Black Theatre United Design Expo 2025

Come join us for this event, featuring Broadway designers from every field of design! The Library for the Performing Arts has partnered with the organization Black Theatre United for their inaugural Black Theatre United Design Expo 2025. The event includes panels, talks, demonstrations on the most up-to-date innovations in design, one-on-one portfolio reviews, and so much more. The Black Theatre United Design Expo 2025 is focused toward up-and-coming and early career designers gaining access to industry professionals, and learning about the many ancillary skilled jobs that are a part of the design world.

The expo is free and open to all.

Black Theatre United is a conglomeration of Black theater artists and professionals who work to educate, empower, and inspire through excellence and activism in the pursuit of justice and equality.

ATTENDANCE POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line forms 30 minutes before the advertised start time. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. Five minutes before the advertised start time, all registrations are released to our patrons in the stand-by line. If you arrive after the program starts, you will enter at the discretion of our front-of-house staff.

STANDBY LINE | If registration is sold out or has ended, do not fret! We welcome you to come to the Library regardless of registration status and wait in our standby line, which forms 30 minutes before the advertised start time. Five minutes before the program starts, all remaining registrations are released. While this is not guaranteed, we will do our best to get you into any of our programs.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING AND ASL | ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing YWNjZXNzaWJpbGl0eSB8IG55cGwgISBvcmc=.

BRUNO WALTER POLICY | Please note that any unoccupied seat will be released five minutes before the show begins and holding seats for anyone beyond that is prohibited. There is no food or drink allowed inside the venue.

AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING | Programs may be photographed and recorded by and at the discretion of the Library for the Performing Arts and will post signs indicating as such. If you would prefer your image not be captured, please let us know and we can seat you accordingly. Attending any program indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any and all purposes of the New York Public Library.

PRESS | Please send all press inquiries to Alex Teplitzky at YWxleHRlcGxpdHpreSB8IG55cGwgISBvcmc=. Please note that all recording, including professional video recordings, are prohibited without expressed consent from the Library.

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