Scope and arrangement
The Foundry Theatre records, dating from 1984 to 2019, provides a comprehensive portrait of the creative, financial, and logistical history of an experimental Off-Off-Broadway theatre company. The collection documents all major Foundry productions and events with scripts, correspondence, research materials, technical bibles, invitation mailings, marketing and press materials, photographs, notes, contracts and agreements, budgets, box office records, grant applications, and audio and video recordings.
The Foundry Theatre records are arranged in eight series:
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1994-2017
Production Files includes scripts, sketches of lighting plots, technical information, correspondence, budgets, contracts and agreements, Actors Equality documents, photographs, programs, and mailings related to the production named.
Production Binders are often technical bibles, with scripts marked with technical cues. They also include other production materials. Binders have been disassembled and re-housed in folders.
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1996-2015
This series consists of opening remarks; correspondence with moderators, funders, hosts, and speakers; feedback questionnaires; research on the topics covered by the Dialogues; notes; proposals; and marketing and press materials.
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1994-2019
Unique promotional mailings, customized for Foundry productions and events, consist of invitations and branded keepsakes. Files often contain programs related to the production being promoted.
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1993-2017
Series consists of meeting notes, Foundry newsletters, information about the website, files on the Foundry Ambassador's program, research and information on potential projects, resumes, background information on named individuals, and general materials related to the background and organization of the company.
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1995-2019
Photographs, negatives, contact sheets, and slides for Foundry productions and various events.
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1994-2017
This series consists of articles and reviews from mainstream, trade, and speciality publications, collected by production. Other publicity materials are in Production Materials and Mailings.
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1993-2018
These files include materials related to funding for the Foundry as an organization as a whole and for select productions throughout. This includes correspondence between the theater and the funding organizations, invoices and receipts without personal information, proposed budgets, copies of grant applications where applicable, and notes.
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1992-2011
Audio and moving image materials related to and taken at various Foundry productions and events.