Hello friends!

Welcome to our weekly newsletter that will help you get ready for Andy’s 2025! This week, we discuss upcoming fundraisers, our virtual Q & A, 2025 Season tickets, and two of our amazing artists.

But first, as the world of funding changes rapidly in New Hampshire and beyond, Andy’s needs your support more than ever. As we enter our FIFTH season of tuition-free programming, your support will change the lives of so many children in our community. Over 60 Andy’s Kids are already registered for an amazing summer. Consider joining our Growing Community of Support!

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COMMUNITY EVENTS & FUNDRAISERS

Up first, join Jess & SMJ as they walk the community through our upcoming season and answer your questions in a brief virtual info session! You can join us for our next info session on Tuesday, April 22nd at 6:00pm. Register to be a part of it by filling out the form here.

The High Adventure Ropes Course is open to the first 25 participants who sign up. A waitlist will open after that! You can sign up right now with the link here.

IT’S BACK!

Join Jess, SMJ, and the Andy’s Board for our annual Trivia Night! Connect the Andy’s community and get a special look at our upcoming season!

Tickets: $25 online, $35 at the door

Andy's Kids attend free with paid adult admission

You can purchase tickets right now with the link here.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

In just six days, you can be among the first people to purchase your tickets to an Andy’s 2025 performance! Tickets for all performances this summer open at 12:00pm on Tuesday, April 15th. Tickets will be sold on the Andy’s website. Tickets will have a base price of $10 for Mainstage performances and $5 for all Andy’s Studio Series & Greenhouse performances.

NEW THIS YEAR: We will have NEW Friend of Andy’s Tickets & Supporter of Andy’s Tickets, an opportunity to further support our performances. More information about these tickets will be announced in next week’s Check In.

MEET THE 2025 ARTISTS

Each week, we will introduce you to some of the professional artists who will be joining us on the Hilltop this summer. This week, we’re excited to share two of the directors of our mainstage productions!

Mackenna Goodrich
Director & Choreographer, FATED

Mackenna Goodrich (she/they) loves Big Girl Explosion Fests and plays of and about the body. Selected directing credits: Gross! by Emma Schillage (Ten Toes), The Station by Maggie Cregan (SheNYC), small town icons by SMJ (The Frontera Series/The Tank), Cockroaches by Emma Schillage (The Cell), Straight Icons by SMJ and Anne-Marie Pietersma (Ars Nova/Second City NYC), American Girl Doll Horror Play by Jasmine Sharma (The Brick), An Axemas Story (The Players Theatre/54 Below), WO[MAN] by Alyssa Haddad-Chin (The Brick), Radio Man by Sarah Groustra (SheNYC), Bogeyman by Allison Merkel (The Road Theatre Company). Mackenna is also an associate producer for SciShow, teaches dances at Mark Morris Dance Group, and runs The Road Theatre Company's Under Construction playwriting group. BA: Kenyon College // mackennagoodrich.com

Emily Bubeck
Director, Battle of the Books

emily/BUBECK (she/her/hers) is a Queer, Catholic, Appalachian theatre practitioner who facilitates the development of new works by traditionally underrepresented artists. She is drawn to projects that allow us to expand our ideas on how we tell stories and who those stories serve. emily is a co-founder and co-artistic director of BREAKING & ENTERING THEATRE COLLECTIVE, where she has produced 5 seasons of the site specific ROOFTOP READING series, 3 festivals of new work at the Chain Theatre and an entire year of online programming. Her early days in New York were spent interning at various downtown staples like soho rep., En Garde Arts, and Cherry Lane Theater. She is currently the Development Associate at New Dramatists, where she is proud to fundraise for the prolific organization and provide space for the future of American storytelling. As a director, Bubeck thrives in long form developmental settings, working dramaturgically with playwrights to understand why they need to tell this story. Bubeck has a distinct passion for telling working class stories.

That’s it for this week! In the meantime,

• Register HERE to join us on the Hilltop this summer!
• Check out the full season HERE
• Learn more about our artists HERE

We will talk to you next week!

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