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A LETTER FROM ANNIE
Dear Friends,
One of the main reasons I felt so drawn to join Keen Company is because of its education program: Keen Teens. This season happens to mark the 20th Anniversary of the program - what a wonderful cause for celebration! This is a professional development program that's free for NYC teens. The mission of Keen Teens is to provide high school students the opportunity to collaborate with professional playwrights, directors, and designers on a festival of Off-Broadway world-premiere plays. I know personally how impactful a program like this can be on a teenager. When adolescents are immersed in the arts, they learn critical skills for development, like what it means to be a part of a team: accountability, getting the assignment done -- not only for their own benefit or reward, but more importantly, for the greater good of the team and for something bigger than them. We live in a time when anxiety is at an all-time high for teenagers. The arts can be a salve for that anxiety; providing meaning to context, helping young people understand and confront emotions, and to do so together, as a team.
Teenagers need community now more than ever—it sounds like a cliche, but we know it’s the truth. Keen Teens not only brings teenagers together from different schools all around the city, but it gets them on their feet to make a piece of theater together as a team. They memorize lines, they learn blocking, they follow a strict timetable (as all theater people do, “thank you, half hour!”), and they perform onstage in front of a paying audience. This kind of professional development will help these teenagers in whatever pathway they choose as they enter adulthood.
WHY GIVE TO KEEN?
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Keen teens:
$20 for 20
Give $20 to celebrate the 20th year! Spread the news on your social channels with #give20for20 and feel free to use this social graphic to help us reach our goal!
$50
Help Keen Company cover the cost of rehearsal space for Keen Teens—which means helping teenagers from all over New York City.
$100
Help Keen Company pay for the venue rental in order to give the teenagers a professional Off-Broadway debut. If you are an alum of Keen Teens, then please consider this level to be part of the Keen Teen’s Alumni 20th Anniversary Circle.
$500
Be part of the 20th Anniversary Circle! Help make Keen Teens successful by underwriting fees for professional directors and designers for the program.
$1000
Be part of the 20th Anniversary Circle! You will helping make sure the Keen Teen’s adult staff has the resources they need to keep the programming going smoothly.
$2500+
Be part of the 20th Anniversary Circle! Major Gifts will make sure Keen Teens can continue and flourish for the future.
ONLINE
Donate quickly and securely online through our donation platform.
PHONE
Please call our office at 212-216-0963.
CHECK
Address checks to:
Keen Company
C/O Moses Singer
405 Lexington Avenue, 12 FL
New York, NY 10174
RECURRING GIFT
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MORE WAYS TO GIVE
Email annie@keencompany.org for more information on stock transfers, corporate matching, or wire transfers.
Please contact annie@keencompany.org if you have any questions about becoming a Keen Company supporter. Keen is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Your tax-deductible donations help us continue to produce theater that celebrate the complexities of hope and the joys of the human condition, as well as our new work initiative for mid-career playwrights and a unique educational program for teens in all five boroughs of NYC.