Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Aurora Theatre Company strives to enrich the lives of its audience by producing high-quality, thought-provoking work that shines in an intimate setting.
The Aurora Theatre Company is entering its 27th year of operations and provides a nurturing environment for theatre artists and artisans to produce and develop plays that place a high value on substance, intelligence, and craft.
Aurora provides a nurturing environment for theatre artists and artisans to produce and develop plays that place a high value on substance, intelligence, and craft. Aurora strives to enrich the lives of its audience by producing high-quality, thought-provoking work that shines in an intimate setting. A defining characteristic of Aurora is its intimate performance space and its emphasis on subtlety, shadings of feeling, and ensemble responsiveness. Aurora is often referred to as "chamber theatre." With over 20 years of operation, Aurora has won 20 awards from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle in the areas of acting, directing, ensemble, and costume work. Aurora received the coveted $25,000 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation award in 2000 for new play production, and the San Francisco Weekly named Aurora "Outstanding Bay Area Theatre Company."
Aurora has built an outstanding reputation in the Bay Areas arts community as a theatre which presents relevant programming, maintains a bold artistic vision, and attracts the continued loyal support of its donors and audience members. Entering its twenty-seventh year of operation, Aurora has received many accolades from audiences and critics. Its productions have garnered many regional awards, including Best Of accolades in every major Bay Area daily newspaper. In 2012, SF Weekly named Aurora the Best Theatre Company in its 2012 Best Of List. The Wall Street Journal has nothing but praise for the Aurora, while The Contra Costa Times stated, perfection is probably an unattainable ideal in a medium as fluid as live performance, but the Aurora Theatre comes luminously close.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Julie Saltzman Kellner | Managing Dir | 40 | $101,735 |
| Josh Costello | Artistic Dir | 40 | $62,498 |
| Tom Worth | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Sallie Weissinger | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Kitt Shute | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Ed Schneider | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Rebecca Parlette-Edwards | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Craig Moody | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Rosalind Kim | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Deborah S Goodman | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Lance Gardner | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Burwell | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Joan Catherine Braun | Director | 2 | $0 |
| George Hisert | Secretary | 4 | $0 |
| Edward Schneider | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Ellen B Levine | Vice President | 4 | $0 |
| Gary H Moore | President | 4 | $0 |
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