Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater Receives $600,000 Grant

$600,000 grant awarded to Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

Outer Cape Theater one of thirty-six MA organizations to receive grant

WELLFLEET -   Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) celebrated an award of $600,000 from the Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) co-administered with MassDevelopment and the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC). On March 11, 2008 WHAT celebrated with state representatives and cultural institutions across Massachusetts at a formal ceremony in the State House. WHAT is one in thirty-six organizations across Massachusetts to receive this grant. The funds will help defray some of the construction costs incurred for the new Julie Harris Stage.

State Senator Robert O’Leary, State Representative Sarah Peake, Mass Cultural Council Executive Director Anita Walker, and Mass Development President/CEO Robert Culver presented Jeff Zinn, WHAT’s Artistic Director and Carol Green, WHAT’s Broad President, with their award check of $600,000 on March 25th at the Julie Harris Stage Lobby.

Founded in 1985, WHAT is nationally known as Cape Cod's most adventurous professional theater company. Now in its 25th year, WHAT has completed a successful first year of winter programming – including the 6 in6 playreading series, collaboration with Cape Cinema and the Provincetown International Film Festival for WHATflix and the Local Filmmakers Takeover. Other spring programming introduces the WHAT Playwrights Alliance (a week long residency for local and national playwrights) and a WHAT Benefit featuring the Chatham Chorale. WHAT opens their first full production for 2008, Last Train to Nibroc, which will run from March 28 through April 13 at the Julie Harris Stage. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, with Sunday matinees at 3:00 PM. General admission tickets are $29. Outer Cape Voter's discount tickets are $26.

  The Massachusetts Cultural Council is a state agency that promotes excellence, access, education and diversity in the arts, humanities, and sciences, to improve the quality of life for Massachusetts residents and contribute to the state's economic vitality. MCC is committed to building a central place for arts and culture in the everyday lives of communities through a combination of grants, services, and advocacy for cultural organizations, schools, and artists. MCC receives an annual appropriation from the state Legislature and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and other sources.
  MassDevelopment, the state's finance and development authority, works with businesses, financial institutions and local officials to stimulate economic growth across the Commonwealth. Between FY 2004 and FY 2006, MassDevelopment financed or managed 589 projects statewide representing an investment of more than $4 billion in the Massachusetts economy. These projects are supporting the creation of 5,505 housing units and more than 23,000 jobs: 12,381 permanent and 10,679 construction-related.