January 2021 –  The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York announced today the creation of the Leon Levy Foundation COVID Relief Fund, initiated with a $250,000 grant to support small New York City theatres in conjunction with A.R.T./New York Relief Fund for NYC Small Theatres.

A.R.T./New York also announced 55 recipients of the first round of the A.R.T./New York Relief Fund for NYC Small Theatres.

Risa Shoup, Interim Executive Director, said “The transformative and generous support we have received from the Leon Levy Foundation elevates a critical point in this challenging moment of theater-makers and theater-making: it reminds us that just as the making of theater is a collaborative act so, too, must be the support for theater makers. Together as artists, arts workers and funders we can best meet our own needs and ensure that theater is no less accessible and vibrant when we are most in need of holding a mirror up to nature to reflect and understand our role in overlapping crises.”