New York Stage and Film (NYSAF) is a not-for-profit theatre and film organization founded in 1985 by Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer and Leslie Urdang to provide both emerging and established artists with a rigorous and nurturing environment. Committed to artistic process, to promoting collaboration between artistic peers and between artists and audiences, and to facilitating the sharing of knowledge from one artistic generation to the next, New York Stage and Film over the past 39 years has grown into an organization that The New York Times has referred to as, “a formidable breeding ground for new work.”