A Stage for People
Performers of all ages and experience levels can share what makes them unique.
A nonprofit built for talent + community
Every Community
Has Talent.
We give it a stage.
Community Talent Search™ creates opportunities for people to perform, helps festivals and organizations bring communities together, and uses entertainment as a powerful platform for local fundraising.
PerformConnectGive Back
Talent deserves an audience.
Communities deserve a reason to gather.
A Program for Events
Festivals, communities and organizations can bring a CTS showcase into their own setting.
A Purpose Beyond the Stage
Entertainment becomes a way to build attendance, connection and community fundraising.
COMMUNITYcomes first
Our Purpose
Talent can bring a whole community together.
Community Talent Search™ is a standalone nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a platform for people to perform, be discovered and share their talent with others.
Our vision is simple: create exciting community entertainment, open the stage to people who deserve an opportunity, and help events and communities turn that energy into meaningful fundraising and local impact.
“Not everyone needs a television stage. Sometimes the stage that changes everything is right in your own community.”
What counts as talent?
If you can share it with an audience, we want to see it.
CTS is designed to welcome a wide range of entertainment, creativity and performance—not just one type of act.
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Music
Singers, bands, instrumentalists, songwriters and original music.
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Dance
Soloists, teams, cultural dance, street dance and movement arts.
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Variety
Magic, comedy, juggling, circus skills and unexpected talents.
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Theatre
Acting, spoken word, storytelling, character work and live scenes.
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Specialty Acts
Demonstrations, physical skills and performances that defy categories.
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Your Talent
Have something different? Community Talent Search was built for that too.
How It Works
One platform. Many ways to bring talent into the community.
Performers Join
Individuals tell us who they are, what they do and where they would like the opportunity to perform.
Events Host a Showcase
A festival, municipality, nonprofit, business or community organization can host a Community Talent Search experience.
Talent Takes the Stage
Showcases can be entertainment-first, audience-choice, judged competitions, youth programs or fundraising features.
The Community Benefits
Great performances create attendance, participation, sponsorship and new fundraising opportunities for the community.
Bring CTS to Your Event
Your event.
Our talent platform.
Community Talent Search does not need to live in only one venue or one city. CTS can be integrated into festivals, fairs, community celebrations, fundraisers, business events and other public gatherings.
Community talent showcases
Competition or audience-choice formats
Youth and family performance programming
Performer recruitment and coordination
Fundraising and sponsorship opportunities
Talk to Us About Hosting
Community Fundraising
Entertainment with a reason behind it.
Community Talent Search was created to do more than fill a stage. The nonprofit can work with host communities and events to build fundraising directly around talent programming through donations, sponsorship, admission, audience participation and other event-specific opportunities.
The exact format can change from one community to the next. The purpose stays the same: use talent to bring people together and create something positive for the community.
Take the Stage
You don't have to be famous to deserve an audience.
Whether this would be your first public performance or your hundredth, Community Talent Search is about creating more places for talent to be seen and enjoyed.
Tell us what you do. As the CTS platform grows, performer profiles will help connect talent with showcases and community events.
Interested in performing?
Introduce yourself and your talent. We'll use your message to understand what kind of future CTS opportunities may fit.
Join as a PerformerThe Spirit of CTS
Made for live moments.
Start a Conversation
Perform. Host. Support. Let's build something for your community.
Choose what you're interested in and send us a message. Performer inquiries can also go directly to Perform@CommunityTalentSearch.com.