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Notch Theatre Company creates community-responsive cultural work to drive change around the pressing issues of our time, offering countless communities a platform to tell their stories and be their own change makers.
Theater is able to connect with an audience in a deeply personal way, and we strive to push the boundaries of what that connection can achieve.
By collaborating with communities across the nation to tell their real stories on stage, this work engages populations that brick and mortar theaters are not reaching, personalizes important social issues for people on all sides of a conversation, raises awareness in a compelling way, drives change on a national scale, and prompts meaningful, lasting engagement at a grass-roots level.
Theater is able to connect with an audience in a deeply personal way, and we strive to push the boundaries of what that connection can achieve.
By collaborating with communities across the nation to tell their real stories on stage, this work engages populations that brick and mortar theaters are not reaching, personalizes important social issues for people on all sides of a conversation, raises awareness in a compelling way, drives change on a national scale, and prompts meaningful, lasting engagement at a grass-roots level.
"Long long ago the simple things come back to us. They rest for a minute by our ribcages then reach in and twist our hearts back a notch in our chest.”
- Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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Notch is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2017 out of an Embark Fellowship Award for Social Innovation in Entrepreneurship from the Swearer Center for Public Service, in partnership with the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University.
Notch's work has been featured on HowlRound twice, including once in their Theater in the Age of Climate Change series, on Playbill, Monument Lab, Medium, OnStage Blog, Broadway World for our Wild Home program and our Anna Karenina project, in N Magazine, and by the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture.
Notch's work has been featured on HowlRound twice, including once in their Theater in the Age of Climate Change series, on Playbill, Monument Lab, Medium, OnStage Blog, Broadway World for our Wild Home program and our Anna Karenina project, in N Magazine, and by the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture.
"Paired with Ashley Teague’s inventive direction, this declaration of Notch Theatre Company’s visceral, scintillating point of view is a force to be reckoned with
as even the best of current day Broadway’s appeal to address modern themes pales in comparison.” -Natalie Rine, New York Associate Critic
as even the best of current day Broadway’s appeal to address modern themes pales in comparison.” -Natalie Rine, New York Associate Critic
Notch's programs and partnerships have presented at the Children’s Defense Fund Advocacy Conference, the National Performance Network's Conference, the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture's Citizen Artist Salon on Creative Strategies for Commemorative Justice, the Ubumuntu Festival in Rwanda, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Lewis Prize for Music's Institute, Chautauqua Institute, White Heron Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Theater in partnership with Spectrum Theater Ensemble (a neuro-diverse company), Brown University, Live@Jacks in Denver, La Mama Studios in NYC and as an Anchor Partner at the Flea Theatre in New York, among others. Most recently Notch has been awarded a prestigious Map Fund grant and an NEA ArtWorks grant.
ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES
| Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Community Guidelines.pdf |
| We See You White American Theatre Demands (more info at www.weseeyouwat.com) |
Before this I wouldn’t have thought I had any part to play in what
the government was doing; but today made me realize I do have a
voice, I can be heard. Thus being able to come here and do the play was just truly a blessing."
– Roman Allen, High School Student, Sacramento, CA
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- Drew McCoy & Amy Aquino -
- Bill & Chloe Cornell - - Jennifer & Matthew Rowland - - Byron Gross & Ricky Tovim - - Colin & Cathy Walker - - Stuart & Susan Berton - - Tali Pressman - - Mauricio & Cindy Salgado- - Bob & Toni Teague - - Jody Wagner - - Tracy Nayer - - Sabrina Sikes Thornton - - Kimberly & Clay Clement - - The Common Sense Fund- - Hurwitz Creative - - Brown University/Trinity MFA Program - - Look What She Did! - - Enfamilia Inc. - - JKW Foundation - - SnackPass - |
Fadwa Ahmed - Nephelie Andonyadis - Jonathan Atwood- Julia Atwood - Eric Baffour-Addo - Darin Anthony- Paula Bailey - Stuart Berton - Stephen Berenson & Brian McEleney - Andrew Borba - Marina Bousa - Janie Bullard - Alexis Chaney - Rachel Clausen- Curt Columbus in memory of Martha Lavey - David Copelin- Sarah Clare Corporandy - Kathryn Croyle - Michelle and Scott Danahy- Tyler Dobrowsky - Michele DeRosa - Warren Davis - Tommy Dickie - Rebecca Feldman - Chris Farah - Shelley Fidler - Randal Gillum - Joshua Gordon - Adeline Gorlin - Karron Graves- Alan Harlam - Richard Katzman - Nikki Hyde - Thomas Jones- Jessica Kahkoska- Jennifer Kennedy - Sandra Kimble - Larissa Kokernot - Alison Kracunas - Madeleine Lambert - Sharon and Harrison Lee - Michelle Lema - Jacqueline & Gene Lesser - Freesia Levine - Jake Loewenthal - Bill and Jan Mack - Taibi Magar - Henry Mailliard - Michael Mahoney - Sandy Mailliard to honor Gwen Kingston - Suzanne Maloney - Aleta Margolis - Christine McKay - Russell Meyer - Brian Mertes & Melissa Keivman - Jennifer Miller - John Miller - Susan Morrissey - Shannon Morzov - Patrick Mulryan - Matthew Nayer - Tracy Nayer - Caitlin O’Connell - Lee Osorio - Zeynep Ozakat - Charles Palen - Laura Payne - Katherine Pearl - Michael Perlman - Bruno-Pierre Houle - Av and Janet Posner - Alex Raby -Jim Recht - Dan Rogers - Mauricio & Cindy Salgado -Rayshaun Sandlin - Kelly Shea - Avital Shira - Stephen Siegel - Nicole Sills - Adam Smith - Moira Squier - Christopher Stahl - Daniel Stein - Karishma Swarup - Anne Taylor in recognition of Gwen Kingston - Patricia Terrell - Myron Tookes - Mark Valdez - Lucy Van Atta - Mary Vascellaro - Lara Vergnaud - Richard Waterhouse - Thomas Wahl - Bradley Wilson - RAISE NYC *
And our many generous donors who wish to remain anonymous.
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