One Singular Sensation This local children’s theater company is making waves throughout the Bay Area Providing educational theater classes at more than 10 communities in the Bay Area and collectively serve more than 72,000 children and adults per year, Bay Area Children’s Theatre (BACT) is seemingly everywhere these days. Founded in 2004 by five arts educators with a mere $250, BACT is now celebrating its 13th season, with all of their main stage productions designed specifically to engage young audiences. So, how do they do it? “The community support from day one has been 66 MARKETPLACEcontracosta.com may 2016 By Matt Larson incredible,” said Executive Director Nina Meehan, who is also one of BACT’s founding members. “All of our growth has been because communities have embraced who we are and what we do.” They believe it’s important to provide theatrical performances for children of every age, and for 13 years now the Bay Area community has been supporting that. BACT is unique in that they specialize primarily in producing live adaptations of children’s literature. Sometimes they perform previously adapted plays,
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