Arizona Jewish Theatre Company
Phoenix, AZ
The Arizona Jewish Theatre Company is one of the largest Jewish Theatres in North America. In addition to their main stage work, they provide summer theatre day camps for children and teens; produce 2 children's shows each year and have an on-going teen improvisational troupe.
Chicage Jewish Theatre
Chicago, IL
Chicago Jewish Theatre is Chicago's only professional theatre company dedicated exclusively to producing shows that deal with Jewish culture, history, identity, and experiences.
Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
New York, NY
The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre strives to preserve, promote, and develop Yiddish Theater for current and future generations; to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Yiddish culture as a necessary component of Jewish Life, and to present the history and traditions of an immigrant people in a fresh, inventive venue that emphasizes the culture's lively, ever-evolving art and wisdom. The theatre produces main-stage productions, bilingual children's entertainment and a play reading series.
Jewish Ensemble Theatre
Writers Guidelines
West Bloomfield, MI
The Jewish Ensemble Theatre’s mission is to provide a stage for the exploration of ideas that confront issues of humanity and community from the Jewish perspective.
Each year they produce 4 shows for their mainstage season, the Seymour J and Ethel S Frank Festival of New Plays in Staged Readings, and the Dorfman Foundation Youth Theatre/JETYES for student audiences.
They’re also committed to producing The Diary of Anne Frank each spring. This show is written for a student audience, and speaks to issues of humanity and community. It serves as a learning tool about the past, and a bridge to the future, both in understanding, and in appreciation for theatre. For this production, they bring schools and youth groups to a collaborating theatre.
The Festival of New Plays is the entrée point for new plays. Each play will have two staged reading performances on consecutive evenings. These readings are performed and directed by theatre professionals and are followed by open discussion between the audience, actors, director and playwright, when in attendance. Over the years, a number of these new plays have graduated from their festival to full production on their main stage, other stages in Michigan and beyond.
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company
St. Paul, MN
Along with their main-stage productions, The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company hosts Doorways, an ongoing program of forums, lectures, symposia, and communications designed to open the doors to greater understanding and enjoyment of their plays, and to deeper insights into the subjects and issues they address; and Wellsprings, a play development program to discover and develop a continuous flow of new plays rooted in the Jewish experience but illuminating the common humanity among us all.
Storahtelling-Jewish Ritual Theatre Revived
New York, NY
Storahtelling is a radical fusion of storytelling, Torah, traditional ritual theater and contemporary performance art. Founded in 1998, our New York City-based nonprofit company is committed to promoting relevant and dynamic Jewish cultural literacy through theatrical performances and educational programs for multi-generational audiences.
Storahtelling has developed three program models to accomplish this aim: synagogue-based ritual performance, theatre productions that adapt Jewish literacy for a popular audience, and training programs that familiarize artists and educators in local communities with the Storahtelling technique. Storahtelling performances feature traditional Hebrew chanting, non-traditional English translation, original and ethnic music, modern stagecraft, and audience participation.
Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
Traveling Jewish Theatre's (TJT) mission is to create and perform original works of theatre, as an ensemble and in collaboration with theatre artists from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, that contribute to a generous vision of the human condition. TJT looks for connections where others see separation. This unique artist-led ensemble has, over the past twenty-six years, created a body of work that defies categorization. In the polyglot tradition of Jewish culture, TJT speaks many languages. It speaks poetry and it speaks story. It speaks secular Yiddish humanism and ecstatic mysticism. It speaks jazz and sacred chant. It speaks Jewish and it speaks American.
TJT has created scores of original works for the theatre. The sources for these works have ranged from the legends of the Hasidim to the assassination of Trotsky; from Yiddish poetry to the reclamation of women's wisdom; from the healing nature of storytelling to the challenge of interfaith marriage and from the politics of the Middle East to African-American/Jewish relations. TJT does not deal with social or political issues in isolation. It searches for the living images that burn themselves into our consciousness. It recognizes that the roots of theatre lie in the realm of the mythic, the sacred and the communal; that theatre can be an instrument of healing for people and cultures.
West Coast Jewish Theatre
Studio City, CA (Los Angeles area)
The mission of the West Coast Jewish Theatre is to portray Jewish history, philosophy and culture through theatrical productions dealing with Jewish life in days past, present and future, and through these presentations to foster a respect for and understanding of the Jewish heritage.
Winnipeg Jewish Theatre
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
The only professional theatre in Canada producing a full season of plays on Jewish themes, the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre exists to educate, promote and preserve Jewish heritage and culture. In addition to main-stage productions, the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is dedicated to new play development, and making their productions accessible to young audiences through presentations that include a talk-back session with the actors and study guides for teachers.
