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A.C.T. RECEIVES $1M GRANT FROM THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION
The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) has been awarded a $1 million grant over three years by The James Irvine Foundation to develop a new program of study as part of its Master of Fine Arts program. A.C.T. was one of four organizations to receive funding as part of the Irvine Foundation’s Arts Innovation Fund (AIF), which helps the state’s premiere arts institutions to develop innovative ways to deepen audience engagement in the arts in California.
As part of the grant, A.C.T. will create a new initiative for its Master of Fine Arts program that features student-devised work as part of the curriculum, encouraging and supporting the students to take their work out in the community by using unconventional performance spaces. These performances will be free or offered at low cost to encourage broad participation. The new program will empower the students in the programming, production, and marketing of these efforts, allowing them to lead the conversation in engaging an audience of their peers. A.C.T.’s new Master of Fine Arts curriculum will also include professional development in business skills that historically have not been a significant part of actor training programs. A.C.T.'s administrative staff will serve as guest faculty for these business classes. Along with the internal innovation this initiative brings to one of the leading M.F.A. programs in the country, it also allows A.C.T. to engage a whole new audience in its programming by taking its work to its audience. This new program will work in tandem with the M.F.A. 8, the new structure that is launched with the class of 2012 next season, which includes smaller class sizes, a new curriculum, and a full-time faculty.
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