• Encourage the creative spirit in young people.
• Empower, educate, and maximize the potential of the young people and emerging artists.
• Serve our community by providing affordable and high quality professional arts performances, programming, training, education.
• Create and launch new and innovative works that inspire, entertain, and reflect our diverse community.
• Further the YMCA of Greater New York’s mission of building healthy bodies, healthy minds, and healthy spirits. 

MARJORIE SCHLESINGER DEANE (1923-2003)

was a fifth-generation New Yorker with a passion for fashion and the theater. The Chairman of the Tobe Report, an influential advisory service and weekly journal, Ms. Deane was well known in the fashion industry for 60 years. She was the president of the Fashion Group, a founder of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and a member of the Board of FIT.

Mrs. Deane had a lifelong love and appreciation for the theater, ranging from Broadway to Off-Broadway shows to amateur productions and summer stock. In 2004, this theater was named after her by her family with the hope that the lives of others might be enriched by the arts.

OPENING

The Opening of The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the West Side YMCA was a Gala evening that marked a period of growth for the arts at the West Side YMCA and will featured singer Roberta Gumbel, celebrity couple Jane Powell and Dick Moore, actress Tracy Middendorf, internationally known musicians Carter Brey and Gil Morgenstern, the short film Tango Octogenario, starring ballroom dancers Alex and Jean Turney, the President and CEO of Rogers and Hammerstein Association Ted Chapin, star of "Phantom of the Opera", Marcus Lovett and singer Annie Kozuch and the innovative RASTRO Dance Company.

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RENTALS

The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater currently provides space for live performances, industry showcases, professional performances, birthday parties, film screenings, board meetings, lectures, readings, rehearsals, workshops and more!

For more information on rentals, please contact: ddenis@ymcanyc.org

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Community Arts and The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the WSY

Steven McIntosh
Director of Community Arts, Director of Programming, Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater 

Danabelle Denis
Coordinator, Community Arts and Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater 

Kate Misset
Coordinator, ArtWorks