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.
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"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, 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, 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.
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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?
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.
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