Corporate Sponsor

The Actors Theatre Workshop: A Vital New York City Cultural Institution

ATW is an award-winning non-profit that uses an original theatre technique to educate children and adults, and helps them achieve their potential through drama and education. ATW’s programs address some of the profound struggles we confront today as individuals, organizations, and as a nation – educating our youth, giving people hope, and providing creative tools to bridge our differences.

The Actors Theatre Workshop was founded in 1990 by Artistic Director and Executive Producer Thurman E. Scott, an award-winning theatre artist whose mentor Stella Adler deemed “a creative revolutionary.” Mr Scott’s work has continuously had a positive impact on New York City and our community.

Join us as a Corporate Sponsor

We partner with leading corporations and funders to bring our award-winning programming to those in need while providing individuals from corporate America with meaningful opportunities to contribute and develop their own skills.

Our objective is to make it easy for corporate partners to join with us to help others. From students to seasoned professionals, we welcome a diversity of people and organizations that contribute their time, expertise and resources to our mission. We believe that by working with us and experiencing our inspirational programs, our volunteers, supporters and corporate partners are rewarded personally and professionally.

This two-minute profile on ATW and our founder Thurman E. Scott called Compassion reveals how ATW’s theatre techniques create empathy for others and give individuals powerful tools to change. It was produced by BYU-TV as part of a series on individuals and organizations that make a meaningful contribution in the world.

Opportunities for our Corporate Partners

• Give your employees invaluable opportunities
  • Join our Employee Engagement Program for ongoing or single day volunteer opportunities across a rage of projects
  • Join our Builders of the New World Mentor Team to provide children experiencing homelessness with hope and tools to succeed
  • Learn powerful techniques to bridge differences in our Diversity Training Program for corporate teams
  • Receive leadership training, improve communication skills, strengthen presence through our Corporate Creativity Training Program
• Provide financial support and in-kind donations to help us reach more at-risk youth through our proven educational arts programs
• Affiliate with a successful non-profit organization to make a positive and lasting impact on the community
• Receive powerful recognition for your support from ATW’s supporters and followers, our elected officials, and in the press

Become a Member of Our Spring Builders of the New World Program

Builders of the New World (BNW) helps children express their voice, see beyond their current circumstances, and envision a positive future. They need your help to reach their full potential!

Our Spring program includes 11 weeks of life-changing creative classes for the children taught by ATW’s Artistic Director and Founder Thurman E. Scott, family-style meals we enjoy together at each session, and a final performance for the community.

The BNW Mentorship program provides you and your colleagues (either as a team or individuals) with the opportunity to support and nurture 7 – 14 year old children in a safe, creative environment. Our program will enable you to serve the community while growing and gaining new skills and insights—enhance team building, improve inter-group communication skills, address diversity issues with compassion and expansive thinking, and develop creative expression through a deeply rewarding shared experience.

There are two ways to get involved:

1. Mentor: Send individual employees or teams of employees to serve as Mentors to the children during the Spring program, with a weekly volunteer commitment
2. One-Day Food Service and Sponsorship: Sponsor a day of the program by (i) fielding a team of volunteers to serve food to the children service, and (ii) make a donation to cover costs to deliver the program for a day including food, bus, teaching fees, facility costs, supplies. If you aren’t able to send a team, a sponsorship donation is still welcomed!

Please contact us so that we may speak with you about the Corporate Sponsorship opportunity that is right for your company.

What We Do and Who We Serve

We invite you and your employees to be a part of ATW’s award-winning programs and classes that have changed the lives of thousands of individuals in New York City and around the world.

• Builders of the New World, now in its 29th year, brings together professionals across all industries to provide a safe creative haven of stability for NYC children residing in temporary housing facilities.
• We bring our acclaimed theatre education technique to corporate partners, churches and community groups through innovative diversity training and conflict resolution programs. We give community members the opportunity to express their ideas and talents on ATW’s professional stage in a free monthly Open Mic Night of Theatre, Song, Ideas, and Current Events.
• We give theatre and film artists the opportunity to develop new plays in our writing and new play development workshops, and to realize their creative potential through conservatory training. We offer audience members the opportunity to see new plays in our free Play Reading Series.
• We provide business professionals with creative training in our Corporate Creativity Training: The Power of Process and our Diversity Training: Connecting Through Creativity for people from all walks of life and professional backgrounds.
• We provide people at all stages of life – – students, working professionals, and retirees – – with meaningful opportunities to volunteer their talents and expertise to truly make a difference, develop new skills and gain powerful insights about our diverse community.

The Actors Theatre Workshop is an award-winning non-profit theatre and educational institution founded in 1990 by Thurman E. Scott.
We help people from all walks of life achieve their potential through drama and education.