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  • Announcing the 2026 Creative Opportunity Fund Recipients

    Announcing the 2026 Creative Opportunity Fund Recipients

    Congratulations to the 2026 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 delighted to announce the 77 recipients of the 2026 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. 

    We received a record 175 applications for the Creative Opportunity Fund. 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 discuss, score, and allocate funding. 

    A.R.T./New York is thrilled to partner with the New York State Council on the Arts to continue to build and strengthen the theatrical field statewide. Read what a few of our past recipients have to say about the Creative Opportunity Fund.

    Erika Mallin, Executive Director of the New York State Council on the Arts said, 

    NYSCA is proud to support A.R.T./New York’s Creative Opportunity grants reaching 77 theaters with flexible operating support. Our nonprofit theaters are a powerful component of New York’s world-class arts and culture sector, producing challenging works and reaching new audiences with fresh perspectives.  Congratulations to all the grantees, we look forward to all you will accomplish this year.

    The Creative Opportunity Fund is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

    NYC Recipients of the 2026 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    24/6: A Jewish Theater Company

    Afro-Diasporic Ocean Festival

    Alva Puppet Theater

    Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble

    Around The Block / Al Doblar La Esquina

    Betterfly Productions

    Breaking the Binary Theatre

    Broken Box Mime Theater

    Brooklyn Youth Company

    Checkmark Productions

    Conch Shell Productions

    Creative Stage Collective

    Docbloc

    Drama of Works

    EarSay

    Fada’I Arts

    The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater

    Flatbush Community Theater

    Flying Leap Productions

    Hamlet Isn’t Dead

    in-version ensemble

    Infinite Variety Productions

    Kairos Italy Theater

    Kaiser’s Room

    Khunum Productions

    Kids Creative Collective

    Killer Queen Opera

    Keeping People Connected

    La Senta

    Making Our Space Theatre Co.

    Mass Transit Theater 

    MultiStages Theatre 

    Naked Angels Theater Company

    Narrows Community Theater

    New Ambassadors Theatre Company

    No, YOU Tell It!

    Off the Lane

    One Whale’s Tale

    Permafrost Theatre Collective

    Project Y Theatre

    Salvatore Larussa Dance Theatre

    sarAika movement collective

    Seoulful Productions

    Soft Brain Theatre Company

    Something from Abroad
    STEPS Theatre
    Future River/Superhero Clubhouse
    Taproot Creatives

    The Anthropologists

    The Episodic Theatre Project
    The Negro Ensemble Company

    The PlayGround Experiment

    The Workshop Theater
    UNITITLED Musical Project

    Village Playwrights
    WhyWOW Studio 

    Outside-NYC Recipients of the 2026 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    Adirondack Regional Theatre

    Batavia Players

    Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY

    Definitely Human Theatre

    Divaria Productions

    EastLine Theatre

    Empty Head Theater

    Farm Arts Collective

    Fort Salem Theater

    Geneseo Community Players

    Greenwood Lake Theater

    Lilypad Puppet Theatre 

    Northeast Stage

    Professor Aardvark

    Quick Silver Theater Company

    The Neo-Political Cowgirls

    Triphammer Arts

    Troy Foundry Theatre

    Unique Theatre Company

    Walking on Water Productions

    Will Kempe’s Players Cooperative

    Panelists for the 2026 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    Leah S. Abrams 

    Co-Founder and Executive Director of Undiscovered Works. 

    Pamela Billig
    Artistic Director, Caught in the Act Theater Festival (OBIE Grant)

    Vanessa Cappuccio-Baer

    Co-Founder, Definitely Human Theatre & Funding Coordinator, Arts Mid-Hudson

    Catherine Gold

    Director

    Jose Ignacio Vivero

    Artistic Director, PinProductions 

    Neophytos Ioannou 

    Program & Communications Manager, Queens College School of Arts

    Grants Manager, Kupferberg Center for the Arts 

    Adam Mummery 

    Grants Manager at The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation 

    Rula A. Muñoz

    Director, Performer, Producer & Writer

    Jolene Noelle

    Dramaturg & Director of Institutional Giving, St. Ann’s Warehouse

    Samantha Ozeas

    Director

    Karina Camile Parker

    Co-Founder of Killer Queen Opera

    Sarah Reny

    Founder & Artistic Director of Catskill Mountain Shakespeare

    India Shanelle 

    Strategic Projects & Exec. Support Manager of IndieSpace

    Mike Spara

    Actor, Writer and Educator

    Joseph Therrien

    Boxcutter Collective Founding Member

    Nick Thomas

    Actor, Writer, Producer, spit&vigor theatre co.

    Cindy Tsai

    Performer, Producer, and Arts Administrator

    Lauren Wagner

    Executive Director, Long Island Arts Alliance

    Kiera Wolfe

    Marketing Manager, Ensemble Studio Theatre & Prose Editor, Mudroom Magazine

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Announcing The FY24 Edith Lutyen & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund Recipients

    A.R.T./New York is proud to announce the FY24 recipients of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund! The following eight companies received a total of $75,750 for their productions.

    Houses on the Moon Theater Company // Hotel Happy

    To support Matt Acheson’s design and building of a beautiful, expressive, functional and durable donkey puppet for Camilo Almonacid’s Hotel Happy. 

    KEVIN RAY | WORKS // WE

    To support immersive projections for a devised play based on Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1921 science fiction dystopian novel WE. 

    Krymov Lab NYC // Onegin

    To support the creation of 200 puppets for the performance of Onegin (In our Own Words).  

    Red Snapper Productions // Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month

    To support puppetry and set design enhancement for Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month, a daring, strange new work written and performed by Becca Blackwell, directed by Jess Barbagallo, with immersive production design by Greg Corbino. 

    Rooted Theater Company // Linden Park

    To support set design for a new play called Linden Park written by Brandice Peltier and Kareem Nemley. 

    Sinking Ship Productions // The Voyages of Egon Tichy

    To support building a multi-layer toy theater for The Voyages of Egon Tichy, a hybrid-in-person/digital performance adapted from two science fiction stories by Stanislaw Lem, built by Sinking Ship in collaboration with Obie award-winning Theater in Quarantine.

    Transforma Theatre // Bioadapted

    To support the task of creating an avatar embodying AI system ​GPT​-3 for Bioadapted, a theatre reenactment investigative documentary about what our future might look like if AI propagates in unethical ways that don’t serve humankind.

    Christina Masciotti’s No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh 

    To support set and costume design for the world premiere of Christina Masciotti’s No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh. Set in a tailor shop, the vision is an abstracted workroom dominated by racks of clothing. 

    FY24 Edith Lutyens & Norman Bel Geddes

    Design Enhancement Fund Panelists

    • Rebecca Bickley Clayton, Freelance Technical Director & Scenic Carpenter
    • Sara Fellini, Artistic Director, spit&vigor
    • Joshua William Gelb, Theater in Quarantine
    • Kimberly O’Loughlin, Sound Designer
    • Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa, Freelance Lighting Designer & Production Manager

  • Announcing The Inaugural Recipients of The New York City Small Theatres Fund 

    2022 – 2024 NYC Small Theatres Fund Recipients

    The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and the Howard Gilman Foundation are thrilled to announce the 23 recipients of the inaugural cycle of the New York City Small Theatres Fund. Selected from an initial application pool of over 170 applications, the funded theatres will receive two years of flexible, general operating support to support the operations of their theatre companies. As New York City theatres continue to recover from the impacts of the ongoing pandemic, we are excited to be able to provide multi-year support to this vibrant and crucial segment of New York City’s cultural ecosystem. 

    The incredible small theatres funded through this year’s grant cycle represent a range of theatrical aesthetics, organizational structures, methods of working, and artistic communities served. They include theatres working with young audiences, documentary theatres, developmental companies, venues and itinerant theatres, theatres focused on serving a specific geographic or 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. Adam Odsess-Rubin, Founding Artistic Director of National Queer Theatre shared, “This is our first-ever multi-year grant, an important marker in establishing our sustainability to continue providing impactful programming to LGBTQ+ artists and audiences across New York.” Congratulations to the inaugural recipients! 

    Recipients of the 2022-2024 Small Theatres Fund

    Amaterasu Za

    Amaterasu Za features talented bi-lingual theater artists exploring classic and contemporary Japanese works for Japanese and English-speaking audiences. Through our productions and ongoing training in Japanese-influenced movement and theater techniques, Amaterasu Za hopes to foster a deeper understanding between cultures, and a deeper understanding for Japanese-Americans and Japanese living in the US of their own cultural heritage that is so under-represented and misunderstood in popular culture.

    amaterasuza.org

    Amerinda Theater

    Amerinda’s mission is to make the indigenous perspective in the arts available to a broad audience through the creation of new work in contemporary art forms.

    amerinda.org

    Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop

    BRTW exists to disrupt any and all oppressive systems that marginalize Black people using narrative and performance as a methodology to recenter Black people and experiences. With economic, social, educational, healthcare, housing, and political injustice facing our community, BRTW aims to tackle the issues that impact us while becoming a beacon for Black opportunity within the arts.

    TheBRTW.org

    Blackberry Productions

    Blackberry Productions is a Documentary Theater Company that develops and produces theater that sheds light on issues impacting our communities and brings cross-sections of the community together to encourage greater cultural awareness, compassion, and community capital.

    blackberryproductionsco.org

    Emit Theatre Inc

    Emit Theatre is an immersive educational theatre company committed to creating theatrical experiences through which learners of all kinds have the freedom to explore stories through direct interactions. At our core is a dedication to inclusive learning through the arts, placing artists and audiences side by side to provide one-of-a-kind opportunities for wonder and discovery. We are committed to sharing high-quality adaptations of Shakespeare and innovative new works with diverse young audiences in non-traditional settings and ADA compliant spaces. We invite each audience member to approach our productions from their own curiosity with a high level of agency.

    emittheatre.org

    Grand Pistachio

    Grand Pistachio creates original theater for young people utilizing larger than life forms of puppetry, mask, and music. Our mission is to help young audiences build empathy, see resiliency in action, and provide context for how their own stories are connected to and shaped by history. We achieve these goals by highlighting the stories of people who may not be included in history books or cultural records. Through this lens we explore the hardships of immigrant families in Layer the Walls, untapped poetic potential within ourselves in Blown Away By Poetry, and dangers of sanitation workers in City of Trash.

    grandpistachio.com

    IRT Theater

    IRT is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work.

    irttheater.org

    Kyoung’s Pacific Beat

    Kyoung’s Pacific Beat (KPB) is a peacemaking theater collective dedicated to working with artists, non-artists, and local communities to transform experiences of oppression into peace messages through public performance.

    kyoungspacificbeat.org

    LEIMAY

    Founded in 1996, LEIMAY (CAVE Organization Inc.) is an arts organization/ensemble that stimulates dialogue on multidisciplinary performing arts; develops LUDUS (a training program in the lineage of Butoh and experimental theater); offers space and residencies; and shares creations from the LEIMAY Ensemble made by its co-directors Ximena Garnica (Colombian) and Shige Moriya (Japanese). Their activities take place at CAVE in Brooklyn and other venues in NYC, the Americas, and beyond.

    LEIMAYfoundation

    Leviathan Lab

    Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning, NYC-based nonprofit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre artists and their work. Through the speaking of AAPI artists’ words, and the presentation of AAPI bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established AAPI artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve.

    leviathanlab.com

    National Queer Theater

    National Queer Theater is an innovative theater collective dedicated to celebrating the brilliance of generations of LGBTQ artists and providing a home for unheard storytellers and activists. By serving our elders, youth, and working professionals, NQT creates a more just future through radical and evocative theater experiences and free community classes.

    nationalqueertheater.org

    Nightdrive

    Nightdrive makes rigorously irreverent, demandingly vulnerable, borderline-impossible plays that use indelible moments of stagecraft to build thrillingly personal relationships with audiences, empowering them to reimagine themselves and what they’re capable of. Dispatching new, surprising ways of telling stories that we create in our hyper-collaborative playmaking process, Nightdrive chauffeurs our artists and audiences through the darkness of the world outside, the quiet horror of sharing their tenderness, and the clandestine rush of taking risks together anyway, practicing the collective compassion and boldness it will take to make a more profoundly imaginative world together in the morning.

    nightdrive.org

    Noor Theatre

    Noor Theatre is an OBIE-winning company with a mission to support, develop, and produce the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern and North African/South West Asian and North African (MENA/SWANA) descent.

    noortheatre.org

    Oye Group

    Oye Group is a Brooklyn based Production Company that serves as an incubator for artists both local and immigrant to New York City. We present an eclectic mix of theater, dance, poetry, music, video installations and film, through festivals and productions. We curate work that sparks a dialogue over political and social issues critical to our community’s growth. We work with emerging artists to create, play, and grow in an environment that challenges and supports them. We also provide quality arts education programming that gives our Brooklyn Community the tools to generate forward-thinking art.

    oyegroup.org

    Patty Cake Theatre

    Patty Cake Theatre’s mission is to foster educational excellence by helping to shape character through theater, film and classes thus encouraging creativity, personal growth and social responsibility. Our slogan is: “Enrichment Beyond The Classroom”

    jurukan.org

    Pioneers Go East Collective

    Since 2010, Pioneers Go East Collective inspires a lively exchange of queer art and culture by connecting people to ideas and experiences. Dedicated to performing artists who explore stories of vulnerability and courage for social change, we empower LGBTQ and Feminist artists reflecting on issues still affecting our community. The collective’s generative process has been inspired by the Walt Whitman poem, “O Pioneers!” that pays homage to the pioneers who ventured forth courageously seeking a brighter future. Similarly, the collective comprises Latinx and BIPOC immigrant artists and arts educators, taking risks and revealing stories that reflect individual strength.

    pioneersgoeast.org

    Pipeline Theatre Company

    Pipeline Theatre Company believes that an unbridled imagination is a force of magic with the power to provoke a more courageous and compassionate world.

    pipelinetheatre.org

    Rooted Theater Company

    Rooted Theater company engages, challenges, and inspires audiences through theatrical productions that range from the classics to new and emerging works; our programming encourages social consciousness through Real, Open, and Objective Theater Education. We celebrate the diversity of our community’s roots, our present struggles, and future successes through intentional theater.

    rootedtheaterco.org

    Safe Harbors NYC

    Safe Harbors focuses on the development and production of Native Theater and Performing Arts in New York City within the broader American theater; we combat stereotypes and support vibrant Native communities. We develop ongoing dialogue with Policymakers about the approach to cultural and socioeconomic issues using Theatrical performances, Performing Arts, Native Cultural Consultancy, panel discussions, and Cultural Events.

    safeharborsnyc.org

    Spiderwoman Theater

    Spiderwoman Theater’s mission is to inspire, nurture and challenge Indigenous and women theater artists and their communities to discover and explore their dreams and their futures through collective storytelling and performance through theater performance, training and cultural education rooted in an urban Indigenous performance practice.

    spiderwomantheater.org

    The Parsnip Ship

    The Parsnip Ship is a podcast play company that amplifies bold artists for audiences who crave accessible stories and storytellers. Our live events and audio podcasts are eclectic and transformative, creating communities in person and digitally. Through our work, we revolutionize the way you hear theater.

    theparsnipship.com

    Trusty Sidekick Theater Company

    The audience is the hero. We are their trusty sidekick. Based in New York City, Trusty Sidekick Theater Company creates bold, original productions for young people and their families. By developing new work in collaboration with young audiences as dramaturgs, every adventure is rooted firmly in the belief that kids deserve theater that ignites their imaginations and makes them think about the world in a new way.

    trustysidekick.org

    Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

    Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre’s mission is to create invigorating performance and education initiatives that expand access to – and promote understanding through – the arts.

    ysdt.org

    Panelists for the 2022 – 2024 Small Theatres Fund:

    Becky Baumwoll
    Artistic Director at Broken Box Mime Theater and Associate at Arts Action Research

    Amara Brady
    Freelance Generative Artist 

    Hope Chávez
    Former Director of Artistic Planning at Long Wharf Theatre and Freelance Consultant and Facilitator

    Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
    Freelance Playwright

    Hannah Fenlon
    Consultant and Cultural Strategist

    Chelsea Fryer
    Artistic Programs Manager at The Playwrights Realm

    Ryan Gedrich
    Advancement Director at Clubbed Thumb

    Arnaldo J. López
    Managing Director at Pregones/PRTT

    Lauren Miller
    Development Director at The Bushwick Starr

    Patrice Miller
    Artistic Associate at Untitled Theater Company #61

    A.J. Muhammed
    Producer at The Fire This Time Festival and Dramaturg

    Robert Neill
    Artistic Director & Founding Ensemble Member at the New York Neo-Futurists

    Jolene Noelle
    Institutional Giving Manager at Rattlestick Theater

    Lauren Nordvig
    Programs Manager at the Brooklyn Arts Council

    Holly Sansom
    Operations Director at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC

    Martha Steketee
    Freelance Dramaturg, Critic, and Researcher

    Suzi Takahashi
    Freelance Actor and Director

    Kate Trammell
    Managing Director at the New York Theatre Barn

    Ellpetha Tsivicos
    Co-founder of One Whale’s Tale

  • Announcing The 2023 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 91 recipients of the 2023 NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program). Through this regrant program, $340,000 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 113 applicants. 

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

    “A.R.T./New York’s strategic investments in nonprofit theatres are critical to the growth and viability of New York’s arts and culture sector,” said NYSCA Executive Director Mara Manus. “NYSCA is  thrilled to work with A.R.T./New York at this critical juncture in our sector’s recovery to ensure that these vital dollars reach theatres statewide. On behalf of the entire NYSCA Team, congratulations to all 91 awardees!”

    NYC Recipients of the 2023 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    American Theatre of Actors, Inc. (ATA)

    Astoria Performing Arts Center

    Barefoot Shakespeare Company

    Bated Breath Theatre Company

    Blessed Unrest

    Brave New World Repertory Theatre

    Broken Box Mime Theater

    Brooklyn Youth Company

    Chez Bushwick

    Chickenshed NYC

    Circus Amok

    Dancers Unlimited

    EXILED TONGUES

    General Mischief Dance Theatre

    Group BR Limited

    Headwall Theatre Company 

    Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre

    Hypokrit Theatre Company

    ID Studio

    Immersion

    Infinite Variety Productions

    Jewish Plays Project

    Kaisers Room

    Katharine Pettit Creative – KPC

    Kids Creative Collective, Inc.

    La Troupe Makandal

    Latinx Playwrights Circle

    Less Than Rent Theatre

    Little Lord

    LubDub Theatre Co

    Mass Transit Theater

    Meta-Phys Ed.

    Monk Parrots

    Naked Angels Theater Company

    National Queer Theater

    New Ambassadors Theatre Company

    NYLaughs, Inc.

    Oye Group

    Patty Cake Theater

    Project Y Theatre

    Remote Theater Project

    Ring of Keys

    Ripple Effect Artists, Inc.

    Rooftop Musical Society

    Rooted Theater Company

    Stage Aurora NY

    Step1 Theatre Project

    Steps Theatre & Production Company

    Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble

    TGD Productions 

    The Anthropologists

    The Associates Theater Ensemble

    The Other Side Of Silence (TOSOS)

    The Parsnip Ship

    The PlayGround Experiment

    The Private Theatre

    The SuperGeographic Ensemble Theatre Inc.

    The Workshop Theater

    Theater in Quarantine

    Theatre Now New York

    Titan Theatre Company

    Undiscovered Works

    Untitled Theater Company No. 61

    UP Theater Company

    USE: Underground Skills Exchange

    What Will the Neighbors Say?

    WOW Cafe Theater

    Outside-NYC Recipients of the 2023 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    Adirondack Regional Theatre

    Adirondack Stage Rats

    Artistry Community Theatre (ACT)

    Bellissima Productions

    Book & Blanket Players

    Divaria Productions

    EastLine Theatre

    Essex Theatre Company (ETC)

    Farm Arts Collective

    FIRST LOOK BUFFALO THEATRE COMPANY INC.

    Horton by the Stream Theatre Co.

    Lilypad Puppet Theatre

    Lucid Dream

    Quick Silver Theater Company

    The Community Synagogue Theater Company

    The Outer Loop Theater Experience

    The Secret City

    The Whallonsburg Grange Hall (WGH)

    Triphammer Arts

    Troy Foundry Theatre

    Unique Theatre Inc.

    Valatie Community Theatre

    Walking on Water Productions (WoW)

    Westchester Collaborative Theater

    Panelists for the 2023 Creative Opportunity Fund:

    Derya Celikkol
    Freelance Actor & Set Designer

    James Clements
    Theatremaker and Co-Artistic Director, What Will the Neighbours Say?

    Rachel Colbert
    Fundraising Consultant and Producer

    Kelly Copps
    Artistic Director, Second Generation Theatre

    Rick Hamilton
    Managing Director, Chain Theatre/Chain NYC Film Festival

    Danny Higgins
    Co-Artistic Director, EastLine Theatre

    Priscilla Hummel
    Founder & Producing Artistic Director, Walking on Water Productions (WoW)

    Sarah Norris
    Found Artistic Director, New Light Theater Project and Artistic & Community Engagement Producer, Pendragon Theatre

    Joseph Mace
    Founder, Total Philanthropy

    Kristin Marting
    Founding Artistic Director, HERE and Co-Founding Director, Prototype Festival

    Rory McGregor
    Freelance Theatre Director

    Remy-Jean Monnay
    Producing Artistic Director, Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY

    Madelyn Paquette
    General Manager, The 24 Hour Plays and Managing Producer, Moxie Arts NY

    Katiana Rangel
    Associate Producer, New York City Players

    Nicole Savin
    Co-Artistic Director, EastLine Theatre

    Caitlin Saylor Stephens
    Artist in Residence, Lincoln Center Theater

    Emily Vartanian
    Head Troublemaker, General Mischief Dance Theatre

    Nicholas Viselli
    Artistic Director, Theater Breaking Through Barriers

    Keith Weiss
    Leadership Circle, The Fled

    Laura Zlatos
    Individual Giving Manager, Rattlestick Theater

  • Announcing The FY23 Edith Lutyen & Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund Recipients

    A.R.T./New York is proud to announce the FY23 recipients of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund! The following nine companies received a total of $75,400 for their upcoming productions.

    The Movement Theatre Company // The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents The 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion In The Grand Ballroom Of The Renaissance Hotel (The Cotillion)
    To support costume and hair design enhancements by Mika Eubanks

    Theatre Mitu
    To support design enhancement for a new work

    Grand Pistachio // Layer the Walls Part 2
    To support scenic enhancements by Peiyi Wong Layer the Walls Part 2 

    Anonymous Ensemble // Llontop
    To support lighting design enhancements by Lucrecia Briceno 

    Kyoung’s Pacific Beat // NERO
    To support costume design enhancements by Andrew Jordan

    The Bushwick Starr // demons. by Keelay Gipson
    To support puppet design enhancements by Cedwan Hooks

    HERE // mɔːnɪŋ
    To support sound enhancement design by Hidenori Nakajo and Gelsey Bell 

    Pioneers Go East Collective // Electric Blue
    To support scenic, projection, and sound design enhancements by Philip Treviño 

    Spellbound Theatre // Shakespeare’s Stars
    To support scenic and lighting enhancements by Valerie Reid

    Panelists

    • Anthony Dean – Technical Director, The New York Neo-Futurists
    • Tjaša Ferme – Founding Artistic Director of Transforma Theatre
    • Winston Estevez – Artistic Director, IATI Theater
    • Dante Olivia Smith – Lighting Designer
    • Jennifer Paar – Costume Designer, Co-Founder The Costume Studio

  • Announcing The 2022 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 108 recipients of the 2022 NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program). Through this regrant program, $340,000 was distributed via flexible, general operating support grants to small theatres across New York State. Over the past two years, the coronavirus pandemic has had an outsized impact on the performing arts community, who have pivoted to new forms and methods of engaging with their artists and audiences. We hope this funding can support theatres in capacity building and stabilization as theatres continue the ongoing work of recovery.

    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 145 applicants. 

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

    “A.R.T./New York’s thoughtful, targeted, and focused approach to make impactful investments in nonprofit theatres drives the development of New York’s theatrical sector,” said NYSCA Executive Director Mara Manus. “The performing arts were one of the hardest hit areas of the creative sector, and we are thrilled to work with A.R.T./New York to ensure that these vital dollars reach theatres statewide. On behalf of the entire NYSCA Team, congratulations to all 108 awardees!” 

    Recipients of the 2022 Creative Opportunity Fund Grant:

    #HealMeToo Productions

    Access Theater

    Act Now Foundation-New Voices in Theater

    Amaterasu Za

    Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop

    Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York

    Brave New World Repertory Theatre

    Broken Box Mime Theater

    Brooklyn Youth Company

    Byzantine Choral Project

    Civic Ensemble

    Conch Shell Productions

    Deadhorse Productions

    Delaware Valley Opera

    DENIZEN Theatre

    Dirty Laundry Theatre

    Divaria Productions

    EastLine Theatre

    Et Alia Theater

    EXILED TONGUES

    Exquisite Corpse Company

    Farm Arts Collective

    FELT THEATER Inc (The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater Inc)

    General Mischief Dance Theatre

    Grand Pistachio

    Greenwood Lake Theater

    Group Dot BR

    Gung Ho Projects

    Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre

    Hit The Lights! Theater Co.

    Hook & Eye Theater

    Hudson Valley Performing Arts Laboratory (The Lab)

    Hypokrit Productions

    Infinite Variety Productions

    Journalists Theatre Co

    JV Squad presents Theater in Quarantine

    Kairos Italy Theater

    Katharine Pettit Creative – KPC

    KNOW Theatre

    Kyoung’s Pacific Beat

    La Troupe Makandal

    Latinx Playwrights Circle

    Lilypad Puppet Theatre Inc.

    Little Lord

    LubDub Theatre Co

    Maaa Theater

    Mass Transit Street Theater Inc

    Moxie Arts NY

    Naked Angels Theater Company

    National Queer Theater

    NewYorkRep

    Nightdrive

    North Coast Hip Hop Improv

    North Fork Community Theatre

    Northeast Stage

    NorthEast Theatre Ensemble

    Notch Theatre Company

    NWM Bombs & Blooms Historical Musical Theater Project

    NYLaughs Inc.

    One Whale’s Tale

    Oye Group

    Patty Cake Theatre

    Piehole

    Poetic Theater Productions

    Project Y Theatre

    Quick Silver Theater Company

    Raices Theatre Company

    Remote Theater Project (RTP)

    Ring of Keys Coalition

    Ripple Effect Artists

    Rooted Theater Company

    Safe Harbors NYC

    SALVATORE LARUSSA DANCE THEATRE

    Sea Dog Theater

    SheNYC Arts

    Smith Street Stage

    Spellbound Theatre

    Stage Aurora NY

    STEPS Theatre

    Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble

    Studio Theater in Exile

    The Anthropologists

    The Community Synagogue Theater Company

    The Drunkard’s Wife

    the feath3r theory

    The Hearth

    The Muse Brooklyn

    The Muse Project

    The Neo-Political Cowgirls

    The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS)

    The Parsnip Ship

    The Seeing Place Theater

    The Theater at Woodshill

    Theater in Asylum

    Theatre Now New York

    Titan Productions, Incorporated

    Triphammer Arts, Inc.

    Troy Foundry Theatre

    Turkish American Repertory Theater and Entertainment

    Unique Theatre Company Inc.

    USE: Underground Skills Exchange

    Valatie Community Theatre

    Voyage Theater Company

    Walking on Water Productions (WoW)

    Westchester Collaborative Theater

    What Will the Neighbors Say?

    Will Kempe’s Players Cooperative

    WOW Cafe Theater

    Panelists for the 2022 Creative Opportunity Fund Grant:

    Omonike Akinyemi
    Artistic Director, Image Quilt Dance Theater

    Moe Angelos
    Company Member, The Builders Association

    Brian Beirne
    Managing Director, 59E59 Theaters & The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation

    Sean Crawford
    Executive Assistant/Office Manager, Shakespeare in Delaware Park

    Katy Donnelly
    Managing Director, The Parsnip Ship

    Ashley Jones
    Associate Artist, PUSH Physical Theatre

    Meredith Lucio
    Producing Director, The Assembly

    Emily Lyon
    Incoming Artistic Director, Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre

    Mara McEwin
    Artistic Director, Treehouse Shakers

    Melissa Moschitto
    Artistic Director, The Anthropologists

    Nella Mupier
    Director of Programs, Girl Be Heard

    Katie Palmer
    Co-Artistic Director, Theater in Asylum & Executive Director, Together in Dance

    Vanessa Pereda
    Education + Community Director at The Bushwick Starr

    Steven Prestia
    Grants for the Arts Assistant, Huntington Arts Council

    Rosalba Rolon
    Artistic Director, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT)

    Kori Rushton
    Producing Artistic Director, IRT Theater

    Kyra Sims
    Senior Ensemble Member & Education Chair, New York Neo-Futurists

    Sean Tecson
    Freelance Director, Producer, and Theatre Arts Educator

    Tony Williams II
    Artistic Director, Astoria Performing Arts Center (A.P.A.C.)

    Kristina Wong
    Solo Theater Artist