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Artistic director Darrell Lawrence Willis Sr., a retired theater professor at Brookdale Community College, co-founded Dunbar Repertory Company with Ramon James Morris in 1987. The company was founded at Brookdale to raise funds for the Black Student Union and is now the Middletown Arts Center’s resident company, staging at least three productions each year. It is known to residents as Monmouth County’s African-American Theater Company, and is committed to celebrating African-American culture through live literary readings, main stage theatrical productions, educational programs and services...

Two River Theater is committed to creating great American theater by developing and producing work by some of the country’s leading artists. We produce 6+ theatrical productions each year (including classics, world premieres, musicals, and theater for young audiences) and 40+ annual events that reflect our diverse community of Red Bank, New Jersey. Each year, we serve thousands of students and community members through arts and humanities programs at the theater, in schools, and throughout our region.

Est. 1997. NJ Rep is an off-Broadway, non-profit professional theatre company. We are dedicated to producing exciting new works for the American stage.

This is the application for ATG's new PlayLab, dedicated to providing a professional and supportive environment in which BIPOC and LGBTQ+ playwrights, as well as more oft-heard voices, can be heard and supported. The group will meet once every two weeks for 10 sessions during the Fall, Spring and Summer via Zoom and in person. Attendance at meetings is required. From the applicants, 8-10 playwrights will be chosen to participate in this new play development lab. There is no restriction on style or genre of playwriting that the applicants use. There is also no guarantee that acceptance...

AMERICAN THEATER GROUP produces new and classic works, primarily by American Playwrights, with an emphasis on the development of new works and the rediscovery of undeservedly neglected older ones. American Theater Group enlivens the lives of its audiences by making theater’s glorious possibilities accessible to the diverse community in which we live through heartfelt, inspiring performances as well as quality arts-in-education programming that nurtures and inspires the next generation of theater artists and audiences.

The Crossroads Theatre Company is dedicated to creating and producing professional theatre of the highest standards of artistic excellence that: * celebrates the culture, history, spirit and voices of the entire African Diaspora. *presents honest and positive portrayals of people of color from around the world. *provides a nurturing working environment for writers and artistic collaborators through supporting the commissioning, development, presentation and documentation of new scripts. *uses art to provoke and challenge a multicultural audience to a higher sense of communion. *educates...

The mission of George Street Playhouse is to enrich people’s lives by producing world-class theatre.

Joe Queenan and T.J. Elliott started writing their 'problem comedies'. These plays explore difficult issues in a humanistic and entertaining fashion seeking through their collaboration with actors, director, other theater professionals, and the audience to provoke discussion and understanding of issues and ideas critical to our time such as race, religion, and polarization. In order to avoid the drawn-out processes of submissions, they formed Knowledge Workings to self-produce this still growing work. Knowledge Workings is a member of Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York Our Mission:...

An independent, non-profit regional theater, we live in the heart of the new Princeton University Arts District and provide programs all over Princeton, Trenton, and throughout central New Jersey. McCarter Theatre is committed to nurturing new plays and artists through commissions, readings, workshops, retreats and productions. We identify new artists by carefully following the work around us through contact with other theaters, festivals, graduate programs and playwright development organizations, and through conversations with our colleagues around the country. Agents and artists with a...

Sundog Theatre, Inc. is a performing arts organization offering contemporary, original and thought-provoking theatre productions, a touring company that travels regionally, acting classes for young people, and arts-in-education programs that supplement classroom curricula through theatre, dance, music, and visual arts to help make learning come alive.

Est. 1991. Target Margin Theater exists to build a world where all people embrace the original, the challenging and the different. We change audiences with our plays, energetically expand the possibilities of live performance, and engage our community at all levels through partnerships and programs in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Our vision is to create a civically oriented laboratory where artists, community members, and the public are invited to engage in conversations about the oppression we face in society and create a movement to address this through non-violent, social change.