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Advocacy Update: Arts, Culture, & Creativity Month

April 11, 2024

It’s Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month in California! If you’ve seen a spike in arts advocacy content on your social media in the past week, there’s a good reason for it. Last week kicked off Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month, an annual, month-long effort to highlight the work of artists in our state. Much of…

American Conservatory Theater and Theatre Bay Area Partnership Opens New Doors for Melissa Yandell Smith Library

March 4, 2024

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) and Theatre Bay Area have forged a new partnership for artists all around the Bay Area to access A.C.T.’s Melissa Yandell Smith Library collection. The Melissa Yandell Smith Library contains nearly 15,000 titles including play scripts, books, videos, language and music recordings, music scores, and theater periodicals. The collection has been…

Announcing CA$H Theatre Fall 2023 Grantees

December 15, 2023

We are proud to announce the following recipients of the Fall 2023 CA$H Theatre grants. Learn more about CA$H Theatre. CA$H Performs CA$H Performs is a $5,000 grant that supports fully produced performances of theatre projects that are open to the public. Aureen Almario Bulong, meaning whisper in Tagalog, is an evening-length, multidisciplinary shadow puppet performance…

Rolanda D. Bell, a Black woman with red curls, smiles in the spotlight, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Introducing the 2023 RHE Foundation Artistic Fellow

October 31, 2023

Theatre Bay Area and the RHE Charitable Foundation announce Rolanda D. Bell the 2023 RHE Foundation Artistic Fellow. Bell was introduced as the awardee on Saturday, October 28, 2023, at Theatre Bay Area’s TBAConnect: A Fall Conference for Creatives. Bell, a stage and screen actor based on Oakland, CA, garnered acclaim recently for her powerful…

Kimberly Ridgeway, a Black woman with her hair in braids, speaks into a microphone.

Introducing the 2023-24 Arts Leadership Residency

October 31, 2023

Photo by Cheshire Isaacs Kimberly will be working with Central Works co-Artistic Directors Jan Zvaifler and Gary Graves on producing their 2024 season and developing their 2025 season. All Central Works seasons are developed collaboratively, and Central Works plans to fully involve Kimberly in all aspects of leadership work. Kimberly Ridgeway is a Director, Actor,…

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TBA’s grant program supports a diverse community of theatremakers from across the Bay Area — learn about upcoming funding opportunities and meet recent grant awardees.

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Career Guide

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Announcing Fall 2022 CA$H Theatre Grantees

December 8, 2022

Theatre Bay Area is proud to announce the Fall 2022 awardees of our flagship grant,…

Angel Adedokun Awarded the 2022 RHE Foundation Artistic Fellowship

December 1, 2022

Angel sits smiling on a grey staircase wearing a yellow shirt and black and white striped pants. She is a black woman with waist length dark hair styled in twists.

Theatre Bay Area and the RHE Charitable Foundation are thrilled to announce Angel Adedokun as…

Announcing the 2022-23 Arts Leadership Residency Cohort

December 1, 2022

Theatre Bay Area’s Arts Leadership Residency removes roadblocks to arts leadership for historically marginalized groups…

A Fireside Chat with Anne W Smith and Sean Fenton

July 26, 2022

Anne Smith in a colorful sweater smiles, looking off to the right of the camera. She is a Black woman with short white hair.

We’ve been using this space to share a peek behind the curtain on the exciting…

Fireside Chat with Anne W. Smith: May 2022

May 11, 2022

Spring Greetings, Everyone, After a busy month and a half here at TBA, it’s a…

Fireside Chat with Anne W. Smith: March 2022

March 22, 2022

DEAR MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, After participating as a Theatre Bay Area Board member for…

FY2022 CA$H Theatre Accountability Report

March 1, 2022

To hold ourselves accountable in dismantling white supremacy culture and other biases in TBA, we…

I’m Like A Utility Player: Meet TBA’s Interim Managing Director

December 21, 2021

by Sam Hurwitt Interim managing director Ann Marie Lonsdale comes to Theatre Bay Area at…

Taking the Temperature of Arts Audiences

December 8, 2021

by Sam Hurwitt When COVID-19 pandemic precautions started closing venues in March of 2020, theaters…

Joy To The World, Holiday Shows Are Back