The 1/52 Project provides financial support to encourage early career designers from historically excluded groups with the aim of diversifying and strengthening the theater design community.

A BroaderWay Foundation (ABW) was created in 2010 by Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, with a passionate group of artists, activists, and social workers with a basic goal — amplifying the power of young women and gender-expansive youth through the arts. ABW is dedicated to using the beauty, self-discovery, discipline, joy, energy, and spirit of the arts to develop future leaders.

ACCESS Broadway NY is a disability-led consultancy firm dedicated to creating, assessing, and developing pathways to accessibility in the performing arts. We provide a comprehensive perspective on inclusion and accessibility from those directly impacted, ensuring that our strategies and programming are effective and truly accessible for all.

The mission of AAPAC (ASIAN AMERICAN PERFORMERS ACTION COALITION) is to expand the perception of Asian American performers in order to increase their access to and representation on New York City’s stages. They publish The Visibility Report yearly, covering employment statistics by race, the only publicly available report of its kind, and have recently released an “AAPI Theatre Practices toolkit”. Recipient of 2022 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.

The Arts Administrators of Color Network is a support network that harnesses the power of artists, arts administrators, and organizations of people of the global majority to connect and expand BIPOC leadership across the U. S. creative sector.

Arts Ignite is an international nonprofit arts education organization headquartered in New York City. Founded in 2006 by Broadway Music Director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Arts Ignite cultivates community, creative capacity, and courage in young people ages 4–21 through arts workshops, summer camps, after-school programs, and enrichment experiences across multiple art forms.

Led by Artistic Director Nadia Adame and Executive Director Danae Rees, AXIS Dance Company is one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, Deaf and neurodiverse performers. AXIS was founded in 1987 and is based in the Bay Area, California, where we create world-class productions that challenge perceptions and redefine dance and disability. Alongside our artistic programming, the Company provides unparalleled integrated dance education and outreach programs that remove barriers and showcase the beauty of difference.

Beyond the Stage Door (BTSD) is a comprehensive and intensive program designed to educate and prepare undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds for careers in general, company and stage management in the theatre industry. In particular, BTSD is programmed for students who are members of racial and/or ethnic minority groups.

BIPOC Arts is an online database of Black, Indigenous, and POC artists and administrators working in the opera industry. We celebrate Black, Indigenous, and POC individuals by providing a community for BIPOC opera professionals and serving as a resource for companies, collaborators, and recruiters to engage with a wide range of BIPOC talent in the field.

Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop,LLC is a Brooklyn-based collective founded in summer 2015. We are dedicated to developing, producing, incubating, and promoting Black art and artists who actively engage with justice in their work.

To remove the “ILLUSION OF INCLUSION” in the American Theatre, by building a sustainable ethical roadmap that will increase employment opportunities for Black theater professionals. Our vision is to reshape the working ecosystem for those who have been marginalized by systemically racist and biased ideology.

As members of the Black theatre community, we stand together to help protect Black people, Black theatre, and Black lives of all shapes and orientations in communities across the country. Our voices are united to educate, empower, and inspire through excellence and activism in the pursuit of justice and equality. We will tell our stories, preserve our history, and ensure the legacy of Black theatre as American culture.

Breaking the Binary Theatre is a new work development and community building hub wherein transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+) artists come together to reclaim our artistic license and liberty on our own terms in spaces built by and for us. Breaking the Binary Theatre hosts a number of programs and initiatives, including our flagship artistic event each October: the all-TNB2S+ Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival.

Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC) is an arts-based advocacy organization that unites artists and directly impacted advocates to develop story-based artivism that advances justice and drives systemic change.

Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color provides opportunities to aspiring and current stage managers from underrepresented communities to learn from industry insiders, meet industry leaders, and provide insights to stage managers to start, maintain, and advance a career in the arts and theatre through free networking and educational events.

Broadway for Arts Education (BAE) is a nonprofit, learning organization that uses performing arts education to dismantle systemic barriers to personal success alongside underserved youth. Partnering with the Broadway community, professional teaching artists, community-based organizations, and schools around the world, BAE brings a culturally responsive and decolonized approach to performing arts education.

The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) is an industry-wide initiative that educates, motivates, and inspires the entire theatre community and its patrons to implement environmentally friendlier practices on Broadway and beyond.

Support. Connect. Empower. Dedicated to fostering community and supporting women, The Broadway Women’s Alliance is a peer-to-peer networking and programming organization for female professionals on the business side of Broadway.

The Business of Broadway is led by a team of commercial theatre producers - Sammy Lopez, Erica Rotstein, Heather Shields, and Rachel Sussman - seeking to democratize knowledge around how the commercial theatre business operates.

The Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program strives to encourage more Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, and other students of color to pursue degrees in the theatrical management and non-performance artistic fields.

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 ®’s mission is to promote gender equity in the dance industry, including but not limited to ballet companies, by providing a metrics based analysis. Through our research, programming, resources, and advocacy, DDP showcases and uplifts women throughout the dance industry. We focus on leaders, both artistic & administrative, and artists of merit: choreographers, photographers, lighting, costume, set designers, and commissioned composers.

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 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.

The vision of Directors Gathering is to create a theatre-director-centric community that fosters a vibrant, dynamic, caring, and inclusive ecosystem for theatre directors, promoting diverse ways of directing and sustaining a life-long journey in directing.

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.

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, we protect the stories of tomorrow.

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 is committed to lead the theatrical canon toward gender equity through research, curation, and advocacy. We connect theaters, educators, and artists to powerful, overlooked plays by women that have always deserved to be classics— and inspire others to embrace a more inclusive cultural legacy.

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.

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.

The Harriet Tubman Effect, founded and led by DEI Director Nicole Johnson, is a human resource center and institute for justice advocacy and research. Their mission is to dismantle systemic oppression by producing participatory-action research and human resource initiatives, and reallocating wealth to Black and Brown DEI consultants across American industries.

The Industry Standard Group (TISG) is a community-based organization that creates opportunities for those traditionally underrepresented and marginalized, especially BIPOC folks, in the Broadway community to contribute to, invest in, and produce the highest level projects in the commercial theatre industry.

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 is a 501c3 Charitable Organization. We reshape events, mindsets and the workplace to ensure equitable access for disabled Americans.

The Lillys are responsible for creating The Lilly Awards, The Count and Counting Together (both housed at the Dramatists Guild), The Lorraine Hansberry Initiative Sculpture and Scholarship, The Family Residency at Space on Ryder Farm among other accomplishments. The Lillys are proud to have moved 3.5 million dollars into the hands of women theater artists.

MAESTRA provides support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater industry. Since women are under-represented in musical theater, our membership is made up of female and non-binary composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists and other musicians.

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.

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 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. Founded in 2010, Noor provides a crucial space for MENA/SWANA voices to be heard through its variety of programs, ranging from theatrical development/production to community building.

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 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.

Parent Artist Advocacy League for Arts + Media (PAAL) is a national community, resource hub, and solutions generator for individuals with caregiver responsibilities and institutions who strive to support them.

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.

The Producer Hub is a connective space for independent producers, artists, producing/presenting organizations and other arts workers creating live performance. Our mission is to provide producers, at every level, with the community, mentorship, education and resources to create work, realize their full potential, and make lasting contributions to the performing arts field.

R.Evolución Latina activates individual and collective human growth through artistic experiences, fostering transformation and social change—a true Revolution of Evolution, making a difference through the arts.

Ring of Keys is a 501(c)3 nonprofit artist service organization that fosters community and visibility for musical theatre artists - onstage and off - who self-identify as queer women, transgender, and gender non-conforming artists. By providing community outreach to advocate for and amplify these artists and widening the public’s engagement with and education about queer stories, Ring of Keys queers the stage to create a more inclusive musical theatre landscape for all.

Spectra is founded by the Saunders family - a group of technologists, theater artists, and educators with a unique set of skills and experiences aligned with our vision to utilize technology to expand access and lower the cost of entry to theater for artists, administrators, and audiences alike.

TEMPO (Trans & Expansive Music Professional Organization) is an organization for artists under the trans/gender expansive umbrella as well as the music umbrella, predominantly within musical theatre. We work intercommunally and intracommunally. We partner with other organizations that share our goal of opportunities for growth as music makers for groups who have been historically overlooked.

TAP has a mission to create safe and equitable working conditions for all theatre professionals through a suite of HR & DEI tools.

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC partners with communities confronting systemic oppression to inspire transformative action through theatre. Our goals are to build solidarity and awareness; to enable actors to become activists; and to influence policy-making through participatory theatre. Our work is guided by several core principles: that any discussion of a social problem should center the voices of those most affected; that unscripted, live encounters have immense potential for transformative change; and that community-based art and activism can influence policy.

Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) is a multifaceted collective of theatremakers joined together in support of the next generation of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) producers by providing access to education, training, and mentorship.

The Circle Keepers is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization. We dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by training youth organizers as restorative justice practitioners, participatory action researchers and socially conscious activists. By centering the lived experiences of youth leaders, we promote peacemaking through cultural and educational community organizing that heal the harms of racial segregation in schools.

The Make Good Project is  a nonprofit built to hold space for Black women of all skill levels to create art in community.  They hold writing workshops online, host in person events and an annual retreat that center the creativity of Black women.

The Think Tank for Theatrical Innovation (T3i) is a volunteer group of theater industry professionals whose purpose is to provide a space for discussion around facilitating change, varied topics related to social justice and systemic racism in our industry.

tutti aims to diversify music departments and pit orchestras on Broadway and beyond. We support historically marginalized individuals in the arts by offering two mentorship programs: Music Director Observership and Creative Exchange. These initiatives connect professionals and Broadway artists, fostering relationships that create pathways for BIPOC musicians to access opportunities and community.

VASTA is an international non-profit that brings together a global network of voice and speech professionals across all disciplines and industries—uniting artists, educators, coaches, therapists, and more. Their mission is to cultivate the voice and speech profession and its multidisciplinary impact with passion, respect, and definitive leadership.

The Women Count report series looks at Off- and Off-Off-Broadway hiring patterns to inform national conversations about gender parity in the American theater. The goal of the report series is to change the conversation from anecdotes to advocacy on behalf of female and non-binary playwrights, performers, and off-stage theater workers.

Women & Theatre is a community project and podcast. Our mission is to connect women and gender-expansive folks in the theatre industry by cultivating open conversations across identities and professional roles, creating opportunities to support one another in growing our careers, and pooling our collective wisdom to build the equitable theatrical spaces of the future.