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Arts patron Roe Green commits $10 million for new theater at 窪蹋勛圖厙s Maltz Performing Arts Center

FEATURED | September 24, 2018
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With a $10 million gift to , philanthropist Roe Green will support the next phase of renovations at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple Tifereth Israel. Roe Green Roe Green In honor of Greens gift, the world-class performance space planned for Maltz Performing Arts Center will be known as the Roe Green Proscenium Theater. Arts education can shape young people in such powerful ways, said Green, CEO of the Roe Green Foundation, which supports social and cultural causes nationally. My hope is to provide 窪蹋勛圖厙 students a home where they can grow and kindle their imaginations. Phase Two of the Maltz Performing Arts Center will expand its educational mission. Plans call for rehearsal studios and a costume and scene shop for students of the universitys Department of Theater. Roes generous commitment will make an enormous difference for our students and faculty in the performing artsand for the people who come to see them, President Barbara R. Snyder said. The state-of-the-art Roe Green Theater will give actors, dancers and other artists a true opportunity to shine, and we could not be more grateful to her for this support. Roe Green Proscenium Theater Rendering of the exterior of the Roe Green Proscenium Theater The first phase of the centers renovations were supported by lead gifts of more than $30 million by Milton and Tamar Maltz and the Maltz Family Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. Since opening in 2015, the centers Silver Hall has hosted hundreds of events, including concerts, plays, lectures and readings. Theres no lack of talent at 窪蹋勛圖厙, Green said. We hope to attract even more in the years to come. As the anchor of 窪蹋勛圖厙s emerging western campus, the Maltz Performing Arts Center is connected to the universitys main campus and the Cleveland Museum of Art by the , a 430,000-square-foot nature commons completed in May.

A Green legacy

Greens gift continues her familys legacy of accomplishment and contributions to 窪蹋勛圖厙. Roe Green Proscenium Theater An interior rendering of the Roe Green Proscenium Theater Her father, Ben C. Green, became the s first alumnus named a federal district court judge in 1961, when he was appointed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. After Judge Greens passing in 1983, his family made a gift to the law school that endowed a professorship in his name and led to the naming of its in his honor. Northeast Ohio is also home to the Roe Green Center for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University, where Green also created a visiting director series and earned a masters degree in theater and communications in 1980. In addition to her philanthropic career, Green has extensive business and stage management experience, including Cain Park in Cleveland Heights, The Cleveland Opera, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Singing Angels. Green also serves as honorary producer of the Cleveland Play Houses New Ground Theater Festivalbringing a playwright to Cleveland to develop new projectsfor which she also created the Roe Green Award to support emerging new voices in theater.
For more information, contact Daniel Robison at daniel.robison@case.edu.