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Eustis Chair Flipping the Script Productions
Contact: Brian Langhorst, President Contact: Stephen Rourke, Founder & President
1 Thompson Square, Suite 501, Charlestown, MA 02129 6719 Old Pimlico Road, Baltimore, MD 21209
brian@eustischair.com / (978) 827-3103 flippingthescriptproductions@gmail.com /
https://www.eustischair.com/ http://www.flippingthescriptshows.com/
Company Description: Eustis Chair designs and Company Description: Flipping the Script
manufactures the most durable, sustainable, and Productions was founded in 2021 by Stephen
highest stacking and non-stacking hardwood Rourke, a Baltimore-based attorney, actor,
chairs and barstools for historic theatres and theater preservationist, and a reader of new
other high use spaces. All of our stacking chairs plays for the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, an
have an unmatched 20-year warranty and are experience he has found to be an amazing
proudly made in the USA. outlet for voices from underrepresented
communities, and for scripts that demand
EverGreene Architectural Arts audiences. Currently, Mr. Rourke has optioned
an original play by a promising new playwright,
Contact: Jeff Greene, Executive Chairman & Melissa Borgerding. He is working with a Los
Founder Angeles-based director, James A. Goins, to
253 36th Street, Suite 5C, Brooklyn, NY 11232 mount a full production after a successful
jgreene@evergreene.com; tvanderwell@evergreene. reading of the script at Theatre West. Mr. Rourke
com / (212) 244-2800 is mentored by Tony-award-winning Broadway
https://evergreene.com/
producer Ken Davenport, who runs The
Company Description: EverGreene Architectural TheaterMakers Studio. To learn more about FTS,
Arts is recognized as the nation’s largest specialty please feel free to contact Mr. Rourke.
contractor of architectural arts. We began
restoring historic performing arts venues 45 years Fred Basch Architect PLLC
ago, and our passion for these places continues
to this day. Our extensive experience working on Contact: Fred Basch, Principal
hundreds of theaters provides us with a unique 288 Lexington Avenue, 10A, New York, NY 10016
mail@fredbasch.com / (347) 281-1352
perspective on design, restoration, conservation, https://www.fredbasch.com/
art integration, decorative ornamentation,
and specialty finishes. Our team of experts Company Description: In the last twenty years,
skillfully combines traditional and contemporary we have built a specialized practice that focuses
materials and construction methods to execute on helping not-for-profit organizations and other
a broad spectrum of restoration techniques companies renovate historic theaters. We have
for every project. As a single-source provider, designed comprehensive renovations for the
EverGreene prioritizes the cohesion of scheduling, American Airlines Theater on Broadway and
coordination, and budgets of any project size the Laura Pels Theatre off-Broadway. We have
and scope. We provide our clients with high- also designed phased master plans for theaters
quality project planning, fabrication, restoration, like Studio 54 and the St. George Theater and
and installation services nationwide. Our team completed multiple phased renovations for
collaborates with architects, designers, and artists those theaters. We are actively engaged in
to bring original concepts through to completion Capital Planning exercises for the Public Theater
and installation. and the Roundabout Theatre Company. We
have worked on renovations for theaters like
the Soho Rep and Circle in the Square. We
have also worked on Radio City Music Hall,
The Beacon Theater, and the Golden Theater
in the last few years. Our firm has experience
with plaster and painting renovations, public
restroom renovations, theater seat replacements,
marquee, and digital signage replacements,
front and back-of-house improvements, roofing,
and HVAC upgrades.
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