First World Theatre Ensemble, resident theatre at CEC, is a professional company that uses the stage as a platform for change. Zuhairah McGill, Founder

The Annenberg Center is dedicated to the advancement of a diverse and thriving cultural community through the pursuit of excellence, innovation and intellectual engagement in the performing arts. Affirming its core belief in the power of the arts to transform lives, the Annenberg Center embraces creative expression from the past and the present, of local and global origin, to expand the worlds of all who participate. As a destination and a resource, the Annenberg Center connects and engages artists, audiences, the University of Pennsylvania and the regional community through shared...

Jouska PlayWorks is an assembly of Black playwrights, all of whom are committed to creating theatre to enrich, entertain, empower, and awaken the moral conscience. Simpatico Theatre promotes positive social change in the Philadelphia community through theatre.

We promotr positive social change in the Philadelphia community through theatre.

Orbiter 3 is part of a national momentum to increase production of new plays by local writers, fueled by artists, theaters, and playwright support organizations that share a belief in the importance of new plays.

Notes: Founded in 1999, Azuka Theatre's mission is to strengthen the connection and shared humanity among its diverse audiences by giving voice to the people whose stories go unheard. The company has built a reputation for accessible, thought-provoking and socially conscious theater and been hailed as a “major player on the Philadelphia alternative theatre scene’” by Philadelphia Weekly. Azuka was the first theatre in Philadephia to adopt a fully Pay What You Decide ticketing model for all productions.

We are a Philadelphia theatre production company and the home of a play a pie and a pint®

The Bridge PHL strives to foster healing connections between our rich and diverse communities by encouraging openness and dialogue on racial prejudice, privilege, inclusion, intersectionality and bias.

Sewer Rat Productions is an organized collaboration of artists. We are dedicated to producing and developing new works that offers a multitude of perspectives on art as a whole. We embrace and mold conventions in order to express the unmistakable beauty in this world despite it's persistent ability to turn things upside-down. We pool together our artistic resources in order to create something unique and special. Our mission is to create professional works that embrace a compassion for all aspects of humanity.

A feminist theatre ensemble presenting their first production, THIS IS HOW GIRLS DIE, January 2019.

Free Fringe Philly was created in 2019 in part as a direct response to the capitalist pay-to-play festival model. We, like other Free Fringe Festivals, believe there is no scarcity of creative desire, audience interest, or talent. We believe that creating and enjoying art is life-sustaining and playing to be included in a festival that serves the desires of the super-chosen or super-funded is not a festival for THE people. It is a festival for *some* people. Free Fringe Philly is an act of protest. We believe our city deserves more art, not less. We protest the idea that art makers should...