About Wish Me A Theater
Our Mission
Wish Me A Theater is dedicated to building empathy through access to the performing arts.
Our Aisles of Success
Wish Me A Theater was founded to further our three "Aisles of Success"
- Empatheatrical™ Match: WMAT has built an Arts Experience Exchange that matches schools and community-based organizations with community-oriented performing arts centers to provide access to theatrical performances.
- Empatheatrical™ Grantmaking: WMAT seeks to support artists and facilities that include empathy in their projects or missions.
- Empatheatrical™ Research: WMAT seeks to fund research into the role that theater plays in growing empathy/social-emotional learning.
Our Founder
Our President and Founder, Maya Wishnia, was a born "theater kid." She has sung, danced and generally performed almost since birth. Her love of theater and passion for the intersection of brain sciences, medicine and the law led her to discover that empathy in theater arts has been woefully underexplored.
Contact Maya at maya@theaterwish.org