MISSION STATEMENT

Actors and Directors Living in Brooklyn (AdLib) provides opportunities to actors, directors and other theater artists living in Brooklyn or willing to work in Brooklyn. We will present both existing works and new works by emerging playwrights.

Our goal is provide an environment where theater artists can come together to both practice their art and craft and to provide live theater to audiences in Brooklyn at an affordable price.

Working from our studio donated by a member, we can provide a cost free space for our artists to create and our audiences to experience that work.

For our artists, we will also present our work in other Boroughs, primarily Manhattan, in order to showcase their work to both Manhattan audiences and to agents, producers and other potential entities that may lead to paying jobs.

Although we will focus primarily on actors and directors, we will encourage the development of new plays by our playwright members.

For audiences in Brooklyn, we plan to offer admission by contribution so that no one will be deprived of live theater because they cannot afford a ticket.

After starting out in March 2010 with $25, a dream and a play reading of King Lear, the Brooklyn Play Reading Group, has evolved into a core group of actors and directors about to embark on its first fully staged Equity Showcase production of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class in Manhattan. The play will run from October 27th to November 13th at The Bridge Theatre (Thursday through Sunday at 8 PM [except for Sunday November 13th at 2 pm]; 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY).

We also develop new plays by Brooklyn playwrights. We’re going to produce a staged reading of Use No Hooks by a new playwright and member of our group, Nicky Albert in 2012.

 We have a new name, Actors and Directors Living in Brooklyn (AdLib), and we’ve recently joined the Sponsored Artist Program at The Field,* which is an organization that supports emerging arts organizations like ours. Their sponsorship means that we have access to many new resources, and it will help us grow into the future. It also means that contributions to AdLib are now tax-deductible.

 Please consider making a tax-deductible donation by check or credit card to The Field on our behalf. Here’s how: If donating by check, then please make all checks payable to The Field, with AdLib noted on the memo line. Mail the checks directly to us at AdLib at 604 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. To donate by credit card, go to our Sponsored Artist profile page on The Field web site (The Field) and follow the prompts to contribute. Please make sure that your correct current address is included so that The Field can send a receipt (for contributions of $250 or more). If you would like a receipt for a contribution less than $250, let me know by responding to this e-mail. All contributors will be acknowledged on our programming.

*Actors and Directors Living in Brooklyn (AdLib) is a Sponsored Artist with The Field, a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions made to The Field and earmarked for Actors and Directors Living in Brooklyn (AdLib) are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field, contact: The Field, 161 Sixth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10013; (212) 691-6969; Fax: (212) 255-2053; www.thefield.org. A copy of The Field’s latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.