2026-04-10T16:15:26-07:00 2025-07-31 823782880 Mary G Sormeley CPA 560 Day Ave Ridgefield NJ 07657 990 2024-08-01 133787877 Elevator Repair Service Theater Inc ELEV 2122543137 47 Great Jones St Fl 3 New York NY 10012 John Collins President 2026-04-10 true true Mary G Sormeley P01469548 2018328922 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z John Collins 47 Great Jones St Fl 3 New York NY 10012 1235928 false X www.elevator.org X 1993 NY Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.'s artistic mission is to create original works, with a consistent ensemble, that explore and challenge the fundamentals of live performance. 18 17 46 23 0 541032 523996 438816 526413 20038 20331 6069 28708 1005955 1099448 0 0 676767 752475 0 149259 320590 289272 997357 1041747 8598 57701 890056 902159 99570 47757 790486 854402 Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.'s artistic mission is to create original works, with a consistent ensemble, that explore and challenge the fundamentals of live performance. false false 806177 526413 Throughout the 2025 fiscal year, Elevator Repair Service Theater (ERS) fulfilled its mission of creating original works with an ongoing ensemble that explore and challenge the fundamentals of live performance. In the past 12 months, ERS continued development of our new work, Ulysses, internationally performed Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, revived our most famous work, Gatz, and engaged in additional ancillary activities to further bolster our cultural and educational partnerships and increase audience engagement.In November of 2024, ERS remounted a sold-out 19-performance run of Gatz, our 8-hour-long word-for-word enactment of The Great Gatsby, at The Public Theater in New York City. Two decades after its original NYC premiere, Gatz still drew interest and acclaim, and we have received renewed touring interest in the production following this engagement. Ulysses is ERSs take on James Joyce's iconic modernist novel. ERS has a successful history of reinvigorating and bringing new perspectives to pieces of classic literature, and our goal in presenting Ulysses is to transform the notoriously inaccessible text into a performance piece that is both accessible and compelling to a broader audience. Following a world premiere at Bards SummerScape festival in June/July 2024 that received a New York Times Critics Pick, ERS continued to develop the work with engagements at FringeArts in Philadelphia, PA, in September 2024, UMS (University of Michigan) in Ann Arbor, MI, in October 2024, and UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, in April 2025. Altogether, ERS had the opportunity to perform Ulysses for more than 2,500 audience members in FY25. Later in April 2025, ERSs original production Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge toured to the FIND Festival in Berlin, Germany, for four performances. BBAC is a verbatim depiction of a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. at Cambridge University. The piece is a new staging of the text of the 1965 debate whose subject - "The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro" is as relevant today as it was almost 60 years ago.ERS has also recently participated in ancillary activities in collaboration with other artistic and cultural organizations. In March 2025, ERS collaborated with the James Joyce Society on a free public reading of Exiles, the only play written by James Joyce. Additionally, in December 2024, ERS Artistic Director John Collins and longtime ERS company member Scott Shepherd visited students at The New School to discuss ERS and the development of Ulysses. These ancillary activities allow us to reach broader audiences and interact with groups that may not traditionally attend live theater. 806177 true true false false false false false false false false true true false true true true true false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false true false false true false false false false false false false false true 31 0 true 46 true false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false X 18 17 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false NY X Organization 2122543137 47 Great Jones St 3rd Fl New York NY 10012 John Collins President 40.00 0.00 X X 99575 0 10802 Arthur Aufses Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Steve Bodow Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Zoe Rotter Vice-Chair 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Robert Wilson Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kenneth Cera Vice-Chair 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Clifford Fritz Michel Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Anne Stringfield Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Greig Sargeant Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Doug Curtis Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 David Gilbert Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 John Kim Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Susan Eddy Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Clay Ballard Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lucy Mallett Treasurer 7.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 William Stasiulatis Board Chair 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Ira Simmonds Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Eric Liftin Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 99575 10802 0 false false false 0 185306 86205 252485 50649 523996 Box office revenue 711110 315836 315836 Performance fees 711110 196650 196650 Program fees - Education 611710 13927 13927 526413 19974 19974 0 28321 28321 0 51006 50649 357 357 357 85831 185306 85831 0 0 0 Merchandise sales 711110 387 387 387 1099448 555478 19974 0 0 0 0 124905 99924 12491 12490 0 497928 400979 16895 80054 9322 9322 77678 66100 2146 9432 42642 34297 1971 6374 0 0 7150 7150 0 0 0 91996 35896 36100 20000 2219 2219 22109 17782 1022 3305 0 5133 5133 34513 27759 1595 5159 45269 42545 2717 7 0 0 0 0 17136 13783 792 2561 8863 7292 371 1200 Storage 17191 17191 Production expenses 10827 10827 Costumes, props and set 7410 7410 Indirect benefit expenses 5288 5288 14168 7718 3061 3389 1041747 806177 86311 149259 199984 204973 0 41955 30840 123330 5596 0 0 0 0 27028 55132 393210 351431 50857 41779 0 342646 322518 0 0 104256 241321 890056 902159 43627 31306 1027 54916 16451 99570 47757 X 690041 795047 100445 59355 790486 854402 890056 902159 57701 6215 X false true X true false X 600272 1016176 583846 541032 529566 3270892 0 0 600272 1016176 583846 541032 529566 3270892 490320 2780572 75 1366 4556 19986 48295 74278 0 295 843 3724 499 387 5748 3350918 996916 0.82980 0.85250 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 13600 13600 379610 337831 41779 41779 322518 AEA Bond CO Unemployment Ins. Operating right of use asset 15956 Rental deposit 2510 241321 Operating lease liability 16434 Payroll liabilities 17 16451 X 1111833 6215 6170 12385 1099448 1099448 1047917 6170 6170 1041747 1041747 Part X : FIN48 Footnote Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and has been designated as an organization which is not a private foundation. Management has evaluated all income tax positions and concluded that no disclosures relating to uncertain tax positions are required in the financial statements. X X X X X X X false NY Spring benefit 271137 185306 85831 62000 23831 271137 185306 85831 62000 23831 85831 Lucy Mallett Treasurer 42000 Bookkeeping services false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information Lucy Mallet, Treasurer, is also a Principal at Arts FMS, LLC which provides bookkeeping services to the Organization. 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