Rain City Project Records

The Rain City Projects Records, 1991-2003, includes by-laws, meeting minutes, incorporation documents, invoices, receipts, correspondence, inventory lists, financial statements, agreements, contracts, licenses, leases, tax forms and statements, reports, mailing lists, letters of support and thanks, grant applications, press releases, business cards, letterhead, fliers, newspaper articles and advertisements, cover artwork, logo designs, exhibitor forms, box office reports, play typescripts, script galley proofs, published playscripts, newsletters, subscribers lists, photographs and video cassette tapes. The collection contains: the publishing company's operational, financial, fundraising, public relations and collaborative projects business records; the newsletter Platform; and play preprint materials. It is divided into the following two series: Business Records (Box 1-3) and Publications (Box 4-10).

Series I: Business Records: This series, 1991-2003, documents this corporation's operations, financial, fundraising, public relations and collaborative projects through correspondence, by-laws, board meeting minutes, incorporation documents, billing invoices and receipts, financial statements, financial reports, inventory lists, loan and leasing agreements, contracts, licenses, tax forms and statements, mailing lists, letters of support and thanks, grant applications, press releases, business cards, letterhead, fliers, newspaper articles and advertisements, catalog cover artwork, logo designs, exhibitor forms, box office reports, photographs and unidentified video cassette tapes. Arrangement is by the following subjects: operations, financial, fundraising, public relations and collaborative projects.

Series II: Publications: This series consists of preprint materials for the published playscripts and the company's newsletter Platform. It is divided into two subseries: Playscripts and Newsletter.

Sub-series A: Playscripts: This subseries, 1991-2003, consists of each script's preprint materials in a numerically marked folder. Included are all or some of the following: correspondence, handwritten notes, newspaper articles, photographs of playwrights, playwright agreements, play typescripts, script galley proofs, published scripts, invoices and order forms. In addition, there are folders containing summary invoices and reports for each script; and playwright bios, contact information and headshot photographs. The arrangement is chronological and numeric by RCP-assigned number. A list of plays can be found at the beginning of the subseries.

Sub-series B: Newsletter: This subseries, 1997-2000, consists of the newsletter, Platform's, preprint materials, Included are proofs, correspondence and a subscribers' list. The arrangement is by edition, A-F.