For Immediate Release
May 10, 2007

MANASSAS – Vpstart Crow Productions has been nominated by the Prince William County-GREATER Manassas Chamber of Commerce Award for an "Excellence In Business" Award in the Nonprofit Arts & Entertainment Member of the Year category.

Award recipients will be announced at the "Excellence in Business" Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Tuesday, May 22, 2007. The event will be hosted at the Holiday Inn of Manassas and will begin at 11:30 am.

For more information, please contact Vpstart Crow at info@vpstartcrow.com or (800) 660-8580, or please visit www.vpstartcrow.com.

ABOUT VPSTART CROW PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Founded in 1994, Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc. (pronounced “upstart”) is a non-Equity and non-profit professional theatre company dedicated to performing the works of William Shakespeare and other theatre classics. Vpstart Crow’s mission is to produce live theatre as a vital, accessible and exciting part of community life. Employing a resident company of local professional actors and artists of the highest caliber, Vpstart Crow is dedicated to breaking down the barriers between audience and actors in a performance style that is thought-provoking and altogether vpstartling.

The term “vpstart crow” comes from one of Shakespeare’s rival English playwrights, Robert Greene. In his 1592 pamphlet, Groats-Worth Of Wit Bought With A Million Of Repentance, Greene criticizes Shakespeare: “… for there is an vpstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers hart wrapt in a players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum (“Johnny-do-it-all” or “Jack-of-all-trades”), is in his owne conceit the onely ‘Shake-scene’ in a countrey.” In fact, Vpstart Crow spells its name with a “v” rather than a “u” in reference to the way the English language was written in Shakespeare’s day.

Press contacts:
Christine D. Lange
Artistic Director
Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc.
(800) 660-8580
artistic@vpstartcrow.com

Sara Joy Lebowitz
Managing Director
Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc.
(800) 660-8580
managing@vpstartcrow.com

Jay Tilley
Public Relations Consultant
Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc.
(571) 216-7419
sagart16@yahoo.com