Tickets are on sale now for the Spring 2025 Spark Theatre Festival.
March 3 – 23, 2025
312 W 36th St., 3rd floor, New York, NY 10018
Spark Theatre Festival NYC allows artists of various disciplines to present one performance of a polished “work-in-progress” with audience feedback. Visit the theater any evening during this three-week event, and you’ll find yourself transported in a number of surprising ways: by a single performer embodying a whole host of characters, by a more experimental theater piece “done differently” that challenges and delights, by a cozy two-person show exploring relationships; or perhaps by a bouncy new musical that will have you humming. Emerging Artists has always been about new works, talents, and voices. That’s never been more evident than now.
EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE (EAT) is an award-winning theater company known as an incubator for new voices from the page to the stage. EAT was founded 30 years ago to provide a dynamic home for playwrights and artists to explore their work and guide it through development to full artistic realization through our bi-annual Spark Theatre Festival NYC.
Emerging Artists provides vital resources and support to theatrical artists of all kinds, and is proud to have presented the work of more than 5,000 artists since its inception. We are an ongoing donor and advocate for Black Lives Matter. In our 30-year history, Emerging Artists Theatre has provided a place for Black artists to develop and premiere their work, and we will always be a home for unique, creative, and expressive Black voices.
In celebration of Emerging Artists Theatre’s 30th anniversary, we presented three new World Premiere Off-Broadway plays running in repertory in Fall 2023 at the 28th Street Theatre (also known as TADA!). The two-month engagement featured Anne Being Frank by Ron Elisha, Doris Day: My Secret Love by Paul Adams, and Sex Work/Sex Play by Caytha Jentis. Each of these three plays was developed at EAT’s Spark Theatre Festival NYC.
