To contact Artistic Director Murray Ross, please call 719-262-3134 or email mross@uccs.edu.
Watch this short (8 minute) movie created for the 30th anniversary season in 2005. Artistic Director Murrary Ross speaks about the creation and development of the company.
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Contributions
Donations
from individuals, corporations, and foundations make the productions
of THEATREWORKS possible and are greatly appreciated .
Since THEATREWORKS
is a nonprofit 501c3 organization, contributions are tax deductible
and often eligible for matching grants from companies operating
in the community.
Contributions
are needed for production support, guest artists,
educational activities, scholarships, facilities, and season
sponsorships. Cash, in-kind contributions, properties,
marketable or closely held securities, real estate, other
tangible property, annuities, trusts, funds, life insurance
and retirement plans are all welcome. The ongoing support
of planned gifts and trusts are particularly
appreciated. To learn more about gifts that will work for
you and benefit THEATREWORKS, contact: Maurin Anderson at University of Colorado Foundation, Inc.,
719.536.4488.
Call
the box office at 719.262.3232 for more information and a
brochure about our programs. You can also contribute
online to THEATREWORKS via the CU-Foundation.
Matching grant forms may be forwarded
to THEATREWORKS for completion and submission.
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Mission
Statement
THEATERWORKS
is a professional, regional theater dedicated to creating
challenging and innovative productions of classic and contemporary
theatre for the enjoyment, education and stimulation of our
community, including the Pikes Peak Region, the University
of Colorado, and, on occasion the larger world.
History
and Acclaim
THEATREWORKS
is the region's premiere professional theatre located on the campus of the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. It was founded in 1975 as a central outreach program
of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Major
Accomplishments
Produced over 150 plays including 30 world premieres.
Over
a quarter million
attendees.
500+
performances of William Shakespeare's plays,
with free seating for the public at all performances,
in a summer festival Shakespeare Quarterly has
called, "as good, in absolute, as the best in the
world."
Two-time
finalist for the El Pomar Foundation's Henry McAllister
Award for Excellence
in Special Projects
1994
Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
1996-2006
- Best Theatre and Actors in Colorado Springs, The
Gazette
Key
Staff Bios
Murray
Ross - Artistic Director, is a graduate
of Williams College, with a Masters Degree from Berkeley.
He has taught at Berkeley, the University of Rochester, Greenwich
University (London) and the University of Colorado. He is
the Artistic Director of THEATREWORKS, which he founded with
colleagues in 1975. He has directed over 40 productions for
THEATREWORKS, including 22 seasons of the summer Shakespeare
Festival. Other productions include Death of a Salesman,
Irma Vep, Grapes of Wrath, The Alchemist, Hedda
Gabler, A Streetcar Names Desire. He has directed
for the Los Angeles Theater Center, The Shenandoah Shakespeare
Express, and the Smokebrush Center in Colorado Springs. He
has created productions of Shakespeare, Moliere, and Ibsen
performed with actors, dancers, singers, and symphony orchestras
in Colorado Springs, Cincinnati, New York, Phoenix, and San
Antonio. He has adapted The Symposium (with Mark
and Lauren Arnest), Venus and Adonis, A Christmas
Carol, Huckleberry Finn, The Odyssey,
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, and The Life
of Frederick Douglass for the stage, and has written
and produced a deconstruction of the Scopes Trial
( Monkey Business) and a reconstruction of the Bauhaus
(The Bauhaus Follies). His most recent work for symphony
and theatre is The Last Night of Don Juan, with an
original score by Robert Rodriguez, commissioned and produced
by the San Antonio Symphony in 2000.
Drew
Martorella -Executive Director, graduated from Drew
University in 1989. In 1985 he served as an assistant stage
manager for Theatre West Virginia and from 1987 through 1989
served as a production assistant, second assistant stage manager,
stage manager, and production stage manager of the New Jersey
Shakespeare Festival. In addition he has stage managed numerous
productions for the Playwright's Theatre of New Jersey, the
Foundation of the Dramatists Guild, the Tiffany Theatre in
Los Angeles, and the Mark Taper Forum. From 1992-1993 he served
as the production stage manager for the New Mexico Repertory
Theatre and later served as its producing director. In 1994
Mr. Martorella produced the Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco
National Tour and served as the Institute for Spanish Arts'
General Manager. He has served as Producing Director for THEATREWORKS
since 1995.
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