Adam Szymkowicz notes that 13P, having made a significant impact on the New York theater scene, will end its mission and close up shop after its next production.
Two thoughts.
One: I'd like to reiterate Adam's great question. If you had to gather a new 13P, a collective of super playwrights, today...who would you choose?
Second, I admire a nonprofit that fulfills its mission and ends its work. As many of us see in the nonprofit world, once a new organization gets to work, it can fall into the rut of perpetuating itself out of a sort of reflex, revisioning its mission, just existing to exist. Setting a goal that can be achieved, and then achieving it? That's a rare feat.
Having filled out all of the 501(c)3 forms, and tax forms, insurance and other legal hurdles over several years ourselves, it's hard to just toss all that night-after-night work and move on.
ReplyDeleteBut, I'm all for more mergers & acquistions in the arts, so hopefully, they can pass along the internal structures and processes of their company to another group of Ps.