Dear friends,

Each year on Giving Tuesday, we look back at the organizations who have helped and/or inspired us. We are blessed to have such great companies around us working tirelessly for a better, more just, and more beautiful world. Below is our list of organizations that we uplifted in Cold Readings, as well as organizations who have helped us this year.

This Giving Tuesday, we ask you to consider supporting one (or more!) of the organizations we highlighted this year. Thank you so much. Please take care of yourselves and each other.

Peace, power, and love to you,
Theater in Asylum

Theater in Asylum’s 2025 Giving Tuesday List

• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been at the center of nearly every major civil liberties battle in the U.S. for over 100 years. With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, the ACLU is in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights. Donate here.
• The Electronic Intifada is an independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world. Founded in 2001, The Electronic Intifada has won awards and earned widespread recognition for publishing original, high-quality news and analysis, and first-person accounts and reviews. The Electronic Intifada’s writers and reporters include Palestinians and others living inside Palestine and everywhere else that news about Palestine and Palestinians is made. Donate here.
• The Episcopal Actors Guild provides emergency aid and support to professional performers of all faiths and none who are undergoing financial crisis. Donate here.
• The Envision Freedom Fund works alongside impacted communities to dismantle the oppressive and interconnected criminal legal and immigration systems. With freedom as our guiding principle, they invest in innovative campaigns and programs that aim to win long-term, transformative change, while meeting the urgent needs of community members in the present. Donate here.
• The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music is a multi-faceted arts space showcasing evolving folk and traditional music and art from New York City, the Americas, and the world. Their programming supports artists, fosters multi-generational community, and provides enrichment and education about our shared musical heritage. Donate here.
  
• The Lower East Side Girls Club. The Lower Eastside Girls Club connects young women and gender-expansive youth of color throughout New York City to healthy and successful futures through free, innovative year-round programming and mentoring. Donate here.
  
• Make the Road New York builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice. Donate here.
• National Queer Theater is an Obie-award winning innovative theater collective dedicated to celebrating the brilliance of generations of LGBTQ+ artists and providing a home for unheard storytellers and activists. By serving our elders, youth, and working professionals, NQT creates a more just future through radical and evocative theater experiences and free community classes. Donate here.
• The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States, including U.S. territories. They make grants annually by bringing together a panel of six trans justice activists from around the country to carefully review every application they receive. They center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions. Donate here.

We had such a blast and are so grateful to everyone who came out. Check out the cabaret page for more info about the artists and to see the photos by Abby Burris!

We're just one week away from our next cabaret, which is packed with artists presenting new work themed around the age-old sins. Don't miss puppetry by Gil Verrelli, drag by Ms. Zilbert, new plays by Parnia "Nyx” Ayari and Jayda Jones, poetry by Joshua Garcia, and music by Ali Dineen. Theater in Asylum will be presenting an excerpt from its Faust Syndrome project. Join us Thursday, November 20 at the Jalopy Theater. Tickets range $0-$35. Book yours before they're gone!