Theatre Without Borders

03/08/2026

Dear Team,

Greetings from the Applied Theatre India (ATI) Foundation.

We are pleased to formally announce that registrations are now open for the International Applied Theatre Residency, a 12-day residential, practice-based programme to be held in Goa, India from 15–26 February 2027.

This residency brings together a carefully curated national - international cohort of applied theatre practitioners, educators, researchers, and postgraduate students for an immersive and intercultural learning experience. The programme combines intensive workshops, collaborative labs, reflective practice, and structured engagement with diverse contexts, with a strong emphasis on ethical facilitation perspectives in applied theatre.

Designed as a high-quality international experiential learning opportunity, the residency supports the development of transferable facilitation skills, intercultural competence, and context-responsive practice relevant to education, social development, and organisational learning.

We warmly invite your institution to consider:

Nominating faculty or postgraduate students

Circulating this opportunity within relevant departments

Exploring institutional collaboration or mobility pathways

Supporting participants through professional development or internationalisation funds

The programme fee is structured to include tuition, accommodation, meals, and local programme-related logistics, ensuring clarity and accessibility for institutional planning.

A detailed Concept Note and Fees & Practical Information document are attached for your review. We request you to kindly update this on your website and it would be of great help if you could also share this with all the members of Theatre Without Borders.

We look forward to welcoming participants from your organization to Goa in February 2027.

Warm regards,

Kaustubh Bankapure
Director, ATI International Residency 2027
Director, Applied Theatre India Foundation

Applied Theatre India Foundation, popularly known as “ATI Foundation” is India’s first academic institute to offer formal education in the field of Applied Theatre. Inspired by Theatre Resource, ATI Foundation is dedicated towards education and interdisciplinary research in Applied Theatre. Th...

03/08/2026

01/26/2026

https://theminneapolisedit.beehiiv.com/p/minnesota-community-courage-how-to-help

Not business as usual in Minnesota. Stories of courage, ways to help, and a reminder that community still matters.

01/25/2026

Thank you Theater Mu and Playwrights' Center, for speaking truth to power. And thank you to the sanctuary that is Minneapolis. Catherine Filloux

01/23/2026

More than 20 years later Theatre Without Borders continues to connect artists around the world. Our grassroots, volunteer organization is worth exploring through our website https://theatrewithoutborders.com/mission-values/ and through our network. Bennington College students have been part of our network for years.

Bennington alumna Anne Pötzsch from Germany says, “TWB builds connections between artists and theatre institutions, opening new chances for transnational associations. It is more important than ever to seek this peaceful intercultural exchange across borders, as it opens essential opportunities to foster a diverse and engaging global community of artists.”

Minneapolis native Timmy Torinus explains, "The forces that seek to keep us divided depend on an inability to communicate. They depend on a fear of difference, and an inherent belief that cross-cultural collaboration is simply an impossibility. TWB seeks to tear down the walls that exist between us, and build a theatre that is unified, rather than fractured by completely arbitrary man-made borders. TWB seeks to transform the theatre in just the way that we should all seek to transform the world, at large."

Maverick Yarger at Bennington says, “TWB is relevant in 2026 because it provides a space for theater artists to find a global community at all levels of their careers. Community is essential to theater, as well as the time we are living in, inspiring people to create work and bring change.”

Bennington alumni Jacob Sanders writes, “In a time of political and social upheaval throughout the world, TWB provides artists with a stable network where they can share their ideas, form lasting connections, and work together to address issues facing not only the modern theatre scene, but the whole world in general.”

And current Bennington student Hannah Clopper says, “When turmoil abounds, connection is vital for artists and activists to be able to continue their important work. Through TWB, these connections can be forged and made stronger, giving artists the social support necessary to weather any trouble.”

Mission & ValuesTWB is a global, all-volunteer, grass-roots and virtual network of individual artists around the world who are interested in supporting international theatre exchange.TWB advocates for theatre artists who see themselves as members of a global community, as well as citizens of their r...

01/21/2026

PLEASE NOTE FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND INFORMATION: The records of Theatre Without Borders were donated to the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Archives which is housed in the Department of Theatre Arts. The TWB collection contains seven linear feet of administrative files, conference materials, subject files on theatre arts activities around the world, scripts, and more dating from 1983 to 2020.

The University of Iowa has strong ties to TWB, with Playwriting Professor Lisa Schlesinger (1995 Theatre MFA, 1989 English MFA) and 2023 Dramaturgy MFA grad Robert Ascher serving as core members of the organization. The department regularly hosts artists from TWB, enriching student experience with

12/04/2025

Ed. Abu Shaqra + Borinsky: Futures
FUTURES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ARAB THEATER
Ed. by Yasser Abu Shaqra and Agnes Borinsky
with plays by Yasser Abu Shaqra, Wael Kadour, Arzé Khodr, Rim Mejdi, Sami Nasr, & Leila Toubel
translated by Hisham Ben Khamsa, Jonas Elbousty, Caline Nasrallah, and Clem Naylor
ISBN: 979-8986581491
December 2025
$25
404 pages
5.5x7.5 inches

07/02/2025

TWB's Roberta Levitow and the Art & Climate Initiative's Chantal Bilodeau joined University of Athen's professor Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou as co-editors for the June 2025 Special Issue of Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques on "Performance, Climate and Conflict Transformation". Read more about exceptional artistic projects around the world focused on the intersection of art and climate. https://www.critical-stages.org/31/

03/20/2025

Astràgali Teatro - Eufonia Cooperative Society (Italy), in partnership with Grotowski Institute (Poland), Foundation of Dance “Alicia Alonso” of the University “Rey Juan Carlos'' of Madrid (Spain), City Museums and Galleries of Podgorica (Montenegro), Cultural Centre Aykart (Tunisia) and Augmented and Virtual Reality Lab of the Department of Engineering for Innovation of University of Salento (Italy), is pleased to launch an Intercultural Call addressed to theatre performers for the participation in Theatre Workshops that will take place in Poland, Spain, Tunisia, Montenegro and Italy.

The workshops are part of ABC (Arts/Borders/Communities) - The Alphabet of Love, an international project, co-founded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union (Cooperation project - culture strand).
They will last 3 days and will be coordinated by Fabio Tolledi, Artistic Director of Astràgali Teatro. Through the present Call theatre performers will be selected to participate in one of the workshops. The Artistic Director will involve the participants in a participatory poetic discourse on the concept of hospitality in all the artistic facets connected to the places, to the stories of the participants, through the physical work that is at the centre of the theatrical methodology.

Website for further information
write: [email protected]

Astràgali Teatro – Eufonia Cooperative Society (Italy) in partnership with Grotowski Institute (Poland), Foundation of Dance “Alicia Alonso” of the University “Rey Juan Carlos” of Madrid (Spain), City Museums and...

02/19/2025

IDEA – International Dance Encounter Amman – Call for performances, artworks and artists
Sept 25 - Oct 1, 2025, Amman, Jordan
Applications via email to [email protected]. More info here.

Apply by Feb 15, 2025
11th Edition of the Ubumuntu Arts Festival
Submit your production for the festival
July 14–20, 2025, Kigali, Rwanda
Application and more info here.

Apply by Feb 28, 2025
Theatre Renaissance Cabaret
Submit your production for the festival
July 21–27, 2025, Lilongwe, Malawi
Application and more info here.

Apply by March 9, 2025
2025 Kaimera Lab
A 10-day intensive training for international artists
July 25 - Aug 3, 2025, Normandy, France
Application and more info here.

Apply by March 16, 2025
The Democracy Cycle
Ongoing commission and development program
Application and more info here.

Apply by April 1, 2025 at 5:00pm ET

Register here for the live webinar and Q&A about the application on February 13 at 1:00pm ET.

02/19/2025

Open to presenters nationwide, the Performing Arts Global Exchange is an annually curated roster of international performing artists selected to tour to communities across the United States.
Each year, a country or region is featured with a selection of artists across multiple disciplines. The program provides fee support directly to nonprofit presenters programming artists from the roster, and presenters host both public performances and community engagements in achieving the program’s goals of cultural exchange and understanding. PAGE will support tours of performing artists from Morocco and South Africa in the 2025-26 performance season.
Presenting international artists offers an opportunity to engage in the rich diversity of cultural expression throughout the world, but it also requires resources that aren’t always available. Travel expenses, visas, and routing are often barriers to presenting international artists, especially in the U.S.’s more remote communities. PAGE seeks to ease some of those burdens for U.S. presenters by working with international curators to identify a region’s most exciting, tour-ready artists and provide grant support to bring them to the U.S.

https://www.midatlanticarts.org/opportunity/performing-arts-global-exchange/