To date, Making Books Sing has:
- Produced 13 professional productions of musicals, including eight commissions;
- Featured Broadway, Off Broadway, film, television and award-winning actors, directors and designers, and Caldecott Medalist authors;
- Engaged 365 public, charter and private schools in our professional theatre productions;
- Reached over 80,000 school and family audience members across New York City and in CA;
- Served as the theater education program in more than 57 New York City public and charter schools across all five boroughs;
- Guided over 40,000 children, teachers and parents in creating more than 1,600 plays and musicals;
- Disseminated over 4,500 Curriculum Resource Packets and Anthologies;
- Trained more than 2,000 teachers in NYC and California to integrate theatre into their core curriculum;
- Involved nearly 10,000 family members in free Family Workshops;
- Provided respite, joy, literacy training and creative outlets for more than 117 homeless mothers and their children
Making Books Sing is privileged to be the recipient of numerous honors for our work in theater education, such as:
- Three National Endowment for the Arts awards;
- More than $ 257,000 in funding from New York State Council on the Arts, including highly competitive Empire State Partnerships grants designed to centralize arts in the core curriculum of high-needs schools;
- An invitation by the New York City Department of Education to develop musical theatre curriculum for English language learners;
- Inclusion as a case study in Dr. Tobie Stein’s Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices, the field’s leading professional manual;
- 22 grants from the preeminent Center for Arts Education;
- Invitations to serve on grantmaker panels, Advisory Boards, Boards of Directors and as guest lecturers to further the field’s ability to bring theater education to young people.
While these statistics are testimony to Making Books sing’s reach, the
reviews and feedback from our audiences, education partners, families and the press provide an insider’s view into the true impact of our programs.