Creative Nations
Creative Nations is an all Indigenous-led artists collective, founded in 2020 at The Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. We operate the Sacred Space, a permanent establishment for Indigenous Artists to create and share their work. Our goals at Creative Nations are to create a space for creation and collaboration, as well as foster opportunities for all Indigenous artists to thrive.
Dance Data Project
Dance Data Project ®’s mission is to promote gender equity in the dance industry, including but not limited to ballet companies, by providing a metrics based analysis.
Design Action
Design Action is an intergenerational coalition of BIPOC and white designers working to end racial inequities in the North American theater by confronting racism in our workplace and forging new pathways into the industry for rising designers of color.
Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective
Different Strokes committed to Making Theatre, Building Community, Facilitating Awareness, and Changing The World, One Play At A Time. Motivated by the belief that the arts are capable of bridging cultural and social gaps, we work to increase and sustain opportunities for diversity within the Western North Carolina performing arts community, and present works that confront issues of social diversity, in a provocative way.
Director’s Gathering
Directors Gathering (DG) builds a consistent community for theatre directors. We offer directors resources of connectivity, skill-sharing, and peer advocacy. We are based in Philadelphia, PA, and our programming and community reach extends nationally.
Drama Club
Drama Club’s mission is to consistently care for youth who are incarcerated and court-involved by creating space for them to thrive, using improv as their guide.
Dramatist Guild Foundation
Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) is a national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists at all stages of their careers. DGF sponsors educational programs; provides awards, grants, and stipends; offers free space to create new works; and gives emergency aid to writers in need of immediate support. In 2024, DGF received a 2024 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre for their life-changing support of theater writers. By supporting and nurturing the creators of today, they protect the stories of tomorrow.
The Dramatists Guild of America
As the professional trade association for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists, the Dramatists Guild of America works to protect and advance the rights of all theatre writers across the country.
Expand the Canon
Expand the Canon is committed to lead the theatrical canon toward gender equity through research, curation, and advocacy.
Fuse Theatre
Fuse Theatre is a non-profit centered in the San Francisco Bay Area, dedicated to encouraging meaningful engagement in communities through theatre. Fuse works to expand perspectives, challenge the status quo, and promote justice by elevating voices often unheard and stories often left untold.
Greenwich House Music School
Since 1905, Greenwich House Music School (GHMS) has provided high-quality, affordable arts education for New Yorkers of all ages. The goal of Greenwich House Music School is to teach students the beauty and transformative power of music, art, and dance.
Harriet Tubman Effect
The Harriet Tubman Effect Institute is a human resource center and institute for justice advocacy and research. Our mission is to dismantle systemic oppression by producing participatory-action research, human resource initiatives, and reallocating wealth to Black and Brown DEI consultants across American industries.
Intimacy Coordinators Of Color
ICOC is dedicated to bringing more members of the Global Majority into leadership positions in the burgeoning intimacy industry by offering opportunities to work in regional theater, Broadway and Off-Broadway.
Invest in Access
Services include and are not limited to: American Sign Language Interpretation, Assistive Listening, Communications, Ease of Access Mapping, Human Captioning, Sensory Friendly Quiet Spaces, Service Animal Relief Area Mapping, and Sourcing.
MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity)
MUSE’s mission is to cultivate greater racial equity in theatrical music departments by providing access, internships, mentorships, and support to historically marginalized people of color. MUSE aims to challenge systemic acts of exclusion and support musicians as we transition to a more diverse and inclusive environment for all.
National Women’s History Museum
Founded in 1996, the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) is an innovative virtual-first museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting, and celebrating women’s diverse contributions to society. A renowned leader in women’s history education, the Museum brings to life the countless untold stories of women throughout history, and serves as a space for all to inspire, experience, collaborate, and amplify women’s impact—past, present, and future. We strive to fundamentally change the way women and girls see their potential and power.
Noor Theatre
Noor Theatre is the only NYC-based theater company dedicated to supporting, developing, and producing the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian (MENA/SWANA) descent.
Notes for Notes
NOTES FOR NOTES® provides youth with FREE access to music instruments, instruction and recording studio environments so that music may become a profoundly positive influence in their lives.
Open Stage Project
Open Stage Project is a New York City nonprofit closing the gender gap in behind-the-scenes careers by educating, mentoring, and empowering young women and nonbinary students to pursue jobs in theater, film, and TV via free after-school programs.
Parity Productions
Parity Productions promotes parity by empowering women, trans, and gender-expansive artists in NYC theatre. In fulfilling our mission, we develop original plays, produce and promote the work of playwrights, directors, and designers, and provide opportunities for underrepresented voices to work in theatre.