About BoxcarData.com

BoxcarData.com is an online database service created for theater organizations. BoxcarData.com makes it possible for all theater organizations, regardless of size, budget or for-profit status to post profiles of their plays and people on the web affordably. For most theater organizations (especially non-profits), if they want to adequately display their productions online they need to be either lucky enough to have a talented volunteer webmaster or wealthy enough to hire an IT expert to do it. With BoxcarData.com, any theater organization can display their plays and people on the web without the need for a lot of money or technical expertise. With a BoxcarData.com account, your organization can...

make its entire production history available online
list cast and crew and post photos for every show on its own web page
list the credits and post photos for every performer and crew member on their own web page
search shows, performers and crew members
securely store and retrieve staff and volunteer contact information
create and assign users to assist with data entry
integrate all this seamlessly into an existing web site

BoxcarData.com was created by Pat Markland, professional software developer and community theater enthusiast. As an exercise to learn some new web technologies in 2005, Pat created a web database software program for his local non-profit theater company, the Winchester Little Theatre in Winchester, VA. It turned out to be not only very popular with the WLT volunteers, but also very useful to the WLT staff. In August 2007, Pat left his position as an applications developer at The Library Corporation to focus on further developing the program and making it available to any theater organization that wanted it.

Testimonials

"As a Board member, a grant writer, a contributor to the Winchester Little Theatre's newsletter, and one of the folks responsible for volunteer recognition, having the history of my theater at hand is invaluable - I rely on it 3-4 times a week as my go-to source for everything from the names of cast and crew on a production (including spelling) to who I should call about any task on stage, back stage or out front in the house."
-- Jerry Tracy, Board President, Winchester Little Theatre

"For maintaining the history of the Winchester Little Theatre and its volunteers, BoxcarData.com is an amazing tool. BoxcarData.com has taken our 78 year history of plays and volunteers out of the paper files and into the 21st century. I particularly applaud its ease of use, its availability to all our volunteers, and the fact that it does not require technical support each step of the way."
-- Karen Majarov, Office Manager, Winchester Little Theatre