Organizations Filed Purposes:
6th Street Playhouse is a performing arts theater that engages, entertains and inspires a diverse community. We do this by consistently producing plays, musicals, and educational programs that are of the highest quality and reach the broadest possible constituency.
6th Street Playhouse produces plays, musicals, and educational programs that are of the highest quality and reach diverse communities.
6th Street Theater produces high quality theatrical productions to the general public. In the 2019-2020 Season the organization produced approximately 10 musicals, plays and other performances with over 100 performances. The theaters closed April through June 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The main theater is named the G.K. Hardt Theatre after a local businessman who contributed a gift of $450,000 towards the theater in 2007. The theater seats 184 and includes disabled seating and Phonic Ear loop for the hearing impaired. The Studio Theatre is an intimate and flexible seat black box theater located next door to the G.K. Hardt Theatre. The Studio holds full productions of classics, new works and theater that showcases creative risk-taking.In the 2019-2020 season, over 20,000 tickets were sold or issued for performances at the G.K Hardt and Studio theatres. Approximately 400 tickets were donated to other non-profit organizations during the fiscal year. In addition, discounted tickets were extended to students for educational purposes.
6th Street Theater provides educational and artistic outreach classes and workshops for youth and adults of all ages and levels of experience through the School of Drama. Youth - Youth classes are for children ages 2 - 12 years old. These classes are designed to foster an interest in theater arts, deepen connections between family members and communities, and provide tools for self expression.Teen - Teen classes are for teens 13-19 years old. These classes are designed to support and foster the development of young artists, help teenagers acknowledge and understand their complicated worlds through self awareness and a deepened connection with their peers, and help them develop tools for confidence and problem solving.Adult - Adult classes provide a place to explore, strengthen skills, and grow as artists and people.Seniors - Classes for seniors, ages 55 years old and over, are designed to help transform negative attitudes towards aging to a new vision of continuous growth, and to honor and celebrate the sharing of rich and varied experiences of older adults.In the year ended June 30, 2020, the organization offered approximately 25 adult/senior classes and 20 youth/teen classes with a total attendance of over 450 individuals. The organization provided full or reduced tuition scholarships to ten of these individuals. In April 2020 through June 2020 classes were taught virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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 |
|---|
| Joel Feldman | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Melissa Bingham | Executive Dir. | 10 | $0 |
| Sudha Schlesinger | Board Member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Jacque Scheibel | Board Member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Kathy Horan | Secretary | 0.5 | $0 |
| Susane Byrne | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Jeff Cote | President | 2 | $0 |
| Lynnea Mackey | Board Member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Dorothy Beattie | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
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