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League of Independent Theater Announces Lit Fund for Off-Off Broadway

Lit Fund logo
Lit Fund logo

The League of Independent Theater has announced the launch of the Lit Fund, in which more than 60 independent theater companies and venues will come together to create a new funding source for Off-Off-Broadway in New York City.

Contributors include CSV Cultural Center, Dixon Place, HERE, Horse Trade Theater Group, The Irondale Center, The Living Theater, The New Ohio Theatre, and Performance Space 122 will join emerging and established companies including Agony Productions, The Amoralists, Blue Coyote Theater Group, Caps Lock Theatre, The Civilians, Clancy Productions, Decades Out, Deconstructive Theatre Project, Ego Actus, Elephant Run District, ETdC Projects’ Lab, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Gemini CollisionWorks, Inverse Theater, Jewish Plays Project, John Montgomery Theatre Company, Mabou Mines, Mind the Gap Theatre, The Nerve Tank, New Georges, New York Neo-Futurists, No. 11 Productions, Parallel Exit, The Present Company, Purple Rep, Rabbit Hole Ensemble, Rising Phoenix Rep, Sinking Ship Productions, Small Pond Entertainment, Sponsored by Nobody, Stolen Chair Theater Company, Surf Reality, terraNOVA Collective, Theatre Askew, Untitled Theater Company #61, Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, and Wreckio Ensemble.

The fund will be used to establish an endowment for the independent theater territory, create an Emergency Fund for independent theaters, companies, and artists, and provide unrestricted grants to participating companies and venues starting August 1, 2013.

Click here to find out more about the Lit Fund.