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BNSF Contributes $50,000 to Fort Worth’s Jubilee Theatre

2007-12-20

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation, on behalf of BNSF Railway, made a $50,000, three-year commitment to Jubilee Theatre to support the theatre’s national outreach and artistic enhancement. The announcement benefiting Jubilee Theatre, located in downtown Fort Worth, was made by BNSF’s Mary Jo Keating, vice president, Corporate Relations, in the theatre just prior to the musical God’s Trombones.

"Jubilee Theatre is extremely grateful to The Burlington North Santa Fe Foundation for its generous gift to the Artistic Enhancement Campaign," says Jubilee Theatre’s Managing Director Benjamin Espino. "This is a great beginning to Jubilee’s Artistic Enhancement Program and will help the theatre to continue to grow as the leading African-American theatre company in North Texas."

The Jubilee Theatre produces 150 performances per year reaching more than 15,000 audience members of broad ethnic diversity.  Known for its musicals, Jubilee has won numerous awards and accolades for its artistic integrity and as a community leader.

Located in downtown Fort Worth’s Sundance Square, the 147-seat theatre was founded 27 years ago by Rudy Eastman.  The vision for the theatre was to share the African-American experience by finding and presenting a universal message in the work that appeared on stage to attract and affect a diverse and multicultural audience.

Photo, from left: State Representative Marc Veasey; Joe Faust, regional director, BNSF Public Affairs; Ed Smith, artistic director, Jubilee Theatre; and Birdie Sadberry, director, planning and administration, BNSF Mechanical, and board president, Jubilee Theatre.

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