Applicants for the Pay Your People 2025 Drawing

Thank you for applying for a Pay Your People grant. Below is the list of collectives, companies, productions, and venues that applied to be part of the drawing for a Pay Your People grant.

Did you fill out the application, but don't see your name? Send us an email at hello@indiespace.org and we’ll look into. Please forward your receipt from Submittable, as this will help expedite the review.

We’ll be drawing names for three different groups:

  • Deep Roots - Grants to companies/collectives with small budgets who have been operating for 25 years or more

  • Venues - Grants will be given to indie theater venues and performance spaces

  • Companies/Productions - Grants will be given to companies or productions

Collectives, Companies, Productions, and Venues who are eligible for a Pay Your People Grant in 2025!

  • & Sons Collective

  • 16 Cowries, Inc.

  • 24 Bond Arts Center

  • 3AM Theatre

  • ACTUS REUS

  • Adam & Bray

  • Adult Film

  • AfterWork Theater

  • Amanda Horowitz

  • American Bard Theater Company

  • American Theatre of Actors, Inc.

  • AnomalousCo

  • Anonymous Ensemble

  • Antoci Performance Cult

  • Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble

  • Arachne Theater

  • Arsenal Movement dance project

  • Art in Odd Places

  • Ashley Antonia Lopez

  • Axial Theatre

  • Ayibobo Productions

  • B*tch C*llective

  • Bahr None Productions

  • Barefoot Theatre Company

  • Barrio Independent Productions

  • BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

  • Bechdel Project

  • Benjamin Akio Kimitch

  • Betterfly Productions

  • Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop

  • Blaze Ferrer

  • Bonfire Theatre Group

  • Boundless Theatre Company

  • Braata Productions

  • Broadway DNA

  • Broken Box Mime Theater

  • Brooklyn Tavern Theater

  • Brooklyn Youth Company

  • Built4Collapse

  • Butch Mermaid Productions

  • C.A.G.E. Theatre Company

  • Caitlin Ort Choreography

  • cakeface

  • Cambalache Theatre Company

  • Capoeira Angola Sport Center - Performance Division

  • Carnival Girls Productions

  • Caroline Dunn Productions

  • Celebration Barn

  • Center For Performance Research

  • Chain Theatre

  • Changing Perceptions Theater

  • Cherubs Productions

  • Chronicle Theatricals Collective

  • City Gate Productions

  • Clown Gym

  • Clutch Productions, Inc.

  • Coffey Street Studio Artist Initiative

  • Collapsable Giraffe

  • CONCH SHELL PRODUCTIONS INC

  • Concrete Timbre

  • Cosmic Dust Productions

  • Cosmic Orchid

  • CREATIVE STAGES ENTERTAINMENT

  • Crew Bar Productions LLC

  • crip house

  • Daisy Theatricals

  • Dance 10 Project

  • Dance Visions NY

  • Dances by Isadora

  • danceTactics performance group

  • Danisarte

  • Danza Espana - The American Spanish Dance Theatre

  • Datdancinkat Entertainment

  • Dear John Productions

  • "Derek Smith, Letters from Tyra"

  • Developing Artists

  • Dirty Laundry Theatre

  • Divine Riot

  • Docbloc

  • DovetailACTORS Studios, Inc

  • Downtown Urban Arts Festival

  • Drive In Theater Collective

  • Drops in the Vase

  • EarSay

  • Edu Díaz Productions, LLC

  • Elevate Theatre Company LLC

  • Engage Playwrights Lab

  • Et Alia Theater

  • Experimental Bitch

  • Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater Inc.

  • Few Pennies Theatricals

  • First Woman LLC

  • FJK Dance,Inc.

  • Floorwork Arts Collective

  • Flying Leap Productions

  • Footlight Presents

  • Forager Theatre Company

  • Forza Dance

  • Frayed Knot Collective

  • Frigid New York

  • Gabe Mollica: 20 Middleton entertainment

  • General Mischief Dance Theatre

  • Ghost Light Theatre Company

  • Go Ahead

  • Godbird Production Team

  • Good Apples Collective

  • Good Light Productions, LLC

  • Great Small Works

  • Hamlet Isn't Dead

  • Hi-ARTS

  • Hillary Gao

  • Hit The Lights! Co.

  • Hoi Polloi

  • HOLE PICS

  • Honigman & Sons

  • House of Chow

  • Houses on the Moon Theater Company

  • Hub17

  • Hudson Classical Theater Company

  • ID Studio Theater

  • Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble LLC (IRTE)

  • Infinite Variety Productions

  • INTAR Theatre

  • International Culture Lab

  • International Human Rights Art Festival

  • Invulnerable Nothings

  • Judson- Three Khmer Sisters

  • Jugando N Play

  • Jwala Productions

  • K/Q Playwrights Collective

  • Kairos Italy Theater

  • Kat Mustatea Studio

  • Kaye Hurley & Kedian Keohan

  • KINYOZI

  • Kitchen Sink Theatre Company

  • KPC - Keeping People Connected

  • Ladies of Hip-Hop

  • Latinx Playwrights Circle Inc.

  • Laurizarry

  • LC11 Productions

  • Leading Lady Creative

  • Lesbian Artist Collective

  • Let's Make a Play

  • Leviathan Lab

  • LIANNE ELSOUKI Theater Company

  • Literature to Life

  • Living Room Productions NYC

  • LOCAL GRANDMA

  • LOCO7 DANCE PUPPET THEATRE COMPANY

  • Lone Star Media

  • Lost Grrrl Found

  • LubDub Theatre Co

  • Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc.

  • Making Our Space Theatre Co.

  • Mann & Materials

  • Meanwhile Theater

  • Measuring Time Dance Collective

  • Method in Madness Co.

  • Midnight Cowboy Radio

  • mind dream theater

  • Mind The Gap Theatre

  • Monli International Company LLC

  • More Loud

  • Most Unwanted

  • MOVA Theater Company

  • MTF

  • MultiStages

  • Murmuration Theatre Co

  • Naked Angels Theater Company

  • National Queer Theater

  • Needy Lover

  • Nervous Orange Cat Productions

  • Neurodivergent Plays

  • New Camerata Opera

  • New Light Theater Project

  • New Music Theatre Projecf

  • New York City Players

  • New York Neo-Futurists

  • New York Theatre Barn

  • No, YOU Tell It!

  • notAmuse Theater

  • Notch Theatre Company

  • NYLaughs

  • Off The Lane

  • Okaeri Productions

  • One Whale's Tale

  • ¡Oye! Group

  • Parallel Exit

  • Parity Productions

  • Pearl Of A Girl Productions

  • People in Public Circus

  • Permafrost Theatre Collective

  • PHOENIX THEATRE ENSEMBLE

  • PITCHBLACK Immersive Experiences

  • PlayGround-NY

  • PM Theater

  • PM2 Entertainment/Peter Michael Marino

  • Pop Up! Productions

  • Portmanteau

  • Pride Salsa

  • PRIMAVERA - 55B Productions

  • Production of Fear and Misery in the Third Reich

  • PRTY GRL

  • Purp Door Productionz

  • Quacks & Whacks

  • Quail Bell

  • Queensboro Dance Festival

  • Quick Silver Theater Company

  • R and R Productions

  • Rawya El Chab

  • Recent Cutbacks

  • Red Monkey Theater Group INC

  • REPC

  • Repeat Victimization (an immurement play)

  • Retro Productions

  • Ring of Keys

  • Rising Sun Performance Company

  • Rock Rising

  • Rogue Theater Festival

  • Roots

  • Roots and River Productions

  • RopeBoi Productions

  • RoyaleMadeEvents

  • RudduR Dance

  • SalOn!

  • SALVATORE LARUSSA DANCE THEATRE

  • sarAika movement collective

  • Second Generation (2G)

  • Shakespearean Cabaret

  • Shall See Theater

  • Sheen the Musical

  • Si Se Puede Productions, LLC

  • slowDANCE

  • Smart Sets by Sam

  • SMPL MCHN

  • Soft Brain Theatre Company

  • Soho Think Tank

  • Soils and Spirit

  • Something from Abroad

  • SOUR MILK

  • SparkPlug Productions

  • Spellbound Theatre

  • Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects

  • Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre

  • Streetcar Productions

  • Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble

  • Taylor Gordon

  • TÉA Artistry

  • Ten Toes Theater Collective

  • Thai Theatre Foundation

  • THAT SHOW

  • The 46 Minutes Collective

  • The Assembly

  • The Cell Theatre

  • The Clementine Players

  • The Company We Keep

  • The Drunkard's Wide

  • The Episcopal Actors' Guild

  • The Episodic Theatre Project

  • The Exponential Festival

  • The Fire This Time

  • The Fool Volk

  • The Garret Theatre Company

  • The Georgian Theater of New York

  • The Goat Exchange

  • The Grove Theater

  • The Healthy Oyster Collective

  • The Hearty Meal Theater Company

  • The Humanist Project

  • The Interstitial

  • The Liminal Theatre Collective

  • The Lockin Keez Dance Company

  • The Love Show NYC

  • The Makers' Ensemble

  • the moon rituals

  • The Motor Company NYC

  • The New Stage Performance Space

  • The Omnivores

  • The Parkside Lounge

  • The pearl Collective

  • The Pool Plays 4.0

  • The RAT NYC

  • The Regina Opera Company, Inc.

  • The Sacred & The Profane

  • The Sống Collective

  • The Table Read Corp.

  • The Twin Bloom Collective

  • The Village

  • The Waiting Room Series

  • The Woods

  • The Workshop Theater

  • THEATER 2020

  • Theater of the Apes

  • Theatre 4 the People

  • Theatre Now New York

  • Theatre Untitled

  • theurbanX.org

  • Tier5 Theatre Company

  • Tin Can Contingency

  • Tiresias Presents NEW WEIRD FUTURE

  • Titan Theatre Company

  • Tongues Collective

  • Trainor Dance

  • Transrriqueña Stageworks

  • Twinbiz Productions

  • Two Sisters

  • Ugly Face Theatre

  • Underground Skills Exchange (USE)

  • Unlimited Stages

  • Untitled

  • Untitled Theater Company No. 61

  • Uptown Actors

  • Vaclav Havel Center

  • Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute

  • Vice Squad

  • Village Playback Theatre

  • Vinny Cinque’s “Be My Baby”

  • VoxArt Lab Productions

  • WaxFactory

  • What May Come Immersive

  • White Horse Theater Company

  • Wicked Cat Productions

  • wild project

  • Working Theater

  • WOW Cafe Theater

  • WRITE CLUB

  • Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre