Past Resident Companies

Cherry Lane's Company in Residence program supports the work of innovative guest ensembles by providing them with a space to call home.

One of the most important ways we follow our mission to “cultivate an urban artist colony” is to recognize how fortunate we are to have access to a full-time space for our programming. Our Company-in-Residence program seeks to share this resource with companies who lack a permanent home by offering them two seasons to produce in our Studio theater rent-free. We were proud to award the inaugural residency in 2016 to the newly formed and groundbreaking company Lesser America and to the longstanding and newly revitalized LAByrinth Theater Company in 2018. 

Labyrinth Theatre Company

LAByrinth Theater Company, founded in 1992 as The Latino Actors Base, was created to deliberately interrupt the racial status quo by giving voice to artists of color and reflecting a world where color is the norm and not the exception. LAByrinth Theater Company is a diverse, impassioned, tightly knit ensemble of multicultural artists that empowers individuals and builds community by creating member driven, incendiary, new works of theater.

Miranda Theatre Company

The Miranda Theatre Company, founded in 1989, has developed and presented over 30 NY and world premiere of plays by writers that include Adam Bock, Cusi Cram, Jeff Daniels, Bronwen Denton Davis, Israel Horovitz, Laurel Ollstein, Adam Seidel and Emily Whitesell.

A not-for-profit organization is dedicated to the development and production of new plays that offer hope, while they explore the challenges that face us both as individuals and as member of the global community. With this kind of work, we believe that theatre has the power to transform and inspire audiences to work for a future that embraces positive change. Their annual Liz Smith Reading Series celebrates Women’s History every March.

Barefoot Theatre Company

The Barefoot Theatre Company is a theatre company in New York City. The Barefoot Theatre Company was founded in 1999 by a multicultural group of artists. The company develops theater and film in New York and Los Angeles

Lesser America

An ensemble of renegade artists dedicated to smart, quality entertainment that puts the audience first, fulfilling the promise of affordable, accessible theater for the 21st century.

Stage Farm

The stageFARM is a non-profit off-broadway theater company dedicated to commissioning + producing relevant new plays for a new audience.  We believe many people lack interest in the theater today because they neither recognize, nor identify with, what they see on stage.  For a generation weaned on the immediacy of MySpace and YouTUBE, the theater is often runner-up in the entertainment race - alienating people with its cost, pretense, and elitism.

the stageFARM is committed to producing plays by playwrights whose voices engage our restless generation.

The Foundry Theatre

The Foundry was an experiment in the ongoing creation of a theatre company expressed both by the art we made and the contexts we addressed to contain it. We approached our work multi-dimensionally and intersectionally.