Why sponsor Cheeky Monkey?  

Advertising via theater programs is a well-known alternative to normal print media, as you are literally working with a “captive audience,” who have nothing else to do but read the program.  More importantly, the positive association for brands that support artistic and community events is a proven fact.  Audiences are made up of both Expats and local white-collar Chinese, an ideal market.  As Cheeky Monkey produces only original shows, both in English and Mandarin, there is a wider audience available than with most publications and events.  By sponsoring one of these cutting edge plays, your company can access this audience, and buy some of the “cool” that comes with arts programming.  

What Is Cheeky Monkey?

Cheeky Monkey Productions is a theater company based in Beijing, China that performs original works in Mandarin, English and Chinglish.  Created in the Autumn 2006 with the premier performance of “I Heart Beijing” at the HART Centre for the Arts in 798.  Following up with the second run of “I Heart Beijing” in the Summer of 2007, Cheeky Monkey then went on to create a sketch comedy series, “Sketches” and the play “Lethal English” (both a Mandarin and English version).  The most recent show was the Mandarin play “Green Eyes on Chinese” performed in November 2008 to rave reviews. 

Cheeky Monkey has also produced the “ShiFen Theater Festival” and has sponsored several public arts and cultural events including Greening the Beige, CIPA events, charity events and others.  In 2008 Cheeky Monkey was a special delegate at the “Women in Business” Conference and a panelist at the “Small and Medium Enterprises” Conference in 2009.  

As of September 2009 Cheeky Monkey has had its own rehearsal and office space, located in a traditional courtyard in Beijing.  This courtyard provides ample room for rehearsals for the Agent Penny series as well as safe storage of all the staging materials and costumes.  With an international and bilingual staff, Cheeky Monkey has the staffing to coordinate the bookings for the school performances and teacher training.  Actors are also bilingual professionals who are trained in a variety of stage arts and improvisational comedy.

Stats:

Our website, www.cheekymonkeytheater.com receives on average of more than 2,000 page hits per week, as of March 15th, 2009.  Our blog, www.iheartbeijing.com/blog receives on average more than 9,000 page hits per week, as of March 15th, 2009.  This is not including all of our subsidiary blog cross-postings on popular blogging servers like douban.com, sohu.com, sina.com and so on (on which we have a combined total of more than 3,000 page hits per week).

We also have a spam-free mailing list (in that, we know that each member reads and acknowledges wanting to read the newsletters) of more than 500 people.  

We will also provide marketing surveys at our events and on our website, so as to help guide you and your brand with a more effective marketing strategy.

 Sponsorship packages available:

Your company can choose to sponsor Cheeky Monkey in one of three ways:

 (1)       Exclusive sponsorship of a production:  (the name of the play becomes “Your Company Presents….. Play Name Here”), plus the items listed in the partial sponsorship section below.

 (2)       Partial sponsorship of a production:  Logo placement on all promotional material, ad space in theater program, links on the websites, references and links in our email newsletters and product placement in the show (if it is appropriate)

 (3)       Program sponsor:  Ad placement in the theater program (a more standard print media) at either half page or full page.

Please contact us for more information and to see how we can better cater to your company’s individual marketing needs.  Thank you, I hope that you enjoyed the show!

Our website: http://www.cheekymonkeytheater.com

Contact info:info@cheekymonkeytheater.com / 15810803034