New Ohio Theatre is a two-time OBIE Award-winning performance venue that serves the vast independent theatre community of New York and the adventurous audiences who love them. As a small, downtown, artist-run organization (with a 20+ year history as a beacon for bold and inventive work), we know the challenges and rewards of producing and presenting alternative, non-commercial theatre. In any given year, there are over 500 independent theatre companies working for opportunities to develop and present their work. We believe the best of this community operates at the core of the contemporary aesthetic conversation (in terms of both content and form) and acts collectively to expand the boundaries of the public imagination. With the opening of our new space, we aim to establish a professional, high-profile platform that reestablishes the West Village as a destination for mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish, and profound theatrical endeavors.

The New Ohio was founded as Soho Think Tank, Inc., in 1994 by
playwright/director Robert Lyons.

Staff:

Artistic Director: Robert Lyons

Producing Director: Marc Stuart Weitz

Artistic Associate: Samuel Buggeln

Technical Director: Marshall Miller

Publicist: David Gibbs (DARR Publicity)

Web Master: Art Meets Commerce

Accountant: Peter R. Rich, CPA

Lawyer: Margaret B. Hayden -- Paul, Weiss

Development Consultant: Anne Erbe

STT is generously supported by:

Altria Group, Inc.

A.R.T./New York-Andrew W. Mellon Arts Relief Fund

Etant Donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art

Mental Health Foundation

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation

NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs

New York State Council on the Arts

Peg Santvoord Foundation

STT is a member of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/NY.