A professional, non-profit arts company in Nashville, Green Room Projects exists to make art that matters, matters to ourselves and to our communities. Naked Stages, our professional theater company, is our most visible evidence to that commitment.

We are devoted to developing, nurturing, and supporting the disciplines of theater, music, dance, film, and visual arts in the Middle Tennessee area. We believe that, in order to flourish, art needs the company of colleagues, the spirit of collaboration, the comfort of continuation, and a public forum in which to be evaluated. We dedicate ourselves to new and established Nashville-area artists regardless of race, age, gender, or sexual identity. Helmed by Founding Artistic Director Mark Cabus, Executive Director Richard Northcutt, and Education Director Ginger Newman, Green Room Projects is a major contender in Tennessee’s arts scene.

At the heart of our mission is a deep-seated commitment to arts education and community outreach, and in these areas, Green Room is a pioneer. Every year, we introduce thousands of area public school and college students to the thrill and passion of the arts. Our Ensemble of actors, directors, designers, writers, musicians and visual artists regularly engage with students through our outreach programs. We work closely with area schools and benevolent agencies to create and develop arts education curriculums with a service learning twist. As an example of guidance and leadership, Green Room provides affordable classes and workshops for area professional and non-professional artists alike, fostering collaboration and community. Green Room Projects actively seeks to engage young people and adults in singular artistic experiences provoking personal and public transformation because we believe that art is a catalyst for change.

In October 2007, Green Room Projects’ Naked Stages was one of three Nashville area professional theaters invited to assume residency at the new Belmont University Theater Complex. Along side the Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Actors Bridge, we join in partnership with Belmont’s Theater Department, performing in the new Black Box Theater and offering students opportunities to work and study alongside Nashville’s finest professional theater artists through accredited internships.