mission.
Notch Theatre Company creates community-responsive cultural work to drive change around the pressing issues of our time, offering communities nationwide a platform to tell their stories and be their own change makers.
Our 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 grassroots level.
Our 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 grassroots level.
see a full list of our values here
"Long ago, 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
history.
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
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, Arctic Fest in Fairbanks, AK, the Tagiugmi Music + Health Festival in Utqiagvik, AK, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Lewis Prize for Music's Institute, The Appalachia Studies Conference, Chautauqua Institute, The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, White Heron Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Theater in partnership with Spectrum Theater Ensemble (a neuro-diverse company), Brown University, Live@Jacks in Denver, HB Studios, New Ohio Theater, La Mama Studios and as an Anchor Partner at the Flea Theatre in NYC, among others. Most recently Notch has been awarded a prestigious Map Fund grant and an NEA ArtWorks grant.
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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. being able to come here and do the play was just truly a blessing."
– Roman Allen, High School Student, Sacramento, CA
artist advisory committee.
board of directors.
staff.
Ashley Olive Teague
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CARLOTTA HARLAN - Notch Executive

A writer, editor, and program manager based out of Los Angeles. Her day to day over the last five years has been primarily at the studios, in development at Paramount Pictures and Netflix. She has been with Notch for over a year, and simultaneously works as an editor in marketing post-production while attending school (remotely) at American University, where she is getting a Masters in Public Administration and Policy. When not a full-time student working two day jobs, she is traveling the globe with her partner, a professional percussionist currently on tour with Adam Melchor, and meanwhile just searching for her keys... has anyone seen those?
JACLYN BISKUP - Manager of Development

Jaclyn Biskup is a director and producer working in theatre, television, and film. She received an Emmy nomination and was a Peabody Finalist for her work on the digital series THE SECRET LIFE OF MUSLIMS and currently works as the interim associate artistic director at The Brick and as creative producer at New Ohio Theatre. She was the assistant director to Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro on the Broadway productions of THE MINUTES (Tracy Letts) and STRAIGHT WHITE MEN (Young Jean Lee) for Second Stage. Her work in the theatre spans nearly two decades. As the founding artistic director of The Mill, she has directed and produced over 20 productions including the Chicago premiere of VENUS (Suzan-Lori Parks) and THE PRIVATE OF LIVES OF ESKIMOS (OR 16 WORDS FOR SNOW) (Ken Urban). In NYC, work directed includes JOURNEY AROUND MY BEDROOM (Dianne Nora), WORSE THAN TIGERS (Mark Chrisler), NICHOLAS, MAEVE, MARIANNE (Matthew Stephen Smith) -- one of Indie Theatre Now's 20 Best of NYC Fringe, HOT STEAMS (Zach Wegner), IT’S JUST WEIRD NOW (Halley Feiffer) and DAYS OF RAGE (Hyeyoung Kim and Shoshana Greenberg.) Her work has been seen at New Ohio Theatre, MCC Playlabs, New Dramatists, Rattlestick, Dixon Place, Town Stages, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. She has assisted on productions at Steppenwolf, The Public, and The American Musical Theatre Workshop. Her digital projects include work for PBS NOVA, Vox, Delta Air Lines, Caltech, Harvard, and others. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and a first-generation college graduate with a BA in Theater from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Directing and Theatrical Production from Northwestern University.
SAVANNAH RITZ - Communications Associate

Savannah is a playwright, actor, and producer born and raised in Austin, TX with degrees in Theatre and Business from Southwestern University. She also studied acting and musical theatre at the National Theatre Institute where she was awarded a Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship. She served as the Communications Intern for The Actors Centre in London and the Artistic Operations Intern for the Glimmerglass Opera Festival. She is currently the Administrative Associate for Anti-Racist Theatre. Her new play, The Village, explores queer women growing up in a religious community of South Texas and opened at The Tank in fall 2022. She is represented by TCA Management and Chamber 37 Entertainment. As a proud queer Latina, she dedicates her time to uplifting underrepresented voices and exploring the intersection of art and activism.
Jordan Powell - Communications Associate

Jordan Powell is an alumna from NYU Tisch School of the Arts studying Drama at Playwrights Horizons Theater School with a minor in BEMT and Applied Theater. She is a director, writer, film maker, designer, and educator. She is a Jamaican American from Georgia. She has recently written and directed a film, Cutie, that was developed in the Nine Muses Lab taught by Bryce Dallas Howard. She has recently directed a devised performance, alone in my room, at Playwrights Horizon Downtown about black women shedding the expectation from the boxes placed on them and becoming their own mirror.
support.
- Amy Aquino and Drew McCoy -
- Bill & Chloe Cornell - - Shannon Morzov - - Cotton & Julie Nash - - Mauricio & Cindy Salgado - - Bob & Toni Teague - - W Trust - - JKW Foundation - - Distracted Globe Foundation - - Cindy & William Horr - - Jody Wagner - - Sabrina Sikes Thorton - - Moira Squier - - Byron Gross & Ricky Tovim - - Colin Walker - - Sandy Mailliard - |
Thank you to Darin and Colleen Anthony, Elizabeth Atwood, Julia Atwood and Morgan Bernhard, Paula Bailey, John Noble Barrack, Stephen Berenson and Brian McEleney, Stuart and Susan Berton, Kimberly and Clay Clement, Sinan Eczacibasi, Scott and Mindy Gillum, Nick Goldfarb and Tracy Gosein, Joshua Gordon, Addie Gorlin-Han, Alexis Green, Michael Grutza and Joann Nayer-Grutza, Lauren Hashian, Sam and Fernanda Hurwitz, Nikki Hyde, Thomas Jones, Jessica Kahkoska and Tom Casserly, Melissa Kievman and Brian Mertes, Sandy and Joseph Patrick Kimble, Genevieve Kingston, Larissa Kokernot and Karl Gajdusek, Sharon Chin Lee and Harrison Lee, Michelle Lema, Bill and Jan Mack, Michael Jennings Mahoney and Chris Stahl, Sandy Mailliard, Jennifer Miller, John Winn and Margo Miller, The Morrisseys, Tracy Nayer and Myron Tookes, Audrey Nash and Jason Lowery, David Navalinsky, Caitlin O'Connell, Laura Payne, Tali Pressman & Phillip Holmes, Jennifer and Matthew Rowland, Carlos Salgado, Mauricio and Cindy Salgado, Nicole Sills, Moira Squier, Daniel Stein, Mylan Stepanovich and Mandy Ellis, Ashley Teague, Bob and Toni Teague, Patricia and Ken Terrell, Sabrina and John Thornton, Lara and Anthony Vergnaud, Jody Wagner, Cathy and Colin Walker, Jake Loewenthal and Josh Cape, Adlyn and Ted Loewenthal, Jill and James Kahkoska, Richard Donelly and Phyllis Kay, Maggie Mason and Matt Trainer, Byron Gross and Ricky Tovim, Avrom and Janet Posner, Annie Scurria and Barry Press, Lamb (Caroline) Parker, Carol Turner, M. Scott Gibbs, Harry Miller, Michael Vitaly Sazanov, Eva Pinney, Jennifer Tyliszczak, Melissa Thomas and Margie Hiermer, Gregory Jones, Collette Wilson, Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Liz Appel, Ginger Hahn, Amy Smith, The Thomas Family, Barbara Wendeborn Brandom, Ted Auch, Stanford Smith, Sarah Kantrowitz, Ashley Walden Davis, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Susan Bernfield, Brandon Cloyd, Julia Gelb-Zimmerman, Cindy Hennon Marino, Thomas West, Victoria Lewis, Arielle Julia Brown, Babs Seldon Dyer, Iliana Guibert, Ash Nichols, Colleen Mallen, John Rooney, Christopher Windom, Ann Kinnebrew, Elaine Brett, Mike Hyde, Kathleen Phillips, Barry Snyder, Kimberly Senior, Jennifer Paul, Teresa Lotz, Latina Taylor, Johanna Parker, Gaby Saker, Anne Kaufman, Lanae Gutierrez, Kendall Hailey, Janice Blanock, Christopher Brown, Kirsten Gavoni, Joanne Cregg Smith, Erica McCay, April Anderson Sasso, Margy Feldhuhn, Pia O'Connor, Larry Levine, John Squier, Maggie Baker, Kevin O'Connell, Tracy Wiu, Joshua Chelmo, Jonas Stolpe, Michelle Johnson, Bridget Akinc, Lorraine A. Fiore, Robert Freeman, Carolyn Smith
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