The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
MTC received a 4-year, $250,000 grant from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation in support of programming and productions through the 2008-2009 season. Coupled with the Foundation’s capital funding of the Biltmore Theatre renovation, this multi-year grant brings the Foundation’s total support to more than $1 million since 2003.
The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation’s generous support of the campaign to renovate the Biltmore Theatre provided MTC with the means to fulfill a long-held dream: to present new works at every stage of development – from readings and workshops at the Creative Center; to Off- and Off-Off Broadway productions at New York City Center; to full Broadway productions at the Biltmore. The Foundation’s recent multi-year grant will assist MTC as the company programs exciting contemporary work on its three stages.
Extraordinary support for the arts was a lifelong passion for the Foundation’s founder, New York City hotel and real estate entrepreneur Peter Jay Sharp (1930-1992). MTC is proud to count itself among a number of New York City cultural institutions that have received funding from the Foundation in recent years.
The Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation
For the second consecutive year, MTC’s 6@7: Rehearsed Readings of New Work series will be named in honor of the Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation’s generous $75,000 commitment to support the development of new work.
MTC’s 6@7 series presents innovative new plays and musicals in a free public reading series held on six Monday evenings in the spring. As the name implies, MTC conducts six such readings annually. This highly successful series of works-in-progress has helped MTC establish relationships with emerging American writers. Past MTC productions such as David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers, David Auburn’s Proof, Joe Hortua’s Between Us and the 2006 world premiere of Based on a Totally True Story by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa came out of the series. Many plays which were not produced by MTC were considered by other theatre companies, largely due to the exposure given to the featured playwrights at the series.
Dr. Ernst C. Stiefel (1908-1997) was a prominent New York City attorney affiliated with Coudert Brothers. A native of Mannheim, Germany, Dr. Stiefel immigrated to the United States in 1939 and made it one of his life's missions to document and chronicle the contributions made to dozens of foreign legal systems by refugee Jewish lawyers. As an adviser to the Allied military government in Germany after World War II, he helped lay the legal groundwork for a system of restitution and reparation for Holocaust survivors living abroad.
MTC is deeply grateful to Robert Gellert, an Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation trustee and a longtime MTC patron, for facilitating this very generous Foundation support.
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