TO looks for partners who can help us connect our work to our community, and deepen the meaning and impact of the stories we tell. From full co-productions, to educational tours and working directly with artists in the rehearsal room.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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Dominion Entertainment Group
Dominion Entertainment Group is an Atlanta-based commercial Black theatre company, known locally for its annual production of Black Nativity. Its mission — producing theatrical, film, and music work that spans a wide range of subjects, issues, and cultures — overlaps directly with TO’s own commitment to creating opportunities for the city’s most talented Black artists. The two companies first partnered in 2024 on a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Dominion executive producer Robert John Connor, which extended its run after selling out. For TO’s 50th anniversary season, the partnership grows again: Theatrical Outfit, Dominion, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival are jointly producing August Wilson’s Fences, directed by TO’s Addae Moon, playing in two states as a single shared production.

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The Breman
The Breman is Atlanta’s museum of Jewish-American history, culture, and stories, and TO’s partnership with them has produced three of the company’s most decorated recent productions. Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski won Suzi Bass Awards for Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Principal Performer. The Lehman Trilogy won Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Direction, and several additional Suzi Bass Awards, then transferred to Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Its success carried further still: The Lehman Trilogy will also be produced at TheaterWorks Hartford in 2027, once again directed by TO’s Matt Torney. Our most recent collaboration, The Price by Jewish playwright Arthur Miller, explored Miller’s complicated family history.

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John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation
When TO commissioned and premiered Young John Lewis, a hip-hop musical about the congressman’s early years as a civil rights organizer, the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation became a true partner: they connected the production to the Lewis family and to living leaders of the civil rights movement, people who could speak to what the piece was really telling. In return, TO gave a portion of every ticket sale to the Foundation, to help carry the Congressman’s legacy forward.

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The White Chip
The White Chip, a co-production with Dad’s Garage about addiction and recovery, came together during an unusual stretch for TO: the company’s own building was closed for renovation. Rather than pause, the two companies built the show together at Dad’s Garage — and then took it further, with a free, stripped-down pop-up version, staged by three actors with a stage manager and a Bluetooth speaker, that toured directly to organizations working with people affected by addiction, including a treatment center in Midtown. It was a one-time tour, built for that show and that moment, and it drew national press attention for the model.
And, Rhythm & Revision
Rhythm & Revision is a six-week bootcamp pairing spoken-word performance with playwriting craft, built with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta for participants aged 14–21 and led by professional teaching artists. It has since grown to include a version built around the story of Young John Lewis, connecting the program directly to work on our Mainstage.

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