Actor's Bridge Ensemble

A non-profit acting school and professional theater company. They produce socially conscious plays responsive to the current cultural moment, create new work, and train theater artists.

BACKLIGHT PRODUCTIONS

Theater arts for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Blackbird Theater Company

Blackbird focuses on inventive original works and rarely produced plays by renowned playwrights, all of which celebrate the vitality and immediacy of live theater.

Circle Players

This company is not only one of the Tennessee’s oldest community theatre companies, but Nashville’s oldest non-profit volunteer arts organization. They a focus on arts participation and arts access opportunities for all citizens of our community.

FRANKLIN THEATRE FELLOWSHIP

FTF is a semi-professional theatre company that exists to bring human beings together through the shared experience of live theatre.

GADABOUT THEATER COMPANY

Gadabout Theater Company is a Nashville-based independent theater collective. Their mission is to make theater accessible, affordable and fun for everyone by performing eclectic, immersive and sometimes downright absurd productions in nontraditional theatrical venues and environments.

Hendersonville Performing Arts Company

HPAC is a teaching theatre and provides an environment where children and adults are encouraged to develop their skills and talents in theatre production, focusing on family-oriented productions.

INEBRIATED SHAKESPEARE

Acting troupe on a mission to spread the word of the Bard in a fun, engaging, and entertaining way

Kindling Arts Festival

Kindling develops innovative new works by Nashville’s experimental artists, empowering diverse creators to explore challenging ideas in a multidisciplinary context. Emphasizing an artist-centered process, the Kindling Arts Festival is a multi-day annual event that showcases interdisciplinary collaborations in surprising spaces.

LAKEWOOD THEATRE COMPANY

Lakewood Theatre Company has been producing theatre in the Lakewood/Old Hickory area for 44 years.

LAUGHING CORPSE PRODUCTIONS

“Our mission is to have fun and make money.”

Nashville Children's Theatre

This company is the oldest continually operating professional children's theatre company in America.

Nashville Repertory Theatre

A regional theater presenting a lineup of classic & contemporary musicals & plays, plus workshops.

Nashville Shakespeare Festival

A Shakespeare company that produces bold and relevant productions of plays, written by Shakespeare and others, along with participatory educational programs.

Nashville Story Garden

This company produces established works, but focuses on being an incubator for original film, theatre, and modern media projects.

oz arts nashville

OZ Arts is a destination for innovative, contemporary art and performance experiences.

PLAYHOUSE 615

Playhouse 615 is an arts organization, production company, and event space. They teach acting classes and provide one-on-one coaching in addition to their children’s theatre in residence, Mischief Makers, and adult acting troupe, The Ensemble. Their black box theatre seats up to 50 and is also available to rent.

PULL-TIGHT PLAYERS

They produce six mainstage community theatre shows in each yearly season, and also maintain a Youth Actors Guild for budding actors and techies.

RAGANA CREATIVE

A creative agency focused on community.

SOURCE ONE FIVE THEATRE COMPANY

A Franklin-based company, Source One Five provides free theatre experiences for actors of all ages.

Studio Tenn

A professional regional theatre company based in Franklin, Tennessee. Its programming centers around innovative presentations of classic plays and musicals as well as an original “Legacy” series of theatrical concerts celebrating the work of time-honored musicians.

Street Theatre Company

A major theater in Nashville, they bring interesting and challenging works to the stage while employing some of the finest artists, actors, singers, dancers, technicians, musicians, and craftspeople in the city.

TENNESSEE PLAYWRIGHTS STUDIO

This studio is a playwright development lab and theatre production company that was founded in 2018 to offer in-state playwrights the opportunity to develop fresh, incisive scripts that reflect a changing world and to produce new works by Tennessee playwrights.

THE THEATER BUG

The Theater Bug offers year round affordable and sometimes free programming centered around the performing arts. They offer financial assistance for all programs and try to make sure that all children who wish to participate can, regardless of their financial situation. Throughout the year they offer two full-­‐length original shows, a Shakespeare production, camps, specialty workshops, concerts, playwriting, homeschool programming and the performance of an original piece written by their students.

Verge Theatre Company

They produce stimulating theatre and provide opportunities for artists to express themselves through relevant, accessible, and defiant theatre.

WCPR CHILDREN’S THEATRE

WCPR’S long-standing program of 25 years “The Starbright Players”, is an award winning children’s theatre program is dedicated to providing opportunities to engage and explore the world of theatre.

WOMEN IN THEATRE (WIT) NASHVILLE

A local non-profit founded in 2023, their mission is to empower women of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels to write, direct, perform, and collaborate in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Woven Theatre Company

Woven is dedicated to the production of new art and giving a platform to new artists, with a focus on new works and the LGBTQ+ community. They strive to provide meaningful and robust opportunities for underserved artists to hone their craft and advance their art.