The Riser Project
Established
2014
RISER is a collaborative producing model for performance artists and companies to create and present new work. It was developed by Why Not Theatre in 2014 in order to address the challenges of producing independent theatre in Toronto, including the high cost of production, difficulty building audiences, and inefficient use of resources and infrastructure.
RISER brings together senior leadership from the theatre community with underserved artists in order to maximize existing infrastructures, share resources and risk, help build new audiences, and support a commitment to create and innovate. Through this collaborative approach, RISER participants receive enough in-kind resources to help reduce their costs of production by one third on average. Participants also undergo a year-long mentorship and training program with a focus on developing producing skills.
The heart of RISER – whose participants are generous, flexible, curious, and willing to share and work in new ways – is about building relationships to create an interdependent theatre ecosystem where the success of one is the success of many. (whynot.theatre)
Website
https://whynot.theatre/work/riser/
Presented by The Riser Project
| An IMM-Permanent Resident | April 1st, 2022 – April 10th, 2022 |
| Everything I Couldn’t Tell You | May 4th, 2018 – May 12th, 2018 |
| Two Birds One Stone | May 3rd, 2017 – May 13th, 2017 |
| The Other | May 3rd, 2016 – May 14th, 2016 |
| Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape | April 29th, 2016 – May 12th, 2016 |
| Mahmoud | May 13th, 2015 – May 24th, 2015 |
| Little Death | April 17th, 2015 – May 3rd, 2015 |
