Join TONYC for a special showcase of our residency actors and a celebration of our community. At Get Rooted: A Community Showcase, we invite you to experience presentations of three separate forum pieces by our Breaking Ground and youth troupes, plus time to mix, mingle, and connect over food and some of our favorite Theatre of the Oppressed games. Come for a little, come for a lot — you're welcome to join us for any and all events in our lineup below!
Saturday, May 18th:
3-4pm: Breaking Ground Troupe Performance
4-6pm: Mix + Mingle
6-8pm: Youth Troupe Performances
Note about tickets: While Theatre of the Oppressed NYC is offering Choose-What-You-Pay tickets to this event, we invite you to make a donation after RSVPing if you are able. All donations support our work, paying for rehearsal and performance spaces, transportation, actor and Joker salaries, props and costumes, and so much more. You can make a contribution here.
The cost of running a single Forum Theatre Troupe is $36,000 per cycle! This means that if we sold 100 forum performance tickets at $360 each, we could fund the full cycle of a single Troupe — and that’s before factoring in the costs that support our administrative staff, office space, and more. TONYC runs 12 play-building cycles annually, which are funded primarily through grants, allowing us to keep tickets free while paying actors and Jokers, covering transportation costs, buying props and costumes, and doing everything else that makes our shows happen!
Historically, TONYC has been primarily supported through grants. In the past four years, operational expenses have drastically increased, but our funding has not. While TONYC has an abundance of community enthusiasm for our work, we still need $400,000 of funding in 2024. A donation of any amount will support our organization through a shifting funding landscape.
COVID policy: In order to keep our actors and staff safe, we ask that attendees please wear masks at all times inside the venue, unless they have received a negative COVID test result within the last 24 hours.
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