Freedom Train is an incubator for the making and performance of black queer themed plays. We are artists who take joy in offering fresh and diverse perspectives to our beloved art form. Our audiences share our interests in bold new work and our deep respect for past theatre forms, conventions, and classics.
Read "A manifesto for citizen theatre artists" on the theatre's blog, A manifesto.
History
Founded in 2006 with an OSI Foundation/NYU Wagner Social Justice Fellowship, Freedom Train Productions is a theatre and a movement. The dramatic stories of our resident playwrights have gone on to be performed at The Public Theater's Emerging Writer's Program, Emerging Artists Theater's One Woman Standing Performance Series, New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theater's Youngblood Residency, Fire & Ink: Cotillion Conference, Northwestern University, Columbia University, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, Subjective Theatre Company, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Audre Lorde Project. Thousands of people all over the country have been affirmed by and introduced to the struggles and aspirations of the black queer protagonists birthed at Freedom Train Productions.
Freedom Train Productions is a member of The Alliance of Resident Theatres of New York, The Audre Lorde Project's Leadership Roundtable for Queer People of Color-Led Organizations, and is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Freedom Train Productions may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extend permitted by law.
Current and past major funders include The Union Square Arts Awards, a project of the Tides Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, NYU Wagner School of Public Service, OSI Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, and S/HEROES FOR THE FUTURE.
