An advocate for the field of theatre and performance in higher education, ATHE serves as an intellectual and artistic center for producing new knowledge about theatre and performance-related disciplines, cultivating vital alliances with other scholarly and creative disciplines, linking with professional and community-based theatres, and promoting access and equity. Our mission is to support and advance the study and practice of theatre and performance in higher education.

Our programs support playwrights and theater artists at various stages in their careers, from beginning to emerging to established. Founded in 1971 by five writers seeking artistic and professional support, the Playwrights' Center today serves more playwrights in more ways than any other organization in the country. The Center has helped launch the careers of numerous nationally recognized artists, notably August Wilson, Lee Blessing, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jordan Harrison, Carlyle Brown, Craig Lucas, Jeffrey Hatcher, Melanie Marnich, and Kira Obolensky. Work developed through Center programs...

Our mission is to create, foster, and preserve affordable and sustainable space for artists and arts organizations. Artspace uses the tools of real estate development to construct or restore places where artists can affordably live and work, supports and contributes to an accelerating national movement of equitable, artist-led community development, and ensures that its spaces remain accessible to artists and their families in perpetuity.

ABOUT THE STUDIO The New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, presented in collaboration with Nautilus Music-Theater, is designed to provide an opportunity for five writers and five composers to work with professional performers, exploring the possibilities and basic elements of music-theater. The studio focuses on the process of collaboration through a series of brief exploratory assignments for the writers and composers. The exercises are then sight-read by the performers in brief working sessions. The participants rotate partners, and the process is repeated four more times. Within the...

Playwrights Ink is a Madison, WI non-profit association of theater artists dedicated to the development of playwrights and their work. Our members include area playwrights, actors, directors, and theater enthusiasts. Through informal readings at our monthly meetings we help writers develop their scripts. Actors read a writer’s script, which is followed by a discussion during which members explain what they thought was effective and offer constructive suggestions. Anyone can attend a meeting and offer feedback. While we are not a production company, we have on occasion presented public...

The Great Plains Theatre Commons was founded by Metropolitan Community College as the Great Plains Theatre Conference in 2006 under the vision and leadership of Dr. Jo Ann C. McDowell, President Emeriti of Metropolitan Community College. At the time, the concept of a national playwriting conference was uncharted territory for both the College and the community. Over the years, GPTConference found its roots both locally and nationally, and has helped develop hundreds of new American plays. In 2020, the Conference became an independent theatre nonprofit organization, the Great Plains Theatre...

The Authors Coalition of America LLC is an organization of twenty-three independent authors' organizations representing text writers, songwriters, visual artists, illustrators and photographers. This formal association marked a milestone in the history of American author groups, and our union has had a healthy unifying effect on American writers as a whole. Together, we represent over 58,000 authors and artists. The Coalition was formed in 1994, by ten founding Member Organizations, for the purpose of repatriating and distributing the creator's share of foreign non-title specific royalty...

ALLIANCE FOR JEWISH THEATRE is 501(c)3 non-profit organization made up of theatre-artists, theatres, and other people connected to theatre to promote the creation, presentation, and preservation of both traditional and non-traditional theatrical endeavors by, for, and about the Jewish experience.

Est. 1992, WTA is a union of theatre artists (female and male) and theatre organizations which support women, helping to promote leadership and provide opportunity within the theatre community. Alliance members are encouraged to share their advice, knowledge and expertise in the hopes of creating an environment of mutual support and unity in which women's theatre can flourish. WTA works to build a unified voice so that we can more effectively be advocates for women in theatre, publicize and promote our members and increase positive public awareness of our goals.

Chicago Dramatists (CD) nurtures playwrights of all levels with the space, resources, and collaborators needed to realize new work and thrive as artists.

Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries We foster excellence in our industries through education, networking, and camaraderie with industry leaders and colleagues.