Adoptee Artist Network of Boston (GBA)

• What: A group connecting and uplifting adoptee artists in the Boston Area

• Focus: Adoptees For:  All Theatre Artists

Art & Soul Consulting  (GBA)

• What: Consulting group specializing in conversations around Race, Identity, and EDI in theatre spaces. Run by Boston theatre artist Kira Troilo. 

• Focus: All underrepresented groups and minorities

• For:  All Theatre Artists

Asian American Playwright Collective (GBA)

• What: The Asian American Playwright Collective is a group of Boston-based playwrights who have banded together to nurture, develop, and promote new work by Asian-American playwrights in the Boston area.

• Focus: Asian and Asian American Theatre Artists

• For:  Playwrights

Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (GBA)

• What: Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston is a theatre collective that empowers and connects Pan-Asian theatre artists in the Greater Boston Area.

• Focus: Asian and Asian American Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists

Black Theatre United

• What: Black Theatre United is a black theatre collective that serves as a springboard for BIPOC focused-programs like A New Deal for Broadway, BTU Designer Initiative, The Broadway Marketing Internship Program, The Broadway Bound Educational Program and more.

• Focus: Black Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists
  
  
  

CHUANG Stage (GBA)

• What: Boston’s Asian American theatre company, cultivating joyful and radical pan-Asian stories that pioneer translingual activism in the arts.

• Focus: Asian and Asian American Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists

CreateEnsemble (GBA)

• What: Create Ensemble is a nurturing and inspiring ethos-driven networking platform for emerging and established creatives of color and organizations to support one another by coming together to create artistic projects for the love of the craft and our communities. 

• Focus: Black Artists 

• For:  All Theatre Artists

Dance For All Bodies (GBA)

• What: Dance For All Bodies mission is to dismantle ableism through access-centered dance classes, community-based learning, and equitable access workshops.

• Focus: Dancers of all abilities, with a special focus toward accessible dance for people with Disabilities. 

• For:  Dancers   Choreographers 

Dunamis (GBA)

• What: Dunamis supports and creates space for creatives of color. They offer multiple fellowships and apprenticeships for emerging artists, particularly administrators. 

• Focus: Black Artists 

• For:  All Theatre Artists  Administrators
  
  

Front Porch Arts Collective (GBA)

• What: Front Porch is a black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theatre.

• Focus: Black Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists

Gender Explosion (GBA)

• What: A collective of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) theater artists - currently on hiatus,  please reach out to Shira Helena Gitlin for resources. 

• Focus: TGNC Artists (open to anyone who is gender creative/expansive or exploring their gender identity) 

• For:  All Theatre Artists
  
  
  

Maestra

• What: Maestra provides Support, Visibility, and Community to the women and nonbinary people who make the music in the musical theater industry. They run a mentorship program, workshops, classes, and more. 

• Focus: Women & Nonbinary Theatre Artists/Musicians

• For: Music Directors  Musicians  Actors  Performers  Educators

MENA Theatre Makers Alliance

• What: MENA Theater Makers Alliance amplifies the voices of Middle Eastern and North African theater makers and expands how stories from and about our communities are told on U.S. stages. We will take space, make opportunities, champion artists, and build relationships with other marginalized communities and allies to build a more vibrant American theater.

• Focus: Middle Eastern and North African Theatre Artists, inclusive of the multiplicity of ethnic and religious identities that span Southwest Asia, North Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, parts of Mediterranean Europe, and their diaspora communities.

• For: All Theatre Artists

Momentum Stage

• What: Virtual collection of resources on diversity and decolonization for Theatre and Dance. 

• Focus: All underrepresented groups and minorities

• For:  All Theatre Artists but particularly Educators

NAACBoston (GBA)

• What: The Network for Arts Administrators of Color offers participants the opportunity to connect, network, and share learnings with the intent to empower, elevate, and retain talented professionals of color in the sector. 

• Focus: Arts Administrators of Color

• For:  Administrators

Off-Kendrik (GBA)

• What: Off-Kendrik is a Bengali theater group presenting original, experimental plays written and performed in Bangla. They also host a storytelling event called Voices every other year, which curates stories from the South Asian community, loosely themed on immigrant experiences.

• Focus: South Asian Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists 

Open Door Arts (GBA)

• What: Open Door Arts increases access, participation, and representation of people with disabilities in arts and culture.

• Focus: Artists with Disabilities

• For:  All Theatre Artists  
  
  

Queer Artists & Play (QA&P) (GBA)

• What: QA&P is an all-volunteer, recreational, art and theatre organization for the queer/trans community in Greater Boston. Their mission is to celebrate queer/trans identities and experiences by providing community-based creative outlets.

• Focus: LGBTQ+ Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists 

Queer Theatre Collective (GBA)

• What: QTC is a queer theatre collective that uplifts the voices of, and provides a platform for LGBTQ+ identifying individuals of all backgrounds and experiences within the creative community of the greater Boston area. QTC offers community events, readings, dramaturgical support, and more. They also run a Boston-area database for queer theatre artists. 

• Focus: LGBTQ+ Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists 

Rhode Island Latino Arts (GBA)

• What: Rhode Island Latino Arts is a Latino-led arts organization that brings together visual artists, folk artists, musicians, dancers, theater creatives, writers, chefs, performers to show that the traditions of immigrants have bolstered and generated the true beauty of American culture.

• Focus:  Latine/x Artists

• For: All Theatre Artists

Ring of Keys

• What: Ring of Keys is an artist service organization that fosters community and visibility for musical theatre artists - onstage and off - who self-identify as queer women, transgender, and gender non-conforming artists. While ROK is national, there is a Boston chapter. 

• Focus: LGBTQ+ Music Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists

RISE Theatre Directory

• What: RISE was created to build a more equitable and inclusive theatre industry by centralizing tools and resources through our network of partners and a national career platform that serves everyone in the industry.

• Focus: People of Color, Women, TGNC, Deaf, and Disabled Theatre Professionals

• For:  All Theatre Artists

SETU (GBA)

• What: SETU builds bridges between Indian and Western cultures through the medium of theater. SETU’s plays portrays India’s social, political and economic scenarios from the past and the present, highlighting both our rich cultural heritage and social malaise.

• Focus: Indian and South Asian Theatre Artists

• For:  All Theatre Artists
  
  
  

The Theatre Offensive (GBA)

• What: TTO presents liberating art by, for, and about queer and trans people of color that transcends artistic boundaries, celebrates cultural abundance, and dismantles oppression. They are also on the forefront of the political movement to protect our theatre community from Facism. 

• Focus: Queer and Transgender Artists of Color

• For:  All Theatre Artists

Teatro Chelsea (GBA)

• What: Teatro Chelsea celebrates Latin cultures, showcases and fosters local talent, builds community in Chelsea through arts engagement and collaboration, and is establishing a hub for Latin artists in the Boston metropolitan area.

• Focus:  Latine/x Artists

• For: All Theatre Artists

These lists are a great starting point when looking to hire or cast authentically! Most, if not all, of these lists have at least a handful of Boston-based artists. These lists have NOT been vetted by BATA and may be out of date.

• ​Asian American Stage Directors 

• ​Black Femme Theatre Directors

• Black Women Directors 

• Deaf Talent Directory

• Deaf Theatre Artists and ASL Interpreters (Access Issues and Solutions)

• Disabled Actors 

• Diverse Dramaturgs: Racially, Ethnically, Culturally

• Gender Consultant Database (created by Boston theatre artist Shira Helena Gitlin) 

• Indigenous Artist Network 

• Indigenous Direction 

• Latinx Stage Artistic Personnel

• Latinx Stage Managers

• Latinx Theater Directors

• Latinx Theatre Scholars

• Maia Directors - Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA)

• The No Excuses List - Women/Non-Binary/Two Spirit Dramaturgs of Color

• BIPOC Theatre Designers and Technicians (created by Boston’s own Megan Sandberg-Zakian!) 

• South Asian Theater Artists

• Trans Theater Makers List 

• WE EXIST - Female and/or trans playwrights
  
  
  

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