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Canada
Luminato Festival Toronto
Luminato Festival showcases outstanding Canadian and International artists working at the intersection of art and city spaces. Since 2007, more than 15,000 artists from over 40 countries gather in Toronto every year.
https://www.luminatofestival.com/
Bulgaria
Danail Chirpansky International Student Theater Festival
The Danail Chirpansky International Student Theater Festival was selected by the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture of UNESCO. Since 2017, the Festival gathers emerging artists from across the world in Bulgaria to create connections and develop new their work.
https://istfestbg.com/
Austria
Performing Arts Between Tradition and Contemporaneity
Annual international multidisciplinary conference exploring the bridge between the “traditional” and the “contemporary” in performing arts. The conference meeting is highly recommended to performing arts practitioners and researchers from different countries interested in the traditional methods as applied to contemporary performing arts work, searching for international network opportunities and new collaboration partners.
United States
Rehearsal for Truth Festival
Established in 2017, Rehearsal for Truth Festival highlights contemporary Eastern European theatre and hopes to promote connection between American and European theatre makers. The festival is a collaboration between the Václav Havel Center and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association in addition to other cultural and performing arts organizations. The work featured in the festival explores various issues surrounding Eastern European culture and history.
https://www.rehearsalfortruth.org/
San Fransisco International Arts Festival
SFIAF brings together a global community of artists and aims to increase awareness and visibility of various cultures through the arts. SFIAF presents work from innovative artists, and is proud to gather artists, many of whom are making their United States debuts.
https://www.sfiaf.org/
France
Avignon Festival
Since 1947, the Avignon Festival has become one of the most renowned international performance festivals. In July, Avignon is transformed into a theatre city, cultivating programming that occurs throughout the city including live shows, readings, films, debates, and other exhibitions.
https://festival-avignon.com/
Korea
Busan International Performing Arts Festival
BIPAF has run for the past 19 years, and boasts numerous kinds of work including street plays, and non-verbal performances throughout the city from international and Korean theatre companies. BIPAF has a connection to the long-running Avignon Festival in France.
https://eng.bipaf.org/bbs/page.php?hid=page0101
Singapore
Singapore International Festival of Arts
Beginning in 1977, the Singapore International Festival for the Arts presents diverse and innovative work across various artistic mediums like theatre, music, dance, film, and visual arts.
https://sifa.sg/
Slovenia
Mladi Levi International Festival
International festival Mladi Levi is one of the more prominent annual events of the Bunker Institute, bringing the most current stage performers from all over the world to Ljubljana every end of the summer, since 1998. It bears a mark of a demanding artistic profile, placed within the arena of contemporary progressive theatre and takes pride in its reputation for discovering young talents. Festival Mladi Levi inhabits a place of encounters and surprises, continuously opening up to foreign artists and guests, who take pleasure in art and spread contemporary artistic or social topics in front of one another.
https://www.bunker.si/en/mladi-levi-international-festival/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_577&utm_campaign=julij-2021novinarji-2&utm_id=577
Scotland
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Occurring every August, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is one of the most well known art festivals in the world, which began in 1947. Artists and performers present their work on hundreds of stages across Edinburgh, and performances include theatre, dance, comedy, cabaret, circus, and more. The Fringe allows anyone to take part in the festival, and provides resources for those looking to bring a show to Edinburgh.
https://www.edfringe.com/
Australia
Adelaide Fringe Festival
The Adelaide Fringe Festival is one of the most renowned fringe festivals in the world. Beginning in 1960, the Adelaide Fringe Festival brings together over 8,000 independent artists. Both established and emerging artists are welcome to bring work to the Festival, and the Festival works to provide resources for those hoping to bring performances to Adelaide. The Festival occurs every year for four weeks, and is a major tourist destination.
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/about-us
2026 Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant
Project grants up to $20,000 for women, trans and gender nonconforming artists.
The NYFA Grants team hosted a virtual information session that was designed to help applicants build a strong application.
The one-hour session included an overview of the program, a summary of eligibility requirements, tips for filling out the application, and a live Q&A.
We posted the recorded version to nyfa.org/AWAW.
Culture Helps Solidarity Collaboration Grants 2026
The European Cultural Foundation has opened the first round of Culture Helps Solidarity Collaboration Grants
Cross-border partnerships between Ukrainian organisations and partners in Creative Europe countries
Up to €30,000
Deadline: 31 March 2026
Support cultural participation, integration & mental well-being through creative collaboration
Read more and apply https://lnkd.in/e8Acb-MW
Doris Duke Foundation
Doris Duke Foundation
Now accepting applications!
We’re inviting proposals for bold ideas in the performing arts that engage digital tools, innovative data practices and emerging production methods.
Whether you are just beginning to explore digital tools or have long worked with emerging stage and production technologies, we welcome your artistic and technical proposals. Individuals, collaborations, partnerships and organizations are all eligible.
Artists Make Technology is grounded in the conviction that a vibrant, safe and open digital future relies on deeper collaboration between the performing arts and technology fields. This initiative consists of three pillars: Lab, Assemblies and Pathways.
Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dzcJjxPG
Leah Ryan Fund
The Leah Ryan Fund began giving out its annual prize in 2010 to honor the memory of Leah Ryan, and to encourage and support the work of brilliant and unrecognized women, trans, and non-binary playwrights. It is the purpose of the prize to perpetuate the integrity, compassion, and creativity that Leah herself possessed and inspired in others.
Winners of The Leah playwriting prize receive a cash award, currently $5,000, and a public reading and summer workshop as part of the Powerhouse Theater Program at Vassar College. As hoped, the prize has been a springboard for winners who have subsequently won other competitions, have received full-staged productions of their work, and/or have gone on to successful careers in theater, TV, and film.
https://leahryanfund.org/
South Arts
Arts in Rural Places
Open to organizations in rural, isolated, or small communities, the Arts in Rural Places Grant program offers expedited awards of up to $3,000 supporting community engagement projects.
Rolling Deadline through April 30, 2026
Artist Creative Practice
The Artist Creative Practice Grant supports a variety of professional development opportunities including milestone activities in an artist’s career that will likely lead to substantial career growth.
Rolling Deadline through April 30, 2026
Professional Development Grants for Arts Organizations
These grants offer up to $1,000 to support the professional development needs of Southern arts organizations with operating budgets of $500,000 or less.
https://www.southarts.org/grants-opportunities?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=february_2026&mc_cid=46dbd6d1b5&mc_eid=e0df867af2
The Democracy Cycle-PAC
Applications now open for The Democracy Cycle’s 2026 Open Call. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM ET. Info below on how to apply.
Over a five-year period, The Democracy Cycle will commission and develop 25 new performing arts works across the fields of theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance. The commissioned works, to be selected over the course of three annual Rounds of Open Calls (2024, 2025, and 2026) will explore themes relating to the nature, practice, and experience of democracy.
Civis and PAC NYC have come together because of our shared beliefs to create this commissioning program. These shared beliefs are:
We believe that democratic values are a global expression of humanity’s striving to live with one another with respect and in peace.
We believe that democracy, as practiced in the United States of America, includes a history of founding exclusions and that it has been, and must continue to be, the ongoing work of our society to expand upon the inclusive ideals embedded in our founding documents.
We believe that democracy faces significant perceived and actual threats in the current moment, both domestically and internationally.
We believe that the intersection of capitalism and democracy creates both opportunities and tensions.
We believe that artists are the beating heart of democratic values because of their ability to imagine new worlds, envision new possibilities, and provoke meaningful discourse across any number of divides.
Our hope is that projects commissioned as part of The Democracy Cycle will enrich and expand the discussion around and participation in democracy – be it in the national, state, regional, or hyperlocal community realm – as it is practiced both within the United States and worldwide.
The Cycle will provide $60,000 in support to each awarded project, consisting of a $30,000 commission as well as an additional $30,000 towards each commissioned project’s development process (research, readings, workshops etc.). The commissions will be awarded across three annual Open Calls, beginning in January 2024. In each Open Call, The Democracy Cycle will commission at least eight projects.
https://pacnyc.org/the-democracy-cycle/
The MENA Theater Makers Fund
The digital session is on Friday, February 20, 2026 at 1pm EST / 12pm CST / 10am PST.
The MENA Theater Makers Fund applications are now open, and the deadline in on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 11:59pm EST. This program offers general operating support and cohort-based engagement to under-resourced theater organizations that support and uphold MENA communities. Through an open application process, MENATMA will award $800,000 in total funding, awarding $30,000 to $45,000 each in unrestricted funding to theater organizations across the U.S. Awardees will have access to additional funds to distribute to artists in their communities, selected by the awardee.
Please join us for a digital informational session, including a Q&A, on Friday, February 20, 2026 at 1pm EST / 12pm CST / 10am PST.
https://menatheater.org/grants/
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Grants for Arts Projects
has announced guidelines and application materials for the principal grants category, Grants for Arts Projects (GAP). Application deadlines are February 12, and July 9 for projects taking place beginning in 2027. Within the guidelines, there is an important update for artist residency programs: Artist Communities is no longer a stand-alone discipline within the GAP grant structure.
Residency programs focused in a single discipline should apply directly under that discipline’s category, which include: Arts Education, Dance, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts.
While this change represents a reclassification, NEA staff have affirmed that the Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works category remains a broad and inclusive option, and that residency programs should not need to substantially alter their application approach. That said, it’s important to review how your project aligns with the FY27 GAP funding priorities as outlined in the updated program guidelines.
Cycle 2 Deadline: July 9, 2026
https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects?mc_cid=5275e8e595&mc_eid=e0df867af2
United States
Asia Society, New York
leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.
Check out more here: https://asiasociety.org/new-york?utm_source=Asia%20Society&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=701637-2024_6_26&utm_skey=0031U00001KmDseQAF&utm_icat=
Celebrate Mexico Now
Since 2004, Celebrate México Now has been the only independent arts festival spotlighting contemporary Mexico in New York City. Every year, we disrupt the often-narrow definitions of Mexican arts and culture by exploring the way creators are reshaping and reflecting on their identity in the ever-changing global context. As artists constantly face profound uncertainty, we set out to hold a platform to present and remunerate their work. Founded by award-winning curator and producer Claudia Norman, the festival has brought over 500 groundbreaking artists and projects to over 120 of New York’s leading cultural venues across the five boroughs.
CEC Artslink
CEC ArtsLink advocates and supports transnational cultural mobility and collaboration, empowering artists and arts leaders to engage communities in dialogue and creative projects for a more equitable, compassionate, and sustainable world. CEC ArtsLink supports dialogue between artists and communities through individual encounters, public events, transnational networks, and virtual platforms. Founded in 1962, CEC ArtsLink believed that it was essential for citizens of the United States and the Soviet Union to meet and build mutual trust, while their governments engaged in the Cold War. Today, artists and arts leaders play a vital role in nurturing civil societies. Through the simple act of bringing people together in a shared experience, through exploration of the unfamiliar, art can dissolve borders and help communities overcome distrust and insularity. As nations increasingly retreat behind their borders, it becomes imperative for the work of artists and arts leaders to catalyze communities in mitigating conflict and prejudice locally, nationally, and globally.
Learn more here: https://www.cecartslink.org/
Czech Center, New York
Czech centers present our country in a wide range of cultural and social areas: from art to creative industries to the promotion of the achievements of Czech science and innovation.
check out more here: https://new-york.czechcentres.cz/
CUNY Institute for Mexican Studies at Lehman College
Mission: “boost enrollment of Mexican and Mexican-American students in CUNY to promote equity through academic achievement; foster research with a focus on Mexico and Mexicans in the United States, especially in NY; empower the immigrant community by collaborating with community-based organizations and public institutions to support”
Learn more here: https://www.lehman.edu/cuny-mexican-studies-institute/
International Culture Lab
The mission of International Culture Lab (formerly Thieves Theatre) as a cultural institution is to foster international collaboration, explore interdisciplinary and site-specific work, and engage with diverse artistic practices. Rooted in its history of provocative and experimental theater, the organization seeks to connect global communities through physical theater, innovative storytelling, and cultural exchange. By evolving from a regional alternative theater presence to an international platform, International Culture Lab continues to serve as a hub for cross-cultural artistic dialogue, emphasizing new creative approaches, international partnerships, and a deeper understanding of global theater traditions.
learn more here: https://www.intlculturelab.org/index.php?g=about&s=about
International Theatre Institute (ITI)
Created on the initiative of the first UNESCO Director General, Sir Julian Huxley, and the playwright and novelist, JB Priestly in 1948; Mission was to build an organization that was aligned with UNESCO’s goals on culture, education and the arts, and which would focus its endeavours on improving the status of all members of the performing arts professions, to create platforms for international exchange and for engagement in the education of the performing arts, for beginners and professionals alike, as well as using the performing arts for mutual understanding and peace; ITI has now developed into the world’s largest organization for the performing arts, with more than 90 Centres spread across every continent
learn more here: https://www.iti-worldwide.org/iti.html
La Guía Cultural
Their mission is to connect the public with New York’s Hispanic culture by promoting events and publishing articles of artistic interest.La Guía Cultural aspires to be a reference portal for theater, film, dance, music, visual arts, fashion, gastronomy, and literature in Spanish, serving the city’s Hispanic community and the artists who contribute to it around the world.
learn more here: https://www.laguiacultural.com/quienes-somos/
LaMicro Theater
Mission: LaMicro Theater’s mission is to present high-quality Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino theater in English and bilingual productions. We want to expose our audiences to contemporary and emerging playwrights whose work will lead us to explore new ideas and generate dialogue concerning the realities faced by our diverse communities. LaMicro is committed to presenting under-produced playwrights and also to experiment with new media technology and work in collaboration with contemporary artists. LaMicro wants to produce plays that attract non-traditional audiences, including spectators who might never before have been to the theater.
https://www.lamicrotheater.org
Modern Artlife Foundation (MART).
MART is an American non-profit organization that produces and supports contemporary performing arts programs globally. We curate an inventive and varied arts program, showcasing the very best of contemporary dance, theatre, and music. We collaborate with the world’s leading art institutions as well as commission new artworks and introduce emerging talents alongside established artists to a global audience.
Learn more here: https://martfdn.org/about#mission
Mov!ng Culture Projects
Mov!ng Culture Projects works with artists and cultural organizations, neighborhood groups and municipal agencies, business improvement districts and urban planners, and not-profit and volunteer stewards of public spaces who want to bring people together and build community through the arts
Learn More Here: https://movingcultureprojects.com/
Performance Space (PS122)
Founded in 1980, Performance Space New York (formerly Performance Space 122) became a haven for many queer and radical voices shut out by a repressive, monocultural mainstream and conservative government whose neglect exacerbated the emerging AIDS epidemic’s devastation. Carrying forward the multitudinous visions of these artists who wielded the political momentum of self-expression amidst the intensifying American culture wars, Performance Space is one of the birthplaces of contemporary performance as it is known today.
Learn more here: https://performancespacenewyork.org/
Polish Cultural Institute, New York
The mission of the Polish Cultural Institute New York is to share Polish heritage, history and art with American audiences, and to promote Poland’s contributions to the success of world culture.
Check out the Performing Arts Events Here: https://instytutpolski.pl/newyork/category/events/performing-arts/
Scandinavian American Theater Company
Scandinavian American Theater Company (SATC) is a non-profit theater company founded to provide Scandinavian perspectives through the new generation of Scandinavian playwrights and theater artists. We present contemporary plays and innovative takes on the classics from the Nordic region. We are committed to strengthening the relationship between Scandinavia and the United States through collaborations and interdisciplinary artistic exchange that examine and challenge the cultural status quo. Our work is regularly reviewed both in the U.S. press, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out, as well as in Scandinavian press. We are the largest gateway for Nordic talent to present their work in the United States. Our close relationship with all the Nordic consulates and art councils offers invaluable support alongside the financial support provided by foundations, organizations and valued donors.
Learn more here: https://www.satcnyc.org/
Secretary worldwide International Theatre Institute ITI
ITI was created on the initiative of the first UNESCO Director General, Sir Julian Huxley, and the playwright and novelist, JB Priestly in 1948, just after the Second World War, and at the beginning of the Cold War, when the Iron Curtain divided the East and the West. The aim of the founders of ITI was to build an organization that was aligned with UNESCO’s goals on culture, education and the arts, and which would focus its endeavours on improving the status of all members of the performing arts professions. They envisaged an organization that created platforms for international exchange and for engagement in the education of the performing arts, for beginners and professionals alike, as well as using the performing arts for mutual understanding and peace.
Thalia Spanish Theatre of NY
First and only BILINGUAL Hispanic theatre in Queens; We’ve grown from a community-based theatre to a world class cultural institution, collaborating with guest artists from Spain, Uruguay, India, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina and more;
The Segal Theatre Center of The Graduate Center CUNY
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), The Graduate Center, CUNY is a non-profit center for theatre, dance, and film affiliated with CUNY’s Ph.D. Program in Theatre. The Center’s primary focus is to bridge the gap between the academic and professional performing arts communities by providing an open environment for the development of educational, community-driven, and professional projects in the performing arts. The Segal Center bridges the gap between the academic and performing arts communities through dynamic public programs and digital initiatives that are free and open to all. Year round, the Center presents a wide variety of FREE public programs which feature leading national and international artists, scholars, and arts professionals in conversation about theatre and performance.
Learn more here: https://www.thesegalcenter.org/
Tisch School of the Arts
When the School of the Arts was founded at NYU in 1965, it was heralded as a daring adventure — to be a school unlike any other. Named for a generous gift from Laurence A. and Preston Robert Tisch in 1982, Tisch School of the Arts has emerged over the last 50 years as the country’s preeminent center for the study of the performing, cinematic and emerging media arts.
UNESCO Artist For Peace
UNESCO seeks to harness the full power of education, science, culture and information to tackle the most pressing issues we face. By sharing our common humanity, with increased knowledge and moral solidarity, we can find solutions to the pressing issues of our time. Dive into UNESCO’s responses to these issues, and learn more about the difference we make on the ground.
Find more here: https://core.unesco.org/en/contact-us
Villa Albertine Performing Arts
Created by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and supported by the French Ministry of Culture, Villa Albertine offers a novel artists’ residency model in which residents choose the location best suited to their work within the host country. With a permanent presence in 10 major US cities, it aims to foster in-depth exploratory residencies for artists, thinkers, and culture professionals hailing from all creative disciplines. Since its inauguration in 2021, Villa Albertine hosts annual cohorts of around 60 residents for one- to three-month customized residencies throughout the United States, from Puerto Rico to Alaska. Festivals, events, and symposia complete this flexible, global venture, supporting French cultural stakeholders in the areas central to their creative inquiries.
Learn more here: https://villa-albertine.org/va/
Belgium
Het Palais – Antwerp
Hetpaleis is a performing arts house for young audiences, where it stimulates children in their art experience: as a spectator, as a conversational partner, as a participant, and as a young artist. The Hetpaleis is a city theater aiming for a wide urban audience, embracing diversity in all its capacities and is committed to community formation.
Learn more here: https://www.hetpaleis.be
Nona Kunstencentrum
Focuses on story telling and artisitic expression born ” of the subconscious, of our dreams and nightmares.” Merged wwith theatre company Abattoir Fermé and music platform JazzLab, produced the following projects as a result: Contour Series , the jazz festival BRAND!, open-air frestival BROEK. “Proud intendant of the city festival Construct Europe.”
Learn More Here: https://www.nona.be/nl
TONEELHUIS
Toneelhuis aims to create continuity, stability and a restful atmosphere, while also focusing on artistic development in new collaborations. Young creators are an important focus here. Toneelhuis wants to be a reliable artistic and business partner in local, national and international networks with an openness towards a rapidly changing world.
Canada
CINARS (Biennale)
Since 1984, every two years in Montreal, CINARS has been organizing one of the most important international showcases and networking events, gathering more than 1 200 professionals hailing from over 51 countries including 332 show presenters, some of whom are the most influential in the business. During one week, 190 shows from Quebec, elsewhere in Canada, and abroad grace the stages while workshops, networking events, as well as an exhibition hall are teeming with participants in some of Montreal’s main cultural venues.
Learn more: https://cinars.org/en/cinars
Indian Summer Arts Society – Vancouver
Indian Summer Arts Society is a not-for-profit secular arts organization and registered charity based in Vancouver on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. We present some of Vancouver’s most distinctive arts + culture events as part of our annual Indian Summer Festival, and ISF+ events we present in collaboration with our community and cultural partners. We strive to be loving and fierce, with an audacious curatorial punch that dismantles walls, plays with ideas and provokes necessary dialogue and debate. In doing this, we believe in the transformative power of the arts, and their ability to offer society’s most renewable resource: hope. Indian Summer offers multi-art experiences of exceptional caliber, thoughtfully curated through a South Asian lens. We connect rich and complex pasts with the emerging future, delighting audiences while provoking necessary dialogue and debate.
Learn more here: https://indiansummerfest.ca
Chile
Fundación Teatro a Mil
We were established as a non-profit institution in 2004, following the growth and consolidation of the International Festival Teatro a Mil, our most important project, which has been held every January since 1994. Since then, as the Teatro a Mil Foundation, we have worked to contribute to the geographic, social and economic decentralization of access to culture through excellent projects that have a high standard of artistic, technical and logistical production, training programs for audiences and artists, and opportunities for circulation for Chilean and Latin American companies.
Learn more here: https://teatroamil.cl/
France
L’Atelier des artistes en exile
The mission of the agency of artists in exile (aa-e) is to identify artists in exile of all origins and disciplines, to support them according to their situation and needs, to offer them work space and to put them in contact with professionals (French and European networks), in order to provide them with the necessary means to restructure and continue their practice. According to the demands of project and programs, the aa-e creates its own events, including the “Party in exile” and the multidisciplinary festival, Visions of Exile, in cooperation with its partners.*
Learn more here: https://aa-e.org/en/
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
As a legendary venue where the walls patina witnesses the memory of exceptional events the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord hosts actors and musicians from all over the world since its early days. Built in 1876, it re-opened in 1974 under the direction of Peter Brook and Micheline Rozan. In 2010, Olivier Mantei and Olivier Poubelle took over the management of the theatre and still carry on a tradition of a place of creation.
Learn more here: https://www.bouffesdunord.com
Theatre De La Ville
Gateway Projects include categories such as Art & Health, Art & Science, Art & Education, Art & Sport, Poetic Consultations, and other International Projects.
Learn more: https://www.theatredelaville-paris.com/en
Germany
Berliner Festspiele
The Berliner Festspiele organize various festivals and art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theater performances, readings, lectures, debates and much more throughout the year. With its diverse offerings in all artistic areas, the Berlin Festival sees itself as a large platform. For artists, their idiosyncratic works and a wide variety of working methods and approaches. For visitors, listeners and viewers from all parts, nooks and crannies of the city and the country, with their often very different preferences or expectations. And for the joint examination of timeless and contemporary questions that are burning on all of us in one way or another and that challenge us more than ever as individuals and as a society here and around the world
Learn more here: https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/
New International Performing Arts Institute
The New International Performing Arts Institute (NIPAI), established in the year 2000, promotes the needs of people to be professionals in any age and in any sector of creative industries. During the study each student directs, performs, experiments, creates and works on their performances! NIPAI teaches specific skills in Directing, Teaching and Managing that are actually applied, can and should be applied in every day of professional work!
Learn more here: https://www.nipai.org/about
Hungary
Proton Theatre
In 2009, Kornél Mundruczó, film and theatre director, and Dóra Büki, theatre producer, founded PROTON THEATRE, a virtual artistic company organised around the director’s independent productions. Besides preserving maximum artistic freedom, their goal is to ensure a professional structure for their independently produced theatre plays and projects. Chiefly, their performances are realized as international co-productions, and their frequent collaborators include the Wiener Festwochen; HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; KunstenFestivalDesArts, Brussels; Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest; HELLERAU, Dresden. The performances of the PROTON THEATRE have been touring to more than 120 festivals during these years, from Festival d’Avignon through Adelaide Festival to Singapore International Festival, Seoul Bo:m Festival or the Zürcher Theaterspektakel.
Learn more here: https://protontheatre.hu/
Lebanon
Arab Culture and Arts Network
An independent, non-profit organization under license n° 863 established in 2020 during the Corona pandemic crisis on the initiative of cultural activists with the aim of networking individuals and cultural and artistic institutions, for cultural solidarity and opening a link and channels for the exchange of events, festivals, and experiences in art and culture in the Arab region and opening cultural bridges in the Middle East, and between the Middle East and the West. Due to the Corona pandemic, which greatly affected the cultural scene in the region, it made us re-read the scene and the transformations in order to create a network for culture and arts, to enable cultural communities among themselves for networking and cooperation, support creativity, encourage exchange and grants for creative works, and improve policies supporting culture and arts in the Arab region activating the role of art and culture in changing societies through free expression in the field of theater, cinema, music, literature, research, studies, exhibitions and performing arts.
Learn more here: https://cultureartsnetwork.com/register/
Netherlands
Dood Paard – Amsterdam
Dood Paard makes implicit and explicit political theatre. The productions are the result of a collective work process. The design, translation, directing and dramaturgy is a collective process. The organisation works as a collective. The work of Dood Paard is diverse: location theatre, text theatre, music theatre, youth theatre, pop-up theatre and a combination of all of the above. Dood Paard also enjoys rubbing shoulders with the visual arts and music.
Learn more here: https://doodpaard.nl/en/
Palestine
The Freedom Theatre
The Freedom Theatre draws its inspiration from a unique project, Care and Learning, which used theatre and art to address the chronic fear, depression and trauma experienced by children in Jenin Refugee Camp. Set up during the first Intifada the project was run by Arna Mer Khamis, a revolutionary who devoted her life to campaigning for freedom and human rights, together with women in the refugee camp.
Learn more here: https://thefreedomtheatre.org
Spain
Academy of Stage/ Performing Arts of Spain
“Artistic and cultural entity aimed at promoting, defending and dignifying the performing arts in our country, to encourage their national and international promotion, as well as to foster their progress, development and improvement.”
Learn more: https://academiadelasartesescenicas.es/
Ciatre – Associació de Companyies de Teatre Professional de Catalunya
Ciatre is an association of professional Catalan theatre companies that was set up in 1996 to strengthen and preserve an independent, private style of creating, managing and bringing theatre shows to a wider audience. The member companies, some of which have been around for over forty years and have played before audiences numbered in millions around the world, create, produce and distribute their own shows. Mission: to make the voice of Catalan theatre heard throughout the world, using creative strength and the power of imagination; to establish a flow of theatrical creativity and production exchanges, purchases and sales between Catalan companies and the rest of the world.
Learn more here: https://www.ciatre.com/en/
Uganda
Tebere Arts Foundation
Tebere Arts Foundation is a non-profit supporting playwrights and artists in theatre. We offer programs and opportunities for artists to develop and showcase their work and grow their skills through 5 major programs; the Emerging Artists’ Intensive Lab, the Mid-Career & Established Playwrights Residency, the Annual Production, Community Theatre, and the Kampala International Theatre Festival; Mission: To create systems and contribute towards supporting artistic platforms and infrastructures in Eastern Africa that are sustainable and focused on professionalism, ingenuity, new, creative, and inventive ways of thinking and working, as well as exposure and exchange
Learn more: https://tebere.org/
Artists from Abroad
International cultural engagement fuels creativity, supports diplomacy, and enriches artistic offerings in the United States and abroad. Navigating the process of obtaining nonimmigrant visas and understanding U.S. tax regulations can be challenging, but with the right information and careful planning, you can successfully present artists from abroad to American audiences.
https://www.artistsfromabroad.org/
Performap
Performap.com is an Interactive Digital Map of Global Theatre and Performance Festivals developed by TheTheatreTimes.com, a global theatre portal. With hundreds of festivals browsable and searchable by festival location, type, and date, Performap is the first extensive digital index of its kind in the field, built expressly for artists, audiences, critics, scholars, festival organizers, curators, and presenters from around the world. Performap also includes reports written by local writers and traveling reporters published by The Theatre Times.
https://performap.com/
International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA)
A membership network of more than 500 leaders in the performing arts across 60 countries. What unifies the membership is the belief in the importance of global exchange and dialogue.
ISPA members include artists, performing arts organizations, independent creative producers, artist managers, festivals, funders, consultants and other professionals working in the performing arts who come together with the shared goal of strengthening the arts.
https://www.ispa.org
BAX Artist in Residence (AIR) 2026–2028, Brooklyn
Open Call: 18-month multidisciplinary performance residency for NYC-based artists, deadline April 2, 2026
What: Artist in Residence (AIR) long-term residency program
Who can apply: Emerging and mid-career performance artists and practitioners
Disciplines: Dance/movement, theater, performance art, multidisciplinary practices
Where: Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Brooklyn, New York, USA
When: September 2026 – March 2028
Deadline: April 2, 2026 @ 11:59 PM EST
Fee: Free to apply; residency offers space, stipend, and support
Support: Rehearsal space, $8,000 stipend, coaching, professional development, fiscal sponsorship, cohort community
Artists selected for the 2026–2028 cycle will participate in an 18-month residency in Brooklyn.
Official link: https://www.bax.org/artists-in-residence/
Call For __ Commission Program 2026
The International Contemporary Ensemble invites practitioners of performed sound to apply to create a new work for the Ensemble.
Two-three early-career artists will be commissioned for a new work to be premiered at one of our events during an upcoming concert season. The selected artists will also receive workshop and rehearsal opportunities with the Ensemble’s musicians throughout the process. The commission fee is $4,000 and selected artists will create a new work between 6-10 minutes for 3-6 players from the Ensemble. Given the Jerome Foundation’s generous support for this program, at least one of our successful applications must be NYC- or Minnesota-based, and not currently enrolled in a degree-granting program. The other(s) need not adhere to these requirements.
Selected artists will receive $4,000 Commission Fee
https://iceorg.org/call-for-2026
Please apply through the submission form by Friday March 27 11:59pm EST.
Kyoto Retreat: Kyoto, Japan
International retreat and research-based program for artists and cultural practitioners, deadline July 15, 2026
· What: International artist retreat and research program
· Who can apply: Artists, writers, curators, and cultural practitioners at various career stages
· Disciplines: Performance, visual art, writing, research-based and interdisciplinary practices
· Where: Kyoto, Japan
· When: Multiple retreat periods throughout the year
· Deadline: July 15, 2026
· Fee: Program fee required
· Support: Accommodation, studio time, local cultural engagement, research-focused environment
· Official link: https://www.kyotoretreat.com/
New York Theater Workshop
2050 Administrative Fellowships
This fellowship represents one of several NYTW initiatives to address the economic barriers that may prevent talented individuals from pursuing careers in the theatre.
The 2050 Fellowship is named in celebration of the U.S. Census Bureau’s projection that by the year 2050, there will be no single racial or ethnic majority in the United States. We’re working to reflect our evolving and beautifully diversifying society now—to ensure there’s space for those who will lead us into the future to build the skills they need now. The 2050 Administrative Fellowship is a yearlong paid part-time fellowship in one field of interest including Artistic, Workshop Development, Education & Engagement, and Marketing.
Deadline: March 27, 2026 @ 11:59PM ET
https://www.nytw.org/education/2050-admin-fellowships/
National Queer Theater – Criminal Queerness Studio Playwriting Program
Criminal Queerness Studio Playwriting Program is now accepting applications for its free. Trans Americans, queer writers living outside of the United States, and those who have left their home countries as immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers are welcome to apply to the seven-week virtual program. Led by Ugandan playwright Achiro P. Olwoch, Criminal Queer Studio provides a radical, supportive space to build a global queer community. The program includes seven weekly two-hour Zoom workshops in April and May 2026 with queer writers and activists from around the world, with the goal of finishing an original 10-minute play that will be performed by professional actors. Interested playwrights may apply to Criminal Queerness Studio at https://airtable.com/apppnqcCnO819KGH7/shrR8nomfn8sqoxZ0
Criminal Queerness Studio is a project of National Queer Theater. To learn more about NQT’s programming in support of LGBTQ+ artists, youth, and seniors or to make a donation, please visit www.nationalqueertheater.org.
Trenarren House Residencies
creative residency programme is an intimate global cohort of exciting artists, curators, designers, musicians, performers and writers. A rare opportunity to dedicate focused time to your creative passion in this unique, multi- disciplinary container.
Jan-Apr 2026, Trenarren House, Cornwall, UK.
A space to explore a blueprint for happy, healthy and harmonious ways of being at the intersection of creativity and wellbeing, together in community.
Check it out here: https://resartis.org/listings/trenarren-house/
Vineyard Arts Project
Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) invites applications from small budget organizations (under $1 million), collectives, or individual artists for its 2026/27 Artist Residency Program. VAP is a performing-arts residency and creative incubator dedicated to supporting the development of innovative new work in dance and theatre by emerging and established artists from around the world. The program provides dedicated time, housing, and studio resources in a collaborative environment designed to foster experimentation, artistic dialogue, and meaningful engagement with audiences.
Residents are hosted on VAP’s Edgartown campus, which includes multiple rehearsal studios and shared living facilities, enabling artists to focus intensively on the creative process while in residence.
Open Call Residency Applications – Now Through April 1st
https://www.vineyardarts.org/apply-now