Organizations Type : Commissions

Firehouse Theatre develops and produces new work that expands the definition of theatre and explores non-linear and non-naturalistic narrative.

Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University (FAU), is now accepting applications for The Fair Play Initiative: a commission and development program for emerging LGBTQ+ playwrights. With support from Our Fund Foundation, The Fair Play Initiative will provide commissions for two new plays by emerging LGBTQ+ playwrights along with a week-long development process during the 2019-20 season, culminating in a publicly presented staged reading at Theatre Lab. The initial drafting process will be completed by August 2019. The plays will then be scheduled for a week-long development process, receiving no less than 20 hours of rehearsal before a reading for an audience. The playwright will be present for the entire rehearsal process, the reading, and take part in a...

The Shed commissions original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. We bring together established and emerging artists in fields ranging from hip hop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance. Our home, The Bloomberg Building—designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect—is an unprecedented movable structure that adapts to support ambition and invention in all creative fields. By minimizing social and economic barriers to entry we’ll make a warm, welcoming space for innovation and unique artistic experiences. By offering access and insight into the creative process, we’ll forge deep bonds between our artists and our audiences. Driven by our belief that access to art is...

Born out of The Shed’s commitment to supporting early-career artists and a diverse range of voices and experiences, our Open Call program selects, fosters, and presents new work across all forms and media from NYC-based artists who have not yet received major support.

PlayGround is the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, providing unique opportunities for the cultivation and development of early-career local playwrights and partnerships with leading professional directors, actors and theatres. Through the development of original short and full-length plays, PlayGround creates a microcosm of the greater theatre scene, supporting emerging playwrights’ experimentation and risk-taking, while helping them to hone their style and technique. The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its fourth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 22-February 7, 2021 via Zoom live stream, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks.

Over the next two years InterAct will commission three plays to be written about and with Philadelphia communities that are under-represented on local (and national) stages. The first of the three Philly Cycle commissions will focus on the city’s community of African American Muslims, which numbers around 200,000. InterAct Theatre Company is seeking U.S.-based playwrights who would be interested in immersing themselves in deep and ongoing conversations with this diverse community and ultimately crafting a singular story that centers this community. Selected playwrights will receive a $15,000 commission, support for extensive play development both in and apart from the relevant community (including travel & local housing for playwrights based outside Philadelphia), and a guaranteed pr...

Thank you for your interest in Live & In Color’s June Bingham New Playwright Commission. This commission opportunity provides resources and support toward the creation and development of a new play by early-career women/femme and/or non-binary storytellers. This opportunity will culminate in a 60-90 min 2 person play that will be workshopped and presented as a reading for an audience. This workshop is anticipated for one week at the beginning of September 2023. The commission, named after the late artist and playwright June Bingham, seeks to honor her creative legacy by empowering femme artists to create poignant, evocative, and timely new plays that push boundaries and reflect the nuance of the times we are living in. Previous recipients and projects have included Erlina Ortiz’s awa...

This project grows out of an intuition that the feelings surrounding climate change and the difficulty of achieving political consensus on how to address it can feel overwhelming, making necessary conversations difficult to manage. We are interested in using performance as a way of acknowledging the emotional toll of reckoning with our environment and through that reckoning, promote much needed discussion of the changes that await us.

Life Jacket invites nation-wide applications from Trans playwrights for a $10,000 commission to write a new, full-length verbatim play based on in-depth interviews with Trans people living throughout America.

Through exhibition and scholarship, the Assyrian Arts Institute mainstreams Assyrian arts as a way to preserve the Assyrian identity, show continuity, and to raise global awareness so that the Assyrian culture and traditions may be embraced and celebrated by all. Through preservation, exhibition, and scholarship, AAI nurtures a rich set of values which were born of culture and geography, survived through passion, and now belong to all who embrace and interpret them around the globe. If you are an artist, patron, historian, or just someone who appreciates passionate art, we invite you to join us in our quest. AAI believes that the arts are one of humanity’s most profound means of understanding the world and its diverse cultures. Through the arts we find the universal language that permits...