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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Harriet Tubman Effect Institute
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.
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The Industry Standard Group
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.
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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.
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Musicians United for Social Equity (MUSE)
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.