{"id":2073,"date":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2016\/02\/transylvania-theater-department-receives-204769-gift\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:55:06","slug":"transylvania-theater-department-receives-204769-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2016\/02\/transylvania-theater-department-receives-204769-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania theater department receives $204,769 gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body1\">LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Transylvania University\u2019s theater department has received a $204,769 gift to expand student and faculty opportunities and bolster community engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body1\">Over the next four years, the Dixon\/White Theater Fund will benefit the university in a variety of ways, including travel grants, free theater tickets, conference attendance for students, visiting artist residencies and workshops, faculty development and guest speakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body1\">\u201cThese funds offer students co-curricular experiences that complement our work in the classroom and in production,\u201d theater professor Michael Dixon said. \u201cFor example, we\u2019re initiating a lecture series to address issues of diversity in world theater. And each year we\u2019ll provide funding for students to travel somewhere in the world to experience theatrical events in other cultures. It\u2019s definitely mind-expanding, and it could be mind-blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body1\">The donation\u2014made by Dixon\u2019s family in memory of his mother, Marion\u2014will make it possible for the university to offer free admission to its theater productions, with the goal of making performances accessible to more of the Lexington community. This ties into Transylvania\u2019s broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/campus\/project-one\">Project One<\/a> initiative to promote diversity and inclusion on campus.\u00a0The grant also will fund an artistic residency, which will begin in May with Lexington theater company Project SEE and its production of \u201cNo Spring Chicken\u201d in Little Theater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body1\">\u201cProfessional theater residency is just one of many projects this gift allows us to pursue, and it adds Transylvania to a prestigious group of colleges with professional companies on campus, including Yale, Harvard and Vassar,\u201d theater program director Sullivan White said. \u201cThis project gives students the opportunity to observe and work alongside professionals who are pursuing careers in the American theater.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"body1\">Transylvania\u2019s theater program\u2014in addition to staging original productions\u2014has a history of bringing to Lexington quality talent such as storyteller Kevin Kling, German puppet\/mask performer Kristi Hughes and the American Shakespeare Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"body1\">The grant will build on what has been five years of significant growth for the program. \u201cThese funds provide incredible new opportunities for Transylvania theater students,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Transylvania University\u2019s theater department has received a $204,769 gift to expand student and faculty opportunities and bolster community engagement. Over the next four years, the Dixon\/White Theater Fund will benefit the university in a variety of ways, including travel grants, free theater tickets, conference attendance for students, visiting artist residencies and workshops, faculty development and guest speakers. \u201cThese funds offer students co-curricular experiences that complement our work in the classroom and in production,\u201d theater professor Michael Dixon said. \u201cFor example, we\u2019re initiating a lecture series to address issues of diversity in world theater. And each year we\u2019ll provide funding for students to travel somewhere in the world to experience theatrical events in other cultures. It\u2019s definitely mind-expanding, and it could be mind-blowing.\u201d The donation\u2014made by Dixon\u2019s family in memory of his mother, Marion\u2014will make it possible for the university to offer free admission to its theater productions, with the goal of making performances accessible to more of the Lexington community. This ties into Transylvania\u2019s broader Project One initiative to promote diversity and inclusion on campus.\u00a0The grant also will fund an artistic residency, which will begin in May with Lexington theater company Project SEE and its production of \u201cNo Spring Chicken\u201d in Little Theater. \u201cProfessional theater residency is just one of many projects this gift allows us to pursue, and it adds Transylvania to a prestigious group of colleges with professional companies on campus, including Yale, Harvard and Vassar,\u201d theater<\/p>\n<p class=\"continueLink\"><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2016\/02\/transylvania-theater-department-receives-204769-gift\/\">Read &ldquo;Transylvania theater department receives $204,769 gift&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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