Organizations Type : DG Affiliate

Artists Repertory Theatre’s mission is to produce intimate, provocative theatre and provide a home for artists and audiences of varied backgrounds to take creative risks. Artists Rep is Portland’s premiere mid-size regional theatre company, and is led by Artistic Director/Interim Managing Director Dámaso Rodríguez. Founded in 1982, Artists Repertory Theatre is the longest-running professional theatre company in Portland.

Our mission is to cultivate a diverse and vibrant arts community while creating opportunities for local and emerging artists through performances and education.

To develop and produce predominantly new work, specifically in the short play and short musicals genre; Leverage our theatrical expertise to engage and educate the community; Provide thought leadership to the theatrical industry.

Each year, four new, unpublished works for young audiences are chosen by a panel of artists and playwrights and presented by professional artists in two staged readings. The playwrights talk about their work, and artists and audience have the opportunity to join the discussion. At the conclusion of the festival, one of the new plays is chosen to be mounted as a Main Stage production.

We produce new plays that explore the challenging political and social questions of our times.

Luna Stage develops and produces thought-provoking theatre that gives voice to emerging American playwrights and new life to contemporary and classic plays that speak to our times. As producer, educator and innovator, Luna Stage is committed to collaborating with artists of multiple disciplines and partnering with our community to illuminate the diverse perspectives of our society.

North Coast Rep’s mission is to create a platform where artist and audience thrive through the intimacy of live theatre, recognizing the power of theatre to challenge complacency, revitalize the imagination, nurture the unexpected and embrace the variety and diversity in our lives.

The PRT periodically commissions out-of-town directors from other cities and collaborates with local companies that include the Irish Classical Theatre, Ujima Company, Inc., Shea’s Performing Arts Theatre and MusicalFare Theatre, among others. The 130-seat physical theater is housed inside of the African American Cultural Center at 350 Masten Avenue. The Paul Robeson Theatre season runs from September to May, with an average of five productions that focus on the African American experience. Season subscriptions and group rates are available.

Playhouse on the Square is Memphis’ only professional resident theatre. Playhouse on the Square remains committed to its mission to produce a challenging and diverse repertoire of theatrical work, to provide a nurturing artistic home where artists can practice their craft and share their talent, and to make all productions available through access, outreach, & education.

Playwrights Local is dedicated to supporting the dramatists of Northeast Ohio. As a playwrights’ development and production center, we foster diverse talents and present locally written works. We strive to increase the impact of original theater on the community and to raise the profile of area playwrights both within Greater Cleveland and beyond.

Urban Stages is a not-for-profit, Off-Broadway Theatre Company founded in 1984 by current Artistic Director Frances Hill. Our mission: To champion new works by artists of diverse cultural backgrounds and to make these works available to all. We do this by discovering and nurturing artists through our DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, investing in artists through our MAINSTAGE PROGRAM that produces new work Off-Broadway, and by touring artists, admission-free plays/workshops and more via our OUTREACH PROGRAM! Urban Stages seeks to give talents a venue to address the multi-faceted issues facing our contemporary world and the resources to develop their voices and gifts. We also work hard to eliminate the economic and geographic barriers around art and theater in order to make both more accessible and...

We are a non-profit presenting organization dedicated to supporting the very best American and International theatrical premieres, in three venues.

The award-winning and critically acclaimed Fine Arts Center Theatre Company produces an annual season of musicals, comedies, and dramas and has gained a reputation for high-quality productions and Colorado premieres of new American work.

The Chain Theatre is a production company whose goal is to create artistic work that is accessible, relatable, and invokes a visceral response in the audience through the mediums of theatre and film. We provide opportunities for New York based artists to experience challenging subject matters and universal themes. The Chain Theatre produces play festival competitions, international film festivals, comedy events, parody readings, and screenings of cult classics and cinema favorites.

Miami New Drama is a presenting theatre organization. Our work celebrates, and is designed for, Miami’s unique multicultural audience. We are dedicated to placing our city at the helm of the national theatre conversation through exceptional works by American, Latin American, and international artists. By sharing work where cultures, dialogues, and communities intersect, we create extraordinary stories for an extraordinary city.

Independent, intercultural, entertaining, and uncensored, Mosaic Theater Company is a not-for-profit organization committed to making transformational, socially-relevant art. We produce plays by authors on the front lines of conflict zones, and to building a fusion community to address some of the most pressing issues of our times.

The BLUEBARN Theatre exists to enhance the cultural life of Omaha, Nebraska by producing professionally executed, boundary breaking plays that ignite a passion for the art form. BLUEBARN is dedicated to theatre’s most important tradition: to provoke thought, emotion, action, and change.

Out of Hand makes shows, games and public art, for venues including parks, homes, businesses and theaters. Through annual free public arts events and original works, we embrace new audiences, celebrate community, and create moments of mass intimacy. We collaborate with scientists, artists, businesses, schools and civic organizations to create events reflecting their work, we train others to unlock their creativity and to innovate, and we bring Atlanta public art to thousands of people in Atlanta and beyond every year.

Iowa Stage Theatre Company transforms Iowa, its citizens and its arts community by producing intimate, truthful and relevant theater that inspires, enlightens and entertains.

Founded in 2005, Jewel Theatre Company (JTC) operates under a contract with Actors’ Equity Association (the union for professional actors and stage managers in the U.S.) and is dedicated to creating extraordinary productions that explore and advance the art of theatre by entertaining, enlightening and engaging the community. We rent the theatre we perform in. The Colligan Theater has 182 seats in 10 rows and the stage is 30' deep by 54' wide, wall to wall. There are optional 10' wide walls that can create a kine of "proscenium" wall on either side, making the opening only 35' wide. We have a small lobby.

Mission: To engage, inspire, entertain and challenge audiences with highly intentional visual and performing arts programming; provide arts education to promote lifelong learning to diverse communities; and celebrate the essential power of the arts to illuminate humanity. Art House provides a home for innovative performing, visual, and literary artists to develop new work; presents emerging and under-recognized artists who are making significant contributions to their respective fields; and serves as a safe space for established artists to take creative risks.

To create and produce theatre in the San Diego area that tells stories from and by diverse Latinx perspectives. TuYo is committed to professional artistic rigor, forging authentic connections, and furthering the discourses that affect our community.

Rubber City Theatre’s mission is to bring affordable and professional theatre to the Akron area. Through the use of our PAY-AS-YOU-LIKE-IT program we provide opportunities to see professional theatre for free for all ages. With Shakespeare and literary classics as our cornerstone, we strive to inspire the next generation of theatergoers and performers. Rubber City Theatre aims to be a regional professional theatre for the Akron area providing theatre experiences that are: ​ Professional ​Rubber City Theatre re-imagines the classics and provides quality theatrical productions. We are committed to hiring local actors, designers, and theatrical technicians and compensating them for their time and talents. Affordable ​We believe theatre should be accessible to all. Therefore, Rubber City The...

Arizona Theatre Matters creates film and stage to film accessible to everyone, regardless of physical ability. We empower people with and without disabilities, those under-represented in mainstream theatre, as artists and patrons within a system from which they have been traditionally excluded.

OUR MISSION To produce professional Shakespeare theatre, culminating in a free production in Forest Park, and to celebrate both Shakespeare’s language and the artists he has inspired. We present Shakespeare and works inspired by Shakespeare. We are in the Schools, in the Streets, and in the Park. Our work seeks to better the community, facilitate a diverse conversation, and encourage collaboration across disciplines.

New England Puppet Arts is devoted to the advancement of mask and puppetry as sophisticated art forms, and to the exploration of storytelling, theatrical endeavors, and community events which employ mask and puppetry in innovative ways. We believe that mask and puppetry arts should transcend traditional taxonomy in order for exciting, transformative theatre and spectacle based events to reach new audiences, and new practitioners.

Camden Rep uses the performing and visual arts to encourage, uplift and transform the lives of women and girls in Camden, NJ and mirror communities. The main stage season operates from September-June utilizing the summer months to focus on training and developing serious pre-professional young artists. These young artists also prepare for college auditions and receive assistance with the application process. Although the focus is on Camden City youth our success has attracted students from the entire Camden County region. The company also conducts intergenerational arts workshops during the summer where artists range from 8-80.

Murmur exists to support and exhibit DIY and ephemeral media that serves as a provocation in contemporary art and culture. We do this via residencies, providing our project space at 100 Broad St In Atlanta, and material/organizational support for artists.

The Gloucester Stage Company’s mission is to present professional productions of intellectually stimulating and socially relevant theater, provide a nurturing work environment in an inspirational setting for artists of exceptional talent, enrich the greater theater landscape by introducing audiences to new work, and contribute to the cultural and educational development of Cape Ann.

CPI's mission is to help local playwrights improve their work and ultimately have it published and/or produced on stage.

The mission of Cadence Theatre Company is to inspire and transform our community by presenting contemporary theatrical works that uplift the spirit, challenge the mind, and honor both our individuality and our shared humanity. Through a commitment to artistic excellence, Cadence fearlessly tells the stories of our lives as we live them now. In pursuing its mission with a commitment to artistic excellence, Cadence, in partnership with Virginia Repertory Theatre (Virginia Rep), presents a three-show season that celebrates the world’s most renowned playwrights, composers, and lyricists. Cadence is further dedicated to accomplishing its mission by offering a variety of original educational programs and activities that foster inclusion, empathy, and critical dialogue across a number of dimen...

Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre is a nonprofit theatre based in Atlanta, GA. The name True Colors Theatre Company reflects a promise to search for truth and clarity. True Colors Theatre Company’s mission is to celebrate the rich tradition of black storytelling while giving voice to bold artists of all cultures.

Sips & Scripts is a service platform that supports, promotes, and produces work written by North Carolina playwrights from novices to veterans through public and private staged readings and full productions along with additional opportunities that will advance the work of the playwright.

As a cornerstone in its theatrical and artistic communities, Santa Fe Playhouse connects the artist with the audience. Through these interactions, the Playhouse engages in dialogue to examine, uplift, challenge, and heal through the visceral art of performance and storytelling. Unafraid to provoke and challenge, The Santa Fe Playhouse creates and produces professional theater that entertains, inspires, and starts a conversation. We approach our second century committed to growth and in service to our local and national communities. The Santa Fe Playhouse will advance our legacy as the foundation of the Santa Fe theater community—always raising our quality of work, to not only sustain our creative enterprise, but to also empower audience and artists alike.

We acknowledge that we are living in a time that demands the constant reinvention of artistic forms. We make new and innovative professional performance for the public by finding critically acclaimed, audacious scripts and imbuing them with our signature integration of music, movement, food, and drink. We teach students methods by which to create original, collaborative, interdisciplinary performance by utilizing multiple artistic disciplines in the process of storytelling. We push the boundaries of traditional theater to incorporate the musical trends, storytelling techniques, community rituals, and expressive media used in popular and contemporary culture.

Flying Anvil Theatre creates the best kind of trouble - engaging audiences with powerful stories that make us think deeper, laugh louder, and feel more. We're passionate about how theatre can help open hearts and minds.

At Conch Shell Productions (CSP), our mission is to infuse a new Caribbean-American and Caribbean Diaspora voices into the American theater and film industry. To do so, we create a space to develop, workshop and produce new plays and screenplays. We believe that art can and should provoke social change. Our productions create an opportunity for diverse audiences to explore and celebrate the unique ethnic/cultural diversity of the 28 multi-lingual Caribbean cultures that have immigrated to other nations seeking new opportunities. Our seasons include both readings and full productions of new works. Our presentations include Hear Her Call Caribbean-American Women's Theater Festival, Conch Shell New Works Series, #BluelightSeries (a virtual reading series), as well as fully produced full len...

Mission: To build a diverse community of artists and audience through projects wide-ranging in scope, subject, and style. ​ To educate and entertain our audience by allowing you access to "the man behind the curtain”. ​To provide, through live performances, special events, and online content, the type of entertainment that engages you, affects you viscerally, and tells the stories you care about.

Our mission is to connect artists around the world to explore the virtual space between theatre and film. We pledge to seek out stories that explore the truths of today and continue to prioritize a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives in all of our work.

For over a quarter-century, Richmond Triangle Players has transformed our community’s conversations about diversity and inclusion through the production of LGBTQ-themed works. A nonprofit, professional theatre company organized in 1993, RTP delivers adventurous and entertaining theater as the leading voice in the community’s explorations of equality, identity, affection and family, across sexual orientation and gender spectrums.

The St. Edward’s Department of Performing Arts provides students a well-rounded foundation that values all facets of the performing arts. Through rigorous training, mentorship and practical experience in a professional setting, we challenge theater students to discover their voice as the storytellers and content creators of tomorrow.

The Village Theatre is born of a sense of artistic responsibility to increase the Black voice and to provide a space for Black artists to articulate the complexities of how we write, act, direct, produce, and design with the artistic freedom to create methods of black acting. The Village Theatre will add to Sacramento’s rich theatrical mosaic by showcasing the works of both emerging and established Black artists. The Village Theatre will conduct educational workshops and produce quality plays that will create an environment to train emerging theatre professionals and develop playwrights.

A home for the arts on the North Fork.

Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) is a multifaceted collective of theatremakers joined together in support of the next generation of BIPOC producers by providing access to education, training, and mentorship. We are supported and incubated by Broadway For All (BFA), a national organization shaping the next generation of advocates for radical inclusivity and anti-racism through engagement with the performing arts.

Since 2015, NWTW has built a community around the creation, development, and production of new theatrical work, and delivered compelling, timely issues to our audiences for discussion. Our collaborative programs offer a variety of ways for playwrights, theatre artists, and patrons from all walks of life to gather and immerse themselves in new work, with a love for the great performative and literary traditions of the theatre.

Ensemble Theatre is dedicated to the responsible production of works that celebrate the human spirit drawn from the rich canon of modern American classics as well as other significant contemporary plays. Ensemble serves greater Cleveland and the Midwest region by reintroducing the classics, examining them with new eyes, and supporting the development of new works for the American theater. The theater is committed to non-traditional casting and to providing culturally diverse programming that speaks to issues of contemporary life. Education, outreach activities, and targeted programming impact youth and historically and institutionally marginalized communities. Ensemble Theatre believes that the arts are an essential and meaningful part of life. The theatre offers an important forum for...

Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian and Asian American (A/AA) performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of A/AA artists’ words, and the presentation of A/AA bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established A/AA artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve.

Raised in a basement, fed on radioactive trash, Brooklyn based Rat Queen Theatre Company creates devised musicals that reimagine American history. We find that a lot of historical writing is neglectful of the truth and, honestly -- boring. We use history to question everyone’s assumptions (including our own) about the origins of our society. We utilize the unabashedly loud, queer, and ostentatious to dive deeper into the narratives we think we know and uncover what may have been overlooked.

Located in the heart of the Theater District OPEN JAR STUDIOS features some of the largest studios in New York City for rehearsals, auditions, and support offices for productions of all sizes. Two 4,000 square-foot studios with 22-foot high ceilings make the space ideal for Broadway rehearsals. The large studios accompany a number of different-sized studios also suited perfectly for dance rehearsals, music rehearsals, production offices, and even costume fittings.

COCA’s mission is to enrich lives and build community through the arts. COCA uses the power of the arts and education to build a vibrant St. Louis that is creative, connected and inclusive. A national leader in innovative arts education, COCA provides meaningful arts experiences in our own studios, gallery and theatres, as well as in schools, community centers and corporate settings around St. Louis. The fourth largest multidisciplinary community arts center in the country, we annually serve more than 50,000 people of all ages, backgrounds, and ability levels—from enthusiastic amateurs to emerging professionals—all taught by a faculty of more than 250 distinguished teaching artists. Through dance, vocal music, theatre, art and design, and beyond, we nurture the artistic and creative pot...

CTM’s mission is to produce bold, re-imagined, entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works, contemporary plays, and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major dramatists. CTM is committed to promoting the highest level of artistic excellence, to cultivating the widest possible audience, and to contributing to the economic and cultural growth of our community, state, and region with the following experiences and programs: Year-Round Season of Professional Theatre Educational Artist-in-Residence Programs Pre-professional Training and Internship Programs Classic Theatre of Maryland enriches the human community through the revelation of beauty and the illumination of fundamental truths of human experience.

Independent Shakespeare Co. is a unique theater company, one that brings together a wide cross-section of our community to experience plays, both classical and new. We are leaders in creating a truly diverse ensemble of artists, and an equally diverse audience. We are passionate in our belief that shared theatrical experiences build a stronger, more joyful, more connected community. Los Angeles is our home. Mission We bring Los Angeles together through exuberant, surprising productions of classical plays as well as new works. We address the inequity of access to the performing arts through free and low-cost programming. We create theater that is dynamic, inclusive and accessible; enriching our community and reaching new theater audiences.

Interdisciplinary study in the formation of adaptable theatre artists. By nurturing and educating actors, directors, administrators, playwrights, designers, and technicians, we prepare theatre artists to enter any aspect of the industry.

The Shattered Glass Project is a theatre company with the mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender or sex, including but not limited to cis and trans women, non-binary folks, and trans-masculine/trans-feminine folks, by providing unique opportunities to create and grow professionally.

The Emerson Theater Collaborative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to serve youth, under-represented communities and artists with an emphasis on diversity, by producing innovative and thought-provoking theater both in southeastern Connecticut and Sedona, Arizona. Developing and producing innovative theater with a focus on diversity, youth, and the under-represented with both emerging and professional artists. Our goals include reaching youth through educational theatrical programming, supporting local communities by providing free admission to low-income families, and donating profits to humanitarian causes. We take pride in fully supporting our community and introducing the arts to our youth. We offer a number of programs that not only help professional and aspir...

The Latiné Musical Theatre Lab, LLC is a NYC-based organization with a national footprint that develops and advocates for new Latiné-written works of musical theatre. The Lab is a sponsored artist with The Producer Hub (The Tank LTD), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)3 organization serving the performing arts community. We envision a world of equity in the theatre community for Latiné artists. Where our representation on and off stage matches our representation in the general population. Where our participation in the theatre community reflects the true contributions of Latinés to the fabric of this nation. ​ We see a world where audiences and producers embrace our stories as a fundamental, unalienable part of the art form - not simply as a way to check the box of diversity, or throu...

The Brownville Village Theatre is one of the oldest repertory theatres in the state of Nebraska. BVT’s success is due to its summer repertory season employing 12-15 young theatre artists from all over the nation. The theatre’s home is over a century old and was formerly the Brownville Christian Church. Annually, the theatre brings over 3,000 audience members locally and throughout the Midwest to Brownville. BVT has been expanding operations to create opportunities for our audience and local theatre artists by holding year round performances, workshops and events. To provide quality theatre in historic Brownville, Nebraska and nearby communities while giving opportunities to young theatre artists both locally and nationally to entertain, educate, and enrich the lives of our audience....

Bechdel Project is a feminist arts incubator for storytellers. With over 50 years of combined experience in arts management, advocacy, and new work development, we move nimbly to deliver a unique blend of art, activism, and education. Bechdel Project is rooted in the vibrant cultural landscape of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and was founded in 2015 with the goal of addressing harmful gender disparities prevalent within our culture’s storytelling. Bechdel Project believes that we can change our culture by changing the stories we tell and that the lack of women-centered stories in our culture is harmful to women and men alike. Our mission is to amplify the voices and stories of women, non-binary, and underrepresented genders through art, activism, and education to shape a more equitable future for...

'Tailz of Too Katz' is a literary play on words, the phrase coming from the Charles Dickens novel, 'A Tale of Two Cities' in 1859. While there's little literal inspiration from this book, it's an invitation to understand the various dimensions that comprise the organization. 'Tailz' is used to symbolize cat tails. 'Too' denotes more than two. And Katz - well, that is self-explanatory. In other words, ours is a story wrapped in a riddle & wrapped in an enigma. Throughout this site, as well as many of the elements, denote a playful note. This silliness is in contrast to the depth of the issues that are fundamental to our business. The (mis)spelling of many words is intential specifically where the letters 's' have been substituted with 'z' & 'c' replaced with 'k'. With more...

City Theatre's mission is to develop and produce works that engage, reflect, and impact our community. We strive to reach our mission by leveraging theatrical resources with innovative programming to provide artistic and educational opportunities for the continued development of our community. City Theatre is an award-winning professional theater company founded in Miami. Launched in 1996 by Susan J. Westfall, Stephanie Norman, and Elena Wohl, City Theatre is now entering its 28th season. Dedicated to the development of new works, City Theatre has produced hundreds of short plays by well-known and emerging writers discovered through its National Award for Short Playwriting Contest. It commissions plays by South Florida-connected playwrights for its SHORT CUTS Middle School Tour. CITY...