Meet the Theatre

Meet TADA! Youth Theater , a Drama Desk Award-winning nonprofit youth theatre company that produces original musicals for families starring talented local kids ages 8 to 18. Founded in 1984, TADA! provides young people from different backgrounds with musical theatre opportunities, including classes, camps and three mainstage shows every season featuring the troupe’s Resident Youth Ensemble.

Meet New York Deaf Theatre , the longest-running company of its kind in New York City and the third oldest Deaf troupe in the U.S. Founded in 1979, NYDT provides an artistic home for actors, creators and designers who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing where they can see their own lives and experiences reflected onstage. NYDT’s shows are accessible to both audiences who can hear and those who are Deaf or

Meet The Fire This Time Festival , which showcases early-career playwrights of African and African-American descent. Part participants include Katori Hall (the ), Dominique Morisseau ( Detroit ’67 at the Public, Pipeline at Lincoln Center) and Ngozi Anyanwu ( The Homecoming Queen at the Atlantic Theater Company).

Meet The Anthropologists , a troupe that collaboratively creates investigative theatre pieces meant to inspire action.

Meet This Is Not a Theatre Company , a troupe that mounts collaborative shows in offbeat spaces like pools and living rooms.

Meet Sanguine Theatre Company , where audiences get a direct say in which adventurous play will be produced next.

Meet TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) , where a longtime company of artists encourages each other to take risks (when they’re not cracking jokes). This film features company members James Murtaugh, Cynthia Harris, Simon Jones, Jeremy Beck, and Jeff Talbott, as well as associate artistic director Nora Chester and executive artistic director Scott Alan Evans.