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FY24 - FY25 NYC Small Theatres Fund
(A Howard Gilman Foundation Program)
The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and the Howard Gilman Foundation are thrilled to announce the 20 recipients of the New York City Small Theatres Fund for FY24 - FY25. Selected from an initial application pool of over 140 applications, the funded theatres will receive two years of flexible, general operating support to support the operations of their theatre companies. We are excited to continue to be able to provide multi-year support to this vibrant and crucial segment of New York City’s cultural ecosystem.
The theatres funded through this year’s grant cycle represent a range of theatrical aesthetics, organizational structures, methods of working, and artistic communities from across all five boroughs. They include theatres led by designers, working with young audiences, creating work that provokes social change, providing opportunities for artists in festival settings, venues and itinerant theatres, theatres focused on serving a specific cultural community, devising ensembles, and companies consistently challenging what theatre is – and can be.
For some of the grantees, this funding will help push them to their next level of growth, as they continue to build resilience and capacity, while some grantees will use this support to take some space to stabilize and right-size.
“The Howard Gilman Foundation knows that small budget theatre companies are vital to both the field and the artform," said Howard Gilman Program Officer Emily Sproch. “By partnering with ART/NY on the New York City Small Theatres Fund, we are investing in the bedrock and the future of the American theatre.”
FY24-25 New York City Small Theatres Fund Recipients
Boundless Theatre Company is a designer-led organization seeking to investigate, push and redefine the boundaries of theatrical storytelling.
Spearheaded by women, Latinx theatre-makers and other theatre-makers of color, we strive to nurture cross-cultural voices in our programming, producing aesthetically challenging and visually mesmerizing interpretations of new and existing work. In these ways, we foster a collaborative artistic landscape as richly and authentically diverse as our own communities. https://boundlesstheatre.org/
Broken Box Mime Theater creates original, contemporary plays through movement to activate the imaginations of our audiences, contemporize the art of mime, and remind us all of the power of simple storytelling. https://www.brokenboxmime.com/
Caborca is a bilingual ensemble making theater and film under the playwright/director Javier Antonio González at the intersection of Latine and experimental arts, where audiences are hungry for politically charged and innovative reflections on colonial power dynamics. https://www.caborca.org/
Colt Coeur is a 22-member ensemble of actors, designers, playwrights and directors creates original, story-driven theater, nurtures the next generation of artists by developing and producing new plays, and provides arts education and mentorship to students from under-resourced NYC public schools. https://www.coltcoeur.org/
At Conch Shell Productions (CSP), our Queens, New York based organization’s mission is to infuse new Caribbean Diaspora and Caribbean voices into the American theater and film industry. We create a space to produce, present, and develop new plays and screenplays written by our community of artists. We believe that theater and film can and should have a lasting impact and provoke social change. https://conchshellproductions.com/
Experimental Bitch (ExB) is a feminist producing company committed to creating, developing and producing badly-behaved, genre-defying performance by emerging TGNC, queer and women+ artists. We empower femme and queer artists across many mediums to be leaders of the creative process from development to production. Experimental because we embrace controversial questioning. Bitch because we are femme, queer, loud and proud! https://experimentalbitch.net/
General Mischief Dance Theatre, a multi-disciplinary ensemble-based company, is dedicated to the power of joy and laughter in communicating ideas. They devise original projects that are invested in fully bridging the gap between the theatre community and the movement world. http://generalmischief.com/
Founded in 1996, LEIMAY (CAVE Organization Inc.) is an arts organization/ensemble that stimulates dialogue on multidisciplinary performing arts; develops LUDUS (a training program in the lineage of Butoh and experimental theater); offers space and residencies; and shares creations from the LEIMAY Ensemble made by its co-directors Ximena Garnica (Colombian) and Shige Moriya (Japanese). Their activities take place at CAVE in Brooklyn and other venues in NYC, the Americas, and beyond. https://www.hypokritproductions.com/
The International Human Rights Art Festival ("IHRAF") offers an ongoing and expanding series of theater and music events, as well as workshops and classes and other creative outlets around New York City and the world, to open space for discussion around society's most pressing concerns, as well as facilitate interactions among our diverse audience and community. https://www.ihraf.org
The Jewish Plays Project identifies, develops, and advocates for 21st Century Jewish theater through one-of-a-kind explorations of contemporary Jewish identity between audiences, artists, and patrons. Their process is Jewish Dramaturgy, bringing thought-leaders (clergy, scholars and lay leaders) into conversation with playwrights. https://jewishplaysproject.org/
We are arts educators and theatre makers. We aspire to create multilingual and multicultural theatre experiences for young people that celebrate the diverse cultural and lingual communities of New York City and the United States.
Somos educadoras y teatristas. Aspiramos crear experiencias de teatro multilingües y multiculturales para jóvenes que celebran las diversas comunidades culturales y lingüísticas de la ciudad de Nueva York y los Estados Unidos. https://www.jugandonplay.com/
AThe Latinx Playwrights Circle is a national network of committed playwrights of Latinx heritage of all racial and class backgrounds. We aim to build a network of Latinx/é Playwrights nationwide in order to develop, promote and elevate their work; in order to make Latinx plays accessible to theater-makers looking to find the next generation of American Storytellers. https://www.latinxplaywrights.com/
LubDub Theatre Co is a physical theatre company whose mission is to animate stories of science, magic, and myth. Guided by our focus on these three sources of inspiration, we nurture new performance at the intersections of dance, music, new writing, and ritual. http://www.lubdubtheatre.org/
NYLaughs is a unique 501(c)3 performing arts non-profit that believes in the power of stand-up comedy to strengthen NY communities and enhance the quality of life for New Yorkers via free performances produced in NYC’s iconic public spaces. By creating opportunities for shared humor, we form a foundation for positive collective experiences that benefit our city while heightening the public’s appreciation for stand-up comedy, a distinctly NY cultural asset. https://www.nylaughs.org/
One Whale’s Tale is a multidisciplinary production company that creates, fosters, and generates new independent work with an appreciation for magic and the preservation of culture. We create work that accurately reflects the experiences of immigrants, first-generation Americans, and people of color by creating space for them to tell their own stories. We are guided by Magical Urbanism, an aesthetic we’ve developed, which examines how the ancient traditions of our company members and collaborators exist within a modern urban landscape. https://www.onewhalestale.com/
Remote Theater Project (RTP) develops and produces the work of artists whose voices are not often heard in the U.S. By focusing on and including international artists as well as U.S.-based artists from other countries, we invite both artists and audiences to engage in difficult questions about their perceptions of other groups. Our productions are human-to-human exchanges and culture-to-culture dialogues intended to promote empathy, especially between groups in political conflict. https://www.remotetheaterproject.com/
SheNYC Arts supports and showcases the talents of writers, composers, producers, directors, and other theater artists who are part of a marginalized gender group, including cis women, trans, and non-binary people.
Our mission is to prove that there is no reason for male artists to have the overwhelming majority of professionally produced work on Broadway, off-Broadway, and around the country. We provide artists with the resources they need on their path to leadership roles in the industry. https://shenycarts.org/
Spellbound Theatre is New York's premier award-winning theater designed for very young children. Each of Spellbound’s productions is rooted in the rich tapestry of young children’s imaginations, utilizing story, puppetry, visual art, and physical theater to create unique, high-quality events for children ages 0 - 5. https://www.spellboundtheatre.com/
The Brick Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater dedicated to nurturing the work of emerging artists at its performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York City.
The Brick presents world premieres, monthly performance series, and seasonal festivals, expanding Brooklyn’s profile as a destination for cutting-edge art and entertainment. The Brick continues to seek new artists and projects, to provide them with a creative home, and to serve as North Brooklyn’s primary incubator of innovative performing arts. https://www.bricktheater.com/
Founding Artistic Director Theresa Buchheister began Exponential to remove the barriers to entry for young artists producing their first shows in New York City. Exponential has presented the work of over 1.5K NYC-based artists to over 20K audience members in over 25 Brooklyn venues. Our artists present multi week runs, one-offs, and variety shows throughout the month of January in theaters, back rooms, basements, and box-stores. https://www.theexponentialfestival.org/
NYC Small Theatres Fund Grant Panelists
Panelists were selected from community nominations, consisting of theatre artists and administrators familiar with New York City's small theatres. Carefully reviewing each application and considering it against the evaluation criteria, all nineteen panelists (across two rounds of the application process) brought their knowledge, attention, and time to the evaluation process.
For more information on the panelist process and how you can nominate a panelist for future A.R.T./New York grants, please click here.
Sam Hood Adrain
Co-Artistic Director of What Will the Neighbors Say?
Adriana Ascencio
General Manager at Oye Group
April Barber
Actress and Creative Partner for The Anthropologists
Lucrecia Briceno
Co-Artistic Director at Anonymous Ensemble
Bliss Griffin
Principal at BG Consulting
Paige Esterly
The Fled Collective
Ariel Estrada
Producing Artistic Director at Leviathan Lab
Natalie Gershtein
Producing Artistic Director at Pipeline Theatre Company
Samar Haddad King
Artistic Director at Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
Simon Henriques
Co-Artistic Director at Nightdrive
Sherri Kotimsky
General Manager at Red Bull Theater
Sheila Lewandowski
Executive Director at The Chocolate Factory Theater
Nikhil Mahapatra
Freelance writer
Paul McGinley
Director of Teaching & Learning at Roundabout Theatre Company
Francisco Mendoza
Playwright / Marketing Manager at The Playwrights Realm
Amy Palen
Associate Producer/Virtual Manager at Boundless Theatre Company
Rachel Mueller
Development Manager at Clubbed Thumb
Kyoung Park
Artistic Director at Kyoung's Pacific Beat
Rachel Sullivan
Artistic Director
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