Education: Beyond the Stage Door is an educational program designed to introduce new to the industry/undergrad/recent grads to the world of theatrical management. The program is provided free of cost to participants so they are able to focus entirely on getting as much out of the program as possible.
Community Building: BIPOC Arts celebrates Black, Indigenous, and POC individuals in opera 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.
Job Board: BIPOC hosts a jobs board for professionals in the opera and theatre industry.
Arts Programming: BRTW offers free and low-cost programming for their community in Brooklyn and beyond. From their monthly reading series Melanated Monday, to their writer’s group Writer’s Block, to podcasts, live performances, and touring workshops- BRTW aims to make programming accessible to both arts lovers and art newcomers. BRTW, their work, and artists uniquely leverage the power of the theatre- to use narrative and performance to deeply engage audiences with character, condition, and circumstance- to address the systemic gaps in compassion that contribute to real-life harms.
Community Building: BRTW is pleased to offer opportunities for civic engagement. Their popup community organizing workshops and writing workshops not only democratize access to resources often gatekept within academic institutions but also serve their mission by ensuring that workshop content is available for free to Black communities.
Education: Revolution NOW! is an annual seasonal residency for Black playwrights whose work they produce as audio dramas. Playwrights are provided with hands-on dramaturgical and educational support and guidance as they complete and edit their work.
BRTW also offers pop-up workshops for groups interested in learning their generative method of playwrighting.
Education/Financial Opportunities: BTC provides emerging, mid-career, and career-changing diverse professionals paid opportunities to learn the theater-making process from leaders at the highest levels in executive, creative, producing, and administrative areas while developing a strong network for continued success and employment in the industry.
BTC’s flagship programming aims to support and allow for the time, space, and resources needed for individuals to grow their knowledge and build their skill set.
their mission is to reshape the working ecosystem for those who have been systematically excluded through the following pathways:
1. Identifying the next generation of emerging talent, including those from dimensions of diversity currently underrepresented in the arts
2. Implementing paid apprenticeship programs for emerging creatives
3. Creating paid fellowships and/or leadership positions in theatrical offices and opportunities for their alumni on future Broadway and theatrical projects.
their vision is to remove the “ILLUSION OF INCLUSION” in the American Theatre by building a sustainable, ethical roadmap and eliminating barriers to access and opportunity for the next generation of talent.
Broadway Across America and BTC have partnered to create a comprehensive, 14-week paid Apprenticeship program for college undergraduate juniors, seniors, recent college graduates, and early career professionals with a demonstrated commitment to promoting diversity in the theater. Applicants are welcomed from all fields of study, including arts administration, business, marketing, communications, finance, HR, theatre studies, and more. In-person office availability (flexible schedule) and virtual availability on Friday afternoon are required.
Community Building: BTU stands together to help protect Black people, Black theatre, and Black lives of all shapes and orientations in communities across the country. They unite Black voices to educate, empower, and inspire through excellence and activism in the pursuit of justice and equality. They tell their stories, preserve their history, and ensure the legacy of Black theatre as American culture. Hosting events that draw from experiences from those in the Black theatre community and far beyond, their events are structured to add unparalleled value to all those who participate.
Financial Opportunities & Education: Black Theatre United hosts The Broadway Marketing Internship Program, an initiative dedicated to creating new opportunities for emerging Black talent in the areas of marketing and advertising. The spirit of this initiative is in equity and inclusion, two of the core values at the heart of BTU, which was formed to protect and promote Black talent, Black people, and Black lives.
Arts Programming: BTB offers new work development for transgender, non-binary and two spirit artists.
Community Building: BTB builds ommunity throughout the year via community events and gatherings to remain in dialogue with BTB artist alumni and further expand the BTB community and overall TNB2S+ theatrical landscape.
The Broadway Mental Health Foundation is the performing arts industry’s first free, systemic clinical infrastructure. Founded by Executive Director Emerson Valentina, BMHF operates on a model of radical democratization to actively dismantle the abusive practices, toxic ideologies, and exploitation that have historically impacted gig-economy workers. For generations, the theatrical community has been forced to operate under abusive and exploitative practices, leaving artists vulnerable to burnout and untreated crises without employer-sponsored recourse. BMHF steps in to disrupt that narrative, operating on the firm belief that clinical care and psychological safety are fundamental human rights, and that healthy artists make better art.
BMHF provides barrier-free mental health education, programming, resources, and support groups to all theatrical workers, entirely for free. Our infrastructure is powered by our highly vetted Affiliate Networks — including the Clinical Affiliate Network (C.A.N.) and the Educational Affiliate Network (E.A.N.). Through these partnerships, we connect artists with trauma-informed, industry-literate, and LGBTQIA+/BIPOC affirmative care. We are fiercely anti-diet culture and deeply attuned to the unique stressors of the theatrical gig economy, ensuring that no artist has to sacrifice their creative career to receive support.
We are a resource connector and we are actively building systemic change. By forging unified national coalitions like the Arts Evolution Alliance, we equip theaters and arts nonprofits with the free crisis blueprints they need to protect their workforce. Simultaneously, our Creative Care Continuum develops direct, expedited clinical referral pipelines so artists navigating severe crises can access higher-acuity care without falling through the cracks of standard waitlists.
We are rewriting the industry’s social contract from the ground up. At BMHF, we demand that humanity always comes before productivity. We are here to heal the arts and change Broadway forever.
Join the movement that will change Broadway forever by following us on social media: @mentalhealthbway. Visit www.mentalhealthbway.org to learn more or send us a message at [email protected].
Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC) is an arts-based advocacy organization that unites artists and directly impacted advocates to develop story-based artivism that advances justice and drives systemic change. Founded in 2016 by Broadway artists in response to racism and police brutality, BAC is a multidisciplinary force using the power of storytelling to confront systemic injustice, particularly within the criminal legal system. Through its signature Theater of Change methodology, BAC leverages the arts and storytelling as powerful tools to imagine a world without systemic racism and the carceral state, inspire action across all levels of power, and replace harmful narrative—strengthening organizing efforts for lasting change. BAC is not just a hub for art and artivism—it is a training space where the next generation of artivists learns to harness narrative power for policy change and community organizing. In 2021, BAC received a Special Tony Award for providing an unparalleled platform for marginalized theatre artists and for leading the theater industry toward a more equitable future. To learn more, get involved, or support their work, visit bwayadvocacycoalition.org or follow them on Instagram @bwayadvocacycoalition.
Arts Programming:
THEATER OF CHANGE – The Theater of Change (TOC) brings together theater artists, policy experts and students, and advocates who have first-hand experience with the systems we need to change to learn from each other and expand their capacity, community, and impact. This intensive workshop enables participants to blend the practices of artistry, law, policy, and advocacy led by people with direct experience to produce artistic projects with the potential to make tangible impact on the inequitable, unjust, and racist systems.
ARTIVISM FELLOWSHIP – The Artivism Fellowship is a seven-month incubation process that provides two participating artist-activists the tools and resources to blend artistry, law, policy, and community engagement while leveraging their creative talents to drive meaningful systemic change.
IMPACT PROJECTS – BAC’s signature Impact Projects leverages artivism tools to advance current campaigns to transform the criminal legal system in New York City and State.
Community Building:
ARTS IN ACTION FESTIVAL – The annual Arts in Action Festival is the premier space for organizations and individuals working at the intersections of arts and advocacy to come together to showcase their work, explore opportunities for collaboration, celebrate the resilience of the justice-impacted community, and focus the city’s attention on the many ways that the “justice” system is failing to actually create justice for so many inhabitants of New York City.
Community Building: Broadway & Beyond hosts various networking events for stage managers of color, leaning into their mission to provide opportunity, education and vital industry connections for stage managers of color. They also host a database for these professionals directly on their site.
Education: Broadway & Beyond provides valuable opportunities of career development for Stage Managers of Color. Programming can range from webinars to in person events.
Job Boards: Broadway & Beyond posts job notices directly on their site for all of their users to find opportunities around the country.
Arts Programming – The BGA co-produces the annual Broadway Celebrates Earth Day concert in Times Square in partnership with the Times Square Alliance. A landmark activation for the NYC Department of Transportation’s “Car-Free Earth Day,” the event features Broadway stars, environmental speakers, and young performers from across the region.
Community Building – Their Green Captain network includes over 1,600 active and alumni green theatre advocates anywhere theatre happens, from college theatre departments to Broadway companies. They also offer several volunteer opportunities at their E-Waste and Textile Reuse & Recycling Drives, annual Earth Day concert, and other events throughout the year.
Education – Broadway Green Alliance offers a robust online library of toolkits, guides, and resources for theatre makers and patrons who are looking to work and live more sustainably. BGA members regularly present on green theatre at conferences, colleges, and industry events.