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.

Mabou Mines is an artist-driven experimental theater collective generating original works and re-imagined adaptations of classics. Work is created through multi-disciplinary, technologically inventive collaborations among its members and a wide world of contemporary filmmakers, composers, writers, musicians, choreographers, puppeteers and visual artists. Mabou Mines fosters the next generation of artists through mentorship and residencies.

Est. 1970. Theater for The New City is a unique Cultural Institution that has earned a nationwide reputation for its dedication to nurturing established and emerging playwrights who experiment with new forms and to presenting other experimental and developmental theaters with a very active program of Community Art Services and Festivals which continue to expand theater accessibility.

Voyage Theater Company presents new and unheralded plays and playwrights from around the world, creating opportunities for collaboration between theater-makers of diverse cultures and disciplines. We serve our local community in New York City through professional productions, educational programming, internships, and discounted tickets for students and seniors. We present plays in multiple languages, and work in partnership with other non-profit organizations to broaden perspectives and build greater cultural equity across communities.

To call into question who we are to each other in the social environment of the theatre, to undo the knots that lead to misery, to spread ourselves across the public's table like platters at a banquet, to set ourselves in motion like a vortex that pulls the spectator into action, to fire the body's secret engines, to pass through the prism and come out a rainbow, to insist that what happens in the jails matters, to cry "Not in my name!" at the hour of execution, to move from the theater to the street and from the street to the theater. This is what The Living Theatre does today. It is what it...

We created and produce The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), which has become the largest multi-arts festival in North America. Forged on the off-off-Broadway tradition of self-sufficiency and creativity, the festival is an annual celebration of downtown theater and an opportunity to introduce the vibrancy, diversity, and innovation of indie theatre to a larger audience.

Founded in 2004, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble is an Audelco, IRNE, Elliot Norton, NYITA award-winning not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization committed to the presentation of the great stories of the classical canon, and new adaptations of language-rich texts in innovative stagings that speak to and serve contemporary audiences. We are an artistic organization dedicated to nurturing a diverse resident company of classically trained and highly skilled theatre artists.

Metropolitan Playhouse explores America’s theatrical heritage to illuminate contemporary American culture. The Playhouse produces early American plays, new plays drawn from American culture and history, and plays from around the world that resonate with the American canon.

Now in our 30th season, Obie Award-winning Metropolitan Playhouse is accepting submissions for its 17th presentation of East Village Chronicles, a festival of new one-act plays inspired by the diverse population, culture, and history of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. There is an honorarium of $100 for each script accepted for production.

Wild Project provides a familiar home and attentive staff to our resident companies which enables the companies to continue their respective missions to serve the cultural landscape of New York City. Resident companies receive 2-8 weeks of exclusivity to Wild Project’s 89-seat theatre each year, which extends stability and clarity to theatre companies whose brand and artistic influence are experiencing growth.

Wild Project provides a familiar home and attentive staff to our resident companies which enables the companies to continue their respective missions to serve the cultural landscape of New York City. Resident companies receive 2-8 weeks of exclusivity to Wild Project’s 89-seat theatre each year, which extends stability and clarity to theatre companies whose brand and artistic influence are experiencing growth.