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Mission Statement
Now entering its 18th year, The Tank is a nonprofit arts presenter that champions performing artists working across a variety of disciplines engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. Led by Artistic Director Meghan Finn, Director of Artistic Development Johnny G. Lloyd, and Managing Producer Danielle Monica Long King, the company provides a home to artists working and experimenting in theater, comedy, dance, film, music, puppetry, and storytelling by removing the economic and accessibility barriers from the creation of new work. The artistic ethos of The Tank is omnivorous, maximalist, and intentionally unbound by genre, discipline, or style. We believe that the best work emerges from a generative vessel where a multitude of processes, genres, and forms are allowed to develop authentically at their own speeds, and in their own way. Artists who have developed their craft at The Tank include Tony Award-winner Alex Timbers, Amy Herzog, Lucy Alibar, Kyle Jarrow, Reggie Watts, Kyle Abraham, Andrew Bujalski, We Are Scientists, and tens of thousands of others. The Tank has been honored with a 2020 OBIE Award for Institutional Recognition celebrating our Extraordinary Support of Emerging Artists, 6 Drama Desk nominations for our co-produced work, and an official New York City Council proclamation. Recent co-produced work includes New York Times Critics’ Picks Taxilandia (2021), OPEN by Crystal Skillman (2019), Red Emma & The Mad Monk by Alexis Roblan (2018), and The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman (2016); as well as Drama Desk Award-nominated productions The Hunger Artist (2018), The Paper Hat Game (2017), the ephemera trilogy (2017), Ada/Ava (2016) and youarenowhere (2016). The Tank’s track record of artistic success is not an accident of our model: it is a direct outcome of the culture of creative possibility we have intentionally cultivated. Since 2003, The Tank has been dedicated to making its space and resources available for performances by a large number of multidisciplinary artists. All programs are curated via open calls for submissions disseminated through peer organizations, our marketing channels, and artists’ networks. The goal of The Tank’s open submissions method of selection is to build a season that accurately reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. There is no application fee and submission consists of a simple email. As a result, a typical season includes artists from a wide spectrum of cultures, genders, sexualities, ableness, economic backgrounds, and education levels from all five boroughs. A key feature of The Tank’s work is to be both human and humane in its engagement with all who pass through our doors. To do so, we are engaged in a radical redistribution of risk - financial, social, cultural, and personal - that opens up the world of art-making to new voices and perspectives. To share in the risk of creation with our artists, we offset rehearsal costs, production costs, promotional and front-of-house expenses while enacting a transparent and shared revenue structure. Moreover, we ask our audience and funding community to embrace experimentation as a necessary and joyful component of a vibrant artistic landscape. In this way, we disrupt the calcified class barriers that suppress the creation and experiencing of work from new and underrepresented voices. The most pressing “cost” for our artists is their willingness to make the imaginative leap into seeing their idea through, and for our audiences is the willingness to try something extraordinary. From the company’s two-theater home on 36th Street in Manhattan, The Tank typically features over 2,500 artists every year, presents over 1,000 performances including up to 18 theatrical World or New York premieres, and welcomes 36,000 audience members annually.
About This Cause
The Tank may be a space, but we know that The Tank has always transcended four walls because The Tank is YOU! Puppeteers and choreographers. Storytellers and songwriters. Artists and audiences. The sum of all our parts is greater than the whole because something magical happens when we’re all in The Tank together. Whether we’re online with CyberTank or in person on 36th Street, The Tank is a platform for artists of all kinds to be courageous and creative in community. Infinite possibility happens when these artists gather together, because there is that lil’ something extra... YOU! “I feel like every time I step in The Tank we are celebrating. There is always a feeling that we made it. The most amazing thing is to be able to share and create in community. My work is the way it is because of The Tank and the friends I made at The Tank.“ -Patricia Marjorie, Artist Will you make a gift today to support the celebration at The Tank? Your gift directly supports our ability to give time, space, and community for artists and storytellers to experiment and develop new work. Thank you for being part of the magic that happens at The Tank. You are awesome and we can’t wait to see what YOU come up with next!