Locals Get Lowdown on A Noise Within’s New Home in Historic Stuart Pharma Building
By Pasadena Independent
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2009
(L-r) Mark Nelson, Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, A Noise Within co-founder/coartistic director; Louisa Nelson, Sharon Ellingsen, and Richard Ellingsen, A Noise Within board member (the Nelsons and Ellingsens hosted the reception).
The theatre was the thing at a reception hosted by Mark and Louisa Nelson at their Pasadena home on May 17, at which guests enjoyed a sneak preview of the celebrated theatre company A Noise Within’s (ANW) 2010 move to Pasadena to the historic Stuart Pharmaceutical Building on Foothill Boulevard.
ANW co-founders/co-artistic directors, Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, provided updates on the company’s capital campaign to build its permanent home in Pasadena and announced that $9.1 million has been raised to date, including $1 million in the last seven months.
Also featured was a performance of selected scenes from the great classics by Elliott and company resident artists Robertson Dean, Deborah Strang and Jill Hill. The event was co-hosted by Sharon and Richard Ellingsen, a member of ANW’s board of directors.
Founded in 1991, A Noise Within enters the next phase of its development with the attainment of a permanent home in Pasadena. The project is designed to expand artistic possibilities, offer a greater scope of educational opportunities, meet ticket demand and allow A Noise Within to reach its full potential.
The Stuart Pharmaceutical Building accommodates a 35,000 square foot facility providing the company plenty of opportunity for audience growth, as well as a fully realized education program. A Noise Within’s new home is a textbook example of adaptive reuse, which will breathe fresh life into this mid-century modern structure, constructed in the mid-50s and listed on the National Register in 1998.
Spearheading the fund-raising campaign is Andrea Van de Kamp, well known in Los Angeles area cultural circles and a seasoned, accomplished fund-raising professional.
Among the key committed sources of funding for the capital campaign are The Ahmanson Foundation ($2 million), board and individual pledges and payments ($2,437,000), the Weingart Foundation ($750,000), The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation ($500,000), and a gift of land donated by SMV Technology Partners.
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