Grant Information and Recipients

Artist Pay and Leadership Grants – 2019

2019 Artist and Leadership Pay grants went to 15 companies to pay under represented artists and administrators within their organizations. The below company names were pulled in our lottery at our Big Give event on October 2nd. Congrats!

#Healmetoo Festival

AK Collective

American Bard Theater Company

American Renaissance Theater Company

Center at West Park

LubDub Theatre Company

Moxie Arts

MultiStages

New Perspectives Theater Company

Pin Productions

Roots and River Productions

Sea Dog Theater

Si Se Puede Productions

Smith Street Stage

TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence)

Artist Pay and Leadership Grants – 2018

Our 2018 giving was focused on Artist and Leadership Pay to artists with under represented perspectives in our community. The below twelve companies were awarded $1,000 each to pay artists and leaders/administrators for work in their shows and companies:

Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop
Concrete Timbre
ETdC Projects’ Lab
General Mischief Dance Theatre
HERE Art Center
Honest Accomplice Theatre
ID Studio Theater
Playlight Theatre Company
The Motor Company
The Nerve Tank
The Private Theatre
White Horse Theater Company

Community Resource Program – Rehearsal Space Subsidy Grant Recipients:

These nine companies received 40 hour blocks of subsidized rehearsal space through the Indie Theater Fund Community Resources Program. We have partnered with Spaceworks NYC on this exciting program. 40 hour blocks were granted to nine different companies to be used between (round one) April 1st and December 31st, 2018 and Jan 1st and Dec 31st 2019 (round two). Each hour is $6 per hour for the company and $6 per hour for the Fund.

Recipients of this first and seconf round of hours:

Acevedo-Klein Collective

Athena Theatre

The Arctic Group

Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop

Flux Theater Ensemble

Invulnerable Nothings

Radical Evolution

Theatre Now New York

viBe Theater Experience

Check back for future available blocks in 2019/2020

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Artist Pay and Leadership Grants

2017 Recipients

Our 2017 giving was focused on Artist and Leadership Pay to artists with under represented perspectives in our community. The below ten companies were awarded $1,000 each to pay artists and leaders/administrators for work in their shows and companies:

The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater
Hamlet Isn’t Dead
Kyoung’s Pacific Beat
La Lucha Arts
No Dominion Theater Company
Phoenix Theater Ensemble
Retro Productions
Slightly Altered States
Theater Breaking Through Barriers
Waterwell

**The next round of funding will be announced in Sept 2018.**

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2016 Recipients 

Our 2016 giving was focused on Artist Pay to artists of color. The below ten companies were awarded $1,000 each to pay artists for work in their shows:

Bad Theater Fest
Brave New World Rep
Classics In Color
Harunalee
JP Dance Group
Mabou Mines
Sinking Ship Productions
The Platform Group
The Tank
Village Playback Theatre

**The new round of funding will be announced in 2017.**

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2015 Recipients 

Our 2015 giving was focused on Artist Pay. The below five companies were awarded $1,000 each to pay artists for work in their shows:
Animal Engine
Concrete Timbre
Live Source
Piehole
The Bushwick Starr

**We are also pleased to announce we were able to give a refresh grant to New York Theater Review and the Indie Theater Guide, our 2014 Community Resource Grant winner.

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2014 Recipient

Cogratulations to New York Theater Review and the Indie Theater Guide.

The Indie Theater Guide is our Community Resource grant winner for 2014. Check out their video on the YouTube page linked below and be on the look out for updates on its progress. Congrats to all of the finalists. It was an awesome year of proposals and each project was deserving of funding. If you have any interest in any of the applicants please let us know and we will put you in touch.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCStTgxUojuO8PHHCtAWb_9w

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCStTgxUojuO8PHHCtAWb_9w

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2013 Recipient 

Congratulations Gideon Productions, Flux Ensemble and Shaun Bennett Fauntleroy!

Their project, The SH.I.T. List is our first recipient of our Community Resource Grant.  They received $5,000 (or 100,000 nickels!) to make their project a reality.

The S.H.I.T. List is a web-based database that independent theater companies in and around NYC can use to sell, rent, lend or swap basic set pieces, furniture, props and costumes.  Community resource:  Most small theater companies in New York City lack storage space, so set pieces and props hit the dumpster after a show closes.  The S.H.I.T. List is a low-cost solution for reducing waste, lowering design costs, and moving small theater companies toward a greener process.

Watch the video below to learn more about the S.H.I.T. List:

Thank you to all of the participants that submitted proposals.  It was a very exciting process.