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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Arts Advocacy

Stay up to date on local, state, and federal opportunities to increase funding and access to the arts.

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Grants & Awards

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.

Meet the Grantees
Career Guide

It can be hard to break into a new industry or area as a theatre artist so check out these tips and tricks to get the job!

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After Pandemic Pivoting to Launch a Catering Business, Cindy Goldfield Returns to The Stage

November 10, 2021
Cindy Goldfield sitting in red theatre seats. She is a light skinned woman with salt and pepper hair swept back from her face. She is wearing glasses and a black shirt and three silver necklaces.

by Edward Guthmann When COVID hit early last year, Cindy Goldfield was rehearsing Nine to…

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Holding The Community Together: Theatre Bay Area Searches For a New Executive Director

October 27, 2021
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by Rotimi Agbabiaka  When Brad Erickson announced this June that he would be departing his…

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A New Cohort of Tomorrow’s Leaders Joins the TBA Arts Leadership Residency

October 27, 2021

By Edward Guthman Four Bay Area theatre artists have been chosen in the second round…

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New Legislation Aims To Aid Small Arts Organizations Struggling with AB 5

September 6, 2021
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by Rotimi Agbabiaka On August 26, SB 805, or the “Save The Performing Arts Act…

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With New Residency Program, TBA Aims To Close the Theatre Leadership Gap

August 25, 2021
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by Edward Guthmann A 2020 report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition studied the 18 largest non-profit…

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TBA & Anti-Racism: Accountability and Action

April 1, 2021
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Theatre Bay Area acknowledges the social unrest and racial reckoning occurring throughout the country and…

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Theatre Advocates Mobilize in Response to California’s Gig Worker Law

February 26, 2020
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by Rotimi Agbabiaka Last month, California’s AB5 went into effect, requiring companies across the state…

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Theatre Bay Area and AB5

January 10, 2020
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A message from the board of Theatre Bay Area: Many in our community are asking…

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Headshots 101: Part Two

December 4, 2019
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by Rotimi AgbabiakaLast Insider we received some tips from local headshot photographers about taking a winning headshot.…

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Headshots 101: Part One

November 19, 2019
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by Rotimi Agbabiaka As 2020 approaches you may be thinking, “New year, new me, new headshots?” Often…

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Glickman Award Winner Finds Humor and Depth in Discord

April 2, 2019
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by Edward Guthmann In his scathingly funny Eureka Day, Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector satirized the anti-vaxxing…

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The Business of Show Biz – Getting Notes From A Fellow Actor

January 3, 2018
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by Velina Brown Q: A while ago I was cast in an AEA show with an…

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