USITT works closely with a variety of other groups, many of them membership based,
with similar goals. As part of its'
mission, USITT also encourages and promotes collections of
theatrical designs that preserve and exhibit the work of designers.
Among the many organizations and resources throughout the world that share USITT's
focus on design,
production, and technology in the performing
arts and entertainment industry are the ones included below.
Organizations
ATHE: Association for Theatre in Higher Education
www.athe.org
Audio Engineering Society
www.aes.org
CITT: Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology
www.citt.org
Educational Theatre Association
www.edta.org
ESTA: Entertainment Services & Technology Association
www.esta.org
IAAM: International Association of Assembly Managers
www.iaam.org
IATSE: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
www. iatse -intl.org
OISTAT: International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre
Architects, and Technicians
www.oistat.org
PLASA: Professional Lighting and Sound Association
www.plasa.org/association
SETC: Southeastern Theatre Conference
www.setc.org
TCG: Theater Communications Group
www.tcg.org
Themed Entertainment Association
www.themeit.com
Museums & Libraries
Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for
the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York City
www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/the.html
CoStar (Costume Archive) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
drama.unc.edu/costar
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University
of Texas at Austin: B.J. Simmons Collection,
Norman Bel Geddes Collection,
and W.H. Crain Collection
www.hrc.utexas.edu
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of
Georgia, Athens: Paris Music Hall Costume Designs
and Freddy Wittop Collection
www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/selections
Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis: Theatre of the Fraternity Collection and Exhibit Archive
www.weisman.umn.edu/exhibits/TofF/TofF.html
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at The Ohio State University
www.library.osu.edu/sites/tri
Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, The Marion Koogler McNay
Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
www.mcnayart.org/tobin.html
White Papers
Technical Brief, Yale University School of Drama Technical
Design and Production Department
technicalbrief.org
