Member Services
The Alliance's Board of Trustees and Members at the 2017 Membership Retreat at Two River Theater.
Are you taking advantage of all that the New Jersey Theatre Alliance has to offer?
All of our member services have been developed with the input and feedback of member theatres and are designed to meet the specific needs of the field in New Jersey. Please click through the links to learn more about specific services.
For further questions, feel free to reach out to Deonté Griffin-Quick, Director of Programs and Services, at dgriffin-quick@njtheatrealliance.org.
- Professional development roundtables for education, marketing, artistic, and development staff
- Equity, diversity, and inclusion support, training, and resource library
- Board, fundraising, arts education, finance, budgeting, and strategic planning consultation offered free or at significantly reduced cost to members
- Technical equipment lending program
- Low-interest loan program
- Server hosting
- Discount for Audience Insight Manager (AIM) subscription
- Reciprocal complimentary tickets for member theatre full-time staff
- Job Board
- Promotion of member theatres to over 8,000 social media followers
- Email marketing of upcoming theatre events to over 11,000 subscribers
- Partnership, discounts, and direct promotion to over 300,000 theatre enthusiasts with Show-Score New Jersey (currently only available to Equity Producing Members)
- 10,000 audience members made aware of NJ Professional Theatre through The Stages Festival
- Advocacy to government officials on behalf of the arts
- Public recognition at annual awards celebrations including Curtain Call and the Excellence in Cultural Access Awards
- Corporate employee discount ticket program
- Theatre Education online guide (coming in 2020)
- Access Roundtable discussions and professional development
- Online Cultural Access Calendar
- Online Accessibility resource library
- ADA Plan writing support
- FM Headset transmitter equipment loan program for listening enhancement and audio description services; looping technology support
- Training for ASL interpretation, audio description, open captioning, and relaxed performances
- Sensitivity training and other access consulting offered free to member theatres
- $100-$5,000 grants for artist fees in The Stages Festival (applications due in October)
- $100 - $300 mini-grants for ASL, open captioning, relaxed performance, or audio description (rolling applications)
- $500 Cultural Access Innovator Awards (nominations open in March for all New Jersey arts and cultural organizations)
- Awards of Excellence for individuals nominated by member theatres presented at annual Curtain Call celebration (nominations open in June)
- Annual Combined Auditions
- NJPAC Stage Exchange
- Healing Voices: Caregivers’ Stories on Stage
- NJSCA Playwriting Fellowship Showcase
“We can operate well beyond our resources because the Alliance offers support. We rely on the Alliance for information and guidance throughout our season. When questions arise about “best practices,” the Alliance can provide unbiased information that has helped newer board members understand how theatres operate.”
–Roy Steinberg, Producing Artistic Director, Cape May Stage
“New Jersey Theatre Alliance has been integral to Passage's success and growth over the years. Executive Director John McEwen's advice and kind support have given us the ability to take artistic risks while also planning for a strong financial future. The workshops they offer in Marketing and Development have led to improved visibility of our programming and concrete steps forward in our funding. The Alliance cares for its members wholistically, and we are incredibly grateful for their dedication to a sustainable future for New Jersey theatres." -C. Ryanne Domingues, Artistic Director, Passage Theatre Company
“The value of NJTA is priceless. John and his staff have a unique perspective of the New Jersey theater ecology, so that brain trust of knowledge is something that all theater practitioners benefit from. Crossroads specifically has utilized the Alliance in numerous ways including the development of our Strategic Plan, server-sharing services, and partnering with NJPAC on the Stage Exchange commissioning program.”
–Marshall Jones, Producing Artistic Director of Crossroads Theatre
“McCarter regularly takes advantage of meetings and roundtables sponsored by New Jersey Theatre Alliance that provide valuable development and enrichment for our staff members. McCarter’s interaction with the Alliance is continually fruitful, and its importance to our community cannot be overstated.”
–Mindy Richardson, General Manager of McCarter Theatre Center