The Tank (theater)
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| Address | 151 West 46th Street, Manhattan, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°45′30″N 73°59′03″W / 40.75841°N 73.9840869°WCoordinates: 40°45′30″N 73°59′03″W / 40.75841°N 73.9840869°W |
| Type | Off-Off-Broadway |
| Genre(s) | Dance, theater, music, film, comedy |
| Opened | May 2003 |
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The Tank is a nonprofit Off-Off-Broadway performance venue and producer in Manhattan, New York, focused on producing work by young artists. The organization was founded in May 2003 and has since moved several times, currently residing on 46th Street. The Tank offers free performance space to artists across several disciplines (comedy, dance, theater, music, film), each of which is curated by one or more curators. In addition to its space in Manhattan, The Tank produces shows performed elsewhere throughout New York City, collectively presenting as many as 350 events each year.
The Tank was founded in May 2003 in Manhattan, New York, by nine artists, all recent college graduates in their mid-20s. Its founders included playwright Amy Herzog, playwright and director Alex Timbers, Justin Krebs, and Randy Bell, who collectively expressed the goal of offering young artists across disciplines the space to create work in the center of New York City.
The organization was first housed on 42nd Street. The company was able to secure an inexpensive month-to-month lease from a landlord who intended to sell the building in which the theater was housed, and within 10 months, the organization had repaid its startup loans. The company derived its name from the architecture of its first space: a large window overlooking 42nd Street led to someone calling the space The Fishtank and later the Fish was dropped in favor of The Tank. By 2006, the company had moved twice and by 2007, it had won an unsolicited grant of $10,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and was receiving money from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The Tank's third location, into which it moved in 2006, was on Church Street in the Tribeca neighborhood, where the organization shared space with Collective:Unconscious as late as 2008. By 2010, The Tank had returned to Manhattan's midtown Theater District, occupying a venue on 45th Street on the block between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. The Tank had moved to 46th Street by 2013, where it resides as of 2017.
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