THE G-ROOM INITATIVE
The Green Room is a project website that was created to explore, research and share ideas about producing sustainable theatre in the United States. Though many institutions have implemented sustainable practices, the theatre industry as a whole lags behind. Though other organizations have started working on finding the sustainable options for other areas of the fine arts, there is a lack of documentation about how much waste theaters are producing and what ways theater are currently or could be practicing more sustainable options. The Green Room’s mission is to discover environmentally friendly options for the production of theatrical events in order to educate theatre practitioners about affordable sustainable practices and give a forum in order to discuss, brainstorm and create green theatre.
The long-term goal is to create a non-profit organization called “The Green Room” that can help individual companies and academic programs find personalized solutions to making their theaters more eco-friendly, while lowering production and facility costs. The organization will provide a network of environmentally conscious resources to the institutions who are involved in The Green Room’s Sustainability initiative. Before this can happen more research must be done on finding ways of producing eco-friendly theatre and what the current state of our country’s theatre practices are. This will be done through the survey, academic research, material experiments and a sustainable model production
In order to gather more information about environmental sustainability trends in American theaters and academic programs, I have put together a short survey that is posted online and run through “The Green Room” website. I am using the information from this survey to track supply and energy developments in our country as well as inclinations toward a more sustainable industry. The survey includes 1)Theatre Departments in higher education institutions, 2) Community/non-professional Regional Theaters and 3) professional Regional Theaters across the country. The survey includes at least one academic program, community/non-professional theater and professional theatre for every state and most states included both an urban and rural area of the state. This is to ensure that all types of theaters are represented and a better understanding of different resources can be identified.
The survey is intended to pin point the areas in which U.S. theaters are more or less eco-friendly. Using this information, we can focus research on the problem areas and better serve the sustainable mission. The survey will be given to an eclectic cross section of academic theaters, community/non-professional theaters and regional/ professional theaters (not including Broadway or off-Broadway). This ensures that a variety of information is obtained since the website’s mission is to serve all types and sizes of theatrical productions. With this information we will be able to asses the need of sustainable practices in theatre as well as start contact with theatrical institutions all across the country that may want to be part of The Green Room network.
In addition to the survey we will be starting experiments and research on more sustainable materials and practices including but not limited to wood, paint, dry-cleaning and energy alternatives that are financially feasible for theatre companies off all sizes.
The long-term goal is to create a non-profit organization called “The Green Room” that can help individual companies and academic programs find personalized solutions to making their theaters more eco-friendly, while lowering production and facility costs. The organization will provide a network of environmentally conscious resources to the institutions who are involved in The Green Room’s Sustainability initiative. Before this can happen more research must be done on finding ways of producing eco-friendly theatre and what the current state of our country’s theatre practices are. This will be done through the survey, academic research, material experiments and a sustainable model production
In order to gather more information about environmental sustainability trends in American theaters and academic programs, I have put together a short survey that is posted online and run through “The Green Room” website. I am using the information from this survey to track supply and energy developments in our country as well as inclinations toward a more sustainable industry. The survey includes 1)Theatre Departments in higher education institutions, 2) Community/non-professional Regional Theaters and 3) professional Regional Theaters across the country. The survey includes at least one academic program, community/non-professional theater and professional theatre for every state and most states included both an urban and rural area of the state. This is to ensure that all types of theaters are represented and a better understanding of different resources can be identified.
The survey is intended to pin point the areas in which U.S. theaters are more or less eco-friendly. Using this information, we can focus research on the problem areas and better serve the sustainable mission. The survey will be given to an eclectic cross section of academic theaters, community/non-professional theaters and regional/ professional theaters (not including Broadway or off-Broadway). This ensures that a variety of information is obtained since the website’s mission is to serve all types and sizes of theatrical productions. With this information we will be able to asses the need of sustainable practices in theatre as well as start contact with theatrical institutions all across the country that may want to be part of The Green Room network.
In addition to the survey we will be starting experiments and research on more sustainable materials and practices including but not limited to wood, paint, dry-cleaning and energy alternatives that are financially feasible for theatre companies off all sizes.
