Open the theatre door
Helps one student experience a professional theatre performance.
Support the Student Project
Back the students building the festival.
The CUNY Theatre Festival was initiated by students and is being built by students for CUNY students. Your gift supports the people developing this project, the seven campus teams, and the work they will bring to the festival stage.
Clear from the beginning
This is a student project. It is not a CUNY institutional fundraising campaign.
The festival is a student-initiated and student-run project created for CUNY students. It is not operated by CUNY or by any CUNY college.
Your donation does not go to CUNY or Hunter College. It supports the charitable work of the CUNY Theatre Festival and the students developing it.
The 2027 festival is hosted at the Frederick Loewe Theatre at Hunter College. Hunter College is the venue host. The Festival Producing Office remains responsible for the project.
What your gift makes possible
Put resources directly behind student work.
Every contribution helps students develop original theatre, build campus teams, and bring completed productions together for two free festival days.
Support one student
Helps fund one student stipend for a full campus production.
Build one campus production
Helps provide materials and resources for one campus production.
Bring one team to the theatre
Helps provide a theatre night for ten students and their faculty advisor.
Support a full college team
Helps fund the planned student stipend pool for one college team.
Support all seven teams
Helps fund the planned student stipend pools across all seven college teams.
These amounts illustrate priorities in the project budget. Fractured Atlas deducts an 8% administrative fee, so a gift's full amount does not reach the project. Gifts support the festival's restricted project fund rather than a single purchase. Student stipends depend on funds raised. Final eligibility, timing and distribution terms will be shared before students commit.
Year-one fundraising goal
$109,600 Our fundraising target is approximately $109,600 toward a planned festival budget of $100,850.07 after Fractured Atlas's 8% administrative fee. This is a goal, not money already raised. The exact gross amount needed is $109,619.64.Where it goes
Every dollar goes back into the students and the work.
Student support
Stipends, production materials, and resources for the seven campus teams.
Access to theatre
Broadway and Off-Broadway ticket opportunities for participating students.
The festival stage
The people, equipment, and operations needed to present seven completed student productions.
Outreach and access
Materials that help students across seven CUNY colleges find and join the project.
How your donation reaches the project
Give through Fractured Atlas.
You make the gift
Use the CUNY Theatre Festival General Support page hosted by Fractured Atlas.
Fractured Atlas receives it
Fractured Atlas processes the contribution, issues the receipt, and holds the funds for the festival's charitable purposes.
The student project uses it
Approved funds support festival workers, students, production needs, and other documented project expenses.
CUNY Theatre Festival is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of CUNY Theatre Festival must be made payable to "Fractured Atlas" only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Fractured Atlas keeps an 8% administrative fee. No goods or services are offered in exchange for a gift.
Student initiated. Student run. Built for CUNY students.
Help students build the stage.
Continue to Fractured Atlas Choose a one-time gift or consider $30 monthly. All contributions are completed on the Fractured Atlas website.