Since 2008, Blackboard has been devoted to Black playwrights throughout the African Diaspora.

The 29th Street Playwrights Collective develops the voices of emerging, mature playwrights through weekly writing sessions, craft discussions and presentations. Our goal is to foster new work for the stage while supporting the needs of the playwright, committing to gender parity (serving 50% women), and providing opportunities for the public to attend workshop performances and provide feedback.

Weekly workshops helmed by Emma Goldman Sherman are held in the theatre district in Midtown from 2 pm-6pm. Writing individually in a group is very helpful because we learn to push through blocks that can trip us up at home. Because everyone else in the room is writing, the pressure to continue helps us learn to push ourselves, and that habit can teach us that we usually can go further than we think we can, and we are often grateful for that little extra push! When we return home, we are able to work better, for longer periods, with greater focus. Writers do not share what was just written...

Black Box Performing Arts Center (BBPAC), a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in Teaneck 2015 and relocated to 49 East Palisade Avenue in Englewood in 2019, and Black Box Studios (BBS), which has operated in Bergen County since 2007, together form Northern NJ’s premiere theater and performing arts school combo. BBPAC is a working professional theater run by The Black Box Rep Company, a small, tight-knit group of collaborative artists, which self-generates full seasons of cutting edge theater, reviving classics both old and newer, while also developing original works for the intimate stage.

New American Voices (NAV), Queens Theatre's renowned new play development program, is dedicated to supporting writers who represent the rich cultural diversity of the evolving populations of the borough of Queens, New York City and the United States. Since its inception in 2002, approximately one hundred new works have received Play Readings, Showcases and Full Productions on Queens Theatre's three stages.

The DREAMing Out Loud Program at PEN America is a paid, tuition-free creative writing workshop series for young immigrant writers primarily those who are undocumented, DACA recipients, and/or DREAMers who came to the U.S. when they were children. By providing community and professional support to the next generation of immigrant writers, the program seeks to counter anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. and to amplify the voices of many living in this country who are marginalized because of their immigration status. At the end of the program, New York Theater Workshop will be producing a...

Live & In Color develops new work for the stage that promotes and celebrates diversity. Emphasizing non-traditional casting, multi-ethnic participants, and bold theatricality, we offer unique development opportunities for new plays and musicals that encourage dialogue among artists from a variety of cultures.

The Maestra Mentorship is a six-month hybrid partnering program which connects women and nonbinary musicians (ages eighteen and up) who are interested in continuing their pursuit of a career in making music for the theatre with professional women and nonbinary musicians currently working in the musical theatre industry. Prospective composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, instrumentalists, and lyricists are all encouraged to apply. MAESTRA provides support, visibility, and community for the women and non-binary people who make the music in the musical theater industry...

TRU was formed to promote a spirit of cooperation and support within the general theatre community by providing information and a variety of entertainment-related services and resources that strengthen the capacity of producing organizations, individuals producers, self-producing artists and other theater professionals. Created to nurture producers as well as writers, TRU VOICES seeks producer-driven projects, and also matches writers with producers. Each reading is followed by a “Dollars and Sense” panel discussion with prominent New York producers, general managers and artistic directors...

MISSION To develop and produce socially relevant theatre from a unique perspective that promotes community dialogue.

MISSION To develop and produce socially relevant theatre from a unique perspective that promotes community dialogue.