Caliban is a three time MacDowell Fellow and has been a Resident Artist at the RS9 Theatre in Budapest, Hungary; The Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; HERE Art Center; and Galapagos Art Center. He was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant and has been a New York State Council on the Arts Panelist for Playwriting. In the academic world, Caliban has directed, taught and/or lectured at The National Theatre Conservatory, NYU, Columbia University, C.W. Post College, Hunter College, The City College of New York, Towson University, The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and The Director...

Plays and Pizza is a short play series developed by Rose Desena to bring writers and actors together. We meet monthly at We need a new location Plays and Pizza is a short play series developed by Rose Desena to bring writers and actors together. We meet monthly.

The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) is New York City’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQ+ theater company. We are dedicated to an honest and open exploration of the life experiences and cultural sensibilities of the LGBTQ+ community and to preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive. The Robert Chesley / Jane Chambers Playwrights Project is an ongoing, intermittent forum for playwrights to have their work presented to an invited audience. No staging. No Q and A. Just an opportunity for playwrights to be heard. The series honors...

The mission of the Black Opera Alliance is to empower Black classical artists and administrators by exposing systems of racial inequity and under-representation of the African diaspora in all facets of the industry and challenging institutions to implement drastic reform.

A lab to create a critical mass of TGNC plays so that the theater cannot say that this work never existed. In 2018, four trans and gender non-conforming playwrights/writing teams will develop 4 new plays in the Trans Lab Fellowship supported by the Women’s Project and The Public Theater. Plays written by trans and gender non-conforming playwrights are a rarity in American theater, as transgender stories get co-opted, commercialized, and poorly represented by cisgender writers, we are developing a lab to create a critical mass of tgnc plays so that the theater cannot say that this work never...

OUR MISSION at the Greenhouse Ensemble is to create an environment that nurtures deep-rooted engagement within our growing community. We cultivate audacity, weed self-doubt and bring light to creative impulses, pushing our Ensemble beyond their own expectations. Our multidisciplinary events compel and challenge audiences by immersing them in an atmosphere composed of diverse works of art.

Welcome to The Drawing Board: A Lab for Playwrights, Screenwriters, and Actors The Drawing Board helps writers in various stages of development to move forward through table reads, workshops, and staged readings.

North Star’s mission is to guide the future of storytelling in a post-pandemic world by endowing theater-makers with agile developmental practices and specialized creative teams.

Imaginarium Theatre Company Inc. is a nonprofit corporation registered in the state of New York. We are dedicated to creating stimulating stories for the modern world while pursuing and advocating for environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive practices in the theatre industry. We strive to provide opportunities for emerging artists to gain industry experience and work collaboratively in order to build networks of talent and generate new works that enrich contemporary theatre.

Hear Me Out Monologues seeks to expand and encourage new groundbreaking in the craft of monologue in order to better equip a generation of playwrights and screenwriters with the power to make unforgettable drama (and comedy) happen within the narrow confines of the Zoom box.

At Home Artists Project is a newly formed group of artists with a simple goal in mind: We create compelling live entertainment in order to fill the current cultural vacuum and promote a sense of community in a time of isolation, all while aiming to help support affected artists and philanthropic arts organizations.

Mission: To remove the “ILLUSION OF INCLUSION” in the American Theatre, by building a sustainable ethical roadmap that will increase employment opportunities for Black theatre professionals. Our vision is to reshape the working ecosystem for those who have been marginalized by systemically racist and biased ideology.