Organizations Filed Purposes:
FORM 990, PART III, LINE 1 - ORGANIZATION MISSIONHORIZON'S MISSION IS TO CONNECT PEOPLE, INSPIRE HOPE AND PROMOTE POSITIVE CHANGE THROUGH CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND THE STORIES OF OUR TIMES. WE STRIVE TO BE ADYNAMIC LEADER IN THE PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE IN THESOUTHEAST. WE PASSIONATELY CONNECT OUR DIVERSE AUDIENCES TO ACCESSIBLE AND RELEVANT PLAYS THAT ARE NEW TO OUR REGION. WE ALSO CULTIVATE NEW ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE THROUGH INNOVATIVE ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.
HORIZON'S MISSION IS TO CONNECT PEOPLE, INSPIRE HOPE AND PROMOTE POSITIVE CHANGE THROUGH THE STORIES OF OUR TIMES. WE PRODUCE PROFESSIONAL CONTEMPORARY THEATRE FOR OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY AND NURTURE THE NEXT GENERATION OF AUDIENCES AND ARTISTS.
During the past year, Horizon served over 38,000 people with our season of Atlanta, Southeastern and world premieres of contemporary plays and our artistic development, education and free community arts programs (300+ performances). Horizon reaches a racially and age diverse audience in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Mainstage plays produced included the U.S. Premiere of HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU by Trey Anthony (July/August 2018), developed at Horizon in 2016 when she was an National New Play Network Playwright in Residence, and directed by Artistic Associate Thomas W. Jones II. This was the second play in Horizons New American Dreams Series - stories of immigrants of today in pursuit of the American dream. The final play in this series, the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of NOMAD MOTEL by Carla Ching (September/October 2018), looked at the unexpected, transformational friendship of a Chinese parachute kid teen and an American motel kid girl. The New American Dream series was surrounded by auxiliary events around the theme, engaging dozens of artists and community partners, including South by Southeast, a showcase of Asian and South Asian American performing artists. THE WOLVES by Sarah DeLappe (Jan/Feb 2019) won Atlantas Suzi Bass Award for Best Ensemble 2019 for its ensemble of ten young women in this Pulitzer Prize nominated look at the lives of a soccer team of teen girls. PIPELINE by Dominique Morisseau (March/April 2019) received standing ovations nightly for its powerful story of an African-American single mothers struggle to save her teenage son from the school to prison pipeline (Suzi Bass nomination for Lead Actor, Male; nomination for Projection Design). THE CAKE by Bekah Brunstetter (May/June 2019) was about a baker whose life is turned upside down when she is asked to bake a cake for a loved ones same sex wedding. Partnerships with dozens of LGBTQUIA organizations and business allies led to strong audience support, Community Conversations with guest respondents from the Southern Jewish Resource Network, United Methodist churches and LGBTQIA advocacy organizations, a Pride Night event, and free cake nightly provided by local bakeries. The production won Suzi Bass Awards for Lead Actor, Female; Supporting Actor Male; and a nomination for Scenic Design. Two holiday productions were also produced: MADELINES CHRISTMAS by Jennifer Kirkeby and Shirley Mier (11th year of this Family Series production, a musical based on Ludwig Bemelmans classic childrens book in partnership with Atlanta Childrens Theatre); and WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, a world premiere by Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Lee, authors of Horizons previously produced hit THE WAFFLE PALACE. This new holiday comedy commissioned by Horizon featured the same all-night Atlanta diner setting and staff of the original.Horizon garners attention on the national scene as a center for development of new plays and writers from our region. Our New South Play Festival, which just completed its 21st year, develops and produces new plays (more than 70 to-date) from, for and about the contemporary urban South, with an emphasis on plays by women, writers of color and writers based in the South. The Festival has been hailed by Creative Loafing as the place that finds and defines Southern plays. This year, Horizon Theatre brought to the stage works from four playwrights at different stages of development. HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU by Trey Anthony (Horizon National New Play Network Playwright-in-Residence 2016) was workshopped over the past two years and opened in its US Premiere in July, 2018. WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, commissioned and workshopped over two years, premiered in December, 2019. We also workshopped two plays: LOVE, M. by Clarinda Ross (March 2019), the story of two Southern mothers and sons at the height of the AIDS crisis; and NOPE, THATS JUST MY FIRST NAME by Suehyla El-Attar, a one-woman show about her experiences living and working as a first generation Muslim Arab in the South. In 2019, three plays premiered at Horizon were published by Samuel French: KLOOK AND VINETTE (2017) by Ch`e Walker, PROJECT DAWN (2017) by Karen Hartman, and HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU (2019) by Trey AnthonyOur education and outreach engages young audiences, families, and developing artists with theatre that speaks to their lives. Programs include our Family Series (plays that combine adult professionals with amateur children on stage for high quality, low cost family programming); New South Young Playwrights Contest and Festival (competitively selected intensive for high school and college age writers to nurture the next generation of playwrights); Horizon Playwrights in Schools (professional playwrights teaching residencies in middle and high schools); and Apprentice & Intern Companies (training for college and post-college early career professionals). We hosted Camp Stardust for children in collaboration with our education partner Atlanta Childrens Theatre. We also partner with The New School, an alternative high school in Atlanta, where we provide both teaching services (headed by Co-Artistic Director Jeff Adler) and space and production support.We were also pleased to finish out our community place-making pilot project, Little Five Arts Alive, which brings free outdoor arts events to our neighborhood plazas in Little Five Points (L5P). We provided free arts programming, engaging over 175 artists from all disciplines while increasing community connections between the arts, artists and the public during 17 weekends (July - October 2017 and April -June 2018). The event spurred a groundswell of support for the plazas as a community gathering place, and the L5P Community Improvement District allocated a large city grant to fund major renovations of the plazas to improve their effectiveness as arts and community gathering places.
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 |
|---|
| Lisa Adler | President | 60 | $50,000 |
| Jeff Adler | VICE-PRESIDENT | 60 | $45,000 |
| Lynne Segall | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jack C Sawyer | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Robinowitz | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Phyllis Weiss | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Margie Osheroff | CHAIR | 5 | $0 |
| Kerry Mcardle | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Christopher Edmonds | Director | 1 | $0 |
| W Imara Canady | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Elena Polovnikova | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeffrey Mielcarz | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Linda Hubert | Director | 1 | $0 |
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