Over 100 emerging diverse writers have graduated from the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program. Over 120 careers have been launched including 14 alumni showrunners. The goal of the program is to positively impact the presence of diverse writers throughout the industry.

A COOPERATIVE MISSION The Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative operates 424 w 54 Street as a legally incorporated and wholeheartedly organized co-op supporting entrepreneurs, educators, and artists who share values of service and hospitality. Here, we work to design experiences, build companies and organizations, practice our crafts, cultivate relationships, and grow as people. Read below to learn more about the prime produce co-op and hear what drives some of our members. EVENT SERVICES Host your next event in our creative and dynamic environment. Prime produce hosts can help you or your...

BTS was founded in 2009 as a development workshop and incubator for new American plays and musicals. We sponsor table readings of selected scripts using our Resident Company of actors, then work with the best pieces to produce staged readings. Outstanding works may be optioned and developed for a full production backed by our producers and creative team, both independently and in festivals throughout New York City.

Since we can't gather to see extraordinary solo performances, we have created AFO Solo Shorts to bring extraordinary solo performances to you. Do you have an idea for a short solo art piece? Pitch it to us! We typically work with solo theater makers but we're happy to consider artists from all disciplines: designers, painters, sculptors, dancers, wigmakers... anyone with a creative mind! Take us on a virtual tour of a scenic model, or time-lapse yourself painting a self-portrait, or dance in the rain with your camera propped on your windowsill. We want any and all solo ideas that are...

The Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA in Playwriting is an affordable, selective two-year program that fuses rigorous academic theatre classes with hands-on writing workshops. Our distinguished writing faculty - Master Artists in Residence Annie Baker and Brandon Jacob-Jenkins, plus distinguished Lecturer Brighde Mullins - work with a small cohort of students to develop their voice, vision, and craft under the personal mentorship of these accomplished writers.

Aspiring musical theatre composers have the chance of a lifetime to work on their creation with Oscar-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz at one of the ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Workshops. Workshop submissions will be considered for events that will take place in Los Angeles and New York.

Founded in 2009, by former members of the Professional Playwrights’ Unit of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, dramatic question theatre (dqt) has developed plays that have both received a wide array of national honors and been nominated for major awards including the John Gassner Award for New Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, Drama Desk Award for Best Play, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The company develops plays by Women and People of Color that deal with race, culture, and class. Concurrently, it builds a diverse audience from the Latinx and Black...

Members are selected via lottery to showcase new work in front of an audience for free! Participants are given the opportunity to use DG's Zoom channel. DG Footlights™ is a gratis program, created and moderated by the Dramatists Guild, that connects dramatists with free space in which to hold a public reading of a new work that is currently in development. This initiative operates on a space-grant model: a representative from the Guild will arrange for a venue to donate space during allocated dates and times, and will ensure that the space is available for dramatists to use to present a self-...

Since 2008, Blackboard has been devoted to Black playwrights throughout the African Diaspora.

The Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting program is a unique hybrid, offering emerging writers the opportunity to develop and produce their work in a rigorous Fordham setting, while simultaneously fostering professional relationships with Primary Stages, an award-winning Off-Broadway theatre company.

Berklee NYC’s Master of Arts in Creative Media and Technology program offers a forward-looking curriculum designed to teach students the tools and strategies needed to thrive in artistic fields that have seen significant disruption, and will continue to change and evolve at a rapid pace. The core curriculum of this program provides students with foundational knowledge for their careers that address both the business and creative sides of the performing arts; each specialization builds on this and teaches high-level, immediately applicable skills.

New Victory LabWorks is committed to fostering an inclusive program where every artist feels welcome. We encourage creators who are diverse in identity, perspective, ability and experience to apply. We believe it is important for young audience members from all communities to see themselves represented on stage with stories that are relevant to their lives.