Wild Project provides a familiar home and attentive staff to our resident companies which enables the companies to continue their respective missions to serve the cultural landscape of New York City. Resident companies receive 2-8 weeks of exclusivity to Wild Project’s 89-seat theatre each year, which extends stability and clarity to theatre companies whose brand and artistic influence are experiencing growth.

The International Human Rights Art Festival provides a forum to international artists whose voices can be overlooked, underrepresented and, in some cases, actively repressed. We offer live performances in all media; a literary magazine; a recording platform and a yearly International Fellowship. We work with politicians, government agencies, social leaders and celebrities. We believe that creative engagement with all members of the society is the surest path toward social justice and positive change. We are looking for performance pieces in all media by NYC-based artists, which are built...

Wild Project provides a familiar home and attentive staff to our resident companies which enables the companies to continue their respective missions to serve the cultural landscape of New York City. Resident companies receive 2-8 weeks of exclusivity to Wild Project’s 89-seat theatre each year, which extends stability and clarity to theatre companies whose brand and artistic influence are experiencing growth.

Now in our 30th season, Obie Award-winning Metropolitan Playhouse is accepting submissions for its 17th presentation of East Village Chronicles, a festival of new one-act plays inspired by the diverse population, culture, and history of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. There is an honorarium of $100 for each script accepted for production.

FringeNYC is a smaller adjudicated festival, all within one block, area, or complex; Convening – of indie theatre, featuring panels, workshops, speakers; FringeBYOV – a twist on Bring Your Own Venue, where venues in other boroughs bring their own artists. See website for updates and details

The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater Inc. is headquartered in New York, NY, and is a 501(c)(3) organization. EIN: 13-3678199. Donations are tax-deductible. The IRS NTEE classification code is A650, Theater within the Arts, Culture and Humanities category.

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.

The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. Frigid NYC and the Fire This Time Festival provide opportunities for talented early career playwrights of African and African American descent to write and produce material that reflects diverse perspectives as 21st century theater artists and showcase this work to diverse audiences.

The Planet Connections Festivity is New York’s premiere socially-conscious arts festival. The Festivity is designed to invoke the power of art in motivating philanthropy, community outreach and social change.

The Women Center Stage Festival, formerly an initiative of Culture Project, New York’s premier home for socially conscious theater, is returning to New York this spring. Women Center Stage is part multidisciplinary performance/part multicultural salon; a place for artists to build community, share their stories, and create a fresh theatrical landscape. Founded in 1996, Culture Project is the preeminent destination for artistic work that investigates the most urgent social and political issues of our time. We believe art is a powerful force that can lift the human spirit, catalyze public...

Our mission is to showcase original productions by early-career theater artists who are creating work through robust and/or innovative collaborations. We aim to advocate for underrepresented artists and viewpoints, and to mount a festival annually that offers audiences a unique mix of work at various stages of development, promotes interaction and dialogue among artists, and builds a community around a season of theater.

FABnyc is launching an open call for socially-engaged artistic projects that draw attention to African and African-American histories of the Lower East Side. From the African Burial Ground under Sara D. Roosevelt Park to the African Free School of the 18th century; from the mixed-race dance halls on the Bowery to the impact of the Draft Riots, the Lower East Side is home to crucial layers of African-American history, too often missing from the stories of struggle and transformation that continue to define the neighborhood. While some remnants of these narratives can be read on building...