Grants & Awards News
Learn about upcoming funding opportunities and meet recent grant awardees. TBA’s grants support a diverse community of theatremakers from across the Bay Area so check out these articles to stay up to date their upcoming projects and see how you can become one of them!
Announcing the 2022-23 Arts Leadership Residency Cohort
Theatre Bay Area’s Arts Leadership Residency removes roadblocks to arts leadership for historically marginalized groups by funding theatremakers in residence at professional theatres where they will be mentored by the artistic director or managing director and direct or produce a significant project. Learn more here: Theatre Bay Area Arts Leadership Residency. Tanika Baptiste, in residence at…
A New Cohort of Tomorrow’s Leaders Joins the TBA Arts Leadership Residency
By Edward Guthman Four Bay Area theatre artists have been chosen in the second round of Theatre Bay Area’s Arts Leadership Residency. Virginia Blanco, Devin Cunningham, Daniel Duque-Estrada, and Julius Rea will each receive $12,000 for a 480- to 640-hour residency. The initiative was generated to redress the racial imbalance in theatre management. “We want…
With New Residency Program, TBA Aims To Close the Theatre Leadership Gap
by Edward Guthmann A 2020 report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition studied the 18 largest non-profit theatres in New York as well as Broadway companies during the 2017-18 season, and showed that 80 percent of playwrights, 85.5 percent of directors and 60 percent of actors were white. That racial imbalance exists nationwide and for too long,…
Glickman Award Winner Finds Humor and Depth in Discord
by Edward Guthmann In his scathingly funny Eureka Day, Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector satirized the anti-vaxxing debate—and set his comedy in a fictitious Berkeley private school where the platitudes of political correctness frequently intercept any semblance of reasonable discourse. “Jonathan Spector’s play is so crisply defined that you might have to periodically remind yourself that you haven’t…