The Copyright Society of the USA, a non-profit organization established in 1953, is devoted to copyright law awareness and education. With more than 1,000 members nationwide and regional chapters in over a dozen major U.S. cities, CSUSA's mission is to promote and advance the study and understanding of copyright law and its role in fostering creativity and the arts, copyright industries, and the use and distribution of copyrighted materials through traditional and new media.

A COOPERATIVE MISSION The Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative operates 424 w 54 Street as a legally incorporated and wholeheartedly organized co-op supporting entrepreneurs, educators, and artists who share values of service and hospitality. Here, we work to design experiences, build companies and organizations, practice our crafts, cultivate relationships, and grow as people. Read below to learn more about the prime produce co-op and hear what drives some of our members. EVENT SERVICES Host your next event in our creative and dynamic environment. Prime produce hosts can help you or your...

We are committed to making sure that NYC Artists, Artists throughout the World, and the community-at-large feels loved and supported as they create their next brilliant creation! #BeTheChange #ShareTheLove #LoveCityArts Together, we are building one of the largest Mutual Aid and Support Networks for 500+* Artist and Creatives all around the World... *3500+ combined across all our digital properties.

If you think you are eligible, now is a fabulous time to apply to The Dorothy Ross Friedman Residence. The Friedman is a shared housing (roommates) residence that offers affordable housing for working professionals in performing arts and entertainment, persons with HIV/AIDS, and senior citizens (60 years of age or older). Most of the apartments are 2-bedrooms, where you would have one roommate and there are a few 3-bedrooms, where you would have two roommates. All tenants have a rent stabilized lease. All apartments are complete with dishwasher, washer/dryer, central heating, and AC. Many...

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.

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...

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.

We are a community of artistic directors, commercial producers, general managers, arts administrators, casting directors and other theater industry professionals who want to gather with other talented and passionate theater people kicks and giggles, and for some really impressive networking opportunities. We’re story tellers who are looking for a different type of story, and different types of people who write them.

Est. 1978 by four writers who met in the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, The Writers Room (WR) is New York City’s first and most acclaimed professional writers' colony – as well as the nation’s original writers' collective. Membership fee required. See website for details.

The MTF community includes writers, composers, performers, choreographers, directors, music directors, dramaturgs, designers, and producers. Musical Theatre Factory is artist focused, and a space where writers can see their work, at any stage, on its feet. MTF is accessible to emerging musical theatre makers and builds bridges for them to connect with experts in the field, across disciplines. We are dedicated to developing new work in a collaborative atmosphere free from the pressures of critical or financial success that dismantles oppressive ideologies towards collective liberation...

The Association of Author's Representatives is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1991, which currently has more than 400 professional literary and dramatic agents as members. Agents must meet the AAR's minimum experience requirements and agree to adhere to its Bylaws and Canon of Ethics. Members in the Literary Branch represent authors in all areas of publishing, including the granting of primary publishing rights, as well as subsidiary rights in their clients' works. Agents in the Dramatic Branch represent playwrights and the rights to their plays. Writers seeking...

For over 30 years, AMERINDA has been the only community-based organization specifically advocating for the inclusion of the indigenous perspective in the arts and cultural equity in public policy in New York City.