Grants & Awards News
Learn about upcoming funding opportunities and meet recent grant awardees. TBA’s grants support a diverse community of theatremakers from across the Bay Area so check out these articles to stay up to date their upcoming projects and see how you can become one of them!
With New Residency Program, TBA Aims To Close the Theatre Leadership Gap
by Edward Guthmann A 2020 report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition studied the 18 largest non-profit theatres in New York as well as Broadway companies during the 2017-18 season, and showed that 80 percent of playwrights, 85.5 percent of directors and 60 percent of actors were white. That racial imbalance exists nationwide and for too long,…
Glickman Award Winner Finds Humor and Depth in Discord
by Edward Guthmann In his scathingly funny Eureka Day, Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector satirized the anti-vaxxing debate—and set his comedy in a fictitious Berkeley private school where the platitudes of political correctness frequently intercept any semblance of reasonable discourse. “Jonathan Spector’s play is so crisply defined that you might have to periodically remind yourself that you haven’t…