Making Books Sing, Inc.

Specialties

Making Books Sing is dedicated to promoting children’s literacy and social development through arts-​in-​education programs and professional theater productions.

History

Established in 2001.

In 1996, Making Books Sing began as the family theater and education program of the Tony Award-​winning Vineyard Theatre. It became an independent 501©(3) nonprofit in 2001. Over the last 13 years, our local and nationally recognized arts-​in-​education programs and professional theater productions have served over 100,000 children and adults, across all five boroughs and surrounding communities in the tri-​State area. By partnering with more than 400 urban schools, and providing subsidized tickets to over 20,000 students for our professional shows, we have increased arts accessibility for underserved communities in New York City. In addition, we have taught more than 2,000 teachers here and in California creative ways to integrate theater into their classroom instruction and distributed over 4,500 Curriculum Resource Packets and Anthologies to supplement course material.

Meet the Business Owner

Barbara K.

Business Owner

Barbara Zinn Krieger founded Making Books Sing during her 22-​year tenure as Executive Director and Founder of New York’s Tony Award-​winning Vineyard Theatre. Krieger has been writing children’s operas and musicals for more than 15 years. Credits include book and lyrics for The Merry Muldoons (The Vineyard Theatre, Colden Center at Queens College) and Appelemando’s Dreams (The Vineyard Theatre, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Colden Center at Queens College) with composer James Kurtz, and Little Kit (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Vineyard Theatre), The Butterfly, Jose Limon: The Making of an Artist and Sky Boys with composer Charles Greenberg. She has also written Beautiful Warrior (Jin Xiang, composer), the book and additional lyrics for The Upside Down Boy (Lyrics by Juan Felipe Herrera and Music by Cristian Amigo) and the book for The Orphan Singer (featuring the music of Antonio Vivaldi, music selection and arrangement by Rick Erickson), all for Making Books Sing.