WISH LIST $100: subsidizes 4 pay what-you-can tickets to a show; $500: pays an actor’s salary for a week; $1000: teaches 5 students the power of playwriting

What does Woolly want? “To ignite an explosive engagement between theatre artists and the community by presenting plays that explore the edges of theatrical style and human experience.” Since it was first featured in the Catalogue in 2003, Woolly celebrated its 25th anniversary – in appropriately dramatic style. It opened an award-winning theatre at 7th and D, in the heart of the bustling Penn Quarter. As an epicenter for challenging new theatre, it continues to develop and produce work by some of the most original and exciting American playwrights: SM Shephard-Massat (“Starving,” winner of Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes Awards in 2007), Mickey Birnbaum (“Big Death & Little Death”), and MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (“Dead Man’s Cell Phone”). Woolly also works to improve our quality of life by tackling critical issues both on stage and off. The Art of Playmaking teaches writing to DC students, and community playbuilding projects like 2006’s The Other River focus on neighborhoods on both sides of the Anacostia. You can help this daring company continue to shake it up.

Aaron Heinsman, Director of the Annual Fund 641 D Street NW Washington, DC 20004 202-312-5265 www.woollymammoth.net