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THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT
CITD
The Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) connects U.S. theatre makers with global peers, fostering collaboration, solidarity, and shared knowledge. For 35 years, we have been a catalyzing force for cultural change across the globe.
Today, we focus on Ukraine, Hungary, and Poland, where vibrant theatre communities produce virtuosic, urgent work that resists the tools of oppression, and sustains hope for imagining the future.
CITD creates opportunities for these artists to connect across cultures and with artists in the US: bringing them together at international festivals, supporting years-long collaborative exchanges, and amplifying their stories and work through our journalistic partnerships.
WHAT WE DO
Since its founding in 1990, CITD has worked with over 800 directors, playwrights, producers, and performers across 10 countries, focusing on East Africa, and Central and Eastern Europe. Over the decades, CITD’s multi-year exchange projects have resulted in international collaborations at nearly every major theater in the US.
CONNECTIONS
We foster long-term, meaningful connections between inspired theatre-makers and unique thinkers by moving groundbreaking artists, bold projects, and powerful ideas around the globe.
REPORTING
CITD cultivates partnerships with trusted industry and mainstream outlets to ensure that the stories of our partner artists reach the widest possible audience. In 2025 alone, we’ve supported the publication of over 10 articles, as well as the in-house publication Arts of War by scholar Blair Ruble, and Notes from the Field, a Substack series going more in-depth into our work.
EXPEDITIONS
Traveling is at the heart of our work. We facilitate several artist-centered expeditions each year, focusing on exchanges between the US and Central - Eastern Europe.
