Delta
Center Stage was founded in 1979 by a group of volunteers to
bring live theatre back to the Delta Community. Rising from
the ashes of Greenville/Leland's "Twin City Theatre Guild"
which had folded seven years earlier, Delta Center Stage since
its founding has produced a subscription season of plays continuously
for 29 years. Until 2002 DCS functioned entirely through the
contributions of volunteers from every walk of life. On June
1 of 2002, after 23 years as a volunteer organization, Delta
Center Stage hired its first full time employee, Executive Director
Tim Bixler.
Delta Center Stage or "DCS" as everyone knows it,
has compiled a remarkable record of artistic success and community
service, gathering strength on the tradition of support for
arts and literature that distinguishes it's hometown of Greenville,
MS. We are the home of William Alexander Percy, Walker Percy,
Shelby Foote, and Ellen Douglas, noted literary figures all.
While staying focused on its mission of service to its local
community, DCS is also an ambassador outside of its community
through participation in state, regional, and international
theatre festivals. Five times in the past 12 years DCS has been
our state's representative to the Southeastern Theatre Conference
(SETC) regional festival.
Three of Delta Center Stage's members have served on state,
regional, and national theatre organizations, and DCS has three
times represented the United States internationally in amateur
theatre festivals. In June of 2005 Delta Center Stage was one
of only ten community theatres nationwide that earned a slot
to perform at AACTFest, the US national community theatre festival,
with their production of "The
Glider" by Katherine Snodgrass.
Delta
Center Stage has a very active youth and children's program,
providing wholesome supervised activity for young people during
the summer of each year through the production of their annual
summer youth musical, where young
people from the community produce a show almost entirely on
their own. Many other educational and collaborative efforts
with schools and other arts organizations are also supported
each year.
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