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Imagination Stage Gets $25,000 Grant

Imagination Stage box officeBethesda’s Imagination Stage announced it will get a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help fund its production of “Cinderella:the Remix,” starting in April.

The children’s theater and education facility (4908 Auburn Ave.) is working on an initiative to bring third graders from 27 Title I schools (schools that serve low-income communities) to a performance of the show.

The program, which the theater and MCPS hope to start next year, would also include a pre-field trip video study guide and a workshop after the trip.

According to a press release, the NEA got 1,528 eligible applications for grant money requesting more than $75 million in funding. The independent federal agency recommended 895 grants to nonprofits nationwide for a total of $23.4 million.

Imagination Stage got an $25,000 NEA grant in 2012 for another collaboration with playwright Psalmayene 24, the playwright who wrote “Cinderella” and “P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical.”

The theater recently honored Bethesda philanthropists Jim and Carol Trawick by naming the theater after the pair. In 2009, the Trawicks gave Imagination Stage $2.5 million to pay off the remaining debt from construction of the theater.

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