Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT) is a multigenerational performing ensemble, multidiscipline arts presenter, and owner/steward of bilingual arts facilities in the Bronx and Manhattan. Pregones/PRTT’s mission is to champion a Puerto Rican/Latinx cultural legacy of universal value through the creation and performance of original plays and musicals, exchange and partnership with other artists of merit, and engagement of diverse audiences.

Pregones was founded in 1979 when a group of artists led by Rosalba Rolón set out to create new works in the style of Caribbean and Latin American “colectivos” or performing ensembles. Established as a Bronx resident company, Pregones remains in the vanguard of an arts renaissance radiating throughout and beyond the Bronx. Puerto Rican Traveling Theater was founded in 1967 by Miriam Colón, a stage and film icon, as one of the first bilingual theater companies in the U.S. It is credited for nurturing the development of hundreds of Latino artists, legitimating cultural connections throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and pioneering models for community engagement. The two organizations merged in 2014. With distinctive Puerto Rican/Latinx flair, Pregones/PRTT plays a decisive role in empowering underrepresented artists and audiences to claim their place at the front of the American theater. With over one quarter of the City’s population being Latinx, Pregones/PRTT’s stage is a proud beacon of bilingual Spanish/English artistry and affordable arts access. Pregones/PRTT serves all five boroughs with special care for densely Latinx and systematically under-resourced neighborhoods of The Bronx, East Harlem/Upper Manhattan, and Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen. Beyond this core service geography, Pregones/PRTT also reaches diverse national and international communities with special consideration for the well-being of artists in Puerto Rico.

Jerome Foundation supports Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s Step Up: Artists in Residence program. This initiative provides early-career New York City-based performing artists working in theater, music, dance, and multi-disciplinary practices with customizable access, resources, a stipend, and mentorship options of up to 6 months for development and public showing of original projects. Both Pregones/PRTT’s Bronx and Manhattan theaters are open for use by participating artists; opportunities include core programming orientation and supervised technical support. Rooted in the values of partnership and collaboration, Pregones/PRTT commits resources to mentoring and peer-to-peer professional development, sustaining a wide range of intracultural, intercultural, and cross-sector relationships with artists, thinkers, and agents of positive change.