Grantee Database
TEADA PRODUCTIONS
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$12,600.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, TeAda Productions will utilize these funds to support the retention of current staff which has grown over the last two years thanks to an increase in funding over the pandemic. As a result TeAda has successfully increased engagement and participation of artists, women, immigrants, refugees, indigenous, asylees, and queer communities.
TeAda needs to provide competitive salaries while the cost of living continues to rise. As of June 2025, TeAda has already been forced to downsize from a 5 person staff to the current 4 person staff due to the national shift in funding priorities both in government and foundations.
Currently TeAda’s staff is comprised of immigrants, women, queer folks, and individuals from a working class background spanning three decades which reflects the community that we serve in California.
Organization Summary
LOCAL PROGRAMS
Theater for Asylum Seekers is a Los Angeles workshop and performance series offered to asylum seekers in collaboration with the Program for Torture Victims. Theater for Asylum Seekers uses storytelling and performance art to aid in the emotional healing of people traumatized by persecution in their homeland and the decision to flee. Numbers served: Participants #10-15 – Audience #100-500 depending on size of venue.
CreAtive Healing Lab, combines arts, healing, and collective liberation practices. In a series of 7 workshops (extra sessions added as needed), facilitated by members of the arts and healing communities, based in Los Angeles, TeAda will host 10 to 25 participants at each event for a total of 70 to 175 people served in our inaugural program.
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL TOURING PROGRAMS
Nothing Micro About Micronesia, (NMAM), tells a coming of age story about three Micronesian youth who meet in an unlikely place, and through magic, are transported to island adventures in Micronesia. During the journey, these friends navigate between Hawaiʻi and the traditions of their homelands while facing the rising tides of their uncertain futures. The story centers on the complex issues faced by youth in Hawaiʻi from migration and assimilation, to cultural reclamation and familial responsibility; connecting to intergenerational Micronesian experiences in Hawaiʻi, across the atolls and islands of Micronesia, and beyond. NMAM opened in Honolulu in March 2024 at Honolulu Theatre for Youth with a run of 24 school shows and 3 public performances followed by an inter-island tour of Big Island and Maui performing an additional 5 public shows. Total attendance for all shows exceeded 8,000.
Organization
TeAda Productions
Address
6071 Comey Ave
Los Angeles
90034-2203
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(310) 998-8765
Congressional District
California's 37th congressional district
State Assembly District
55
State Senate District
District 28
