56 national not-for-profit organizations make up the National Coalition Against Censorship including the Dramatists Guild and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund. These diverse organizations, representing the artistic, educational, religious, and labor communities, join together in the interest of protecting First Amendment rights.

Est. 1986. Founded by artists for artists. The Field is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides fiscal sponsorship, professional development services, and creative resources to thousands of performing artists in New York City and beyond. Arts and culture workers need access to opportunities, resources, funding, advice and information to bring their visions to life. It is The Field’s mission to provide this access for artists, with an intentional focus on those who experience barriers to advancement based on race, cultural identity, ability, sexual orientation, or other identities....

GrantSpace is Foundation Center’s learning community for the social sector, providing easy-to-use, self-service tools and resources to help nonprofits worldwide become more viable grant applicants and build strong, sustainable organizations. It offers both in-person and online training (including many free videos) for organizations and individual grant seekers.

Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over 40 as well as our women+ over 40 allies. The term “women+” refers to a spectrum of gender identification that includes women, non-binary identifiers and trans. Honor Roll! was ignited by our shared recognition of the pervasive yet seldom acknowledged bias against women+ playwrights over 40. Our members have in common the lived experience of being overlooked when we were younger, due to sexism only to find ourselves now being passed over, due to ageism, or in other cases, of starting our playwriting journeys later in life...

Building the capacity of advocates, students, artists, organizations and communities to use the arts as an integral part of their social change work. We believe that placing Artistry at the center of solving today’s most pressing issues will create a new type of dialogue and impact.

The Coalition of Theatres of Color (CTC) was first convened in 2004 by the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee to address the inequity of funding to chronically underfunded theaters of color. Today CTC exists as a historic assemblage of several of New York’s oldest, ethnically specific, multicultural theaters. CTC membership is comprised of institutions, each thirty years old or more. Together, CTC seeks to sustain the legacy of our institutions while producing, supporting, collaborating and presenting productions and events that tell our stories, our way, with pride and dignity.

The Village Playwrights was founded in 1985 as a group where Lesbian and Gay playwrights could develop plays in a free and welcoming environment.

Our mission is to advance the field of Asian American theater through a national network of organizations and artists. We collaborate to inspire learning and sharing of knowledge, and resources to promote a healthy, sustainable artistic ecology.

Clutch is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to creating opportunities for female artists in theatre and film. By commissioning and producing original works, Clutch provides vital creative space for female writers, directors, actors, and designers to collaborate and work together. Clutch welcomes the voices and work of writers, actors, directors, designers, technicians, producers, and artists who identify as female. All ages. All colors. All races. All faiths. All abilities. All sexual orientations. You are #SoClutch.

This group is intended to bring together theatre folk during a time when most of us are shuttered to our homes. Every Thursday night, we'll do a new reading with people in their pajamas. The plays will be new and unproduced. We can keep theatre going, no matter what.

Ring of Keys is an arts advocacy organization that promotes the hiring of musical theatre professionals - onstage and off - who self-identify as queer women, transgender, and gender non-conforming artists. The only network of its kind, our membership is made up of actors, directors, dancers, singers, stage managers, lighting designers, dramaturgs, artistic directors, producers, casting directors, librettists, lyricists, composers, props designers, scenic designers, sound designers, choreographers, costume designers, and production managers who self-identify as lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer...

NYC Playwrights provides submission opportunities, free shows and other theatre related opportunities for theatre lovers in New York City and the world.