Walking on Water Productions

The Community Arts Partnership is thrilled to support arts organizations like Walking on Water Productions through our Grants for Arts Programs (GAP). GAP exists to give artist programs and organizations the chance to broaden their reach, cover operating costs, and participate in opportunities and events they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford. It is through grants like this that CAP helps keep Ithaca’s art scene vital.

Walking on Water Productions (WoW) is a Tompkins County musical theatre company that empowers local theatre artists by training, collaborating with, and showcasing them through productions, internships, and workshops that provide individual development and community connection; together, they present both new and existing works that appeal to multi-generational audiences.

They applied to the GAP grant to fund their most recent production: Extended Stay. It was a musical housed at the Kitchen Theatre that ran the first two weeks of June. It tells a story of connection, healing, and personal transformation set in a rural Indiana hotel. The musical was one of three pieces selected for WoW’s inaugural festival of new musical staged readings in 2022 presented at the Cherry Artspace; as the “audience favorite”, it then received a full production at the Kitchen Theatre.

"We are committed to hiring teams and casts that are as diverse as possible with an emphasis on uplifting the marginalized voices of women and folks from the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities.” -Priscilla Hummel (Founder and Artistic Director)