WHY GIVE?

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company was founded in Washington, DC in 1980 and over the past three decades we have garnered a national reputation for our work in developing, producing, and promoting challenging and provocative new plays that strive to push the art form forward through innovations in language, content, and style. Our mission is:

“. . . to ignite an explosive engagement between theatre artists and the community by developing, producing, and promoting new plays that explore the edges of theatrical style and human experience, and by implementing new ways to use the artistry of theatre to serve the people of Greater Washington, DC.”

Now while we won’t hesitate to take risks with new writers and confrontational new plays, we leave little else up to chance. We surround each new play with world-class directors, major designers, a resident acting Company with three decades of new work experience, a state-of-the-art facility, and a sophisticated audience that has cultivated a taste for challenging new work—all in an effort to launch it into the world with the best possible production. The results? We have received 203 Helen Hayes Award nominations and 35 Helen Hayes Awards for artistic work, including 10 awards for Outstanding New Play. Most thrilling, however, was the news in April 2011 that Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Woolly was the first theatre in America to commit to Clybourne Park and just the second to produce it (in March 2010), why is why we are so proud of our role in this play’s early life, and its incredible success. Meanwhile, plays that have premiered at Woolly have gone on to productions at more than 200 other theatres across America and the world; members of Woolly’s acting Company have emerged as the stars of the D.C. theatre scene; and we have played a catalytic role in the careers of provocative playwrights such as Sarah Ruhl, David Lindsay-Abaire, Nicky Silver, Craig Wright, Danai Gurira, Jason Grote, David Adjmi, and many others.

None of our work would be possible without our donors and sponsors. Our Annual Fund supplies over half of our budget, providing resources to hire the most talented playwrights, artists, administrators and staff members to work towards our unique mission. In short, your support ensures that we can continue to Defy Convention in everything we do.

If you would like to join the Woolly family as a donor, please contact Rachel Dutcher, Development Manager for the Annual Fund, at 202-312-5264 or racheld@woollymammoth.net, or click How to Contribute now.

To find out about our various levels of giving,
please visit our Donor Levels & Benefits page.

To make a gift now, please visit our How to contribute page.

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• Woolly Mammoth was featured in the 2003 and 2008 editions of:
  
• Woolly Mammoth is a selected participant in EmcArts’ Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, a program generously funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Eric Hissom, Katie deBuys, and Kimberly Gilbert in In the Next Room or the vibrator play(2010)

Tim Getman and Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey in Gruesome Playground Injuries (2010)