Youth Artistic Instigators

How does social media build and break relationships? Can we use our online presence for good? How do the web and artificial intelligence affect how we create and consume art? And what’s the deal with tech bros?! These are the questions our 2025/26 Youth Artistic Instigators set out to answer as they devised and wrote their piece, REEL LIFE OR REAL LIFE? After months of creating and rehearsing, it’s finally time for their piece to take the stage at NYTW.

April 11, 2026 by Marty Chandler

For more than 45 years, we’ve been producing theatre that animates, challenges and celebrates the world we live in. Through this work, we not only build shows, but also community.

While we may be best known for award-winning work—Rent; Merrily We Roll Along; On Sugarland; Hadestown; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Here There Are Blueberries and so many more—they represent a fraction of what we do in our unique home in the East Village.

December 11, 2024 by NYTW

Jordan Powell, 2050 Administrative Education and Engagement Fellows, sits down with Javon Q. Minter to discuss Youth Artistic Instigators and the creation of their live show, PROJECT: ICARUS, at NYTW.

April 12, 2023 by NYTW