North Texas Giving Day
For 20 years, Second Thought has played a key role in shaping the theatre community of Dallas. Past investments have allowed us to produce compelling and meaningful performances, and we invite you to continue that support on North Texas Giving Day! Last year, your generous donations helped fund our beautiful, brand new website and made access to us and our season the easiest it's ever been!
To celebrate our 20 Year Anniversary of making innovative and thought-provoking theatre in Dallas, here are some exciting ways you can contribute to our future:
Showcasing Community: Thought Process
As part of its Inaugural Year, Thought Process: A Playwriting Cohort, will host a week long Playwriting Showcase to debut the new works that our 8 cohort members have been working on all year. Thought Process is a year-long, monthly meeting of local writers that provides a safe, low-stakes space for playwrights to interact with their peers, share pages from old, new or commissioned work, and most importantly: write!
In December of 2024, Second Thought will host a number of public and private readings to allow our playwrights to hear their words out-loud for the first time! Gifts towards this Playwriting Showcase will fund space, rehearsals, and professional actors and dramaturgs to allow our playwrights to take their works to the next stage of development.
The Future is New:
Season 2025
In our 20-year history, we have been fortunate to showcase the best talent in Dallas on our stage, as well as behind the scenes and even behind the words. Second Thought has crafted its reputation by debuting World Premieres by local writers every couple of years - but we have never programmed an entire season of local world premieres...until now.
In Season 2025, we are boldly committing to debuting an entire season, 3 brand new works by local DFW Playwrights - an initiative that has rarely been seen in Dallas' theatrical history. For our 21st Season, we are investing in our community in the biggest way possible, and we need your help. These new works will be in varying stages of development and we want to provide the time and resources for our playwrights to develop their work before rehearsals begin.
Making a gift to invest in The New, will provide a week-long development process in early 2025 for our three playwrights to innovate, investigate, and collaborate with leading professionals in our area to create exciting, thought-provoking new works to share with you all next season. Classic works were all new works at some point. World-renowned writers were all unknown locals to start. Invest in the Future. The Future is New.
Thank you for the opportunity to share these important initiatives with you that will dramatically enhance the operations of our theatre. Your support will touch on every facet of what we do operationally, artistically, and administratively. We know there are many reputable institutions in which you can make a gift. Knowing this, we promise to be faithful stewards of your investment in us.
- STT staff & board