Organizations Filed Purposes:
The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theater that meets a rising demand in the community for audiences to see their life experiences represented on stage. We offer diverse productions with contemporary and alternative lifestyle themes that explore complex and varied situations such as relationships, family, prejudice, and values. We present plays and musicals that challenge our audiences artistically, build cultural bridges, and strive to create greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts. There is no other theater group with this unique mission in the Dallas area.
Uptown Players offers equity membership candidacy (EMC) program weeks for local artists and stage managers desiring enough credit to join Actors Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers. Due to the pandemic and global health crisiss, Uptown Players pivoted to filming productions and streaming archival video of past productions to patrons' homes. As a result, Uptown Players provided work for 9 professional (union) actors and 3 stage managers in a COVID safe film environment. During 2020, Uptown Players produced one live stage production, Broadway Our Way 2020, filmed two stage productions, Application Pending and Helen Holy's Heavenly Holiday Spectacular, and edited and streamed archival video of its 2014 production of Pageant The Musical. Uptown Players also provided free online content during the pandemic, including hosting an hour long episode of Stars in the House, a national daily webcast featuring Broadway performers and regional theater work around the country. The theater has won over 25 Leon Rabin Awards and 30 Theater Critics Forum Awards in its first eighteen seasons. It has also been named the best theater company by the Dallas Voice Readers and by the Dallas Observer. It was also featured in D Magazine and on Good Morning Texas and Daybreak on WFAA.The program service expenses were play production expenses. These expenses included theater rental, royalty payments, labor for cast, crew, directors, and designers, lighting, sound, filming, editing, streaming, sets, costumes, props, travel, and ticketing expenditures.Uptown Players received support via donated services from the following sponsor:The Dallas Voice provided advertising sponsorship valued at $1,000.Uptown Players, Inc. productions are also supported by approximately 175 volunteers who help provide labor in various capacities in support of the theater. Due to the reduced live performances during 2020 attributable to the COVID pandemic, only 30 of the total 175 volunteers in the organization's database were physically utilized in early 2020.
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 |
|---|
| Charles Craig Lynch | Vice President | 2 | $53,716 |
| Jeffrey A Rane | Treasurer | 2 | $30,895 |
| Nancy Rubin | Secretary | 2 | $4,644 |
| Phillip Hearne | Event Chair | 2 | $4,286 |
| Tomas Soto | Fundraising Committee | 1 | $0 |
| Barbara Rosenberg | Fundraising Committee | 1 | $0 |
| Kate Newman | Fundraising Chair | 2 | $0 |
| Jerre Van Den Bent | Fundraising Committee | 1 | $0 |
| Brian Jansen | President | 2 | $0 |
| Coy Covington | Submissions Chair | 2 | $0 |
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