The Opportunity 


Thanks to early leadership support, the Cuomo Theatre Fund is moving toward securing the NW Raleigh building as a permanent home for Portland theatre. This is a rare moment when a community can come together to protect an artistic space before it disappears. 


Without this stable, dedicated space:


  • 8,000+ community members lose access to performances, workshops, residencies, production support, and creative resources

  •  400+ youth lose access to trained professionals who guide them through devising their own work at 9 high schools in the region

  • 200+ artists, contractors, and technical workers lose access to employment opportunities

  • 100+ individuals and 30+ itinerant companies lose access to studio space and equipment used to devise, rehearse, and perform their work

  • 3 community-rooted theatre companies lose a home to work, grow, and engage us with the arts

  • Nearly $900,000 of investment in Portlanders is lost annually without the operation of this space

Your partnership doesn’t just support the arts–it safeguards an essential civic infrastructure that contributes to economic vitality, community cohesion, and the cultural health of our city. The future is within reach. Will you join us?

Companies created through PETE’s ICP and Third Rail’s Mentorship: - Basement Stair Collective - Bedrock Theatre - Red Balloon Collective - Trick Pony Theatre Company

PETE’s ICP Alumni & Third Rail’s Mentees working at: - 21 Ten - Artist Repertory Theatre - Broadway Rose - CoHo Productions - Experience Theatre - Imago Theatre - Milagro Theatre - Portland Center Stage - Portland Playhouse - Profile Theatre - Shaking the Tree  High Schools 

Engaged in PETE’s Between You & Me Youth Programming: - Cleveland High School - Franklin High School - Grant High School - Ida B. Wells High School - Liberty High School - McDaniel High School - Parkrose High School - Roosevelt High School  - Woodburn High School  

Community groups supported through CoHo Resource Center: - Bedrock Theatre - Beens & Co. - Beirut Wedding Project - Clownbloc - Corrib Theatre - Crave Theatre - From the Ground Up - Genderbomb PDX - Movement for Peoples’ Unity - NW Theatre Workshop - Theatre Diaspora - & more than 40 individual artists 

Community groups supported through studio space and equipment usage: - Advance Gender Equity in the Arts - Alberta Abbey - All Boats - Anonymous Theatre - Basement Stair Collective - CoHo Clown Cohort - Corrib Theatre - Fertile Grounds Festival - Kalluso Acting - Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre - NW Theatre Workshop - Oregon Center for the Alexander Technique - PDX Playwrights - PHAME - PICA - Portland Area Theatre Alliance - Portland Blues & Jazz Dance Society - Portland Capoeira Collective - Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble - Portland Revels - Roots & All - Seattle Clown Workshop  - Sequins Productions - Stage Fright Festival - Theatre Diaspora - Third Eye Theatre - Trick Pony Theatre Company - & more than 100 individual artists