Discovering Broadway Inc.

Since our beginnings in 2020, Discovering Broadway has reached more than 5,000 audience members and served almost 600 Indiana students through world-class one on one musical theatre training that brings top-tier Broadway educators directly to our community. Our programs have featured Emmy, Grammy, and Tony-winning artists including Lindsay Mendez, Phillipa Soo, and Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo, creating once-in-a-lifetime training and performance opportunities while prioritizing access for historically overlooked youth. In just five years, we have become one of Indiana’s fastest-growing arts organizations, connecting students, audiences, and professional creators through transformational experiences.

Discovering Broadway is experiencing a period of significant growth, expanding both the scale of our educational programming and leading the nation as the premiere theatrical incubator. In the past five years, we have reached more than 5,000 audience members and served nearly 600 Indiana students one-on-one through intensive master classes, concerts, and artist talkbacks. As demand continues to increase from schools and young artists across the state, we are focused on deepening and broadening that reach.
In 2026, we will produce four master classes with top Broadway professionals, expand our student scholarship capacity, and premiere a brand new commissioned musical right here in Indiana, developed through our writers’ retreat model. These initiatives allow us to serve more students from historically overlooked communities, engage more local performers and musicians in paid professional work, and attract national-caliber creative teams to develop new projects in Indiana.

Our primary funding need is scalable infrastructure to support this growth. Funds will be used to underwrite student access (including sponsored seats and concert participation), cover artist fees and production expenses for new works, and strengthen staffing in marketing, development, and educational coordination. Increased investment will directly translate into more students trained, more artists employed, larger audiences engaged, and greater long-term sustainability as commissioned musicals generate future revenue.