ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC

EDUCATION: During the 2024-2025 season, Education at Roundabout impacted over 45,000 people. Roundabout Partner Schools are NYC-based and represent all five boroughs. Roundabout's education programs use the stimulating power of the arts to inspire and engage through three core program areas, Teaching and Learning, Career Training, and Community Partnerships. Education at Roundabout's season featured a robust slate of programs, primarily focused on expanding our in-person learning and programming. We facilitated in-school classroom residencies, school-wide partnerships, and professional development workshops for teachers. We continued to host our free after-school program, Roundabout Youth Ensemble, while welcoming a new cohort in our technical theatre skills training program, the Theatrical Workforce Development Program (TWDP). Additionally, we grew and further defined our Community Partnership programming with the New York Public Library. Below is an overview of the programs: TEACHING AND LEARNING . Professional Development at Roundabout offers a variety of workshops to enhance each educator's ability to use theatre as an effective teaching tool in the classroom. These workshops are offered throughout the year to teachers, schools, and at DOE city-wide events. Teaching Artists and Staff also facilitate workshops at local and national conferences. Workshops are often customized to meet different learning objectives. [FY25 Impact: 1,248 educators] . Roundabout Youth Ensemble is our student-run theatre company where public high school students take responsibility for their learning by making all the artistic, technical, and administrative decisions for each production. Throughout the school year the Manhattan borough company met in-person at Roundabout's rehearsal studios in Midtown. Two borough companies continued meeting in Brooklyn and Staten Island through Roundabout's partnerships with James Madison High School and Port Richmond High School, respectively. In the summer of 2025, the ensembles transitioned to work at Roundabout's Steinberg Center for Theatre for the school year and to rehearse its original play which was performed in the Roundabout Blackbox to live audiences in August. [FY25 Impact: 93 students; 17 schools] . School Partnerships are at the core of our work, serving middle and high schools with limited access to the arts. The vehicles for learning in School Partnerships are intensive residencies that are thoughtfully developed and tailored to meet the goals of individual schools. The residencies provide in-depth programs that connect the process of theatre production to the school curriculum. Residencies can range from 8-12 Teaching Artist visits in a single classroom to year-long partnerships that take place in several classrooms or grade levels within the school. Specialized Teaching Artists work with educators to determine residency goals and success measurement tools to ensure that residencies fulfill targeted education needs. Throughout the year, Roundabout worked with schools to center student voice and empower students in making their own artistic decisions. [FY25 Impact: 3,700 students in 239 residences in classrooms and afterschool] CAREER TRAINING . Career Development at Roundabout offers a wide range of hands-on learning and engagement opportunities for pre-professionals interested in theatre administration or related careers. In the 2024-2025 season. This year, Roundabout launched the new iteration of its career training program: the Theatrical Workforce Development Program in Arts Administration or TWDP Admin. This program aims at reducing barriers for New Yorkers seeking to enter the non-profit arts administration sector. The Education department also hosted 2 high school interns during the summer through the Bloomberg Arts Internship program, in which the intern gained hands on-experience in supporting the day-to-day operations of a theatre administration office. Roundabout participates in managing the How To Stand Out workshop series in collaboration with other theatre institutions in New York City, providing professional development and guidance to early career arts administration professionals or those looking to pivot to an arts administration career. [FY25 Impact: 5 participants, 119 alumni; 111 young adults engaged in recruitment and skill building workshops] . Hidden Career Path Days are school day field trips, hosted in partnership with the IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) labor union, feature the careers of theatrical technicians through hands-on demonstrations that enhance students' knowledge and highlight possible pathways to backstage careers. Students were also able to tour the backstage of various arts and entertainment venues in New York City, including the Metropolitan Opera, Todd Haimes Theater, Sondheim Theatre on Broadway, New Amsterdam, Richard Rodgers, and the Imperial Theater. [FY25 Impact: 171 students] . Theatrical Workforce Development In the fall of 2016, alongside labor union partner the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Roundabout launched the Theatrical Workforce Development Program, which connects young adults to careers in technical theatre. This three-year program trains and places young New Yorkers into paid professional positions. The program is intended to: break down the barriers that prevent young adults from gaining economic stability, bring fresh new voices into a field of high-quality, skill-based jobs in a growing economic sector; and to educate and encourage a new generation of passionate theatre professionals. In 2024-25, the program welcomed a new cohort of Fellows, with all Fellows completing the training year and advancing to jobs and internships in NYC and across the country. [FY25 Impact: 20 Fellows and 94 Alumni served; 150 young adults engaged in recruitment/skill building workshops] COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT . Theatre Plus programs enhance the theatre-going experience for thousands of subscribers and patrons by helping them learn more about the history of the production and its creators. During the 2024-25 season Roundabout's streaming Theatre Talks provided dramaturgical discussions and historical information to over 19,669 online viewers. Our in-person post-show engagement events gave time for audience reflection and opportunities to hear directly from the cast and creative teams. [FY25 Impact: 7,439 in-person patrons] . UPSTAGE Guides provide audiences and students with digital access to artist interviews, thematic and dramaturgical essays, designer statements, and research materials related to Roundabout's productions. [FY25 Impact: 11,344 unique online views for new materials and 36,649 for all existing materials] . Community Conversations are post show events that aim to deepen audience members' experience with the play and to one another. The format is intended to create space for audience members to share their experience, building a sense of mutual understanding, and therefore, a stronger Roundabout community. [FY25 Impact: 229 patrons] . Community Residencies through New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and NYC Parks GreenThumb. This is the first time we are hosting library programming in all 5 boroughs, including programming at Library branches hosted by Roundabout Teaching Artists in Harlem (Manhattan), St. George (Staten Island), Grand Concourse (the Bronx), Tremont (the Bronx), and Clason's Point (the Bronx), Flushing (Queens), Center for Brooklyn History (Brooklyn), and The Free Black Woman's Library (Brooklyn). We also hosted programming with GreenThumb at 3 community garden locations in East New York, Brooklyn. These free artist-led workshops are for community members to learn theatre skills, including acting, playwriting, sound design, and ensemble building. Workshop participants, as well as any of the library patrons within the community, were able to participate in the program's free ticket voucher offer and attend Roundabout shows. [FY25 Impact: 688 patrons]