The MTF community includes writers, composers, performers, choreographers, directors, music directors, dramaturgs, designers, and producers. Musical Theatre Factory is artist focused, and a space where writers can see their work, at any stage, on its feet. MTF is accessible to emerging musical theatre makers and builds bridges for them to connect with experts in the field, across disciplines. We are dedicated to developing new work in a collaborative atmosphere free from the pressures of critical or financial success that dismantles oppressive ideologies towards collective liberation...

Est. 1978 by four writers who met in the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, The Writers Room (WR) is New York City’s first and most acclaimed professional writers' colony – as well as the nation’s original writers' collective. Membership fee required. See website for details.

Created and taught by David Davila, the Voices of America Writers Workshop is a free eight-week workshop for people of color and members of the trans community who want to tell their own stories through play and screenwriting. The program was created in response to the inequality of opportunities available to marginalized communities. In this workshop writers use tools from creative writing, dramatic writing, and comedy writing/improv - focusing on idea generation, the art of dialogue, and story structure to create multi-dimensional characters and captivating narratives. At the end of the...

The PlayGround Experiment is a home for theatre artists to explore, test, and showcase new work while finding inspiration and support from the community that it creates.

WOW Café Theatre is a women’s theater collective in NYC’s East Village, which promotes the empowerment of women through the performing arts.

We are artists and organizers working to preserve, sustain, and grow the cultural vibrancy of the Lower East Side neighborhood. Our commitment to sustaining the cultural character and diversity of the community extends across the LES: from 14th Street to Canal, from Bowery to the East River. FABnyc works in partnership with the community bringing artists and arts strategies to – Fight physical and cultural displacement – Build collective power and collaboration – Increase equity and access to cultural resources and public space – Support local resiliency and community health.

IATI Theater’s Play Development Program, Cimientos, provides playwrights the opportunity to develop new, never-before produced plays through a community of cutting-edge theater artists. Through the PPP* and SRP*, Cimientos amplifies as clearly as possible the voice of the creational author who lays the foundations from which a dramatic work is conceived. Like IATI Theater, Cimientos, is committed to supporting playwrights and works that push conventions and explore the avant-garde. We recognize, however, that what is different and innovative is not always what is unconventional and therefore...

For the 2018-19 season, Experiments looks to the past while seeking out new emerging playwrights of all backgrounds. Experiments: 19 “Class Acts” will present works in progress inspired by classical texts. Each month, we will select an up-and-coming playwright who has re-imagined Shakespeare, a Greek tragedy or any number of classical texts to create a new, vibrant work that speaks to us today.

FRIGID New York's continuing mission is to seek out new art, new artists, and new audiences. We do this by creating an accessible community of varied voices that value collaboration, resourcefulness, diversity, and innovation. We provide a home for independent theater artists, with a focus on voices that require amplification. We nurture their development, and we help to establish their careers by promoting their work to local, national, and international audiences.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY is a unique Cultural Institution that has earned a nationwide reputation for its dedication to nurturing established and emerging playwrights who experiment with new forms and to presenting other experimental and developmental theaters with a very active program of Community Art Services and Festivals which continue to expand theater accessibility. Est. 2006. The newest division of the Resident Theater Program, NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD, is a reading series for worthy plays in earlier stages of development.

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

We are the 15th Street Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends, a prominent Quaker meeting in Manhattan, NYC. We have a large and beautiful landmark meetinghouse, as well as a courtyard, at our disposal for a production.