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For 20 years, Second Thought has played a key role in shaping the theatre community of Dallas. Past investments have allowed us to produce compelling and meaningful performances, and we invite you to continue that support on North Texas Giving Day! Last year, your generous donations helped fund our beautiful, brand new website and made access to us and our season the easiest it's ever been!
To celebrate our 20 Year Anniversary of making innovative and thought-provoking theatre in Dallas, here are some exciting ways you can contribute to our future:
• Showcasing Community: Thought Process - As part of its Inaugural Year, Thought Process: A Playwriting Cohort, will host a week long Playwriting Showcase to debut the new works that our 8 cohort members have been working on all year. Thought Process is a year-long, monthly meeting of local writers that provides a safe, low-stakes space for playwrights to interact with their peers, share pages from old, new or commissioned work, and most importantly: write! In December of 2024, Second Thought will host a number of public and private readings to allow our playwrights to hear their words out-loud for the first time! Gifts towards this Playwriting Showcase will fund space, rehearsals, and professional actors and dramaturgs to allow our playwrights to take their works to the next stage of development.
• The Future is New: Season 2025 - In our 20-year history, we have been fortunate to showcase the best talent in Dallas on our stage, as well as behind the scenes and even behind the words. Second Thought has crafted its reputation by debuting World Premieres by local writers every couple of years - but we have never programmed an entire season of local world premieres...until now. In Season 2025, we are boldly committing to debuting an entire season, 3 brand new works by local DFW Playwrights - an initiative that has rarely been seen in Dallas' theatrical history. For our 21st Season, we are investing in our community in the biggest way possible, and we need your help. These new works will be in varying stages of development and we want to provide the time and resources for our playwrights to develop their work before rehearsals begin. Making a gift to invest in The New, will provide a week-long development process in early 2025 for our three playwrights to innovate, investigate, and collaborate with leading professionals in our area to create exciting, thought-provoking new works to share with you all next season. Classic works were all new works at some point. World-renowned writers were all unknown locals to start. Invest in the Future. The Future is New.
Thank you for the opportunity to share these important initiatives with you that will dramatically enhance the operations of our theatre. Your support will touch on every facet of what we do operationally, artistically, and administratively. We know there are many reputable institutions in which you can make a gift. Knowing this, we promise to be faithful stewards of your investment in us.
Second Thought Theatre provides and intimate and unique theatrical experience by empowering top local theater artists to take risks and by showcasing writers who boldly tackle the difficult and demanding questions of our rapidly changing world.
Funding for:
-Thought Process: Inaugural Playwriting Showcase
-Developmental Workshops for Season 2025 - An entire Season of World Premieres by Local Writers
SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE’S DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION MISSION
Theater is a communal experience. Artists meet audiences in a celebration of creativity,
expression, and life. This celebration is at its fullest when both the artists and the audience bring
with them their own unique and diverse backgrounds. Second Thought Theatre strongly believes
that it will create the best possible theater only when it operates with an eye toward ensuring that
everyone has an opportunity to participate, everyone is included, everyone feels welcome, and
everyone is represented.
As such, Second Thought actively seeks to create art that helps our community evolve towards
greater acceptance of those who are different than ourselves. By focusing on topics and works
that make you “think again,” Second Thought challenges its artists and audiences to recognize
and stand up against issues of inequality and injustice.
Through its equity initiatives, Second Thought will continue its focus on the greater Dallas
community and all of the things that make it unique, diverse, inclusive, and wonderful while
continuing to stand against elements of intolerance and injustice that threaten those that deserve
to be just as welcome to participate. Second Thought is committed to the following initiatives,
among others, that it believes will not only accomplish the above, but also enhance the theater
experience for its artists, staff, board, and audiences.
● Second Thought will prioritize empowering diverse perspectives in all aspects of our
organization including play selection, casting, staffing, and board recruitment.
● Second Thought will produce at least one BIPOC playwright and employ at least one
BIPOC director per year.
● Second Thought will dedicate itself to works that celebrate the human experience while
confronting uncomfortable issues that detract from it.
● Second Thought will seek out artists from a diverse set of backgrounds that will allow it
to tell honest stories in a way that bolsters inclusion and provides opportunities to all.
● Second Thought will support the local Dallas artist community - producing works by
local writers; engaging local actors, directors, and producers; contracting local designers.
● Second Thought will compensate its artists and staff fairly and equitably.
● Second Thought will make staffing and casting decisions in a manner that prioritizes the
contributions that the individual can make to the organization and does not discriminate
against anyone for any reason.
● Second Thought will reach out to underserved and under-represented communities and
provide opportunities to attend its performances without financial hardship.
● Second Thought will recruit members to its Board of Directors that believe in and work
to support its mission with the goal of having at least 20% of directors from communities
of color by 2025.
Organization name
Second Thought Theatre
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
$100,000 - $249,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
3839 McKinney Avenue Ste. 155-452