DUAF 2025

TThe 2025 season of the Downtown Urban Festival (DUAF), now in its 23rd season, presents new groundbreaking theatrical performances by some of the best new and emerging storytellers from across the U.S.

The Spotlight Playwright this year is Juan Ramirez, Jr., an award-winning DUAF alumni, who stages his new gripping play Admitted.

The festival opens with A Conversation with Tony winner Sarah Jones who will discuss her prolific career and new work America, Who Hurt You? with Artistic Director Reg E. Gaines. The conversation is a free event.

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DUAF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and as part of the Coalition Theaters of Color, a New York City Council initiative to support the operations and programming of theaters and cultural organizations primarily in communities of color. DUAF is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov