greene grants
2003 Greene Grant awarded to:
Transport Group
Realizing Personal and Social Change Through Theater…
In September 2003, The Maxine Greene Foundation, Inc. awarded a Greene Grant to the Transport Group in support of its theater productions and Education and Outreach programming:
- Transport Group produces work by American playwrights and composers aimed at exploring the American conscience in the 20th and 21st Centuries, and has been nominated for five Drama Desk Awards. 90% of the company's income goes directly into programming.
- The company’s education wing is developing an arts-in-education curriculum called Normal in Schools™ at a Wisconsin high school. The original musical, "Normal" is a true success story about the family issues surrounding an eating disorder. During talk-back sessions with doctors and survivors, the script encourages discussions about body image, social and family issues.
- During the past four years, Transport Group has partnered with Creative Arts Workshops for Kids, Inc. (CAW), a non-profit, Harlem-based organization dedicated to empowering youth through creative arts. Transport Group leads performing art workshops for disadvantaged and at-risk children.
"We believe in theatre as a force for change. Emphasizing the American canon, we re-imagine the classics as well as original American musicals and plays, using heightened language, music, and imagery as our guide."
-Jack Cummings III
"As in the case of certain works of art - from the Greek tragedies to current works -passions and uncertainties, like all sorts of ambiguities - can be contained by a structure or form. What follows is not a final solution, but a release of new questions that might move those able to pay heed to new modes of reflectiveness, new imaginative possibilities, a new awareness of the phenomenal world."