RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC
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Rattlestick Theater Artistic Programs
Rattlestick Theater has been an artistic home to provocative, daring theater artists since 1994. We have produced the early works of several of todays leading playwrights, including Annie Baker (The Aliens), Martyna Majok (Ironbound), and Heidi Schreck (There Are No More Big Secrets). We are proud to make Rattlestick a place where some of our nations most celebrated playwrights feel safe to test their boldest ideas, including Sam Hunter (Lewiston/Clarkston), Diana Oh (mylingerieplay), and Dael Orlandersmith (Until the Flood). From our beloved theater, Rattlestick has helped launch the careers of hundreds of artists and produced over 125 new plays in pursuit of its mission to present ambitious work that inspires empathy and provokes conversation that will lead to positive social changeRattlesticks artistic programs serve approximately 10,000 audience members and 400 artists each year. The 2022-2033 Mainstage Season included productions of The Gett by Liba Vaynberg and Amani by a.k. payne (co-produced with National Black Theatre), as well as the fourth annual Global Forms Theater Festival for international and immigrant theater artists. Throughout the season Rattlestick hosted readings and workshops for our commissioned artists as well as our fellows including our Playwright In Resident, Van Lier New Voices, and Rattlesticks Directing Fellow.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesAug 1, 2022 – Jul 31, 2023Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$1.1MProgram 1 [2025]
From our historic West Village theater since 1992, Rattlestick has produced the first plays and early works of some of todays leading voices, including Annie Baker (The Aliens, Obie for Best New American Play), Bailey Williams and Emma Horwitz (Two Sisters Find A Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods), and Diana Oh (mylingerieplay). We are proud to make Rattlestick a place where some of our nations most celebrated playwrights feel safe to test their new ideas, including Dael Orlandersmith (Until the Flood), Ethan Lipton (We Are Your Robots), and Samuel D. Hunter (Lewiston/Clarkson, nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play).Rattlesticks annual activities are guided by three main programming anchors that re-imagine how we make new work and focus on the unique process each artist needs: PRODUCTIONS, a lineup of new theatrically expansive Off-Broadway plays by innovative theatermakers that are deepened by incubator workshops which adhere to bespoke development timelines shaped by the project as it grows; FELLOWSHIPS, four distinct programs dedicated to serving emerging playwrights and directors along with a new Director-in-Residence initiative launched in FY26; and WORKING ARTIST INITIATIVES which include the new Waverly Performance Studio, a program designed to give our audiences access to artists in process, the Global Forms Theater Festival, a platform for international and immigrant theater artists to share in-progress work, and Rattle On Artist Salons, artist-forward cultivation engagements organized around sharing the behind-the-scenes development process with our community. These programs together serve approximately 10,000 audience members and 500 artists annually.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesAug 1, 2024 – Jul 31, 2025Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$1.3M
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