Winter 2007
Fractured Atlas Quarterly Newsletter
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Help! My Studio is a Starbucks!
Last September an RFP came across my desk from Two Trees Management, a commercial real estate developer in New York. It offered a 6,000 square foot theatre in Brooklyn for free for 10 years if applicants committed to developing the facility as a community performing arts space.
As the RFP circulated, local artists reacted with a combination of spastic glee and sincere confusion at such a charitable gesture from an ostensibly soulless real...
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Partner Profile: David Leicht, HIP
In 2006, Fractured Atlas offered two new full-featured healthcare plans to its New York members with comprehensive hospital and medical benefits. The plans became available thanks to a long-standing association with HIP/NY and, in particular, the efforts of HIP Association Representative David Leicht.
"I was approached by Adam last winter about the possibility of Fractured Atlas coming on as an association through HIP," says David. "I...
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Staff Profile: Arwen Lowbridge, Program Director, Fiscal Sponsorship
What do you do for Fractured Atlas? I help more than 600 sponsored artists and arts organizations in 44 states who participate in our fiscal sponsorship program to raise more than $2 million per year. I am also the fundraising instructor in our Professional Development program.
How does your work help Fractured Atlas members? Our fiscal sponsorship program gives artists the ability to supplement the revenue they earn from producing...
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Member Profile: Project Shaw
Project Shaw is an ambitious undertaking that will present every play written by George Bernard Shaw as concert readings at New York's legendary Player's Club.
The driving force behind the project is Fractured Atlas member David Staller, the Artistic Director of Gingold Theatrical Group and a lifetime Shaw aficionado. "Shaw's voice has been an anchor of reason for me during most of my life," says David. "It serves as a reminder that it's...
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Member Profile: Play it by Ear Productions
In the 1950's, the writer Norman Corwin asked a little girl which she liked better, TV or radio. The little girl said she preferred radio "because the pictures are better."
That girl has a kindred spirit in Fractured Atlas member Lance Roger Axt, the artistic director of Play it by Ear Productions. Play it by Ear is an audio theatre company devoted to the development and distribution of original plays for radio, the internet and compact...
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Benefit Report
Fractured Atlas held its annual benefit at the West Side Loft in New York City on November 9th, 2006. The event was a tremendous success and saw an enormous outpouring of dedication and contributions from our members, patrons, sponsors, and Board. Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who showed up to support the Fractured Atlas community!
We would especially like to thank our premier sponsors: The Alliant Insurance Group, Dance Magazine,...
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Fractured Atlas Update
by Adam Natale
A few changes have happened recently at Fractured Atlas that we are very pleased to announce.
Marie Ortiz , who had previously been our Administrative Assistant, is now our new Director of Healthcare! Let's all welcome her into her new position!
We're also pleased to welcome Dianne Debicella as our new full-time Administrative Assistant. Dianne is a photographer who comes to us from Pratt Institute, where she is currently earning a...
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