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Theatre Renovation Grants

Creative professionals often struggle with funding issues, and nationwide nonprofit organizations exist to supplement artistic funding. Emerging and established theater companies sometimes find themselves in need of renovating spaces, whether they're restoring historic theaters, converting alternative spaces into performance spaces or renovating time-worn stages. Applicants often have to prepare a proposal to acquire funding; begin the application process by detailing the cultural and artistic benefits of the project and the physical needs of the proposed renovation.

  1. National Endowment for the Arts

    • A public independent agency established by the United States Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts serves as the largest funding agency for the arts in all 50 states. Among grants for all sorts of visual and performing arts, the NEA offers grants for non-for-profit theater organizations of all sizes. According to the NEA's website, the organization's grants support production and presentation elements for classical, modern, experimental, community-based, circus and puppetry work, bolstering opportunities for professional theater development. NEA grants geared toward theater renovation include the Access to Artistic Excellence grant, the Challenge America Fast-Track grant and the Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth grant. As of 2010, award sizes range from $5,000 to $150,000. Interested nonprofit theater companies apply using Grants.gov.

      National Endowment for the Arts

      1100 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.

      Washington, D.C.20506

      202-682-5400

      nea.gov

    National Trust for Historic Preservation

    • According to their official website, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization that strives to revitalize American communities by saving historic places. The organization's National Trust Preservation fund offers financial assistance to nonprofit organizations, public agencies, nonprofit companies and individuals involved in preservation-related projects. Grants offered by this organization include small matching grants for preservation planning and larger grants for restoration. Divisions of the fund include the Johanna Favrot Fund for Historic Preservation, Save America's Treasures and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for Historic Interiors. Restoration grants seek to restore, preserve and reinterpret historic spaces, including theaters. As of 2010, award sizes range from $500 to $10,000. Theater companies in need of renovation begin the grant application process at the National Trust's official website.

      Historic Preservation Grants

      National Park Service

      1201 "Eye" Street NW (2256)

      Washington, D.C. 20005

      202-354-2020

      preservationnation.org

    National Theatre Company

    • For over fifty years, the American Theatre Wing---founders of the Tony awards---has offered financial support to theater companies in the form of the National Theatre Company grants. These grants offer funding for emerging not-for-profit theater companies that have been in existence for at least five but not longer than fifteen years. Companies must have a distinctive mission, cultivated audience and a community of artists representative of dynamic American theater. Each year, the National Theatre Company awards 10 grants in the amount of $10,000. Interested applicants can request an Intent to Apply form from the American Theatre Wing online.

      American Theatre Wing

      570 7th Ave.

      Suite 501

      New York, NY 10018

      212-765-1910

      americantheatrewing.org

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