YOU MAKE THIS POSSIBLE

A few of the numbers in 2025...

• 5 new ensemble members
• 300 more TIW plays
• 2 new full-length shows
• 4 TIW Access shows
• and 10,000 patrons through the doors of 5153 N Ashland.

We never stop, but we only keep going together. Every year we ask for your help paying our artists, keeping tickets cheap, and producing 49 weeks of innovative theater. It's time!

NO SHAME: we need your help

Committed, generous individuals like you step up year after year to protect this theater. Our work is honest, joyful, courageous, goofy, wise, insightful, and dumb--and we will sustain that work through the next nasty chapter and beyond. 

When you give, you protect live connection and radical honesty. Every dollar matters. 

NO SHAME: we give away as much as we can

Everywhere we can, we stretch our resources to cover the gaps created by budget cuts, government neglect, and exploitation in general. That means things like: 

• cheap & free tickets
• cheap & free workshops
• cheap & free space sharing
• class scholarships, payment plans, and work study
• health insurance coverage for staff & ensemble
• free Access shows around the city
• benefit performances for critical orgs like Pushing Envelopes and ICIRR

We find ways to share, without billionaire backers or federal grants. When you give, we give. Help us make an impact in 2026.

NO SHAME: we are doing the most important thing we are good at

Our work provides vital connection and release. It may be small, but our part in the struggle is real, and every single week we deliberate over the best ways we can engage. 

Every week, new audiences--especially young, queer, creative audiences-- discover a home here. When you give, that possibility survives. 

THANKS FOR READING. 

We have the greatest audience in the world, and we never forget that. To another year! 

The Neos