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.
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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.
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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.
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Beyond the Stage Door
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.
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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.
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Black Theatre Coalition
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.
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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.
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Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color
Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color provides opportunities to aspiring and current stage managers of color to learn from industry insiders, meet industry leaders, and provide insights to help stage managers of color start, maintain, and advance a career in the arts and theatre through free networking and educational events.
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The Business 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.
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Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program
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.
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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.