The 1/52 Project
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. Candidates of diverse backgrounds representing the full spectrum of theatrical activity, including those who have worked in non-traditional venues, are encouraged to apply to this program.
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.
Access Broadway
We believe in making Theatre truly Accessible for all, from impartial advice to a complete Access Audit to help make the most of your space. We strive to help entertainment venues create paths for accessibility in all areas.
The Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC)
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop,LLC is a Brooklyn-based collective founded in summer 2015. They are dedicated to developing, producing, incubating, and promoting Black art and artists who actively engage with justice in their work
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.
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
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
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition unites artists, experts, students, and community leaders to use storytelling and artistry to combat systemic racism.
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.
Broadway For Arts Education
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.
Broadway Women’s Alliance
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
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.
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.
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.
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.