,000.Uptown Players, Inc. productions are also supported by approximately 200 volunteers who help provide labor in various capacities in support of the theater.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The non-profit's mission, as described in the filing, is “The mission of uptown players is to present professional theater that meets a rising demand in the community for audiences to see their life experiences represented on stage. we offer diverse productions with contemporary and alternative lifestyle themes that explore complex and varied situations such as relationships, family, prejudice, and values. we present plays and musicals that challenge our audiences artistically, build cultural bridges, and strive to create greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts. there is no other theater group with this unique mission in the dallas area.”.
When describing its duties, they were characterized as: “The mission of uptown players is to present professional theater that meets a rising demand in the community for audiences to see their life experiences represented on stage. we offer diverse productions with contemporary and alternative lifestyle themes that explore complex and varied situations such as relationships, family, prejudice, and values. we present plays and musicals that challenge our audiences artistically, build cultural bridges, and strive to create greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts. there is no other theater group with this unique mission in the dallas area.”.
- The non-profit has complied with legal regulations by reporting their state of operation as TX.
- The filing shows that the non-profit's address as of 2019 is PO Box 192264, Dallas, TX, 752198516.
- As of 2019, the non-profit has reported a total of 27 employees on their form.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue is between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue less expenses is $2,158.
- The organization has 6 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2006.
- The organization pays $228,549 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $0 in fundraising expenses.