Endowment and bridge funding for new and expanded humanities programming, publications, and staff salary enhancements.

To accompany the opening of its first home in Downtown Brooklyn's BAM Cultural District, Theatre for a New Audience plans to launch an expanded humanities program. As part of its nearly-completed $56.5 million capital campaign, the Theatre will create a $10 million endowment that will support institutional operations, as well as wide-ranging artistic, educational and public initiatives. The Theatre requests an NEH Challenge grant of $500,000 to be matched 3:1 with non-federal funds. $300,000 is requested for three years of bridge support to launch new and expanded humanities programming while we build our endowment. The remaining $200,000, plus the entire match, will establish an endowed Fund for Humanities Programs and Publications within the $10 million endowment to ensure the stability and growth of these new initiatives.

A series of six workshops on Shakespeare's Pericles for twenty-seven teachers in four middle schools in District 18, Brooklyn.

A two-week institute for twenty-five schoolteachers focusing on the representations of family life in William Shakespeare’s plays Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and The Winter’s Tale. 

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) proposes a two-week Summer Institute for school teachers on Scholarship and Performance: A Combined Approach to Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays, to be held July 12 – 28, 2017, at TFANA’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Offered to a national group of 25 middle and high school teachers, the Institute uses a carefully integrated approach to exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance in three Shakespeare plays. This year’s participants will study TWELFTH NIGHT, HAMLET and THE WINTER'S TALE under the guidance of leading Shakespeare scholars and master teaching artists. The Institute will focus on Shakespeare’s representations of family life, with an emphasis on new approaches to issues of gender, authority, marriage, service, and friendship in the plays; recent scholarship on Shakespeare; and research in other fields.

A two-week summer institute for 25 school teachers on the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) proposes a two-week Summer Institute on Scholarship and Performance: Teaching Shakespeare's Plays, to be held July 15-26, 2019, at TFANA's Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Offered to a national group of 25 middle and high school teachers, the Institute introduces a carefully integrated approach for exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance in three Shakespeare plays. This year's participants will study ROMEO AND JULIET, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, and RICHARD III under the guidance of leading Shakespeare scholars Julie Crawford (Columbia University) and Mario DiGangi (Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York), and master teaching artists and theatre practitioners Krista Apple and Claudia Zelevansky.

A two-week institute for 25 K-12 educators on the theme of nature and good government in the text and performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It and King Lear.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) proposes a two-week Summer Institute entitled Teaching Shakespeare's Plays through Scholarship and Performance, to be held July 15-26, 2024 at TFANA's Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Offered to a national group of 25 middle and high school teachers, the Institute introduces a carefully integrated approach for exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance in three Shakespeare plays. This year's participants will study AS YOU LIKE IT and KING LEAR under the guidance of leading Shakespeare scholars Julie Crawford (Columbia University), Mario DiGangi (Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York), master teaching artists and theatre practitioners Krista Apple and Claudia Zelevansky, and K-12 leader Maria Fahey.

A two-week summer institute for twenty-five school teachers focusing on the theme "Politics and Persuasion" in William Shakespeare's plays As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.

Theatre for a New Audience requests a grant of $136,071 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a two-week Summer Institute for school teachers in the summer of 2015 on Scholarship and Performance: A Combined Approach to Teaching Shakespeare's Plays. The Institute will be offered to 25 middle and high school teachers from around the country and will take place at Theatre for a New Audience's new Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Focusing on the theme of Politics and Persuasion in As You Like it, Julius Caesar and Macbeth, the Institute uses a carefully integrated approach to exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance.

A two-week summer workshop for twenty New York City school teachers on four of William Shakespeare's plays.

Theatre for a New Audience seeks support for its Shakespeare Fellows' Project - an intensive professional development program focusing on Shakespeare and consisting of a two-week summer seminar and two one-day weekend workshops in the fall and spring. The Project was developed to serve public and private school teachers in the New York City area. Led by Columbia University professors David Scott Kastan and Julie Crawford, and Lehman College and the Graduate Center CUNY professor Mario Di Gangi, the workshop will provide 20 teachers and two teaching artists with advanced skills to identify and understand the language, themes and context of Shakespearean plays. This year, participants will study two tragedies (Hamlet and King Lear) and compare and contrast them with two romances (The Tempest and Cymbeline). The Theatre successfully implemented the first year of this pilot program in 2006, thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.