Organizational News

Theatre for a New Audience is thrilled to announce that we are the recipients of a $900,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant, for the current season and the following two seasons, will support the Theatre’s operating budget and its work with our affiliated artists, including Arin Arbus (Resident Director), Andrew Wade…Read More »

Emily Gould has written for The New York Times, The New York Observer, and Jezebel.com, among other publications, and is a contributing editor at Technology Review. Before becoming an editor of Gawker.com, a job she quit and then described in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine in 2008, she was an associate…Read More »

Theatre for a New Audience is thrilled to welcome Sprint as our newest corporate partner, thanks to their recent grant of $25,000 in support of the Theatre’s educational programming. We are proud to be one of only two recipients in the New York area. During the 2010-2011 school year, this grant will help fund our…Read More »

As we begin our 31st Season at Theatre for a New Audience, we welcome three new staff members to our team, while saying goodbye to one. Having served as Education Director for eight years, overseeing a period of remarkable growth within our education programs, Joe Giardina is moving on to play that role at The…Read More »

Celebrated composer Elliot Goldenthal is known for his prolific career with genre-spanning works in film, opera, and theatre. Goldenthal’s long association with Theatre for a New Audience began in 1986 when he composed the score for Julie Taymor’s production of The Tempest at the Theatre. Since then, he has gone on to compose scores for…Read More »

Congratulations to all who attended and contributed to Theatre for a New Audience’s 30th Anniversary Gala! The event was the best-attended and highest-grossing in the Theatre’s history, more than $600,000 was raised to benefit artistic and educational programs. The festivities took place at The Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership…Read More »

Photo by Henry Grossman While in town for the recent production of Love Is My Sin, director Peter Brook and long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne led a three-day workshop with an invited group of some of the most promising young directors working today. This workshop was a rare opportunity for the 16 participants to engage in…Read More »

The Actors and Directors Project (ADP) was established in 1997 to promote the development of American directors of Shakespeare. In particular, ADP seeks to develop directors’ sensibility for Shakespeare’s language and enhance their understanding of how actors can bring Shakespeare’s text to life. Each season, Theatre for a New Audience invites six to eight young…Read More »

A director of theatre, opera and film, Julie Taymor is the first woman to win the TONY Award for directing a musical (The Lion King), for which she also won Best Costume Design. Elliot Goldenthal is a renowned composer who creates works for the concert stage, theatre, opera and film, including several Oscar-nominated films and…Read More »