Theatre For a New Audience (TFANA) has launched a comprehensive online archive documenting its 45 (and counting) seasons at the forefront of classical and contemporary drama in America.
Since its founding in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz, TFANA has presented classic works alongside new works that offer bold interpretations of the dramatic canon, with Shakespeare as its cornerstone.
The archive showcases thousands of newly digitized and catalogued materials, to create a theatre history resource for scholars, artists, and students of all ages as well as the general public. Photos, programs, posters, production notes, and other materials showcases TFANA’s history, from its early days touring schools, hospitals, and community centers performing scenes and songs from Shakespeare, to its most recent season at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
Within the archives, never-before-seen materials related to hundreds of artists are available, including materials related to F. Murray Abraham, Tina Benko, Avery Brooks, Jonathan Cake, Christian Camargo, Bill Camp, Julianna Canfield, Reg E. Cathey, Kathleen Chalfant, Didi Conn, Johanna Day, Idris Elba, Donald Faison, David Harewood, Marin Hinkle, Arliss Howard, Kathryn Hunter, Daniel Dae Kim, Luke Kirby, Maggie Lacey, Harry Lennix, Kecia Lewis, Taylor Mac, Elizabeth Marvel, Dakin Matthews, Jefferson Mays, Hari Nef, Kristine Nielsen, Michael Pennington, Thomas Jay Ryan, Mark Rylance, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Shannon, Maggie Siff, Paul Sparks, Stephen Spinella, David Strathairn, Mary Testa, John Douglas Thompson, John Turturro, Dianne Wiest, JoAnne Akalaitis, Arin Arbus, Sarah Benson, Michael Boyd, Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, Annie Dorsen, Simon Godwin, André William Gregory, Peter Hall, Bartlett Sher, Julie Taymor, Awoye Timpo, Darko Tresnjak, Robert Woodruff, Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, Alice Childress, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Caryl Churchill, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Eugene Ionesco, Denis Johnson, Maria Irene Fornés, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Adrienne Kennedy, Ethan Lipton, Richard Nelson, Taylor Mac, Suzan-Lori Parks, Wallace Shawn, Wole Soyinka, Elizabeth Swados, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and others.
TFANA is currently in a transitional 2025-26 season, programmed by Horowitz with a contribution from Arin Arbus, who is set to take over the company as Horowitz prepares for retirement. Upcoming is Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Coriolanus, directed by Ash K. Tata, and Hamlet, from Lima, Peru company Teatro La Plaza, created by and directed by Chela De Ferrari.
For more information, visit Archives.TFANA.org
