If you think you are eligible, now is a fabulous time to apply to The Dorothy Ross Friedman Residence. The Friedman is a shared housing (roommates) residence that offers affordable housing for working professionals in performing arts and entertainment, persons with HIV/AIDS, and senior citizens (60 years of age or older). Most of the apartments are 2-bedrooms, where you would have one roommate and there are a few 3-bedrooms, where you would have two roommates. All tenants have a rent stabilized lease. All apartments are complete with dishwasher, washer/dryer, central heating, and AC. Many...

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation is delighted to announce our expansion to New York City. Since 2007 the foundation, based in Hamburg, Germany, has supported and fostered talented artists of all kinds, enabling them to enhance their craft and realize their artistic vision. Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC is now offering grants for artists in NYC. The awards are established to support and encourage artists residing in New York City who are currently working in music, visual arts, performance and literature. Café Royal Cultural Foundation offers a limited number of grants for artists...

Mission: To remove the “ILLUSION OF INCLUSION” in the American Theatre, by building a sustainable ethical roadmap that will increase employment opportunities for Black theatre professionals. Our vision is to reshape the working ecosystem for those who have been marginalized by systemically racist and biased ideology.

Creatives Rebuild New York’s (CRNY) Artist Employment Program (AEP) will fund employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State for two years. Participating artists will receive a salary of $65,000 per year, plus benefits, with dedicated time to focus on their practice. Participating organizations will receive funds that range between $25,000 and $100,000 per year to support artists’ employment. By supporting artists working in collaboration with community-based organizations,...

Est. 1994. The Lark Play Development Center is a laboratory for new voices and new ideas. We provide playwrights and their collaborators with resources to develop their work in a supportive yet rigorous environment and encouraging artists to define their own goals and creative processes in pursuit of a unique vision

For artists, creators, makers, entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, and idea-havers like you. At FORGE, co-founded by Chie Morita + Greg Taubman, we believe that how you work matters just as much as why you create and what you want to make. And when we say “make” we believe the sky's the limit. Whether it’s a fresh product line, a much-needed service, an innovative design concept, an immersive restaurant pitch, a push for justice, a new script, a board game idea, or a sandwich for lunch, FORGE believes in the power of process, and in building the skills, systems, plans, and practices that...

Synecdoche Works supports and promotes art education, creation, performance, and/or exhibitions by underrepresented or underserved individuals. By providing funding to playwrights, actors, authors, and musicians, the organization aims to reduce barriers to these individuals’ ability to grow and practice their art. Synecdoche Works is a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Donations to Synecdoche Works may be tax deductible.

The Cultural Solidarity Fund application will open for one week from February 26th at 9 AM to March 5th at 9 PM. Please check back to access the application here. In the meanwhile, you can preview the application questions at: https://www.culturalsolidarityfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Cultu…

We provide playwrights with time, space and resources in the company of gifted peers to create work, realize their artistic potential, and make lasting contributions to the theatre. We encourage emerging playwrights to apply at the beginning of their careers so that through the New Dramatists Fellowship, they can develop their work as well as benefit from being a part of a unique, diverse, dynamic community of professional playwrights. An applicant’s status as an emerging playwright is evaluated during the adjudication process.

Created by Edward Kleban by an instruction in his Will, this prize is given annually to both a librettist and a lyricist. The Kleban Board of Directors sets the amount of the prize annually but in recent years the prize has been in the amount of $100,000 in each category payable in two annual installments.

The Miranda Theatre Company will be ending its 30-year run by offering $5000 in grants to playwrights. According to Valentina Fratti, Artistic Director and Founder, giving the grants is the only way to close a theatre that has, from its beginning, been dedicated to playwrights’ development. Emily Whitesell, founding board member, playwright and screenwriter says, "the grants feel like a fitting expression of everything Miranda worked so hard to accomplish; a reminder to hard working playwrights, determined to change the world, that their work matters deeply.” During their three decades of...

The Next Wave Initiative is a developmental branch of The Directors Company, committed to amplifying future Black voices in The American Theatre.