Audiences Served

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Our audience is the very reason Imagination Theater exists.  We fulfill our mission of “...empowering individuals to build self-esteem, transcend limitations and improve mental and physical well-being through original, interactive theater performances, workshops, and residencies” by serving a very diverse audience with our programs. We aim to keep our prices affordable and continue to seek out underserved audiences, sometimes offering our services free of charge or working with them to find funding solutions.

Interactive Social Issues Assembly Programming
Our Social Issues programming (within Illinois) is supported by a grant from the Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation

This program currently serves K-12 students throughout the country with a focus in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

1. In 2006-07 more than 90,000 children at 221 schools participated in 515 interactive performances.
2. This program serves people ages 5 – 19 from a wide spectrum of ethnic backgrounds.
3. 24% of participants are from the city of Chicago, 49% from suburban Chicago, 11% from the rest of Illinois, 16% from outside of Illinois.
4. Participants include both private and public schools.
5. 20% of participating schools receive some form of financial assistance towards the cost of the program.
   

List of Assembly Customers

Arts Blast! Theater Residency Programming
This program currently serves K-12 school students and park districts throughout Chicago and the suburbs with interactive residency workshops.

1. In 2006-07 Imagination Theater served more than 300 children in long-term residency programs throughout Chicago and the suburbs.
2. This program serves people ages 5 – 50 from a wide spectrum of ethnic backgrounds.
3. Residencies include in-school programs, after school programs, social services programs, and park district programs.

List of Residency Customers

No Secrets
This program is made possible by a grant from the O'Shaughnessy Foundation

This program serves K-5 students in Chicago and helps children distinguish between a safe touch and an unsafe touch, and teaches them what to do if they ever get the “uh-oh” feeling.

1. In 2006-07 No Secrets was performed free of charge at 18 Chicago schools.
2. This program is specifically targeted at underserved school populations.
3. This program serves kids from ages 5 – 10 from a wide spectrum of ethnic backgrounds.
4. 7,915 children were introduced to the “safe touch” concepts through the No Secrets program.
5. 510 children visited post-performance “safe rooms” to talk with trained counselors.

Senior Spotlight
This program is made possible by a grant from the Rothschild Foundation

This interactive program serves residents of senior and non-ambulatory facilities in Chicago providing them with an opportunity to participate in a musical production.

In 2006-07 more than 2,500 seniors participated in Senior Spotlight shows free of charge at 80 residential care facilities.