About Fellowship for the Performing Arts

History
Founded in 1992, Fellowship for the Performing Arts (FPA) has presented theatrical productions in multiple venues in New York City, The Shakespeare Theatre in D. C., Mercury Theatre in Chicago, Dallas Theatre Center, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Edinburgh Theatre Fringe Festival, Stratford Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario and national tours in dozens of performing arts venues and colleges across the nation.

Mission Statement
To produce theatre from a Christian worldview that is engaging to a diverse audience.

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Recent Press
“Mounted by Fellowship for the Performing Arts, which creates theater from a Christian worldview…audience members interested in spiritual reflection will certainly find food for thought -- and mortification -- in this dramatization. But the fiendish reality the production conjures is colorful enough to appeal to theatergoers of any, or no, religious persuasion. The Devil is an equal opportunity entertainer.”

Washington Post

“Fellowship for the Performing Arts, an organization that supports “the integration of faith and the arts,” is currently presenting a stage version of C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”…It is — if I may say so — one h-ll of a good show.  The New York press has mostly ignored it, though, and I can’t think why (well, I can, but there’s no point in beating that dead horse).”

The Wall Street Journal

“Fellowship of the Performing Arts — a group devoted to producing “theater from a Christian worldview that is engaging to a diverse audience,” as their mission statement goes — has hit the bull’s-eye, making a Screwtape for the stage that’s nearly as incisive and funny as it is on the page, and one that should appeal to the aesthetically-discerning atheist as well as to a wide swath of religious folks.”

DCist.com

“Perhaps the most overwhelmingly alienating part of The Screwtape Letters for people in the age group of my companion and myself—ironic post-college twentysomethings—is the play's strong identification with Christianity.  Among many of my peers, Christianity is something for bible-thumpers and right-wing conservatives—something that we are predisposed to mock rather than venerate. In the sketch comedy world, where I work frequently, sketches featuring Jesus Christ are so common they are cliché.  It is therefore doubly important that ironic post-college twentysomethings like myself go and see The Screwtape Letters. What is presented is an intelligent, accessible, bitingly satirical and funny exploration of profound issues of right and wrong. This is not bible-thumping, this is serious meditation on issues having to do with the human experience—and it is important reminder of what Christianity can be.”

NYTheatre.com

Board of Directors
Paul Bradshaw, Senior Counsel, Sunesys, Newtown, PA   
Ronald P. Joelson, (Board Chair), Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Chase, Far Hills, NJ
Katherine Leary, Director, Center for Faith & Work, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City
Katie Maddox, Anesthesiologist (Retired), Gray, GA
Max McLean, President, Fellowship for the Performing Arts, Morristown, NJ
Anne Vanberg Waldie, President, Vanberg Foundation, Dallas, TX

FPA Staff
Max McLean – President & Artistic Director
Barbara Kennedy – Marketing Director
Benjamin Geist – Creative Services Director
Maria Muzyka – Bookkeeper/Controller
Tricia Watts – Database Manager
Brent Matz – Audio Engineer
5Q Communications – WebMaster

Make A Donation
FPA is a non profit, tax exempt arts organization under IRS code 501(c) 3. Gifts to FPA are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. To make a donation in support of our work click here .

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