News Release
February 3, 2010
Inge Festival Celebrates its
Volunteers at Dinner
Contact: Bruce Peterson (620)
332-5492
Supporters of the William Inge
Theatre Festival, the Official
Theatre Festival of the State of
Kansas, welcome new and
returning volunteers and
celebrate the legions of its
current ones at the annual
Appreciation Dinner scheduled
for Monday, February 15th.
The dinner will be held in the
Fireside Room of Independence
Community College Student Union.
There is no charge for new or
current volunteers to attend.
The evening begins with a group
photo of the present and future
volunteers at 6:00 p.m. in the
Margaret Goheen Lobby of the
William Inge Theatre. The
photo will be used in the
souvenir program book as well as
on thank you cards. It is
followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.
All prospective and present
volunteers who wish to attend
the dinner are urged to contact
the Inge Center at 332-5491 by
February 10th to make
reservations, which are
required. No reservations
are needed to be included in the
6:00 p.m. photo shoot.
“From its inception by Margaret
Goheen, citizen volunteers have
sustained the amazing growth of
the Inge Festival,” said Peter
Ellenstein, artistic director.
“These volunteers are the ones
who have enabled the Festival to
become one of the nation’s most
prominent theatre events and
certainly the friendliest. We
know that it was our amazing
volunteers and their untiring
spirit that earned the festival
our state declaration as The
Official Theatre Festival of
Kansas.”
At the dinner, chairpersons of
various Inge Festival committees
will tell of the varied
opportunities and benefits
available for volunteers.
They help the festival to
produce four professional shows,
scores of intriguing workshops,
short scenes performed at the
William Inge house, and more.
The 29th Annual William Inge
Theatre Festival takes place
April 21-24. The
Playwright Honoree is Pulitzer
Prize winning playwright Paula
Vogel, who is also chair of the
Playwriting Program at the Yale
School of Drama.
The William Inge Center for the
Arts is named for the late
playwright William Inge, an
Independence native who won the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
(“Picnic”) and Oscar for Best
Screenplay (“Splendor in the
Grass”).
Major contributors to the Inge
Center’s year-round events
include the Kansas Arts
Commission, the National
Endowment for the Arts, Hallmark
Corp., the William T. Kemper
Foundation, the Dramatists Guild
Fund, and Independence Community
College.
For more information on
volunteering at the William Inge
Center for the Arts or its
activities, call (620) 332-5492
or visit
www.ingecenter.org.
