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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harriet Tubman Effect
The Harriet Tubman Effect Institute is a human resource center and institute for justice advocacy and research. Our mission is to dismantle systemic oppression by producing participatory-action research, human resource initiatives, and reallocating wealth to Black and Brown DEI consultants across American industries.
The Industry Standard Group
The Industry Standard Group (TISG) is a community organization that promotes diverse projects, increases the presence of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) investors & producers in the commercial producing field, & expands the opportunities that these communities are granted in the industry.
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.
MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity)
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.
Open Stage Project
Open Stage Project is a New York City nonprofit closing the gender gap in behind-the-scenes careers by educating, mentoring, and empowering young women and nonbinary students to pursue jobs in theater, film, and TV via free after-school programs.
R.Evolución Latina
R.Evolución Latina activates individual and collective human growth through artistic experiences, fostering transformation and social change—a true Revolution of Evolution, making a difference through the arts.