About CLUBBED THUMB

  • CLUBBED THUMB commissions, develops and produces funny, strange and provocative new plays by living American writers. CLUBBED THUMB is a groundbreaker, with a precise curatorial vision and a remarkable track record for launching artists’ careers; and an incubator, nurturing plays, collaborations, and above all artists, through thoughtfully deployed resources, opportunities, mentorship and hospitality.

    CLUBBED THUMB plays range in form and content, but are always intermission-less, 90 minutes or under, with no history of production in NYC. They feature challenging and substantial roles for all genders, are questioning, formally inventive, theatrical, and express, somewhere in the text, a sense of humor. We are committed to providing opportunities for women, and to improving the quantity and quality of women’s roles in dramatic literature. We are committed to being an anti-racist organization.

    CLUBBED THUMB has produced over 100 new plays, winning numerous Obie Awards as well as a Tony nomination for WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Summerworks 2017), the most produced play in the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons according to AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE. clubbedthumb.org

  • artistic director founder
    MARIA STRIAR

    producing director
    MICHAEL BULGER

    associate director of development
    RACHEL MUELLER

    programs manager
    EMMA RICHMOND

    development & producing associate
    AMINA KHELIF

    producing fellow
    JULIANA MORGADO BRITO

    script wrangler
    BAILEY WILLIAMS

    financial services
    ARTSFMS

    press representative
    PRINT SHOP PR

  • chair
    JENNIFER ALLYN

    co-vice chair
    JOHN C. BISHOP JR.

    co-vice chair
    FRED DASSORI

    secretary
    ERIN COURTNEY

    treasurer
    KYLE SARAUSKY

    JILL BISHOP

    MICHAEL BULGER

    MAHESHIE CABRAAL

    SARAH DI TROIA

    JASON FERGUSON

    NINA HELLMAN

    BRIAN HERRERA

    ANNE KAUFFMAN

    LILLIAN OSEI-BOATENG

    JONATHAN REBELL

    JOSH SILVERMAN

    MARIA STRIAR

    DAVE TECSON

  • Actors' Equity Foundation
    Arkay Foundation
    Axe-Houghton Foundation
    Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
    Department of Cultural Affairs
    Distracted Globe
    Howard Gilman Foundation
    Lucille Lortel Foundation
    Mental Insight Foundation
    National Endowment for the Arts
    New York Council on the Arts
    Richenthal Foundation
    Rockefeller Family Fund
    Select Equity Group Foundation
    The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust
    The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Foundation
    The Jerome Robbins Foundation
    The John Golden Fund
    The Noël Coward Foundation
    The Shubert Foundation
    Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
    Tow Foundation
    Venturous Theater Fund

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