Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

Thanks to your incredible support, our 2024 Fundraiser was a success! We raised $11,822.83 over the past month which will help us reach our goals for 2024, including:

• Becoming a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, opening the door to new grants and funding opportunities only available to nonprofits. As our company continues to grow, this fiscal transformation will open, as well as restore, valuable funding streams for our work.
• Producing The How to Survive the End of the World Cabaret, hiring dozens of artists and welcoming 200 audience members to share in their work at Jalopy Theatre for two nights, November 1–2, 2024. Save the date!
• Hosting 9 Cold Readings
• Paying over 30 artists
• Maintaining a free ticket option at all public events, a commitment we have kept since 2016.
• Beginning to develop our next mainstage production

We are so grateful to everyone who supported this year's campaign. Whether you donated money, offered a fundraiser perk, or just shared the campaign with your friends and family, we couldn't do this without you. Below are just some of the amazing folks who helped get us over the finish line:

Beverly Abegg
Eve & William Appleton
Meghana Baliga
Andrew Balmer
Jake Beckhard
Steven Bedard
Sharlene Bedard
Donna Blackmond
Kelly Butler
Rachel Casparian
Amelia Castillo
Alexandra Castro
Kylie Christensen
Trudi Cohen & John Bell
Boxcutter Collective
Emily Conley
Farrah Crane
Katie Dagon
Jasmine Dobbs-Marsh
Mary Downing
Ann Farrell
Martha Ferguson
Mariah Freda
Richard Fudge
Summer Gan
Kate Gazzaniga
Mark Gordon
John Graham
Sarah Habib
Chris Harcum
Elizabeth Hess
Cody Hom
Benjamin Inbar
Colleen Jenkins
Martins Jukna-Parsons
Samantha Keogh
Joshua Krugman
Marilyn Lawson
Marcia Lazer
Marcia Lazer
Julia Levine
Diana Levy
Brooke Lieberwitz
Efrem Mallach
John P. McEneny
Victor Milione
Melissa Moschitto
Melissa Mowry
Brenda Otis
Dave Palmer
Alice Pencavel
Maxine Phillips
Lynn Radov
Austin Regan
Debra Register
Rebecca Rice
Mandy Robbins
Jess and Bryan Rosenberg
Raphael Royer
Dominique Salerno
Anne Shulock
Julia & Mike Snider Nickerson
Jaclynn Swope
Bessie Taliaferro
Noelle Teagno
Alison Walter
Pandora & John Wohler
Lynette Wood
Gennady Yusim

Thank you for donations made in honor of Nicky Valdivia and Jeff Stone.
And thank you to the 19 supporters who donated anonymously.

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Bookkeeping Job Description
Contractor Role
January–December, 2024

Theater in Asylum is looking for a skilled part-time Bookkeeper to maintain our financial records, including purchases, sales, receipts, and payments. This position is a one-year contract position, and we anticipate the person working five to ten hours a month. Bookkeeper job duties include working closely with our Managing Director to process accounts payable and receivable and manage invoices and payments. Our ideal candidate has bookkeeping experience for a non-profit and is familiar with QuickBooks accounting software.

Ultimately, the Bookkeeper’s responsibilities are to accurately record all day-to-day financial transactions of our company.

Responsibilities:

• Record financial transactions in Quickbooks and budgets
• Monitor TIA’s balances and cash flow
• Verify that transactions are recorded correctly
• Enter data and maintain records
• Process accounts receivable/payable 
• Catalogs receipts on all TIA expenditures to prepare for potential audits.

Requirements and skills:

• Proven bookkeeping experience
• Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting payable/receivable principles
• Proven ability to calculate, post, and manage accounting figures and financial records
• Data entry skills along with a knack for numbers
• Hands-on experience with spreadsheets and Quickbooks
• Proficiency in Google Suite
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Compliance with Theater in Asylum's Community Agreemetns

Compensation:
We are a very small fiscally sponsored theater company with an operating budget in 2024 of around $18,000. Everyone working as part of the administrative contracted staff (including the role of the Bookkeeper) is paid $1,200 for the year. See our budget transparency commitments here.

To apply:
Please email TIA Managing Director Kathryn Appleton.

Happy New Year!

As 2024 begins, we invite you to join us in a book club as we develop our next production.

We are interested in exploring how hope functions, and how it’s sustained by people who don’t know if they’ll ever see victory. In dark times, it seems as though reality tells us to flee, to ignore the problem, or to focus on only small-scaled solutions. Yet we see throughout history that our greatest victories were won after many tireless individuals and movements sustained their hope and kept working despite the dark circumstances. How did they do it? How did they have the stamina to carry on when self-interest, opposing movements, and conspiracy theories / misinformation provided easy outs? Theater in Asylum is embarking on something of a character study, of a character who has repeated throughout history. Who is this person who hopes in the darkness, who works in the darkness, and who keeps at it when all seems lost? We know that person is alive and working today. How do we help them, and in doing so, help ourselves and everyone?

Join us for a book club to explore these ideas, starting with…

Hope in the Dark
By Rebecca Solnit
Book club discussion Wednesday, January 31
7pm ET on Zoom