What is NNPP?

On American stages today, a spotlight shines on inclusion and belonging. Yet despite an ever-growing national movement among Asian American theatre artists and companies to establish strong, sustainable communities, Asian Americans remain on the margins of this light. Those margins are narrow, and Asian Americans continue to be represented in stereotypic and formulaic ways.
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The NAATCO National Partnership Project (NNPP) is an initiative established in 2020 to form rigorous relationships with theatres around the country to ingrain strategies for the inclusion of Asian American theatre artists, technicians, and administrators in our partners’ practices. Our partners will join our efforts to foster and create more expansive representations of Asian Americans onstage as well as behind the scenes. Together we will augment and fortify these efforts to reflect the multiplicity of cultures, races, and ethnicities that defines this country and keeps our theatre vital.

The NNPP’s partners have committed to four actions:

• Collaboratively select a production guided by the parameters of NAATCO’s programming
• Plan a series of pre- or post-performance events supplementing the productions and highlighting Asian or Asian American panelists and speakers
• Institute a plan for outreach to Asian Americans in the community to encourage their participation in all aspects of the partners’ operations
• Take the next step towards sustaining Asian American presence in the partners’ programming by announcing one or more productions for the upcoming seasons that conforms to one of NAATCO’s four programs.

Current Partners

Satellite Partners

This is a special category within the NNPP to acknowledge the work of two organizations who, on their own initiative, have supported, augmented, and fortified NAATCO’s mission. These two organizations understand our mission and have integrated it into their processes and programming. They embody the purpose of the NNPP.