In fact, The Tank provides artists with all the tools they need including rehearsal space, performance space, technical inventory, Box Office and Front of House staffing, marketing and promotional support. The assistance also extends to stipends and box office splits. “We insist on being a place where artists can come with their ambitious, often scary or vulnerable ideas and we say ‘YES!,’” says King.
Just some of the artists who have worked at The Tank include Tony-nominated director Alex Timbers, Reggie Watts, who is currently on, Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Amy Herzog and Lucy Alibar, whose one-act play Juicy and Delicious premiered at The Tank and was adapted to be the Oscar-nominated. “Our former dance curator Tiffany Rea-Fisher is now the Artistic Director of Elisa Monte Dance and is leading the way on the Movement for Black Lives within the dance community,” says Finn.
But even beyond the Variety Show, CyberTank has expanded to present a variety of virtual programming. “So many artists have found unique ways to utilize our virtual platform,” says Finn. There are web series, online puppet shows, poetry hours, improv jams, live streamed comedy specials and sketch shows. As Finn observes, “It has really been the artists coming to us like they would any project and making something new and surprising.