1812 PRODUCTIONS INC
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Mission Statement
1812 Productions, Philadelphia's All Comedy Theatre Company, is the only regional theatre company in the country dedicated to an all-comedy mission.
About This Cause
1812 Productions, established in 1997, is the only regional theatre company in the country dedicated to an all-comedy mission. Because of this unique mission, 1812 was recognized in 2010 and again in 2016 by the American Theatre Wing of the Tony Awards to be the recipient of National Theatre Company Grant. Grants Committee Chair Lucie Arnaz referred to 1812 and the other grantees as “…what we feel are some of the most inspiring and innovative theater companies on our national landscape". 1812’s programming encompasses a wide range of comedic styles, including new works, musicals and established comedies by some of the country’s sharpest comedic voices. We have produced over 50 productions in our history, by both emerging and established playwrights including Neil Simon, Itamar Moses, Craig Wright, Billy Aronson, David Mamet, Jane Wagner, Evan Smith, and Alan Ayckbourn among others. 1812 is perhaps best known for the ongoing This Is The Week That Is political comedy show, now in its twelfth year. Always new, with material that changes night to night, this show follows ongoing current events and features savvy political satire that has been described as “The Carol Burnett Show meets The Daily Show for the live stage”. 1812 has also made a name for itself by creating its own original work. Of our world premieres, over 20 have been created by our Producing Artistic Director Jennifer Childs. Our series of tributes to periods of American comedy including Always a Lady (women in comedy), Double Down (famous comedic double acts), and Our Show Of Shows (tribute to TV’s Your Show of Shows) among others, have benefited from the personal participation and guidance of comic luminaries such as Sid Caesar, Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory, Bob Elliot, and Phyllis Diller. Other 1812 original works, such as the musical Cherry Bomb, have given us national exposure in Variety and pieces such as I Will Not go Gently, Let’s Pretend We’re Married and Why I'm Scared of Dance have been presented by other theaters around the country including City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Delaware Theatre Company, and the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. Her comedy, To The Moon, garnered six Barrymore Award Nominations, including one for Best New Play. Additional to our stage productions, 1812 realizes a major part of its mission by providing the public schools South Philadelphia High School, The Franklin Learning Center, and The Widener School for Children with Disabilities with high-quality theatre-education programming at no cost to the participants. 1812 Outreach, winner of the 2016 George Bartol Arts Education Award, and the 2016 Victory Foundation Award, is a unique, in-school, education program serving over 90 at-risk students each year and has been for the last nineteen years. Our productions play for over 80 public performances each year reaching over 13,000 patrons. This is accomplished with a $950,000 operating budget that supports six full-time administrative employees, five part-time and seasonal employees and over fifty independently contracted theatre artists, including some of the finest professional actors, designers, directors, and theatre technicians in the region. 1812 Productions maintains a 3,000 square foot office space/storage facility/rehearsal space year-round and rents the historic Plays and Players Theatre in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square for our 26 weeks of production each season. 1812 Productions has over 1,000 subscribers, a significant and growing base of core supporters, and receives major support from Philadelphia based foundations supporting the arts, including the William Penn Foundation, the Independence Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, the Barra Foundation, and over twenty other private and family run foundations, as well as the City of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and recent funding from the NEA. 1812 Productions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation with a sixteen-member Board of Directors and over 500 individual supporters.