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The Theatre Consortium
of Silver Spring

What is the Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring?

The mission of the Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring is to provide innovative management of the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre for the culturally diverse resident companies and other artists and organizations for the enrichment of the community in and around the Silver Spring Arts and Entertainment District.

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​The Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring will provide performance space for the resident companies and other artists and organizations, as the rental calendar allows.  The Theatre Consortium will present high quality, diverse, and reasonably priced performance art across disciplines.

Consortium Member Organizations

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Through collaborative performance and lifelong learning opportunities, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain the skills and confidence to engage with the world.

We believe that when people make their own choices and are engaged, stimulated, challenged and inspired, they surpass both their own and others’ expectations. ArtStream strives to build an inclusive world where everyone can perform their art out.

Flying V is a performing arts organization that creates intersectional, niche-based art to provide spaces of belonging to artists and audiences. We share and interpret modern mythologies that affirm individuals’ unique identities and their relationship to the world. Our work and how we create it is rooted in care for, and accountability to, those same individuals.

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The Live Garra Theatre offers enormous opportunities; endeavoring to illuminate all facets of a multicultural society; fostering cross-cultural understanding of the many ethnic voices in the community and to address universal social-life issues. The Theatre Company features full-length productions, play readings, acting seminars, internships, workshops, lectures, and Q&A discussions.

Race is a compelling subject; the dearth of African-American Theatre in Montgomery County, Maryland and the Washington, DC metropolitan area is real; the demand and need is great. Live Garra Theatre is dedicated to increasing awareness, preserving the unique legacy of the African-American heritage; contributing to the survival of Black Theatre. Why Black Lives Matter…

Lumina Studio Theatre’s mission is to provide unique opportunities for young actors of any level of experience who seek to perform Shakespeare, other plays of the classical repertory theatre, and modern plays that focus on the beauty of language.

Lumina provides a disciplined and rigorous professional setting where actors are trained in a comprehensive performance focused program including: in-depth vocal and character coaching, improvisation, and stage combat training, detailed costumes, live music, choreography and occasionally special elements such as masks to support the shows. The results are exhilarating and thoughtful productions that demand more of our aspiring actors, and benefit them for life, whether they pursue acting professionally or become informed and astute patrons of the arts.

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Board of Directors

Lawrence Thompson

President

TD Bank

Warren Sharon

Secretary

Prince George's County Dept. of Parks and Recreation

Susan Hoffman

Vice President

Montgomery County Dept. of Recreation - Retired

Gordon Nimmo-Smith

Treasurer

Shakespeare Theatre Company

Members at Large

Shuaa Tajammul

Shuaa Tajammul, Esq.

Julie Reiner

Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring, Retired

Ex-Officio Members

Wanda Whiteside

Live Garra Theatre

Meg Lebow

Lumina Studio Theatre

Patti Woolsey

ArtStream

Sophie Cameron

Lumina Studio Theatre

Navid Aziz

Flying V Theatre

Jonathan Rubin

Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring Managing Director

A wrestling ring sits in the middle of the theatre with a packed audience on all four sides, two wrestlers about to face off, and a referee standing between them.
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