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Mary Anne and Frank Chew

February, 2004

Mary Anne and Frank Chew are familiar faces in Atlanta’s theater community, having devoted their time and expertise to organizations, theaters, and special projects for more than three decades. For many years, Frank served on the Board of the Woodruff Arts Center as a member of the Executive Committee and also as Chair of the Finance and Pension Committee. For the past 22 years, he has served on the Board of the Alliance Theatre on various committees and task forces, chairing or co-chairing many of them. Currently, he serves on the Finance Committee.

Mary Anne Chew has worked in publicity and marketing for a series of local theaters, including the Academy Theatre, the Horizon Theatre, and, on an interim basis, the Alliance Theatre. She subsequently joined the Horizon Theatre Board and later served as chair for three years, now currently the immediate past chair. She has been heavily involved in Horizon’s main fundraiser, Atlanta Stories. As a volunteer, Mary Anne does publicity for the Underground Theatre at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta where she has also adapted and written various plays and skits, including an upcoming one celebrating UUCA’s 50th anniversary. She also served on the board of the now defunct Production Values, Inc., a non-profit company that supplied costumes to local performing arts groups, and on the marketing committee of the Atlanta Theatre Coalition, forerunner of the Atlanta coalition of Performing Arts. In addition, she has performed with Plays for Living under the umbrella of Child Services and Family Counseling, now Families First, presenting plays on social and personal issues to community groups.

The Chews love of music should not go unmentioned, either. Frank was a longtime board member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and they have enthusiastically supported chamber music and musical theater throughout the metro area.

Through the years, Mary Anne and Frank Chew have demonstrated a unique enthusiasm for theater and contributed in immeasurable ways to the endless amount of work involved in making a theater community thrive. They have lent their expertise in finance and marketing, offered extensive guidance to organizations large and small, and undertaken many of the countless details in order to make theater happen in Atlanta.

For enriching the cultural life of Atlanta and providing their steadfast support to the work of the theatre community, your Atlanta area Lexus dealers and Public Broadcasting Atlanta join in honoring Mary Anne and Frank Chew as our Lexus Leaders of the Arts.