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Blue Star Players specialize in performing new works in intimate settings

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This week's episode of NPO Showcase features Blue Star Players, an international performing arts collaborative, specializing in new works performed in intimate and unusual spaces.

About NPO Showcase

NPO Showcase highlights nonprofit and government organizations and the work that they're doing in our community. The program is a feature of GRTV, a service of the Community Media Center, with producer and host Adrian Hirsch. You can catch it on GRTV on Saturdays at 8 AM and 6 PM and can view past episodes on Grand Rapids Community Media Center website. If your nonprofit would like to be interviewed on NPO Showcase, please contact Adrian Hirsch.

Ann Celeste Cloyd on NPO Showcase

Ann Celeste Cloyd on NPO Showcase /GRTV

In this week’s segment of GRTV’s NPO Showcase Ann Celeste Cloyd of Blue Star Players shares some of the goals for the performing collective, and discusses ways community members with a variety of skills and interests can get involved with their productions. 

Established in 2015, Blue Star Players is an international performing arts collective based in Grand Rapids. They work with collaborators in London England, and hope to increase their footprint as the collective grows. Collaborators are encouraged to participate in all aspects of productions they are interested in, from performing, producing, directing, and writing.

The Blue Star Players believe the arts should be an all-inclusive environment and encourage any community members who would like to learn more, or get involved, to get in touch. The Blue Star Players are currently soliciting script submissions for production during their 2018 season, with a deadline of June 30, 2017.

Recenty, the Blue Star Players debuted the locally written new work "36 Questions" in collaboration with the Lake Effect Fringe Festival. Keep an eye out for the Blue Star Players next family-friendly production "The Witch in the Wood," hitting the stage in September 2017 at the Dog Story Theater

Check back next Wednesday for a new segment of GRTV’s NPO Showcase, featuring the Kent County Parks Foundation

NPO Showcase is just one of the many ways that the Community Media Center serves the nonprofit community. For information about this and other CMC services for nonprofits, or to schedule a future interview, contact Nonprofit Outreach Coordinator, Adrian Hirsch, at 616-459-4788 x105 or email [email protected].

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