Theater companies
Regional theaters and PWI LORT houses. Hosts, co-producers, and second-production partners once a play leaves development.
Partners & Host Institutions
A map of the places these stories already live.
144 identified institutional partners across theater, higher education, and public history — the network the first tour leg is built from.
79
Theater Companies
33
HBCU Campuses
23
Museums
9
NPHC (Divine Nine)
Counts reflect the New Day Theatricals partner and venue database, version 2.0, August 2026. 79 + 33 + 23 + 9 = 144.
The Network
Four kinds of partner, one route.
The first leg is ten stops across the Southeast and Deep South. Each stop pairs a venue with the community institutions around it, so a single performance reaches a campus, a congregation, a chapter, and a city at once.
We are actively adding institutions to the network ahead of the November 1, 2026 launch.
Who We Work With
The four partner types.
HBCU campuses
Performance venues, theater departments, and student audiences. Campus residencies and playwriting workshops are built into the stop.
Museums & public history
Civil rights museums and institutions allied with Black history and culture — the archival and interpretive counterweight to the play.
NPHC — the Divine Nine
Engaged at the chapter level in each tour city. City by city, we are housed, hosted, and welcomed by NPHC chapters. That is not logistics — that is the audience.
The Exchange
What we ask, and what we bring.
What a stop is
A company of four to eight, one to three days on site, and a package we build with you — performance, talkback, and either a playwriting workshop or a community listening session.
The ask
We come with the production. What we ask of you is a room, an audience, and your honest read of whether the play is telling the truth.
The Arithmetic of a Tour
Ten stops on the first leg, fall 2027, across the Southeast and Deep South.
One commissioned play reaches ten communities, four states, and thousands of students in a single academic year — for less than a single mainstage production.