Artists Repertory Theatre

What it reported doing in 2024

Artistic and production - after completing partial renovations art reopened our theater with a 2024-2025 season of 3 world premieres. Itinerant since 2019, during the pandemic and renovations, we finally return home and will produce in the 3000 sq ft lobby, which has cleverly been built out as an interim venue until renovations are fully completed in an estimated 2-3 years time. We celebrated this momentous homecoming by acknowledging and nourishing our local roots with a "home grown" themed season that focuses on locally created plays: the event! (oct 13 - nov 10, 2024) by lava alapai, linda alper, anthony hudson (conf. Tribes of grand ronde), dan kitrosser, susannah mars, luan schooler, josie seid. This playful, big-hearted project incorporated audience participation, telling a delightfully buoyant story about a dying small town in Oregon, magical ostriches, space aliens, and one queer kid named rudy. Begun during the pandemic as part of arts mercury company, this collaboratively created work stretches the boundaries of live theatre to include the audience in both rehearsals and performance.sapience (feb 23 - march 23, 2025) by diana burbano. Commissioned & developed by art, sapience is an imaginative exploration of how we communicate and seek to be understood. It centers on elsa, a primatologist studying communication and attempting to teach wookie, an orangutan, to speak. She is also autistic but believes that her personal and professional lives are distinctly compartmentalized. Her worlds collide when her nephew aj, a teenager who is also on the spectrum, forms a relationship with wookie. Art built upon our 2-year relationship with phame, a performing arts academy for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, to ensure that this project is both theatrically exciting and responsive to the disabled community.the storyteller (april 22 - may 18, 2025) by sara jean accuardi. A magical play, awarded the 2023 Oregon book award/angus l. Bowmer award for drama. Inspired by shakespeares the tempest, it centers on 17-year-old randi who has lived her entire life off the grid with her dad on a rotting old houseboat, and shes sick of it. That the play has not been produced elsewhere is an accident of timing: she was developing it just as the pandemic hit and received the award just as the american theatre collapsed. Art was honored to offer the premiere and draw attention to this remarkable play about the stories that we need and that we tell ourselves.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 64.8%; rating input score 65
• Program expense ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 54
• Fundraising efficiency: $25.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -21.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.42; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings