Network Partners Archive - Rise Theatre Directory

The 1/52 Project

Financial Opportunities: The OBIE Award winning 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. The 1/52 Project considers all women of all ethnicities as part of a historically excluded group.

The 1/52 Project has raised over $450,000 in generous donations from designers and other generous theater professionals and disbursed 92% of all funds raised to talented early career designers from historically excluded groups.

The 1/52 Project was founded with the hope that designers with shows running on Broadway would donate one week per year of additional weekly compensation (AWC) for each Broadway show the donor has designed. However, we will gratefully accept any amount of money from anyone (designer or not!)

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A Broader Way Foundation

Education: A Broader Way designs programs for female and gender expansive youth. Offerings include camp, school year programs and graduate programs.

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Access Broadway

Accessibility Services: From Access Audits, to designing Access Services for Theater Access Broadway specializes in Closed Captioning, Audio Description, ASL Interpretation, Relaxed Performance and Guided Tour Tours.

Arts Programming: Access Broadway has assisted and advised both commercial and educational theaters on how arts programming can be inclusive from content to theater protocols, and have presented Disability-led trainings for all members ahead of programming.

Community and Networking Events: Access Broadway curates and provides ASL Interpreted Broadway and Off-broadway performances, along with Closed Captioning and Audio Description performances.

Data Gathering: ABNY has dedicated research efforts and is currently designing legislation to address the inequality facing Broadway. From in accessible ticketing prices, to un-accessible and not protected ADA seating they have been data collecting across 41 theaters for the last 3 years.

Educational Courses: ABNY provides Disability led, Disability and ADA Trainings for Producers, General Managers, Box Offices, Front of House and Ushers.

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The Angel Band Project

The Angel Band Project sponsors music therapy programming in New York City and St. Louis, as well as other pilot sites in the U.S. Board-certified music therapists lead music therapy workshops and events to support the healing process of survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. We use a trauma-informed approach that supports the needs of those whom we serve. Programs include our Wings of Resilience 8-week workshops, Jam Sessions for program alumnae, Virtual Choir, and Songs of Survival therapeutic songwriting project.

A.R.T./New York (Alliance of Resident Theatres New York)

Founded in 1972 to promote community and collaboration within the performing arts, A.R.T./New York assists over 500 member theatres in realizing their rich artistic visions and serving their diverse audiences well. We have earned a reputation as a leader in providing progressive services to our members—from shared office and rehearsal spaces to technical assistance programs and advocacy efforts—which have made us an expert in the needs of the NYC nonprofit theatre community.

Accessibility Services:
Supports theatremakers in adopting anti-oppression and anti-ableist practices by providing them with the crucial tools to meet and serve artists and audiences with a range of disabilities.
Leads access provider training in conjunction with partners like Hands On and Think Outside the Vox to increase the pool of trained ASL interpreters and audio describers.

Community Building:
Community-building is a key organizing principle at A.R.T./New York.
Connect in person at our semi-annual Convenings (Fall Forum and Spring Summit), or join online digital workshops and conversations to meet colleagues with shared questions.

Data Reports:
In May 2025, A.R.T./New York Published Health + Wealth: Empowering NYC Theatremakers Through Data, a report unpacking trends related to financials, operations, programming, and audiences for theatres from 2019 to 2022.
Annually, A.R.T./New York collaborates with Dance/NYC to administer a survey to track the distribution of funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Cultural Development Fund (CDF).

Education:
Free professional development services are available online (digital resources) as well as at in-person and virtual workshops, roundtables, panels, and more.

Financial Opportunities:
In partnership with SeaChange Capital, A.R.T./New York administers a cash flow loan program, NYC Bridge Funding for the Arts
A.R.T./New York administers two regrant programs:
The Small Theatres Fund in partnership with Howard Gilman Foundation, making two-year grants to New York City-based theatre companies with annual budgets below $250,000. The fund provides multi-year grant awards between $7,500-$10,000 each year.
The Creative Opportunity Fund in partnership with NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) provides general operating support grants of $2,000-$5,000 to small professional theatres with budgets under $500,000 working throughout New York State.

Space Rental:
Subsidized theatre rentals at the A.R.T./New York Theatres at 502 West 53rd Street. We have 2 highly accessible theatres (Gural max capacity 87, Mezzanine max capacity 149) that include a full equipment package.
Operate hourly and lock-out studio rental program at 520 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan (12 studios) and 138 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn (4 studios).

Arts Administrators of Color Network

Community Building: Offers community to artists of color in administrative spaces. AAC Network hosts an annual convening and bi monthly virtual affinity spaces.

Affinity Spaces

Annual Convening

Arts Ignite

Education & Arts Programming: At Arts Ignite, their mission is to develop agency in youth through the arts. Through performing arts, visual arts, and creative writing, they support young people ages 4-22 to discover the joy and power of making art to share their voices, tell their stories, and transform their lives. Arts Ignite is dedicated to serving all young people, especially youth affected by systemic issues and their effects. These include immigration status, houselessness, gun-violence, incarceration, the justice system, HIV/AIDS, systemic poverty, or the caste system. Arts Ignite programs are offered through school curriculums, summer camps, and with community organizations.

Community Building: Arts Ignite leads multi-generational arts activities that promote togetherness, team building, and fun! Together, their teaching artists and partners build strong, vibrant communities that help students cultivate deep connections and healthy relationships with one another.

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Artists for Change

Artists For Change is a non-profit organization that is designed to uplift, empower, and liberate the trans voice through creating resources and avenues of access that are here to assist us with visibility in spaces where visibility is non-existent or rare. Whether that’s a clothing drive, a workshop, scholarships, or self care event. Or partnerships and community building with other organizations, AFC is here to support the trans voice artistically and emotionally. As a black trans man, my journey with the arts has and always will be a labor of love. It is for our ancestors that we honor the past, and stand firmly in our right to exist, to create, and to truly live. Black/Brown Trans Art Matters. How far we have come.

Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC)

Data Reports: AAPAC publishes the only publicly available annual statistics report on racial representation in the NYC Area of its kind. THE VISIBILITY REPORT: RACIAL REPRESENTATION ON NEW YORK CITY STAGES covers employment statistics by race for actors, playwrights, composers, librettists, directors and designers for the 2018-19 season for all of Broadway and the 18 largest non-profit theatre companies in New York City.

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AXIS Dance Company

Accessibility Services: Accessibility is at the core of everything AXIS does. In addition to weaving access into the framework of their artistic and engagement programming, they also offer access consultations and workshops for non-profit and corporate organizations. Their Access Guide for the Performing Arts is a free, evolving resource that is meant to address the long overdue work to make dance and performing arts spaces accessible to artists, venue workers, administrators and audiences with disabilities: accessguide.axisdance.org

Arts Programming: AXIS collaborates with high profile choreographers and innovative dance makers to create impactful and significant dance works. AXIS builds bridges between contemporary dance, integrated dance, and disability culture.

Community Building: AXIS creates opportunities locally and abroad for disabled people to engage in dance by championing access, inclusion, and equity in dance and in the wider community.

Education: AXIS provides dance programming and events for disabled and non-disabled individuals of all ages, and is a pre-professional training ground for aspiring disabled dancers and choreographers.

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