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Community Building

The following theatre arts partner organizations host various events dedicated to the community their mission serves. Events can range from affinity groups, theatre outings, to networking opportuntities.
  • Broadway Green Alliance

    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.

  • AXIS Dance Company

    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 they create world-class productions that challenge perceptions and redefine dance and disability. Alongside their artistic programming, the Company provides unparalleled integrated dance education and outreach programs that remove barriers and showcase the beauty of difference.

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    Access Broadway

    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.

  • Arts Administrators of Color Network Logo

    Arts Administrators of Color Network

    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 Logo

    Arts Ignite

    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.

  • BIPOC Arts Logo

    BIPOC Arts

    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 Logo

    Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop

    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.

  • Black Theatre United Logo

    Black Theatre United

    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 Logo

    Breaking the Binary Theatre

    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.

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    Broadway Advocacy Coalition

    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.