The following theater companies were the first recipients of the A.R.T./New York Relief Fund for NYC Small Theatres. Grants were awarded in December 2020. Funding for these grants was made possible by generous seed funding from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation as well as A.R.T./New York, Seth Sprague Foundation, and the Leon Levy Foundation.

Fall 2020 A.R.T./New York Relief Fund Panelists

Panelists were selected from community nominations. For more information on the panelist process and how you can nominate a panelist for future A.R.T./New York grants, please click here. 

Andrew Clarke
Executive Director at Braata Productions

Alec Duffy
Co-Director at JACK

Iyvon Edebiri
Artistic Director at the Parsnip Ship

Laura Elliott
Associate Producer at The TEAM

Ariel Estrada
Producing Artistic Director at Leviathan Lab

Valete Graham
Development Manager at The Classical Theatre of Harlem

Sonoko Kawahara
Artistic Director at Crossing Jamaica Avenue

Shelley Miles
Freelance Stage Manager & Assistant Grant Writer

Catherine Peila
Strategic Finance, Development, International Programming Consultant at StonewallCDC and Afro Latin Jazz Alliance

Philip Santos Schaffer
Development Manager at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC

The A.R.T./New York Relief Fund for NYC Small Theatres is made possible with generous funding by the Leon Levy Foundation, the Seth Sprague Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), and A.R.T./New York.