named programs · 3 · from sources
What they call their work
A Message From Far Away
Two-day festival in Portland, Maine featuring a livestreamed performance with Little Amal, a parade, and a concert by Kinan Azmeh's CityBand, celebrating refugee communities
Embrace the Tangle
Site-specific performance in NYC's Lower East Side and Chinatown welcoming Little Amal, featuring community-painted laundry displays and performances by Yiddish and Chinese cultural groups
Remote Theater Project Fund for Refugee Artists
Initiative to support Greater Portland immigrant artists through sub-grants for artistic expression and services, managed in cooperation with Creative Portland
activities · 6 groups
What they do
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Community-Engaged Theater Production 1 activity
- Developing theatrical works through community workshopsConducts workshops with underrepresented communities—including senior citizens, unhoused individuals, and new migrants—to co-create artistic materials and stories for theatrical productions. These include lantern-making with seniors in Chinatown, writing workshops with teenage refugees in Portland, and multi-group workshops in NYC’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park that informed the development of new plays.
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Artist Support Grants 1 activity
- Funding artistic expression by refugee and immigrant artistsEstablishes and manages grant funds, such as the Refugee and Immigrant Artists Fund in collaboration with Creative Portland, to financially support the development of artistic work by local immigrant and refugee artists.
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Community-Engaged Public Art Projects 1 activity
- Producing community-engaged public performances with Little AmalCo-produces large-scale public performance events featuring Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet representing a Syrian refugee girl, including walks and interactive installations in New York City and Portland, Maine. These events engage thousands of community members and connect immigrant histories, such as Yiddish and Chinese experiences in the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
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Original Music-Theater and Opera Production 1 activity
- Producing original and co-produced theatrical performancesCreates and stages original and co-produced theatrical works that explore themes of displacement, cultural memory, and human connection, including productions such as "We Are All Kin to the Cove," "Litter Ninja Island," "Grey Rock," and "King of the Jews," performed at major arts venues across North America and Europe. The organization has presented sold-out performances at international festivals such as the Adelaide Festival.
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Site-Specific Artistic Installations and Performances 1 activity
- Staging site-specific and interactive theatrical experiencesPresents immersive, site-specific performances in public spaces such as Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Lower East Side streets, often integrating audience participation, cultural symbols, and local histories. Examples include interactive plays highlighting migrant and unhoused experiences and concerts integrated into multi-day festivals.
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Uncategorized 1 activity
- Reconstructing erased theatrical works through testimony and performanceReconstructs lost or erased theatrical performances, such as Sławomir Mrożek’s "The Emigrants" from Gaza, using live reenactment, video fragments, and first-hand testimonies from original performers like Hossam Al-Madhoun to bear witness to cultural destruction and preserve Palestinian theatrical memory.
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financials · form 990EZ · fy2025
revenue
Total revenue$122K
Contributions & grants$113K92%
Program service revenue$9K8%
Investment income——
Other revenue—
expenses
Total expenses$75K
Program expenses—
Admin / overhead—
Fundraising—
Salaries & benefits$63
Grants paid out—
balance sheet
Total assets$67K
Cash—
Investments—
Liabilities—
Net assets$67K
5 years on record · 2020–2025 · YoY revenue +2.8%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2025
Who runs it
board members · 1
- ROBERTA LEVITOW — DIRECTOR
relationships · 60
Who they work with
- A.R.T./New York Funder — Provides funding through the NYC Small Theatres Fund
- Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer Partner — Participated in a public performance with cultural music during the A Quiet Refuge event.
- Adelaide Festival Partner — Presented the production "Grey Rock" as part of the festival program.
- Adelaide Festival Partner — Presented the production GREY ROCK in March 2023.
- Alexandra Aron Partner — Director of the organization's theatrical production.
- Andy Law Partner — Contributing writer for the organization's theatrical production.
- BRC Partner — Hosted workshops with Chinese seniors as part of the Sara Roosevelt Park theater project.
- Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts Partner — Collaborated on a public performance featuring cultural music as part of the A Quiet Refuge event.
- Boris Nazarov Partner — Sound engineer for the organization's theatrical production.
- Brooklyn New School (PS 146) Partner — Contributed a choir to the cultural performance at the A Quiet Refuge event.
- CITY RELIEF Partner — Collaborated with Remote Theater Project to engage unhoused community members in workshops around Sara D. Roosevelt Park.
- Carmen Rivera Partner — Playwright for the organization's theatrical production.
- Carol Prudhomme Davis Partner — Contributor associated with the theme of "Inside Change from Within" for the organization.
- Chinatown Partnership Partner — Collaborated on a community engagement project to create lanterns for Lunar New Year 2023 in Chinatown.
- Chinatown Youth Initiatives Partner — Engaged youth in co-creating welcome messages and cultural symbols on laundry for the Embrace the Tangle event.
- Chinese Theatre Works Partner — Contributed the puppet Zhongkui to the Embrace the Tangle performance in collaboration with Remote Theater Project.
- Choy Lay Fut Percussion Ensemble Partner — Performed during the Embrace the Tangle event in collaboration with Remote Theater Project.
- Creative Portland Partner — Collaborated to establish a fund for Refugee and Immigrant Artists.
- Delilah Shapiro Partner — Community outreach lead for the organization.
- Dina el Aziz Partner — Costume consultant for the organization's theatrical production.
- Eliza Bryson Partner — Community outreach lead for the organization.
- Facebook Partner — Platform used for public outreach and engagement
- Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars Partner — Performed during the Embrace the Tangle event in collaboration with Remote Theater Project.
- Good Chance Theater Network — Parent organization of The Walk, with which Remote Theater Project collaborated on the Little Amal event.
- Great Small Works Partner — Collaborated on laundry direction, design, and engineering for the Embrace the Tangle performance.
- Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center Partner — Community partner co-sponsoring a public awareness event on displaced children in Portland, Maine
- Hester Zheng Partner — Coordinated all the lantern-making workshops in collaboration with RTP.
- Hossam Al Madhoun Partner — Original Gazan actor in The Emigrants whose written testimonies are integrated into the performance.
- Howard Gilman Foundation Funder — Supports the NYC Small Theatres Fund administered by A.R.T./New York
- I-Chen Wang Partner — Artist who created the rabbit images, Chinese characters (福 壽 吉 春), and Yiddish word מאַזל for the lantern project.
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strategies · 4
How they approach the work
Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.
- Community-Engaged Participatory Theater 102 orgsmethodology: community-engaged theaterBy developing theater collaboratively with underrepresented communities through workshops and shared public performances, the organization amplifies marginalized voices and builds inclusive belonging, because participatory processes ensure authenticity and foster collective ownership of narrative.shared approach: Theater as Civic Dialogue →
- Non-Verbal and Absurdist Engagement for Inclusive Expression 102 orgsmethodology: non-verbal theater-based engagementBy using non-verbal communication and absurdist storytelling techniques, the organization reduces barriers to participation—especially among youth with limited language comfort—and engages audiences with complex themes through imaginative, emotionally accessible formats, because these methods bypass linguistic and cognitive resistance.shared approach: Theater as Civic Dialogue →
- Storytelling for Empathy and Cross-Cultural Understanding 102 orgsmethodology: storytelling-for-empathyBy using personal, human-scale narratives and first-hand testimonies in theater, the organization fosters empathy and shifts perceptions between culturally and politically divided groups, because lived experience creates deeper emotional resonance than abstract discourse.shared approach: Theater as Civic Dialogue →
- Theater as Resistance and Cultural Reclamation 102 orgsmethodology: art-as-resistanceBy reconstructing erased cultural works and using performance to bear witness to violence and displacement, the organization resists cultural erasure and oppression, because artistic reenactment and testimony serve as acts of political and emotional resistance.shared approach: Theater as Civic Dialogue →