PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTORS GROWING, EXPERIENCING, SHARING
WE ARE OFF FOR THE SUMMER!
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING
OUR ACTORS & PLAYWRIGHTS
AT OUR NEXT MEETING
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD
DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Writing Space at the Dramatists Guild Foundation!
As a reminder, the Dramatists Guild Foundation has 3 gorgeous writing spaces available for New Dramatists residents and alumni to use- the Music Hall, Composers Corner, and Writers Den. Please follow this link to learn about the available spaces, guidelines, and how to reserve space: https://dgf.org/rehearsal-spaces Click on the button under the room you would like to reserve. This will take you to the reservation system. Towards the bottom of this form is a hyperlink to “create a new user account,” where you can create your individual account and submit reservation requests. If you have questions or need support, email writingrooms@dgf.org, where DGF's Reservation and Room Coordinators (RRCs) are always happy to support
Deadlines-at-a-Glance/Quick Links
Scroll down for more information about each opportunity
GRANTS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
Jul 17 New York State Council on the Arts
Aug 1 Literary Grants - PEN America
Sep 8 Yale Drama Series/David Charles Horn Prize
FESTIVALS/COMPETITIONS/PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITIES
Jul 15 Native Voices Call for Full-Length Plays WRITING RESIDENCIES
Jun 30 Centrum Artists-In-Residence Program
Jul 15 Loghaven Artist Residency
Jul 15 UCROSS Residency ProgramJul 20 Crosstown Arts Residency Open Call
Aug 1 Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence
Aug 1 Yaddo
ONGOING
Dramatists Guild Fund -Bridge and Crisis Relief Grants
Concord Theatricals – Playwrights WelcomeAction, Spectacle Poetry Magazine
Pioneer Drama Service- Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest2025 Trustus Theatre Playwrights’ Festival
GRANTS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
New York State Council on the Arts FY25 Support for Artists
Deadline: July 17, 2024
NYSCA funds creative commissions to individual artists across the state. Applicants must apply through a nonprofit fiscal sponsor. NYSCA embraces the rich diversity of artmaking across New York, and applicants from all artistic practices and disciplines are encouraged to apply. Grant awards are $10,000; fiscal sponsors may retain a maximum of $500 for administrative costs.
Literary Grants - PEN America
Applications for the 2025 cycle will be open June 1 – August 1, 2024.
Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards, Grants, and Fellowships Program has honored many of the most outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, children’s literature, translation, and drama. With the help of our partners, PEN America confers distinct grants each year to support writers and works-in-progress in diverse genres including translation, YA and middle grade writing, and oral history.
Yale Drama Series/David Charles Horn Prize
Window: June 15-September 8, 2024
The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2025 playwriting competition. The series’ current judge, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, will select the winning play. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, their manuscript will be published by Yale University Press, and a celebratory event will be held. The prize and publication are contingent on the playwright’s agreeing to the terms of the publishing agreement.
FESTIVALS/COMPETITIONS/PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITIES
Cimientos Play Development Program 2025
Submissions open June 1-30, 2024Pal Playwrights Panel (PPP) / Three-month incubator-Playwrights accepted to the program, IATI Theater’s artistic staff, and other specially invited theater professionals will converge in workshop meetings to discuss the new works that make up the particular season. Every meeting will be dedicated to a single playwright in the program, the focus being in further advancing the text before it is presented in front of a live audience.
Staged Readings Series (SRS) / One-week festival-
Each playwright in the program will be given the opportunity to present their play in a directed, professionally acted staged reading. Thus, the piece will be exposed to a receptive audience that further develops the featured script through a post-reading talkback.
Native Voices Call for Full Length Plays-2025 Playwrights Retreat/31st Festival of New Plays
Los Angeles
Deadline: July 15, 2024We only accept submissions written for the stage by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations artists. The Playwrights Retreat brings artists to Los Angeles to work on a select number of plays through a rigorous directorial and dramaturgical commitment for 10 days in August. The Retreat culminates with the Festival of New Plays - public staged readings at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles and La Jolla Playhouse near San Diego. Selected playwrights receive artistic support as well as an honorarium; out-of-town artists receive roundtrip airfare plus lodging in Southern California.
WRITING RESIDENCIES
Loghaven Artist Residency
Knoxville, Tennessee
Application Opens: June 1, 2024
Application Closes: July 15, 2024
Artists working in Writing, Visual Arts, Dance, Theater, Music Composition, Architecture, and Interdisciplinary Work can apply to receive room and board and an $850 weekly living stipend to support the creation of new work during a residency. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space.
UCROSS Residency Program
Wyoming
Window opens May 1; Deadline July 15, 11:59pm MT
Application fee $40.Our Spring 2025 call for artists will open on May 1, 2024, at 12:00 A.M. MT. We will be accepting applications for General Studio Residencies (All Disciplines) and Ucross Fellowships for Native American Writers and Visual Artists.Situated in northeast Wyoming at the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, Ucross was established by Raymond Plank in 1981. The artist residency program opened in 1983. For 40 years, Ucross has been giving space and time to artists who come from all disciplines, including literature, visual arts, music, choreography, film, performance, and multidisciplinary art. In our complex of private studios and residences, visiting artists build a small, intense community hard at work amid 20,000 acres of Wyoming ranchland. The Ucross Residency Program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, and performance artists, as well as collaborative teams. Applicants must exhibit professional standing in their field; both mature and emerging artists of promise are welcome to apply. We do not accept applications from students at any level.
Crosstown Arts Residency Open Call
Memphis, TN
Deadline: July 20, 2024
This residency provides 2-3 month residencies tailored for visual arts, music, film, and writing. The contemporary arts organization boasts galleries, studios, exhibition spaces, a screening room, and performing arts venues. Residents benefit from access to three fully equipped music production studios, the Shared Art workspace, and 24/7 use of a private studio. Lodging options available for non-local participants.
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence
Omaha, NE
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Fee: $40.Bemis Center’s 110,000 square foot facility accommodates a broad range of artistic activity. Selected artists-in-residence enjoy generous sized, private live/work studios complete with kitchen and bathroom, a $1,250 monthly stipend, and $750 travel stipend.
Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video.
ONGOING
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is $1,900.
Dramatists Guild Fund -Bridge and Crisis Relief GrantsThe Dramatists Guild Foundation’s
Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500, now available to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses.
Crisis Relief Grants support writers in times of need to get back to doing what they do best. DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
Concord Theatricals – Playwrights Welcome
Developed for the Dramatists Guild of America members, Playwrights Welcome is a national ticketing initiative created by Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals company, along with input from other publishing and licensing houses. Playwrights Welcome is designed to offer free tickets to professional playwrights on the day of a performance. These available tickets are ones that would otherwise go unsold; we firmly believe that no theatre should give away a ticket that could otherwise be sold. Visit the website for information on how to participate.
Action, Spectacle Poetry Magazine
Action, Spectacle is a biannual magazine based in Louisville, KY, and Brooklyn. We also open an open call reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts, a chapbook contest, and editor’s prize for a single poem, manuscript consultations, and workshops. We seek both debut and established writers and thinkers creating intriguing and original work, whether conventional or experimental, and we don’t shy away from the idea of a text that might be “difficult.”
Pioneer Drama Service- Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest
To encourage the development of quality theatrical materials for the educational, community and children’s theatre markets, Pioneer Drama Service is proud to sponsor the annual Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest. Submissions will be accepted on an on-going basis with a December 31 cutoff each year. All eligible plays accepted for publication will be considered contest finalists, from which the winner will be selected by April 30 of the year following submission. The contest winner will receive a $1,000 royalty advance in addition to publication.
2025 Trustus Theatre Playwrights’ Festival
Columbia, SC
NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS (no deadline provided)
Application fee: $20.The Trustus Playwrights’ Festival began at Trustus Theatre in 1988. This festival accepts submissions nationally from playwrights seeking to develop their script for a full main stage production at Trustus Theatre. Past winners include David Lindsay-Abaire, Jon Tuttle, Deborah Breevort, Stephen Belber, Andrea Lepcio, and Sarah Hammond (to name a few). Trustus Theatre selects one new play annually as the winner of the Trustus Playwrights’ Festival. Submissions should be non-musical plays that have small casts (6 actors or less) and modest design needs (no fly systems or pyrotechnics please). The festival is welcoming to experimental works. The festival prefers scripts that have not been produced, and Trustus’ production has “World Premiere” status.
CONNIE HALL (she/her)
Literary Services Manager
424 West 44th Street / New York, NY 10036
P 212-757-6960 ext. 213
conniehall@newdramatists.org
APPLICATION INFORMATION
7-Year Residency
Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists
Kleban Prize in Musical Theatrecription.
STUDIO THEATRE IN EXILE
Call for scripts for an evening of one-act plays
The Studio Theatre in Exile (STIE) in Peekskill, NY, is accepting submissions of one-act plays to be presented over two weekends in mid-November 2024. The performances will take place on stage at Studio Theater in Exile’s 50-Seat Black Box Theater in Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY.
Guidelines:
· The one-act play should be between 10-20 minutes.
· A total of 5-7 plays will be selected.
· Directors will be selected by STIE and matched with selected plays (suggestions for directors are welcome).
· The one-act play should be between 10-20 minutes.
· At least two characters. No monologues, please.
· Playwrights will agree to work with dramaturg Mara Mills (STIE Artistic Director).
· Only new plays, or plays that have not been produced in the NYC tri-state area within the last five years, will be considered.
Technical:
· The STIE Black Box theater includes projections, lighting system, sound system, technical staff and lighting/sound designers.
· Scenic elements must be simple.
· The theater is equipped with four 20” square black boxes, and chairs.
· The STIE technical team/designers will work with the director/playwright to develop projections, lighting cues and sound cues for the performance. Overall, the technical elements should be simple.
· Submission deadline: August 31, 2024.
· Submit your work at mara.mills@studiotheaterinexile.com.
Please write SUBMISSION in the subject line of your email.
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