Backstage Stories

Halle Morse   How did you become involved with Broadway For Biden? I started volunteering with Women for Biden in May, just after graduating business school. They are an incredible group of women professionals focused on digital media and marketing, and I helped them to launch their TikTok. From there, I started asking friends of mine from the Broadway community to contribute content for their social media. The stories from throughout the community were so compelling, I felt they deserved their own organization. And so I created Broadway for Biden, to be a home for the Broadway community this election season. From the onset, I knew this needed to be a grassroots initiative. As theatre-makers, we are natural organizers. I wanted to create fun, engaging, and meaningful events— phone banks, town halls, performance-based fundraisers— as well as content. My co-founders Jeff Metzler and Dimitri Moise helped to form our marketing and field teams. Partnering with producers Julie Boardm...

  Announcing Request for Proposals for The Black Seed Fund Deadline is Friday, November 13, 2020 at 5 PM The Black Seed is a first-ever national strategic plan to create impact and thrivability for Black theater institutions, unprecedentedly led by a Black-led theater institution. Black theater institutions have been and will continue to be the guardians of the true American story with the burgeoning of historic Black theater institutions from the 60s and 70s and continuing to this era of racial injustice and unprecedented awareness.  The Black Seed will be a force for systemic change in the arts and culture world: a 21st century ecosystem for institutional thrivability, collectively tackling racial injustices and inequalities, and creating profound, world-class relevant art and replicable institutional and national partnership models. The Black Seed is a synergistic solution to a long-standing problem of inequitable funding; we are greater - as a sector - than the sum of ...

The Billie Holiday Theatre, Under The Leadership of Artistic Director Dr. Indira Etwaroo, Will Spearhead A Strategic Initiative For Black Theatre Instituti ons With A $5 Million Lead Gift From The Mellon Foundation The Billie Holiday Theatre announced a $5 million lead gift by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, historically the largest one-time investment in a Black theater initiative to support The Black Seed, a national strategic plan to create impact and thrivability for Black theater institutions and initiatives.  This initiative is unprecedentedly helmed by a Black-led artistic institution, The Billie Holiday Theatre, founded in 1972 in response to the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements and theater home to the largest African American community in the nation - Central Brooklyn - in collaboration with three Black-led institutions, The CRAFT Institute, Plowshares Theatre Company, and WACO Theatre Center. The Black Seed National Initiative serves as a synergistic ...