CAREER RESOURCES – THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE SOCIAL NETWORKS
The National New Play Network (NNPN)
NNPN is the country’s alliance of non-profit professional theatres that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays. Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has supported more than 150 productions nationwide. The New Play Exchange allow its members to launch new work across the country and around the world, and have helped to cement the Network’s vitality within the regional theatre landscape and its place as an invaluable incubator of the future of American theatre.
Website: http://www.nnpn.org
New International Theatre Experience
NITE is a global service organization that supports and empowers theatre makers by revolutionizing the way artists and administrators create, connect and cooperate in the twenty-first century. Founded in 2012 in Madrid & NYC by Beatriz Cabur and Douglas Howe, New International Theatre Experience transforms the theatrical landscape by providing physical and virtual platforms for investigation, innovation and interaction. NITEcorp is the parent company of three divisions that make up the organization: NITEnews, NITEnetwork and NITEnation.
Website: http://nitenews.org/
Website: http://www.nitecorp.com/
Contemporary Performance Network
CPN is a social media / community organizing network and blog with over 5800 members from 84 countries and 46,000 members on Facebook. The Network provides artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a focused digital space to meet, share work, and collaborate. The Network also publishes the crowd funded and open sourced Contemporary Performance Almanac, an overview of contemporary performance presented during the past season available for touring. As part of the project, the book is mailed to over 200 presenters around the world.
Website: http://www.contemporaryperformance.com
American Theatre Archive Project
is an initiative of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). ATAP is a network of archivists, dramaturgs, and scholars dedicated to preserving the legacy of the American theatre. ATAP is guided by the work of four Committees, which help develop partnerships, facilitate communication, create guidelines, seek funding, and disseminate best practices. Location-based Teams help individual theatre companies evaluate their records, develop an archiving plan, and secure funding to support long-term archive health. Once created and made accessible to theatre makers, scholars, patrons, and funders on premises online, and/or in a repository, a theatre’s archives support institutional integrity and development.
Website: http://americantheatrearchiveproject.org/
IETM International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts
IETM is a membership organisation which exists to stimulate the quality, development and contexts of contemporary performing arts in a global environment. It aims at proving the value of the performing arts in society by initiating and facilitating professional networking and communication, the dynamic exchange of information, know-how transfer and presentations of examples of good practice. To realise our ambitions, we will focul on:
- Engagement in multilateral alliances with other organisations, sectors and networks
- Development of five program lines (Sustainable Models, Measurable Impact, Life Arts in Digital Times, Worldwide Connections, Professional Capacities) to augment knowledge and expertise, to realize new strategies and to test results
- The use of digital technologies and the development of audiences will be part of each program line, as is the professional development of the participants
- A newly built Digital Platform will function as the online continuation of the live meetings and help to monitor the project, share research, reports and evaluations.
Website:http://www.ietm.org
The Information Centre for Drama in Europe (ICDE)
Throughout Europe, there are a number of national and international projects devoted to the exchange of contemporary drama. In nearly every European country there are theatres, theatre festivals and organisations that concern themselves with foreign drama. Nonetheless, it remains difficult to research new plays and their translations. Although databases containing information about dramatists and translations often exist at the national level, these are seldom accessible to those who are not industry professionals. Furthermore, such databases seldom contain information pertaining to the translators. Thus, it is rarely possible to make a qualitative assessment of the translations through such databases. The ICDE with its Internet portal www.playservice.net was created in order to bundle together Europe’s scattered information on contemporary drama — and to increase the possibilities for contact and exchange among authors, translators, dramatists, theatre institutions and other interested parties. The main tasks of the ICDE include the scheduling of regular work meetings as well as the maintenance of the Internet portal and the updating of its database.
Website: http://www.playservice.net/
Howlaround
A journal, a map, a tv channel, and a gateway to the global theater commons: Worldwide, and at Emerson College: Boston, Los Angeles, Netherlands.We design and develop online knowledge platforms and in-person gatherings that promote access, participation, organizational collaboration, field-wide research, and new teaching practices to illuminate the breadth, diversity, and impact of a commons-based approach to theater practice.
Website: http://howlround.com/
Culture Hub
Culture Hub is a new multilingual space for sharing perspectives on creative and critical practice. With community publishing, networking, and translation tools in English and Polish, and more language versions on the way, the site opens up diverse pathways for connecting people and content across cultures. You can find out more and browse our first hosted publications from the menu above. We’re in beta right now, so some pages are available by invitation only, but you can sign up for the advance list or follow us on Twitter (@CultureHubTeam) to get updates about new content and features as they’re released.
Website: https://culturehub.co/
The Playwrights’ Center
Founded in 1971 by five writers seeking artistic and professional support, the Playwrights’ Center today serves more playwrights in more ways than any other organization in the country. One of the nation’s most generous and well-respected theater organizations, the Playwrights’ Center focuses on both supporting playwrights and promoting new plays to production at theaters across the country. The Center has helped launch the careers of numerous nationally recognized artists, notably August Wilson, Lee Blessing, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jordan Harrison, Carlyle Brown, Craig Lucas, Jeffrey Hatcher, Melanie Marnich, and Kira Obolensky. Work developed through Center programs has been seen nationwide on such stages as the Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Guthrie, Goodman, and many others.
Website:http://www.pwcenter.org
Black Theatre Network
BTN’s function is to expose the beauty and complexity of the inherited theatre work of our African American ancestors and to take this work to a higher level into the 21st century and beyond. We seek to unite those who share this rich inheritance to assure we all work together. The origins of the Network can be traced to the National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts (NADSA) and the first African American pioneers of the American Theatre Association who founded the Afro Asian Theatre Project in 1965. They subsequently established the African Theatre Project which became the Black Theatre Project (BTP). Finally, in 1986 BTP members voted to form a totally independent Black Theatre Network. BTN’s ongoing drive is to COLLECT, PROCESS and DISTRIBUTE information that supports the professional and personal development of its members and therefore nurtures the growth of Black Theatre. To meet its goals, BTN has developed programs that target specific sectors of its constituency while operating under the conviction that we are all in this continuum together; and therefore we are to help each other. The network provides a development of excellence and the growth of new visionary theatre professionals through its student design and writing competitions. Through its Recognition Awards, BTN acknowledges exceptional accomplishments and participation in workshops designed to help others develop skills specific to Black Theatre.
Website: http://www.blacktheatrenetwork.org/
American Theatre Wing
We Celebrate & Support through awards, grants and programs. We Illuminate & Document the people that create American Theatre. We Engage & Educate the next generation of audiences and practitioners. When the war ended, the Wing changed its focus to two purposes – to further the welfare of the theatre itself and to utilize the resources of the theatre in the service of the community. The Wing also dedicated itself to educating those who served the Allied Powers during the War and put into motion a plan to build the American Theatre Wing Professional School. To name all those who taught would be to list almost every distinguished name from theatre, television, the opera, and music. Among Wing students were: George Burns, Richard Chamberlin, Bob Fosse, Charlton Heston, Pat Hingle, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Gordon MacRae, Russell Nype, Geraldine Page, Christopher Plummer, Tony Randall, Jason Robards, Jr., William Warfield and James Whitmore. At its peak, the school enrolled 1,200 students, many of them studying on their GI Bill of Rights. The school continued to fulfill its obligation to veterans until its close in 1965.
Website: http://americantheatrewing.org/
Mitos 21: European Theatre Network
In October 2008 a group of theatre professionals associated to some of Europe’s most powerful and important theatre institutions founded a new trans-national, informal network of theatres called mitos21. Its main objective is to create artistic instances where theatre professionals from Europe and around the world can meet, collaborate and work together, as well as jointly question and reconsider the role of theatre in contemporary society from their respective, diverse and unique professional backgrounds and experiences.
Website: http://mitos21.com/
Look Ouch
Look Ouch was founded in 2012 by a group of young people actively looking for collaborations with creatives and professional artists in order to be able to conclude their final school projects. After suddenly realizing the lack of resources, either online or offline, and to help them find the right people that’d allow them to realize their ideas and projects, they decided to create the Look Ouch platform, an artistic community that stands as a meeting point between artists online.
Website: http://www.lookouch.com/newhome/
The National Performance Network
The National Performance Network (NPN) is a national organization supporting artists in the creation and touring of contemporary performing and visual arts. NPN is about community engagement, touring, creating, sharing ideas and knowledge. NPN is about representing all artists who create something new and supporting the presenters who take the risk in showcasing it. The National Performance Network (NPN) has brought innovative performing artists to all corners of the United States for more than 25 years. Begun in 1985 by David White at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York, NPN was founded to address the issues of artistic isolation and the economic constraints of moving art around the country and the sharing of artistic and community voices. From a beginning of 14 organizations as “primary sponsors,” the network now numbers 61 NPN Partners.
Digital Theatre
Digital Theatre has grown to become the world’s biggest on demand platform specialising in delivering arts content. With a simple and straightforward objective to make arts accessible regardless of geographical, social or economic boundaries, the team at Digital Theatre have filmed, acquired and distributed the very best in captured live entertainment. – See more at: http://www.digitaltheatre.com/#sthash.Ya1P9PGk.dpuf
http://www.digitaltheatre.com/
The Creators Project
The Creators Project is a global celebration of creativity, arts and technology. Launched in 2009 with Intel as founding partner, the platform features the works of visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are using technology to push the boundaries of creative expression. The Creators Project includes daily video and editorial content, an official YouTube Channel, original artwork commissions and global events. To date, there are more than 600 Creators from around the world. Participating artists include Karen O, Daft Punk, Spike Jonze, M83, Benh Zeitlin, Animal Collective, The xx, Chris Milk, Florence and the Machine, Amon Tobin, Matt Pyke, Anthony Wong, Supermarche, United Visual Artists, Sticky Monster Lab, Takeshi Murata, Andrew Huang, Vega Zaishi Wang, Mick Rock, David Bowie and Barney Clay.