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Teatro IATI
Mission:
Teatro IATI is a New York-based, non-profit theatre organization established in 1968, dedicated to theater productions for all audiences in Spanish and English languages. Teatro IATI performs in its New York home in "Loisada", on national tour including NYC Public Libraries, and abroad to Latin American.
Programs:
For over 40 years Teatro IATI has brought quality Spanish language theatre to New York City. Since 1999 Teatro IATI has broadened its scope and formalized its programs to address the demographic shift of Hispanics in New York communities and to serve their specific cultural traditions and interests. Today, IATI’s mission is to expose contemporary Latin American artists of all nationalities to all New Yorkers and nationwide, conscientiously targeting audiences, especially children, in under-served communities. The development of new audiences from recently arrived immigrant groups is an ongoing challenge. IATI brings art into the lives of those in poverty, ethnic and cultural isolation. Through dance, theatre and music, IATI’s artists address contemporary issues of broad human interest and frame them in an appropriate cultural context of powerful social impact to provoke introspection and social awareness. Monthly dramatic readings are scheduled at IATI’s current headquarters at 59-61 East 4th Street. The readings provide an opportunity for professional and emerging artist to present their poems, plays and works-in-progress to audiences of 50 people per reading. IATI also presents two to four mainstage productions by Latino playwrights in its Lower East Side Theater at 64 East 4th Street.
Accomplishments:
-More than 100 full productions
-More than 50 national and international awards for excellence
-More than 60 Stage Reading since 2001
-Teatro IATI is the first Latino theatre company in New York to join the fight against AIDS (1989)
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