Online Auction Open! Live Auction Event Coming Soon!

The online portion of The Tank 2015 Silent Auction is now open. The auction will run from April 18, 2015 to May 1, 2015, with the live event taking place on May 4, 2015. Proceeds go to The Tank in order to support the work of new and emerging artists! We do over 350 performances each year and serve more than 1,000 artists launching their careers in New York City. Please spread the word to your friends, family, community. Let the bidding begin!

The Tank serves emerging and established artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the burden of cost from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in the 62-seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other services such as free rehearsal space and promotional support. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all.

Founded in 2003 by nine emerging artists, The Tank has since provided an artistic home for thousands of New York City-based performers. Artists who have presented work at The Tank early on in their careers include: Alex Timbers (Tony-nominated theater director), Reggie Watts (theater performer/comedian/ musician currently on the IFC TV show Comedy Bang! Bang!), Amy Herzog (Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright), Lucy Alibar (whose one-act play Juicy and Delicious premiered at The Tank and was adapted to be the Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild), Andrew Bujalski (film director, Computer Chess) and We Are Scientists (rock band).