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  • Announcing The FY26 Edith Lutyen & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund Recipients

    Announcing The FY26 Edith Lutyen & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund Recipients

    A.R.T./New York is proud to announce the following theaters for the 20th Year Anniversary FY26 Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund! The following 8 companies will receive a total of $57,000 for their productions.

    Notch  // Creation Story

    Design Enhancement: Set 

    Creation Story is a Southwest-inspired musical that remixes the Hopi emergence tale through a Chicanofuturist lens, blending myth, migration, and environmental collapse with rancheras, baladas, and desert-born sounds. Set in a shape-shifting world of stone and light, the piece follows a writer and her unruly characters as they unravel the mysteries of creation, destruction, and cultural memory.

    The Flea Theater // we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism

    Design Element: Set 

    we come to collect: a flirtation with capitalism is a new performance artwork created by Jennifer Kidwell, and told in English and American Sign Language (ASL) that melds genres from stand-up to performance art, clowning to carnival, to question capitalism and work-life’s inherent imbalance. 

    The Bushwick Starr // Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure

    Design Element: Puppetry

    Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure follows Gooey, an insecure “mermaid” with a tail made of the trash polluting New York City’s waterways, and Scabby, the streetwise rat who raised her, as they journey from the filthy canal they call home in search of a better life and gainful employment at Wasteland ThemePark. Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure is a puppet musical about self-discovery, community and late-stage capitalism. 

    Et Alia Theater // Blood Orange

    Design Element: Set

    Blood Orange by Abigail Duclos is a new dark comedy/horror play about grief and gay girls in a small Appalachian town, blending experimental dance, puppetry, and magical realism to explore trauma, queerness, and girlhood. We are seeking funds for the play’s scenic design, which will evoke a forgotten, heat-stricken home—textured, slightly surreal, and pulsing with the quiet presence of blood, decay, and ritual.

    Superhero Clubhouse / Future River // There Will Be Monsters

    Design Element: Sound

    There Will Be Monsters is a theatrical game experience for a hopeful climate future, in which the audience is cast as a group of multispecies heroes determined to solve the “monster” crisis. Superhero Clubhouse received funding to enhance Charles Coes’s sound design for the project.

    Immediate Medium // Idiot Void

    Design Element: Digital Puppetry

    IDIOT VOID is a multimedia puppet and video piece that playfully uses dystopian sci-fi tropes to talk about urgent contemporary issues surrounding social media addiction, loneliness, and human isolation in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    Remote Theater Project // The Last Play in Gaza

    Design Element: Video Projections

    The Last Play in Gaza is a collaboration between Gazan actor/writer Hossam al Madhoun (a founder of “Theatre for Everybody”) and Israeli director/writer Einat Weizman. 

    Hit The Lights! Co. // ISLA

    Design Element: Costumes

    ISLA is a bilingual shadow-puppet musical that blends magical realism, live music, and puppetry to tell the story of three sisters fleeing their island in search of home. The Design Enhancement Fund will support the development of character-specific costumes evocative of 1960s Cuba, which integrate practical elements like light and prop interaction to enhance the visual storytelling.

    FY26 Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes

    Design Enhancement Fund Panelists

    Denis Butkus
    Company Producer, Theater Mitu

    Jes Levine 
    Production Manager, Chase Crew Consulting 
    Interim Production Manager, Playwrights Horizons

    Josh Luxenberg
    Co-Artistic Director, Sinking Ship Productions 
    New Initiatives, Artistic Producer, New York Theatre Workshop

    Julia Borowski
    Event Producer

    Kate Wilson 
    Theatre [Untitled]
    Advance NYC

    Patricia Marjorie 
    Multidisciplinary Theatre Artist – Director, Performer, Designer & Educator

  • Announcing The 2026-2027 Recipients of The New York City Small Theatres Fund

    Announcing The 2026-2027 Recipients of The New York City Small Theatres Fund

    The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and the Howard Gilman Foundation are thrilled to announce the 17 recipients of the New York City Small Theatres Fund for FY26 – FY27. Selected from an initial application pool of 182 applications, the funded theatres will receive two years of flexible, general operating support to support the operations of their theatre companies. We are proud to continue to be able to provide multi-year support to this vibrant and crucial segment of New York City’s cultural ecosystem. 

    The theatres funded through this year’s grant cycle represent a range of theatrical aesthetics, organizational structures, methods of working, and artistic communities from across all five boroughs. They include theatres led by a consensus based ensemble, companies working with very young audiences and others working to give community to elder playwrights , theatres creating work that provokes social change and protects vulnerable populations, organizations focused on creating space for new play development and companies consistently challenging what theatre is – and can be. 

    Alexandra Aron, the Producing Artistic Director of Remote Theater Project had this to say about the funding: 

    Receiving the STF was a significant milestone for RemoteTheater Project. Multi-year funding, whatever the amount, is a strong signal to the funding community that the organization will be around. For a small organization with ambitious programming – the STF is a real and important stepping stone.

    Recipients of the 2026-2027 Small Theatres Fund

    Actionplay

    Actionplay is a theatre organization that improves the lives of autistic, neurodivergent and disabled individuals, their families, and the NYC community by making arts and cultural experiences more accessible and inclusive. We are dedicated to providing disabled artists with equal access to the theatre-making process. 

    actionplay.org

    Blackboard Plays

    Blackboard Plays was founded with a mission to provide a home for Black playwrights in New York City, addressing the need for a space dedicated to developing new work by Black writers. Over the years, Blackboard has become a vital platform, offering emerging playwrights the opportunity to develop their voices and connect with the community through play readings, workshops, and open dialogue.

    blackboardplays.com

    DreamStreet Theatre Company

    DreamStreet Theatre Company provides education and inspiration for developmentally disabled individuals with a passion for the performing & creative arts. Our performances break down stereotypes & illustrate the profound effect art can have on life.  DreamStreet supports adults living with developmental disabilities by providing them with a safe and welcoming artistic space that encourages growth and opportunity.

    dreamstreetnyc.org

    Hypokrit Theatre Company

    The American entertainment industry has long generated minimal and monolithic representation of South Asian culture. In response, Arpita Mukherjee and Shubhra Prakash founded Hypokrit Theatre Company as a home for artists of color, especially South Asian artists, to develop nuanced stories. Hypokrit’s cornerstone priorities were then—and are now— artistic risk-taking, expansion across form, and relentless innovation.

    hypokritproductions.com

    Life Jacket Theatre Company

    Life Jacket’s mission is to tell undertold stories – those that are currently or historically rejected, erased, or forgotten. We build every show using documentary materials including new as well as existing archival texts. We combine various disparate materials to create highly theatrical, visually inventive, and lyrically rich works to provoke radically empathetic social conversations about traditionally excluded communities – particularly outsiders, outcasts, and non-conformers.

    lifejackettheatre.org

    Lightning Rod Special

    Exploding complex questions with precision and play, Lightning Rod Special makes live performance from the ground up. Lightning Rod Special makes raucous and contemplative original theater works to ask questions of ourselves, our audience, and the world at large. Like scientists, we begin each project with pressing questions and through a process of artistic investigation find our way to complete pieces of theater that twist the ordinary into alien, provoke debate, and stir what lies dormant in the corners of an audience’s mind. With big hearts, we tackle lightning rod topics in ways that scramble theatrical conventions and intellectual assumptions. 

    lightningrodspecial.com

    New York Theatre Barn

    New York Theatre Barn is an inclusive home for artists and a holistic incubator of original culture-shifting musicals. We amplify narratives of collectively underrepresented communities while creating space for artists to experiment in front of live audiences – often for the first time – and providing them with resources to build something innovative, intentional, and impactful. 

    nytheatrebarn.org

    One Whale’s Tale

    One Whale’s Tale is a multidisciplinary production company that creates, fosters, and generates new independent work with an appreciation for magic and the preservation of culture. We create work that accurately reflects the experiences of immigrants, first-generation Americans, and people of color by creating space for them to tell their own stories. We are guided by Magical Urbanism, an aesthetic we’ve developed, which examines how the ancient traditions of our company members and collaborators exist within a modern urban landscape.

    onewhalestale.com

    Radical Evolution Performance Collective

    Radical Evolution (RadEv) is a multiethnic producing collective committed to creating artistic events that seek to understand the complexities of the mixed-identity existence in the 21st Century. We incorporate people from a variety of backgrounds into our creative process, with a focus on people of color, to seed the field of experimental and collaboratively created theatre with practitioners who celebrate the intersectionality of perspectives and aesthetics of the city around us. Through this approach, we work to assert a vision for cultural and social equity in our field, city, and nation.

    radicalevolution.org

    Remote Theater Project

    Remote Theater Project (RTP) develops and produces the work of artists whose voices are not often heard in the U.S. By focusing on and including international artists as well as U.S.-based artists from other countries, we invite both artists and audiences to engage in difficult questions about their perceptions of other groups. Our productions are human-to-human exchanges and culture-to-culture dialogues intended to promote empathy, especially between groups in political conflict. 

    remotetheaterproject.com

    Ring of Keys Coalition Inc.

    Ring of Keys is an artist service organization that promotes and fosters community and visibility for musical theatre artists – onstage and off – who identify as queer women, transgender, and nonbinary artists. We strive to create a vibrant, diverse musical theatre landscape.

    ringofkeys.org

    Spellbound Theatre

    Spellbound Theatre is New York’s premier award-winning theater designed for very young children. Each of Spellbound’s productions is rooted in the rich tapestry of young children’s imaginations, utilizing story, puppetry, visual art, and physical theater to create unique, high-quality events for children ages 0 – 5.

    spellboundtheatre.com

    The Drunkard’s Wife

    The Drunkard’s Wife mission is to create and produce original experimental musical plays. We create site-specific theatrical environments guided by a generous, maximalist design sense. In our work, we want to engage audiences through shared social experiences, and create in these shared moments the spontaneous communities like the ones our work often represents.

    thedrunkardswife.com

    The Gatekeepers Collective

    The Gatekeepers Collective (TGC) uses an Afrocentric approach to support healing, self-determination, and self-actualization among its participants. Through a variety of public dialogues, visual art, and theater performance initiatives, TGC aims to empower the SGL community, increase its visibility, and educate others about the Black SGL/Queer experience.

    thegatekeeperscollective.com

    The Hearth

    The  Hearth  is  a  theater  organization  dedicated  to  supporting  in  equal  part  artists  of underrepresented  genders  and  emerging  artists.  We  have  a  track  record  of  launching  theater makers’  careers  by  producing  fully-funded,  high  caliber,  multi-week  productions  of  their  work—a rare  offering  amongst  organizations  of  our  size.  We  also  host  countless  developmental  workshops; organize  virtual  and  in-person  retreats;  commission  playwrights  to  write  new  plays  that  we  then develop; and maintain an open submission policy to welcome more artists into our field. 

    thehearththeater.com

    The Tent Theater Company

    The Tent Theater Company nurtures, supports, and advocates for established Elder American playwrights and cross-disciplinary theater makers, fostering connections among them and promoting their artistry and wellness to the larger community.

    thetenttheater.com

    WOW Café Theater

    WOWCaféTheater is a New York City-based artist collective that develops and presents theater and performance works by artists who are women and/or transgender and/or non-binary.

    wowcafe.org

    Panelists for the 2026 – 2026 Small Theatres Fund:

    Alana Canty-Samuel
    General Manager, Lucille Lortel Theatre

    Chris Dieman
    Artistic Director, New Music Theatre Project

    Carolina Đỗ
    Playwright, Co-Founding Producing Artistic Leader of The Sống Collective, &
    Associate Director for Community Engagement PlayCo

    Jess Ducey
    Board co-chair, National Queer Theater & Co-Director, Ring of Keys Coalition

    Francesca Fernandez McKenzie
    Community Engagement Manager, Ensemble Studio Theatre

    Betsy King Militello
    Executive Director, National Alliance for Musical Theatre

    Becky Beary
    Co-Founder, CO_LAB Theater Group
    Board Member, A.R.T./New York

    Jean Marie McKee
    Artistic Director, Naked Angels

    Nicole Martorana
    Director of Programming, The Watermill Center

    Toni Mello
    Development Associate for AnomalousCo
    Co-Founder of Fireside Theatre Collective

    Julia Proctor
    Founding Director, Clown Gym

    Donny Repsher
    Director, Major Gifts, BAM

    Eric Shethar
    Dramaturg & Producer

    Claudia Zelevansky
    Executive Director, Mercury Store

    Rubén Cruz
    Mieko Gavia
    Charlene Jean
    Ann Kreitman
    Jonathan Mann
    Cheyenne Myrie

  • GEORGE STRUS // ASK ANYWAY

    GEORGE STRUS // ASK ANYWAY

    Season 2, Episode 6: GEORGE STRUS // ASK ANYWAY

    “ I do consider myself an artist as a producer. It’s about matchmaking. It’s about having clarity of vision. It’s about how you navigate people and personalities.”  – George Strus

    After noticing a major gap in theater initiatives for trans and nonbinary theatermakers, George Strus set out to make a festival to support transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) theatermakers. The festival grew into a new work program that soon had an advisory board, partnerships across the country, and turned George into a Broadway producer with a recent credit on Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! Tune in as host Nicky Maggio chats with George about how BTB came to be, asking for what you need, and producing as an art.

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    George Strus

    George Strus, (they/them) is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning Latiné producer and dramaturg based in New York. They founded Breaking the Binary Theatre: a new work development and community building hub for transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) theatermakers. Since BTB’s launch in July of 2022, the organization has paid out over $650,000 to over 500 TNB2S+ artists. George is also the Founding CEO of theatrical production company Benson Drive Productions. Projects in development include Amber Ruffin’s BIGFOOT, Stephen Sondheim’s THE FROGS (Off-West End), and more to be announced. Their independent co-producing credits include OH, MARY!, ILLINOISE (Tony nomination), Stephen Sondheim’s HERE WE ARE, ROMEO + JULIET, and more. They were awarded the 2024 Prince Fellowship and are a member of the 2025 Shubert Organization Artistic Circle. www.georgestrus.com

    Nicky Maggio

    Nicky Maggio or “N” (they/them) currently serves as Programs Manager at A.R.T/New York. N is a freelance theatrical curator with a focus on new play development and directing. Originally born in southeast Massachusetts, Nicky received their B.F.A. at Emerson College and then completed their M.F.A in Directing at The New School. For more information on their artistic projects, visit www.nmaggio.com @nickymaggio

    Ashley J. Hicks

    Ashley J. Hicks (a.k.a. Ash, she/her) works currently as a Programs Coordinator for A.R.T./New York.  Ash is an actor, writer, solo performer & teaching artist. She received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in 2021 and was a participant in the 2022 Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase. To learn more about Ashley and her past/recent projects, please visit www.ashley-j-hicks.com

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    “What’s Off?” Production Staff
    Erica Wray Barnes, Associate Producer
    Ashley J. Hicks and Nicky Maggio, Line Producers
    Dante32, Audio Engineer
    Devon Adams, Art Director/Graphic Design

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  • THEATRE ADVOCACY PROJECT// DEFINING HR FOR THE ARTS

    THEATRE ADVOCACY PROJECT// DEFINING HR FOR THE ARTS

    Season2, Episode 5: THEATRE ADVOCACY PROJECT// DEFINING HR FOR THE ARTS

    “Luckily there are a lot more organizations now who are supporting this kind of work and I think that has really been a gift. We have banded together and recognized that there is a great need, that there’s space for all of us to exist. If we uplift each other’s work, we will create real systemic change together.” – Caylin Waller

    Caylin Waller, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Theatre Advocacy Project, is a passionate lifelong learner and a fierce advocate for creating braver spaces that combat harmful behaviors in the theatrical workplace. Drawing from her personal experiences and extensive research, Caylin empowers organizations to enhance their Human Resources practices by offering tailored resources and hands-on training for both staff and individual artists.

    Join host Ashley J. Hicks as she engages with Caylin about the origins of her organization and explores how the first crucial step toward fostering a healthy and proactive theatrical environment is collective empowerment. 

    CW: sexual assault, workplace harm

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    Caylin Waller

    Caylin Waller, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Theatre Advocacy Project (TAP), has led award-winning research on building accountable practices in theatre. She holds an M.A. in Performing Arts Administration from NYU Steinhardt, was selected Distinguished Graduate for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of the Arts, and currently serves as an inaugural Expert in Residence for her former program. Caylin speaks regularly on her industry research and startup knowledge. She was a featured panelist at the NYU event titled Curtain Up: Spotlight on Financial and Social Sustainability for the Performing Arts alongside leaders from Lincoln Center and Brooklyn Academy of Music, as well as a panelist at the NYU Entrepreneurial Festival event Women Entrepreneurs Responding to Pressing Needs. She was a 2022 grant recipient of the Mark & Debra Leslie Fellows grant through the NYU Female Founders Fellowship program. Outside of her work in the arts, Caylin works in early childhood education as both an educator and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Coordinator.

    Ashley J. Hicks

    Ashley J. Hicks (a.k.a. Ash, she/her) works currently as a Programs Coordinator for A.R.T./New York.  Ash is an actor, writer, solo performer & teaching artist. She received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in 2021 and was a participant in the 2022 Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase. To learn more about Ashley and her past/recent projects, please visit www.ashley-j-hicks.com

    Additional Links: 

    “What’s Off?” Production Staff
    David E. Shane, Executive Producer
    Erica Wray Barnes, Associate Producer
    Ashley J. Hicks and Nicky Maggio, Line Producers
    Dante32, Audio Engineer
    Devon Adams, Art Director/Graphic Design

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  • WHAT’S OFF? REWIND

    WHAT’S OFF? REWIND

    Season 2, Episode 4: WHAT’S OFF? REWIND

    To help build community, and to best support collaboration and resource sharing, A.R.T./New York hosts semi-annual membership convenings.These multi-day gatherings foster collective learning, relationship building, and solution sharing across the Off and Off-Off Broadway sector. In this special episode of What’s Off?, hosts Nicky Maggio and Ashley J. Hicks take a trip down memory lane to highlight some of their favorite moments from our 2023 Fall Forum and 2024 Spring Summit. 

    First, they revisit clips from a panel discussion on “Marketing and Audience Development” featuring an array of perspectives on what’s working, what’s not, and what new strategies we might try in order to best reach and engage our audiences.  Then, we listen to clips from “The Advocators: Forging Paths to Better Pay!” – a discussion between freelance artists and workers who are advocating for pay equity in new and impactful ways.

    Tune in to this special episode where we shine the spotlight on field innovators, recorded live and in conversation with each other!

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    Ashley J. Hicks

    Ashley J. Hicks (a.k.a. Ash, she/her) works currently as a Programs Coordinator for A.R.T./New York.  Ash is an actor, writer, solo performer & teaching artist. She received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in 2021 and was a participant in the 2022 Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase. To learn more about Ashley and her past/recent projects, please visit www.ashley-j-hicks.com

    Nicky Maggio

    Nicky Maggio or “N” (they/them) currently serves as Programs Manager at A.R.T/New York. N is a freelance theatrical curator with a focus on new play development and directing. Originally born in southeast Massachusetts, Nicky received their B.F.A. at Emerson College and then completed their M.F.A in Directing at The New School. For more information on their artistic projects, visit www.nmaggio.com @nickymaggio

    EPISODE INFORMATION

    From the 2023 Fall Forum, Moving Through Together, the Marketing and Audience Development panel discussion was live streamed in partnership with Transcend Streaming and HowlRound on Wednesday, October 25, 2023.  

    Panelists:

    Bryan Joseph Lee, CNTR Arts
    Fernando Masterson, Ars Nova
    Tom O’Connor, Tom O’Connor Consulting Group
    Beth Prevor, HandsOn
    David E. Shane, Director of Program Services, A.R.T./New York, Moderator

    From the 2024 Spring Summit, UNCHARTED: Leading Beyond The Path,The Advocators: Forging Paths to Better Pay! A Panel Discussion was live streamed in partnership with Transcend Streaming and HowlRound on Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 


    Panelists:

    Joanna Carpenter, Actor
    Ife Olujobi, Playwright
    Emma Orme, Producing Director of The TEAM
    Barbara Samuels, Lighting Designer and Producer
    Sam Morreale, Associate Producer at Soho Rep, Moderator

    “What’s Off?” Production Staff
    David E. Shane, Executive Producer
    Erica Wray Barnes, Associate Producer
    Ashley J. Hicks and Nicky Maggio, Line Producers
    Dante32, Audio Engineer
    Devon Adams, Art Director/Graphic Design

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  • Announcing The 2024-2025 Recipients of The New York City Small Theatres Fund

    The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and the Howard Gilman Foundation are thrilled to announce the 20 recipients of the New York City Small Theatres Fund for FY24 – FY25. Selected from an initial application pool of over 140 applications, the funded theatres will receive two years of flexible, general operating support to support the operations of their theatre companies. We are excited to continue to be able to provide multi-year support to this vibrant and crucial segment of New York City’s cultural ecosystem. 

    The theatres funded through this year’s grant cycle represent a range of theatrical aesthetics, organizational structures, methods of working, and artistic communities from across all five boroughs. They include theatres led by designers, working with young audiences, creating work that provokes social change, providing opportunities for artists in festival settings, venues and itinerant theatres, theatres focused on serving a specific cultural community, devising ensembles, and companies consistently challenging what theatre is – and can be. 

    For some of the grantees, this funding will help push them to their next level of growth, as they continue to build resilience and capacity, while some grantees will use this support to take some space to stabilize and right-size. 

    The Howard Gilman Foundation knows that small budget theatre companies are vital to both the field and the artform,” said Howard Gilman Program Officer Emily Sproch. “By partnering with ART/NY on the New York City Small Theatres Fund, we are investing in the bedrock and the future of the American theatre.” 

    Recipients of the 2024-2025 Small Theatres Fund

    Boundless Theatre Company

    Boundless Theatre Company is a designer-led organization seeking to investigate, push and redefine the boundaries of theatrical storytelling.

    Spearheaded by women, Latinx theatre-makers and other theatre-makers of color, we strive to nurture cross-cultural voices in our programming, producing aesthetically challenging and visually mesmerizing interpretations of new and existing work. In these ways, we foster a collaborative artistic landscape as richly and authentically diverse as our own communities.

    boundlesstheatre.org

    Broken Box Mime Theater

    Broken Box Mime Theater creates original, contemporary plays through movement to activate the imaginations of our audiences, contemporize the art of mime, and remind us all of the power of simple storytelling.

    brokenboxmime.com

    Caborca

    Caborca is a bilingual ensemble making theater and film under the playwright/director Javier Antonio González at the intersection of Latine and experimental arts, where audiences are hungry for politically charged and innovative reflections on colonial power dynamics.

    caborca.org

    Colt Coeur

    Colt Coeur is a 22-member ensemble of actors, designers, playwrights and directors creates original, story-driven theater, nurtures the next generation of artists by developing and producing new plays, and provides arts education and mentorship to students from under-resourced NYC public schools.

    coltcoeur.org

    Conch Shell Productions

    At Conch Shell Productions (CSP), our Queens, New York based organization’s mission is to infuse new Caribbean Diaspora and Caribbean voices into the American theater and film industry. We create a space to produce, present, and develop new plays and screenplays written by our community of artists. We believe that theater and film can and should have a lasting impact and provoke social change. 

    conchshellproductions.com

    Experimental Bitch 

    Experimental Bitch (ExB) is a feminist producing company committed to creating, developing and producing badly-behaved, genre-defying performance by emerging TGNC, queer and women+ artists. We empower femme and queer artists across many mediums to be leaders of the creative process from development to production. Experimental because we embrace controversial questioning. Bitch because we are femme, queer, loud and proud!

    experimentalbitch.net

    General Mischief Dance Theatre

    General Mischief Dance Theatre, a multi-disciplinary ensemble-based company, is dedicated to the power of joy and laughter in communicating ideas. They devise original projects that are invested in fully bridging the gap between the theatre community and the movement world.

    generalmischief.com

    Hypokrit Theatre Company

    The American entertainment industry has long generated minimal and monolithic representation of South Asian culture. In response, Arpita Mukherjee and Shubhra Prakash founded Hypokrit Theatre Company as a home for artists of color, especially South Asian artists, to develop nuanced stories. Hypokrit’s cornerstone priorities were then—and are now— artistic risk-taking, expansion across form, and relentless innovation.

    hypokritproductions.com

    International Human Rights Art Festival

    The International Human Rights Art Festival (“IHRAF”) offers an ongoing and expanding series of theater and music events, as well as workshops and classes and other creative outlets around New York City and the world, to open space for discussion around society’s most pressing concerns, as well as facilitate interactions among our diverse audience and community.

    ihraf.org

    Jewish Plays Project

    The Jewish Plays Project identifies, develops, and advocates for 21st Century Jewish theater through one-of-a-kind explorations of contemporary Jewish identity between audiences, artists, and patrons. Their process is Jewish Dramaturgy, bringing thought-leaders (clergy, scholars and lay leaders) into conversation with playwrights.

    jewishplaysproject.org

    Jugando N Play

    We are arts educators and theatre makers. We aspire to create multilingual and multicultural theatre experiences for young people that celebrate the diverse cultural and lingual communities of New York City and the United States.

    Somos educadoras y teatristas. Aspiramos crear experiencias de teatro multilingües y multiculturales para jóvenes que celebran las diversas comunidades culturales y lingüísticas de la ciudad de Nueva York y los Estados Unidos.

    jugandonplay.com

    Latinx Playwrights Circle

    The Latinx Playwrights Circle is a national network of committed playwrights of Latinx heritage of all racial and class backgrounds. We aim to build a network of Latinx/é Playwrights nationwide in order to develop, promote and elevate their work; in order to make Latinx plays accessible to theater-makers looking to find the next generation of American Storytellers.

    latinxplaywrights.com

    LubDub Theatre

    LubDub Theatre Co is a physical theatre company whose mission is to animate stories of science, magic, and myth. Guided by our focus on these three sources of inspiration, we nurture new performance at the intersections of dance, music, new writing, and ritual.

    lubdubtheatre.org

    NYLaughs

    NYLaughs is a unique 501(c)3 performing arts non-profit that believes in the power of stand-up comedy to strengthen NY communities and enhance the quality of life for New Yorkers via free performances produced in NYC’s iconic public spaces. By creating opportunities for shared humor, we form a foundation for positive collective experiences that benefit our city while heightening the public’s appreciation for stand-up comedy, a distinctly NY cultural asset.

    nylaughs.org

    One Whale’s Tale

    One Whale’s Tale is a multidisciplinary production company that creates, fosters, and generates new independent work with an appreciation for magic and the preservation of culture. We create work that accurately reflects the experiences of immigrants, first-generation Americans, and people of color by creating space for them to tell their own stories. We are guided by Magical Urbanism, an aesthetic we’ve developed, which examines how the ancient traditions of our company members and collaborators exist within a modern urban landscape.

    onewhalestale.com

    Remote Theater Project

    Remote Theater Project (RTP) develops and produces the work of artists whose voices are not often heard in the U.S. By focusing on and including international artists as well as U.S.-based artists from other countries, we invite both artists and audiences to engage in difficult questions about their perceptions of other groups. Our productions are human-to-human exchanges and culture-to-culture dialogues intended to promote empathy, especially between groups in political conflict.

    remotetheaterproject.com

    SheNYC Arts

    SheNYC Arts supports and showcases the talents of writers, composers, producers, directors, and other theater artists who are part of a marginalized gender group, including cis women, trans, and non-binary people.

    Our mission is to prove that there is no reason for male artists to have the overwhelming majority of professionally produced work on Broadway, off-Broadway, and around the country. We provide artists with the resources they need on their path to leadership roles in the industry.

    shenycarts.org

    Spellbound Theatre

    Spellbound Theatre is New York’s premier award-winning theater designed for very young children. Each of Spellbound’s productions is rooted in the rich tapestry of young children’s imaginations, utilizing story, puppetry, visual art, and physical theater to create unique, high-quality events for children ages 0 – 5.

    spellboundtheatre.com

    The Brick Theater

    The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York City. 

    The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series, and seasonal festivals, expanding Brooklyn’s profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home, and to serve as North Brooklyn’s primary incubator of innovative performing arts.

    bricktheater.com

    The Exponential Festival

    Founding Artistic Director Theresa Buchheister began Exponential to remove the barriers to entry for young artists producing their first shows in New York City. Exponential has presented the work of over 1.5K NYC-based artists to over 20K audience members in over 25 Brooklyn venues. Our artists present multi week runs, one-offs, and variety shows throughout the month of January in theaters, back rooms, basements, and box-stores.

    theexponentialfestival.org

    Panelists for the 2024 – 2025 Small Theatres Fund:

    Sam Hood Adrain
    Co-Artistic Director of What Will the Neighbors Say?

    Adriana Ascencio
    General Manager at Oye Group

    April Barber
    Actress and Creative Partner for The Anthropologists

    Lucrecia Briceno
    Co-Artistic Director at Anonymous Ensemble 

    Bliss Griffin
    Principal at BG Consulting

    Paige Esterly
    The Fled Collective

    Ariel Estrada
    Producing Artistic Director at Leviathan Lab

    Natalie Gershtein
    Producing Artistic Director at Pipeline Theatre Company

    Samar Haddad King
    Artistic Director at Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

    Simon Henriques
    Co-Artistic Director at Nightdrive

    Sherri Kotimsky
    General Manager at Red Bull Theater

    Sheila Lewandowski
    Executive Director at The Chocolate Factory Theater

    Nikhil Mahapatra
    Freelance writer

    Paul McGinley
    Director of Teaching & Learning at Roundabout Theatre Company

    Francisco Mendoza
    Playwright / Marketing Manager at The Playwrights Realm

    Amy Palen
    Associate Producer/Virtual Manager at Boundless Theatre Company

    Rachel Mueller
    Development Manager at Clubbed Thumb

    Kyoung Park
    Artistic Director at Kyoung’s Pacific Beat

    Rachel Sullivan
    Artistic Director

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE // CONDUIT TO MAGIC

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE // CONDUIT TO MAGIC

    Season 2, Episode 3: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE // CONDUIT TO MAGIC

    “Can AI make art? The answer is, I don’t know. Actually, that is my stance because it feels so personal and subjective and there are so many different nuances for how that can be interpreted to begin with.” -Will Lowry

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to shake up nearly every creative industry, and live theatre is no exception. From generative world building to revamping the way the audiences engage with the work, this revolutionary new technology is pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

    In this episode, A.R.T./New York’s z. Quinn Reynolds interviews actor, creator and director Tjaša Ferme and multi-disciplinary designer Will Lowry about their individual experiences using AI in their work, how AI is reshaping live theater, as well their hopes (and fears) for the future of AI.

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    Tjaša Ferme

    Tjaša Ferme (she/her) is an award-winning actor, creator and NYSCA-awarded director who has received a Slovenian National Film Award and Stane Sever classical stage award. The Founding Artistic Director of Transforma Theatre, she created The Female Role Model Project, blending interactive theatre with neuroscience, premiering Off-Broadway at 3-Legged Dog and produced at Edinburgh Fringe (NYITA nomination for Outstanding Innovative Design and Fast Company’s honorary mention for World Changing Ideas Awards). In 2021 Ferme founded the sold-out Science in Theatre Festival covered by Forbes and American Theatre Magazine. Tjasa is the creator of the short film Ophelia’s Flip (Cannes Film Festival, 2012), farce stage hit Cocktales – Confessions of a Nymphomaniac (Abingdon Theatre, Miami Art Basel), and interactive solo shows, Wild Child in the City and My Marlene (HERE). She recently created and directed Bioadapted, hailed by the New York Times as “maverick creativity” and “sleekly designed, thoughtfully assembled.

    Will Lowry

    Will Lowry (he/him) is a multidisciplinary designer, an Associate Professor of Theatre at Lehigh University (PA), and a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble (NYC). He received his MFA in Design from UNC Greensboro and a BA in Theatre Arts/Computer Science from Furman University. He has created scenic, costume, media, and lighting designs for theatres along the East Coast and beyond, including Dupont Underground (DC), Lantern Theater Company (Phila.), The Warehouse Theatre (SC), Mill Mountain Theatre (VA), Playhouse on Park (CT), California Theatre Center (CA), and the Sydney Opera House (AUS). In NYC, he designed over twenty off-off Broadway productions, and he contributed to multiple Broadway productions as a studio assistant. He has experimented with incorporation of AI into his design process for over two years. He presented on the intersection of AI and Theatre at SETC in 2023 and 2024, and he co-taught a first-year seminar at Lehigh that centered around AI-driven theatre-making.

    z. Quinn Reynolds

    z. Quinn Reynolds (they/she) is a writer/musician/director living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Quinn spent their formative years making indie kung-fu movies with their family inspired by the classic tale “Journey to the West.” Since then, they’ve moved on to making stories for stage, screen, and beyond. They have an obsession with blending their love of Sci-fi, Fantasy, Music and Horror into hyper-charged hysterical shows. Their past projects include: Purchase Late Night (2016-2020), The Super Hero Night Series (2017-2022), Marooned (2022), Blood Countess(Original Music, 2023), and GRIND(2023). Quinn also produces and performs music under their artist name: Mamsir. Their latest self produced EP “That’s going on the fridge” is streaming on all platforms. Outside of their artistic career, Quinn is the Manager of Studio Operations at A.R.T./New York.

    Nicky Maggio

    Nicky Maggio or “N” (they/them) currently serves as Programs Manager at A.R.T/New York. N is a freelance theatrical curator with a focus on new play development and directing. Originally born in southeast Massachusetts, Nicky received their B.F.A. at Emerson College and then completed their M.F.A in Directing at The New School. For more information on their artistic projects, visit www.nmaggio.com @nickymaggio

    Ashley J. Hicks

    Ashley J. Hicks (a.k.a. Ash, she/her) works currently as a Programs Coordinator for A.R.T./New York.  Ash is an actor, writer, solo performer & teaching artist. She received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in 2021 and was a participant in the 2022 Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase. To learn more about Ashley and her past/recent projects, please visit www.ashley-j-hicks.com

    Additional Links:

    “What’s Off?” Production Staff
    David E. Shane, Executive Producer
    Erica Wray Barnes, Associate Producer
    Ashley J. Hicks and Nicky Maggio, Line Producers
    Dante32, Audio Engineer
    Devon Adams, Art Director/Graphic Design

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  • ARTISTIC VENUES // THE BURDENS AND THE BENEFITS

    ARTISTIC VENUES // THE BURDENS AND THE BENEFITS

    Season 2, Episode 2: ARTISTIC VENUES // THE BURDENS AND THE BENEFITS

    “I don’t know, a single venue operator in the indie scene that doesn’t want to make their space more affordable for the people to use it. We all want that.” – Randi Berry

    Access to affordable space has always been a concern for New York City theatre makers; this episode shines the spotlight on some visionary leaders who recognized the need for more artistic space and decided to do something about it! Despite some closures during the COVID-19 lockdown and ever-rising real estate costs, the story of New York City’s artistic venues may actually be one of evolution and rebirth. 

    Tune in as leaders from Brooklyn Art Haus, IndieSpace, and People’s Theatre Project discuss breaking ground on new real estate ventures, their place in their communities, and how they balance affordability with the need to financially sustain their space!

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    Randi Berry

    Randi Berry is an indie theater maker and organizer with over 20 years of dedicated service to the performing arts community. As the Executive Director of IndieSpace, she oversees radically transparent, equity-focused funding, real estate programs, and advocacy for individual artists, theater companies, and indie venues. She is dedicated to removing barriers to access, coalition building and partnerships. Her leadership led to the merger of Indie Theater Fund and IndieSpace in 2022, which together has provided over $2.5M in direct funding and countless hours of professional development and real estate advisory and consulting for the indie theater community.

    Isaac Bush

    Isaac Bush is an award-winning international performer and practitioner based in New York City. Bush is the Founder and Executive Director of Brooklyn Art Haus, and Founder and Artistic Director of The Circle Theater of New York (CTNY) and SMPL MCHN (Simple Machine). Under Isaac’s leadership these companies have built ensembles of artists that create work geared toward social activism and cross-cultural engagement, often presented in site- specific locations. CTNY has premiered and toured both domestic and international titles including an adaptation of Woyzeck, premiere of FLASH FLASH BANG BOOM, premiere of The MOUNTAIN, premiere of Trail of Crumbs and Strangers with the National Theater of Luxembourg (TNL), premiere of the movement-based creation entitled Wellspring in London. His work has been seen in NYC, across Europe, Brazil, and China with numerous collaborators and producing organizations. As a performer Isaac has worked both internationally and regionally in the U.S., on tour, and extensively in his home base of New York City. Bush holds an MA from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), BA from Hope College, Certificate from the British-American Drama Academy, and Certificate from the GLCA New York Arts Program. Upcoming work includes the June 2024 premiere of Lone Wolf that will tour New York City, London, Luxembourg, and Croatia, and Unseen in September 2024. Bush continues to serve as a performer, director, and workshop instructor for devised performance and ensemble building methodologies.

    More information is available by visiting:
    www.isaac-bush.com
    www.circletheaterny.org
    www.smpl-mchn.com

    Mino Lora

    Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, People’s Theatre Project’s Founding Executive Director Mino Lora has been living and working as a theatre artist, activist, educator, and arts administrator in NYC since 2000. She has worked with young people in NYC, Dominican Republic and South Africa and been a guest lecturer and speaker at Yale University, The New School, Columbia University, Fordham University, City College and SUNY Potsdam. At PTP, she is responsible for company oversight, government and community relations, funder cultivation, and board and public relations. BA, English Literature and Theatre, Manhattanville College; MA, Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation, The Graduate Institute; Certificate in Nonprofit Management (CUNY)

    David E. Shane

    David E. Shane (he/him/his) is a director and arts administrator who is currently the Director of Program Services for A.R.T./New York where he sets the strategic vision and goals for a robust suite of programs serving 450+ New York nonprofit theatre organizations and a growing number of individual members. Since joining the organization in early 2019, David has overseen the development of new adaptive programming such as a theatre-specific Sexual Harassment Prevention Training. As a director he specializes in the development and production of new work for the American stage and his credits include the Off-Broadway productions of Gidion’s Knot (TheatreRow,) Mare In The Men’s Room (Am. Theatre of Actors,) as well as the World Premiere productions of Who Is Theo?, Cookie Fight, and Elijah at the Bristol Valley Theater. Prior to joining A.R.T./New York, David held positions as the Program Director for StageSource in Boston, MA and Associate Artistic Director of the Bristol Valley Theater in Upstate, NY where he oversaw the funding and launch of the BVT New Works Initiative.

    Ashley J. Hicks

    Ashley J. Hicks (a.k.a. Ash, she/her) works currently as a Programs Coordinator for A.R.T./New York.  Ash is an actor, writer, solo performer & teaching artist. She received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in 2021 and was a participant in the 2022 Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase. To learn more about Ashley and her past/recent projects, please visit www.ashley-j-hicks.com

    Nicky Maggio

    Nicky Maggio or “N” (they/them) currently serves as Programs Manager at A.R.T/New York. N is a freelance theatrical curator with a focus on new play development and directing. Originally born in southeast Massachusetts, Nicky received their B.F.A. at Emerson College and then completed their M.F.A in Directing at The New School. For more information on their artistic projects, visit www.nmaggio.com @nickymaggio

    Additional Links:

    “What’s Off?” Production Staff
    David E. Shane, Executive Producer
    Erica Wray Barnes, Associate Producer
    Ashley J. Hicks and Nicky Maggio, Line Producers
    Catalin Media, Audio Engineer
    Devon Adams, Art Director/Graphic Design

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  • SAM MORREALE // MAKING THE REVOLUTION IRRESISTIBLE

    SAM MORREALE // MAKING THE REVOLUTION IRRESISTIBLE

    Season 2, Episode 9: SAM MORREALE // MAKING THE REVOLUTION IRRESISTIBLE

    “Facilitation is at the core of my practice. I’m conscious of the sociopolitical reality that we might be facing under any given circumstance and one of my superpowers is to help name the patterns that we’re seeing in rehearsal rooms, so that we might be in better relationship with them.” – Sam Morreale

    As a multi-hyphenate theatremaker, dramaturg, and Associate Producer at Soho Rep, Sam Morreale inhabits many spaces within the theatrical field. They are guided by the words of Toni Cade Bambara, holding dear the idea that “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” – and Sam’s role is to hold space so that theater artists can bring their fullest selves into the rehearsal room.

    Tune in as host Nicky Maggio chats with Sam about their artistic ethos, their work as a consultant, artist, and facilitator, as well as what it means to be an “accountability partner.”

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    Sam Morreale

    Sam Morreale (they/them) is currently the Associate Producer at Soho Rep. With facilitation at the core of their practice, they’ve had a blossoming career as a creative producer working with many companies including Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Stage and Film/Powerhouse, The Prelude Festival, Mixed Blood Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, and Theater Communications Group. In addition, Sam has developed a portfolio of consulting work in strategy planning, institutional alignment, and cultural change with arts organizations such as Center Theater Group, The New Harmony Project, Ars Nova, Boston Court Pasadena, A.R.T./NY, New Georges, and The Acting Company. Sam nurtures their artistic practice in rehearsal rooms as a dramaturg, director, and culture shaper constantly seeking to break down dissonance between artist and institution. B.A. Wesleyan University, Theater and Science in Society. @smorreale_reckons

    Nicky Maggio

    Nicky Maggio or “N” (they/them) currently serves as Programs Manager at A.R.T/New York. N is a freelance theatrical curator with a focus on new play development and directing. Originally born in southeast Massachusetts, Nicky received their B.F.A. at Emerson College and then completed their M.F.A in Directing at The New School. For more information on their artistic projects, visit www.nmaggio.com @nickymaggio

    Ashley J. Hicks

    Ashley J. Hicks (a.k.a. Ash, she/her) works currently as a Programs Coordinator for A.R.T./New York.  Ash is an actor, writer, solo performer & teaching artist. She received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in 2021 and was a participant in the 2022 Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase. To learn more about Ashley and her past/recent projects, please visit www.ashley-j-hicks.com

    Additional Links:

    “What’s Off?” Production Staff
    David E. Shane, Executive Producer
    Erica Wray Barnes, Associate Producer
    Ashley J. Hicks and Nicky Maggio, Line Producers
    Dante32, Audio Engineer
    Devon Adams, Art Director/Graphic Design

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  • Announcing The 2024 Creative Opportunity Fund Recipients

    The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York) are thrilled to announce the 71 recipients of the 2024 NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program). Through this regrant program, $240,000 was distributed via flexible, general operating support grants to small theatres across New York State. 

    Recipients of the Creative Opportunity Fund were determined by a panel of theatre-makers from New York City and across the state. Nominations for panelists were solicited from the community, and 20 panelists met virtually to score and allocate funding for the 163 applicants. 

    A.R.T./New York is thrilled to partner for the seventh year with the New York State Council on the Arts to continue to build and strengthen the theatrical field statewide. 

    “New York’s nonprofit theaters are both artistic think tanks and an essential cornerstone of our world-renowned arts and culture sector,” said Erika Mallin, Executive Director of the New York State Council on the Arts. “Through this program with A.R.T./New York, I am so pleased that critical funding will reach 71 of these theaters across the State with flexible operating support. A round of applause to all of the grantees, along with our admiration for the incredible work that you do.”

    NYC Recipients of the 2024 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    Bond Street Theatre

    Broken Box Mime Theater

    Brooklyn Youth Company

    Chez Bushwick, Inc.

    Creative Stage Collective

    Crossing Jamaica Avenue

    Dancers Unlimited

    EXILED TONGUES

    Experimental Theatre Project Inc. (dba WOW Cafe Theater)

    Felice Lesser Dance Theater

    GLG

    Grand Pistachio

    Group BR Limited

    Hamlet Isn’t Dead

    Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, Inc.

    Infinite Variety Productions

    Inheritance Theater Project

    KEVIN RAY | WORKS

    Kids Creative Collective, Inc.

    Killer Queen Opera

    KPC – Keeping People Connected

    La Troupe Makandal, Inc.

    Latinx Playwrights Circle

    Little Red Light Theatre

    Mass Transit Street Theater

    Naked Angels Theater Company

    New Ambassadors Theatre Company

    One Whale’s Tale

    PinProductions

    PlayGround-New York

    Remote Theater Project

    Roaring Epiphany Production Company (REPC)

    Rock Rising, Inc.

    Rooted Theater Company

    Stage Aurora NY

    Steps Theatre & Production Company

    The Anthropologists

    The Associates Theater Ensemble

    The Drunkard’s Wife

    The PlayGround Experiment

    The Sixth Festival

    The Sống Collective

    The Tent

    Theatre East

    Theatre Untitled

    This Is Not A Theatre Company

    Unattended Baggage

    Undiscovered Works

    Untitled Theater Company No. 61

    Village Playwrights

    Outside-NYC Recipients of the 2024 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    Adirondack Stage Rats

    American Repertory Theater of WNY, Inc

    Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY

    Catskill Mountain Shakespeare

    Delaware Valley Opera Center

    Divaria Productions

    EastLine Theatre

    Farm Arts Collective

    Lilypad Puppet Theatre

    Lucid Dream Minigolf

    Northeast Stage

    Professor Aardvark

    Quick Silver Theater Company

    Raíces Theatre Company

    The Neo-Political Cowgirls

    Triphammer Arts Inc.

    Troy Foundry Theatre

    Turkish American Repertory Theater and Entertainment

    Unique Theatre

    Walking on Water Productions (WoW)

    Will Kempe’s Players Cooperative

    Panelists for the 2024 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    Stephanie Acosta
    Interdisciplinary Artist, Director and Activist

    Pascale Armand
    Quick Silver Theater Company

    Samantha Blain
    Co-Artistic Director at Hit The Lights! Co.

    Kristoph DiMaria
    Cofounder, Director of Development, Musical Director at Will Kempe’s Players Cooperative

    Janelle Garcia Domig (& Chris Domig)
    General Manager & Artistic Director, SeaDog Theater

    Jalissa Fulton
    Actress | Artistic & Community Programming Partner w/The Anthropologists Theater Co.

    Marianne Goodell
    Managing Director, Headwall Theatre Company

    Carrie Heitman
    Artistic Director, Hook & Eye Theater

    Hannah Johnson-Walsh
    Executive Director at Emit Theatre

    Tannis Kowalchuk
    Artistic Director, Farm Arts Collective

    Stacey Linnartz
    Actor, Producer, Teaching Artist

    Brendan Bo O’Connor
    Creator & Director, Lucid Dream

    Azure D. Osborne-Lee
    Theatre Maker

    Dolores Avery Pereira
    Artivist and Theater Maker

    Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez
    Co-Founder of One Whale’s Tale

    Peter Royston
    Stage Manager and Accessibility Advisor

    Jasmine Rush
    Actress/Director, company member for Quick Silver Theater Company and
    The Grove Theater NYC, Inc.

    Suzette Simon
    Joker-in-Chief / Laughter Mastermind at NYLaughs

    Leigh Walter
    Executive Creative Producer, Trusty Sidekick Theater Company

    Malka Wallick
    Actor-Writer-Producer & Founder at Girl Gang Production(s)

    The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, the Council on the Arts will award $127 million in FY 2024, serving over 2,000 arts organizations and artists across all 10 state regions. The Council on the Arts further advances New York’s creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, please visit www.arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA’s Facebook page, on X @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts.