Pontine Theatre Receives NEA Grant

Through its grant-making to nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the NEA has awarded a $12,000 grant award to Pontine Theatre to tour its works to communities throughout New England. Only one other New Hampsire organization, Monadnock Music in Peterborough, received an NEA award. In this funding round, the NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide.

NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, "The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States. Funding these new projects like the one from Pontine Theatre represents an investment in both local communities and our nation's creative vitality."

The grant awarded to Pontine Theatre supports a tour of the company's original works featuring subjects of particular interest to New England audiences, including stagings and adaptations of New England literature, history and culture.