[ This Just In! ]
For Immediate Release
Date: March 26, 2007
Contact:
Jason Neulander, Artistic Director, (512) 474-7886
(Austin, TX)--Saws hummed, compressors pumped, and nail guns blasted as construction began today on Salvage Vanguard Theater’s new facility on Manor Road in Austin.
After 13 years of producing in other groups’ venues, one of Austin’s most visible producers of new plays has its own home.
“We’ve been talking about this pretty much since the company was founded,” says Salvage Vanguard Theater’s Artistic Director Jason Neulander. “Now, thanks to incredible support from a wide variety of sources, we’re able to make that dream a reality.”
Neulander continues: "Basically what this does for us is puts us past the preparation phase and into the construction phase. Thanks to this grant, all of our pre-construction costs are now paid for: the permits, the plans, and overhead. Every check we receive from this point forward will go straight into the bricks and mortar of our new home."
Other funders on the project include the Austin Community Foundation; the Webber Family Foundation; the Lola Wright Foundation; the Still Water Foundation; Spansion, Inc.; and more than 100 individual donors.
Salvage Vanguard Theater is going to build the facility, a conversion of a 9,600 square-foot warehouse, in three phases. The first phase will complete the main theater space, scene shop, dressing rooms, and public restrooms. The second phase will include the gallery and second-stage spaces. The third phase will include the company’s offices and eleven artist studios.
The company has raised $315,000 of its $500,000 goal.
Phase one of the building is scheduled to open for the public on June 1 with Salvage Vanguard Theater’s production of Mud by Maria Irene Fornes.
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