Education Archives - Rise Theatre Directory

Education

The following theatre arts partner organizations offer a range of educational opportunities to support both upcoming and existing theatre professionals with career development. These offerings can range from youth educational courses, to fellowship/internship opportuntities.
  • A.R.T./New York (Alliance of Resident Theatres New York)

    Founded in 1972 to promote community and collaboration within the performing arts, A.R.T./New York assists over 500 member theatres in realizing their rich artistic visions and serving their diverse audiences […]

  • Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA)

    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 Circle Keepers

    The Circle Keepers is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization. They 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, and promoting peacemaking through cultural and educational community organizing that heal the harms of racial segregation in schools.

  • Expand The Canon

    Expand the Canon is committed to lead the theatrical canon toward gender equity through research, curation, and advocacy. They 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.

  • 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. Drama Club welcomes participants from all five boroughs of NYC, offering a space for young people to be themselves and form friendships through the joy of play.

  • 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. Through their research, programming, resources, and advocacy, DDP showcases and uplifts women throughout the dance industry. DDP focus on leaders, both artistic & administrative, and artists of merit: choreographers, photographers, lighting, costume, set designers, and commissioned composers.

  • 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. Fuse Theatre believes its work is made stronger by the many voices, perspectives, and experiences brought into projects.

  • 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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    A Broader Way Foundation

    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.