Arts & Culture Incubator

The Arts and Culture Incubator seeks to deepen the Playhouse’s roots in the community and with our artistic and cultural peers in innovative ways. Launched in the spring of 2023, the program uses our new state-of-the-art facility to provide resources to a selected group of local artists and cultural organizations to help elevate their work. Members of the Arts and Culture Incubator have access to Playhouse spaces at no cost for classes, rehearsals, creative work, networking, collaboration with their peers, and public and private events. The Playhouse also provides professional development services crafted to meet each of their unique needs.

The Arts and Culture Incubator at Playhouse in the Park provides meeting, rehearsal and performance space to a broad cohort of local organizations. The content of their presentations represents the views and opinions of the partner organization and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Playhouse in the Park.

UPCOMING EVENTS

During the 2023-24 season, our Arts and Culture Incubator partners will hold free or low-cost events at the Playhouse on the second and fourth Mondays from September – June. The events are open to the public and span a wide range of topics and styles. Last season, our partners offered live podcast recordings, a series of panels featuring local Black artists, staged readings of interactive plays, and professional development workshops on making art profitable. You can expect events like these and more in the coming season!

PARTNERS

RESIDENT ARTISTS

Curtis D. Shepard

Queen City Flash

INCUBATOR PARTNERS

Cincinnati Pride, DuWaup’s Cincinnati Poetry Slam, Heroes Rise Street Dance Academy, Urban Native Collective, and Young Professionals Choral Collective of Cincinnati

Young Professionals Choral Collective of Cincinnati

NEW WORK COMMISSIONS

Among the more than 80 world premieres produced since the Playhouse’s founding in 1960 are plays that have been commissioned. Since 2006, this work to develop new stories and contribute to the American theatre canon has expanded thanks to the Jerome Fey Endowment for New Plays. The funding provided not only pays a playwright to write a new play, it also allows for the readings, workshops and script development necessary to prepare it for full production.