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Theater Department

The Stephen Driscoll Musical Theater Fund

#UMassGives supports cross-disciplinary collaboration

Among alumnus Stephen Driscoll’s most vivid memories of his time at UMass Amherst are cross-disciplinary collaborations — art students sketching performers as they rehearsed; music and dance students bringing their skills to theatrical works; falling in love with that most collaborative of genres, musical theater.

Small wonder, then, that Driscoll has established the Stephen P. Driscoll Musical Theater Endowment, which will eventually fund “musical theater or incorporation of music and/or dance into theater produced by the Department of Theater.”

Supporting collaboration is the focus of the Department of Theater’s #UMassGives campaign, a 36-hour online donation campaign. We invite all our friends and supporters to join us in growing the Stephen Driscoll Musical Theater Fund, a companion Fund to the eventual Endowment that will allow us to begin these collaborations RIGHT NOW!

What does the Fund do? While of course the projects we undertake include full-on musical theater productions, the fund benefits students in many other ways, whether that’s supporting team-taught cross-disciplinary classes, inviting dancers to choreograph movement in plays, or recruiting musicians to accompany our work. We already have a project in the works that illustrates how we hope to use the fund — Music department members are composing original vocal music for our adaptation of a Spanish Golden Age play coming to our stages in Spring 2019.

We are excited to use this #UMassGives opportunity to raise funds and awareness of our Stephen Driscoll Musical Theater Fund.

During last year’s UMassGives, we had over 76 donors give more than $3000 to theater. We’d love to do even better this year! In fact, we’ve signed on for a challenge — if we can get the most donations from individual donors on April 26 between 2 and 3 p.m., we could win an extra $2000.

Please share on your social media, and if you can give, please mark your calendars to make a donation during #UMassGives!

Thanks so much!

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College of Humanities & Fine Arts Totals

See where people are giving.

Rank	Fund Designation	Gifts
1	Marching Band	240
2	jubilat	79
3	Western MA Writing Project	55
4	The Stephen Driscoll Musical Theater Fund	50
5	Juniper Institute for Young Writers	47
6	English Department	33
7	HFA Internship Assistance Fund	23
8	History Department	19
9	Department of Linguistics	18
10	Department of Architecture	11
11	Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department	9
12	Classics Department	7
13	History of Art & Architecture Department	6
14	Massachusetts Review	5
15	Art Department	3

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Power Hour #1

Congratulations to the Student Care and Emergency Response Fund for Winning the 10-11am EDT Power Hour on April 26th!

Rank	Prize	Area of Campus	Gifts
1	$2,000	Student Care and Emergency Response Fund	249
2		UMass Women into Leadership	193
3		UMass Athletics	57
4		Outing Club	49
5		Equestrian Team	40
6		McCormack Department of Sport Management	21
7		College of Education	21
8		Alpha Phi Omega	18
9		College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	15
10		Isenberg School of Management	14
11		The Ray Ethan Torrey Botanical Greenhouses	8
12		College of Information & Computer Sciences	8
13		Alumni Association	8
14		Turkish Student Association	7
15		Accounting Department	6

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Power Hour #2

Congratulations to the Student Alumni Association for winning the 2 pm-3 pm EDT Power Hour on April 26 to win a $2,000 bonus!

Rank	Area of Campus	Gifts
1	Student Alumni Association	126
2	Habitat for Humanity	67
3	UMass Athletics	65
4	Alpine Ski Team	65
5	Sailing Team	65
6	Asian American Students Association	59
7	College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	53
8	Western Massachusetts Writing Project	32
9	Juniper Institute for Young Writers	26
10	Theater Department	25
11	Alumni Association	24
12	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department	16
13	McCormack Department of Sport Management	13
14	Student Care and Emergency Response Fund	10
15	Stonewall Center	7

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Power Hour #3

Congratulations to Minuteman Marching Band for winning the Power Hour from 3 pm-4 pm EDT on April 26 and a $2,000 bonus!

Rank	Area of Campus	Gifts
1	Minuteman Marching Band	166
2	Women's Ice Hockey	160
3	CHAARG	114
4	Hip-Hop Culture Organization	52
5	UMass Athletics	40
6	Association for Women in Science	23
7	McCormack Department of Sport Management	13
8	Vietnamese Student Association	11
9	UMass Center at Springfield	10
10	College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	9
11	Theater Department	8
12	College of Education	7
13	Juniper Institute for Young Writers	7
14	Asian American Students Association	7
15	Other	5

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Power Hour #4

The area of campus with the most gifts at the end of the Power hour from 10 am-11am EDT on April 27 will win a $2,000 bonus!

Rank	Area of Campus	Gifts
1	Women for UMass Amherst	74
2	UMass Athletics	68
3	College of Nursing	51
4	Psychological and Brain Sciences	30
5	Paperbark Literary Magazine	21
6	Belly Dance Club	20
7	Isenberg School of Management	15
8	Natl. Student Speech Language and Hearing Assoc.	15
9	College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	14
10	McCormack Department of Sport Management	11
11	Student Care and Emergency Response Fund	11
12	College of Humanities & Fine Arts	9
13	Hospitality & Tourism Management Department	8
14	Accounting Department	7
15	College of Information & Computer Sciences	6

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Power Hour #5

The area of campus with the most gifts at the end of the Power Hour from Noon-1 pm EDT on April 27 will win a $2,000 bonus!

Rank	Area of Campus	Gifts
1	The Boltwood Project	94
2	UMass Athletics	53
3	Boxing Club	52
4	Engineers Without Borders	52
5	Isenberg School of Management	14
6	Surf Club	9
7	Commonwealth Honors College	8
8	University Without Walls	8
9	College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	7
10	McCormack Department of Sport Management	6
11	College of Engineering	5
12	UMass Hillel	4
13	Center for International Education Endowment	4
14	Other	4
15	The Militia	4

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Power Hour #6

The area of campus with the most gifts at the end of the Power Hour from 1-2 pm EDT on April 27 will win a $2,000 bonus!

Rank	Area of Campus	Gifts
1	Women's Ultimate Frisbee	181
2	University Without Walls	117
3	UMass Athletics	56
4	Ski and Board Club	42
5	Society of American Foresters	18
6	Isenberg School of Management	12
7	Pi Delta Psi	9
8	The Boltwood Project	8
9	Journalism Department	6
10	College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	6
11	Student Care and Emergency Response Fund	6
12	Engineers Without Borders	5
13	The Center for Research on Families	4
14	College of Humanities & Fine Arts	4
15	Commonwealth Honors College	4

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Power Hour #7

The area of campus with the most gifts at the end of the Power Hour from 3 pm-4 pm EDT on April 27 will win a $2,000 bonus!

Rank	Area of Campus	Gifts
1	Irish Dancing	78
2	UMass Athletics	62
3	Undergraduate Student Child Care Scholarship	47
4	Cape Verdean Student Alliance	44
5	jubilat	30
6	The Ray Ethan Torrey Botanical Greenhouses	23
7	McCormack Department of Sport Management	10
8	Women's Ice Hockey	10
9	S#arp Attitude	9
10	Disability Services	8
11	Isenberg School of Management	7
12	WMUA	7
13	College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	6
14	College of Natural Sciences	6
15	Libraries	6

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Participating Areas of Campus

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