Community conversations about welcoming audiences with disabilities, producing within a festival context, and how to handle change when an organization comes to an ending.
With the Founders of New York City’s HERE Arts Center
Friday 26 September 2025
New York City
The founders of HERE Arts Center gather to share their founding story and insights about the field’s evolution and to kick off Kristin Marting's new project TORCHES: 30 Years of Downtown Performance in New York City, a much-needed exploration of New York City’s unique and influential downtown performance world from the 1990s through today.
When Stage Left Theatre went looking for a space to produce The Distrikt of Lake Michigun, they turned to Chicago’s history of storefront theatre. Seth Wilson details the company’s process of successfully staging a production in an empty mall storefront.
Elizabeth Hess and Ludovica Villar-Hauser have both dedicated their theatrical careers to advocating for women and gender expansive theatre artists in different ways. The two got together to talk about why and how they have done so, and why that work has remained so necessary.
Pitchorama provides an opportunity for professionals working in the performing arts sector to present a project and to look for partners who may be interested in collaborating with them.
Shared leadership is not revolutionary, and it is more than a trend. In this essay, Devon Berkshire and Miranda Gonzalez kick off their series The Evolution of Shared Leadership by exploring the generations of shared leadership practice—especially in theatres of color—and the contemporary push toward more collective leadership.
Conversations With NYC Festival Producers and Directors
Monday 21 April 2025
New York City
Leaders of the festival scene discuss how they program, curate, design, and produce New York's iconic and important festivals. Come learn more about how to get your work produced!
In January, hundreds of global arts leaders convened to strategize for a stronger performing arts field. Ashley Malafronte reports on this event, the 2025 Under the Radar Symposium, where participants spoke of funding challenges, politically-fueled decay, and—a bright spot—the centrality and partnership and legacy.
Playwright Jennifer Barclay co-founded the Not Beckett International Rolling World Premiere Festival, inspired by National New Play Network (NNPN)’s Rolling World Premiere program. She sat down with NNPN executive director Nan Barnett to discuss the inception of the program and how it inspired the new festival.
In their individual and collective artistic practices, Annalisa Dias and Applied Mechanics model more just and accessible futures for theatre. Their MicroCosmos encounter explores immersive theatremaking, collaborative leadership, and a desire to end the obsession with artistic “vision.”
Interdisciplinary artists and producers Jennie Hahn and Sharon Mansur are connecting performance and community through their work in Indigenous-settler relations and Arab American artist communities, respectively. In this MicroCosmos encounter, they consider the practices and experiments at the heart of their work.
Philip Arnoult was one of the diplomats of the theatrical profession—those who made it their life’s work not to make the work but to make connections between people who make the work, crossing the invisible boundaries of countries and politics. Reflecting on Philip’s life and legacy, Susan Stroupe asks how we can continue his work.
Universities and museums are some of the last strongholds of festival circuits providing rare exposure to international and avant-garde artists. This episode explores how ensembles find their way onto such a path, and what these organizations are doing to ensure enrichment for their audiences and sustainability for the acts.
Early-Career and Experienced Producers Currently Navigating New York City Theatre and Performance
Monday 25 November 2024
New York City
Sharing their own experiences with bringing innovative projects to audiences, our panelists discuss the different ways in which independent theatre artists and ensembles can have their work presented across the city.
Conversations about Disability Equity and Space Resources in New York Theatre
Wednesday 20 November 2024
New York City
Exploring actionable solutions for breaking down barriers and transforming theatre practices for disability equity, and an enlightening discussion that delves into the strategic decisions behind space management in our field.
After being asked to share his thoughts on the future of international touring, Why Not Theatre founder Ravi Jain offers some of what he’s learned about engaging “new” audiences and building lasting relationships between artists and presenters.
Rex Daugherty offers a guide for theatremakers who want to produce theatre in nontraditional spaces, sharing the experiences of Washington, DC’s Solas Nua.
Film reaches a larger public than theatre due to the way it is produced and disseminated. In this way, it has a large and lasting cultural impact. In this episode with Mike Mossalem and Amin El Gamal, we discuss the ways the film and theatre fields influence each other as they both contribute to culture change and performance methodologies.
The concept of climate finance refers to monies provided by those responsible for climate change to ease the burden of the crises on those who bear the brunt. This is a situation whereby the polluter pays as much as they pollute. The attention placed on climate finance dominates the narrative of climate change mitigation since polluters are able to pay monies allocated to them as climate finance. Climate finance has not fully addressed the issue of the elephant in the room.
Reviewing Criteria and Changes to the Application and Answering Questions About This Year's Application Process
Thursday 3 August 2023
United States
For the first time in its more than ten-year history, New England Foundation for the Arts' (NEFA) National Theater Project (NTP) has moved its flagship Creation and Touring Grant application to a summer cycle. This information session with NTP staff will break down what the National Theater Project is; review the criteria and eligibility requirements for the Creation and Touring Grant; explain changes to the timeline, criteria, and process that have arisen from NTP's ten-year evaluation process; and discuss what makes for a competitive application.
Amelia Parenteau chronicles the process of translating Eva Doumbia’s Autophagies from French to English and producing its tour in the United States, a project that unfolded across four years.
Reuniting for the first ever revival of Evelyn Brown: (A Diary), Scenic Designer Donald Eastman, Costume Designer Gabriel Berry and Stage Manager Peter Littlefield discuss their long time collaboration with Fornés
Wednesday 7 June 2023
New York City
Dramaturg Gwendolyn Alker engages in a post-show conversation with Donald Eastman and Gabriel Berry—two members of María Irene Fornés’s design team—about the various shows they designed for Fornés, as well as their current work on the first-ever revival of Evelyn Brown (A Diary). Peter Littlefield, the stage manager for the original 1980 production, will also join.
Second Hand Dance embarked upon research on support for artists with access needs after artistic director Rosie Heafford had to pull out of a festival that did not provide sufficient accommodations for her invisible disability. She shares takeaways from that research in the form of actionable steps that festivals, showcases, and industry events can implement.
Communications manager Ramona Rose King chats with Abigail Vega on her last day as HowlRound’s creative producer to reflect on her work with HowlRound and the Latinx Theatre Commons, producing using commons-based practices, and advice she’d give to aspiring producers.
