Organizations Type : Colonies & Residencies

.The Artists in Residence program aims to sponsor an educational and cultural interchange between Dominican and foreign artists.

Atlantic Center for the Arts is a nonprofit interdisciplinary artists' community and arts education facility dedicated to promoting artistic excellence by providing talented midcareer artists an opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world's most distinguished contemporary artists in the fields of music composition, and the visual, literary, and performing arts. Community interaction is coordinated through on-site and outreach presentations, workshops and exhibitions.

Baltic Center for Writers and Translators is an international residential centre for writers and literary translators, located in Visby on Gotland, Sweden. BCWT is a working and meeting place for literary professionals. The Centre has eleven studios/rooms and is open all year round. The Centre welcomes applicants from all countries - but priority of residence is given to literary professionals from the countries of the Baltic Sea region and Scandinavia, i.e. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden.

Our mission is to support and champion diverse contemporary playwrights in the creation of new works to sustain theater as a vital, dynamic art form. Playwrights Foundation’s primary artistic goals are: to elevate the role of the playwright as a 21st Century storyteller across live and mediated platforms; to provide a home that supports, encourages and advances the creative process of contemporary playmaking; and to feed the tributaries of the American theater, within the Bay Area and beyond.

The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program offers academics, artists, policymakers, and practitioners a serene setting for focused, goal-oriented work, and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with residents from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies. The Foundation’s Bellagio Residency Program has a track record for supporting the production of important ideas and knowledge addressing some of the most complex challenges facing our world, and innovative works of art that enhance our understanding of pressing global and social issues and encourage positive action. The Rockefeller Foundation is actively seeking to increase the diversity of its programs and is especially interested in recruiting individuals who are based outside of...

Blue Mountain Center, founded in 1982, provides support for writers, artists, and activists. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the center also serves as a resource for culturally-based progressive movement building. We expand and deepen conversations among cultural workers and support projects that emerge from these dialogues.

The Bogliasco Foundation offers one-month residencies at its Study Center in Italy to individuals of all ages and nations who can demonstrate notable achievement in the arts and humanities.

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild provides a vibrant center for excellence in the arts and crafts in the beautiful and unique rural community of Woodstock, New York, while preserving the historic and natural environment of one of the earliest utopian art colonies in America. It offers an inspiring combination of residency, educational, exhibition, and performance programs that encourage creative collaboration among artists, students, arts professionals, and the public.

The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, and founded by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill, is an international residential center for artists, thinkers and scholars in the Arts and Humanities. It offers time and space in a contemplative environment to think, create, and connect. Every year, the Camargo Foundation supports an international group of 9 artist and 9 scholars and thinkers in the Arts and Humanities by offering residencies of 6 to 11 weeks.

Centrum’s mission is to foster creative arts experiences that change lives. We exist to present, promote and honor: Traditional and evolving arts; Programs for a diverse array of learners that focus on the intersection of the arts and creative education; and Residencies that provide artists with precious time, space and inspiration to develop innovative work.

The Seneffe European College hosts literary translators from all over the world for a period of 15 days to a month and a half. All language combinations are welcome, however, our primary purpose is to promote the translation of French-language literature in Belgium. Priority is given to translators of Belgian authors. We provide residents with almost all the works of Belgian writers old and contemporary, regularly invite Belgian authors to seminars, and organize shows or readings in the Orangery and the Little Baroque theatre located in the area.

The mission of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program is to support and enhance the creativity of artists by providing uninterrupted time for work, reflection, and collegial interaction in a setting of great natural beauty, and to preserve the land on which the Program is situated.

The purpose of the European College of Translators is to promote international sentiment, tolerance in all areas of culture and international understanding.

Artscape is a not-for-profit urban development organization that makes space for creativity and transforms communities, established in 1986. We host two types of artist residencies: self-directed, and programmed. Every Writing Studio in our dedicated quiet “Writers’ Wing” includes a large desk and comfortable chair. Composer Studios are located in converted school portables and are separate from the rest of the residency centre. The 750 square-foot studios have an open-concept layout with a bedroom area, comfort zone and a large work table. The studios are not 100% soundproof, but are adequate for composing. See website for rates and details.

Hambidge provides a residency program that empowers talented individuals to explore, develop, and express their creative voices.

HBMG Foundation promotes the creative process through sponsored programs that provide educational, networking, and financial resources for the artistic community. The Foundation also builds connections between the artistic and business communities by engaging artists to provide creative solutions to business problems. Through our programs, we present new works that demonstrate imaginative applications of technology to the arts.

Headlands Center for the Arts provides an unparalleled environment for the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public, we offer opportunities for reflection, dialogue, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society. The Artist in Residence (AIR) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 45 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, comfortable housing, and travel and living stipends.

Hedgebrook is on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of Seattle. Situated on 48-acres of forest and meadow facing Puget Sound, with a view of Mount Rainier, the retreat hosts writers from all over the world for residencies of two to six weeks, at no cost to the writer. Six writers are in residence at a time, each housed in a handcrafted cottage. They spend their days in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property or on nearby Double Bluff beach. In the evenings, they gather in the farmhouse kitchen to share a home-cooked gourmet meal, their work, their process and their stories. The Writers in Residence Program is Hedgebrook’s core program, supporting the fully-funded residencies of approximately 40 writers at the retreat each year.

Est. 1954. We are located on fifteen acres in the heart of Taos, New Mexico, a four-hundred-year-old multicultural community renowned for its popularity with artists. The Foundation offers three months of rent-free and utility-paid housing to grantees. Our eleven guest houses, or casitas, are fully furnished and provide residents with a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavors.

Klaustrið (the Monastery) is a residence managed by The Institute of Gunnar Gunnarsson. It is situated at Skriðuklaustur Culture Center in East Iceland in the beautiful home of the Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson.

Est. 1987. The CITL's mission is to host in residence literary translators from all over the world, as well as authors wishing to work for a while with their translator, researchers, and linguists.

Est. 1967. The International Writing Program (IWP) is a unique conduit for the world’s literatures, connecting well-established writers from around the globe, bringing international literature into classrooms, introducing American writers to other cultures through reading tours, and serving as a clearinghouse for literary news and a wealth of archival and pedagogical materials. Since 1967, over fourteen hundred writers from more than 150 countries have been in residence at the University of Iowa.

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers approximately 70 juried residencies per year to visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Application deadlines are March 1 for July - December residencies and September 1 for January - June residencies annually.

MacDowell provides time, space, and an inspiring environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to eight weeks. Application fee is $30. There are no residency fees.

The intent of the McKnight National Residency and Commission is to support an established playwright from outside of Minnesota who demonstrates a sustained body of work, commitment, and artistic excellence. The Recipient of the Residency and Commission will create a new play which will be developed with the Playwrights' Center through a series of workshops and will culminate in a public reading of the play.

The Millay Colony is an artists residency program in Upstate New York offering one-month and two-week retreats to six visual artists, writers and composers each month between April and November. We also offer a select number of group residencies for collaborating artists and virtual residencies for those who can’t spend prolonged time away from home. We welcome artists of all ages, from all cultures and communities, and in all stages of their career.

Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Residency (formerly the Playwrights Unit) is a year-long program for Chicago-area generative theater artists. Established in 2010, the program commissions up to four theatrical projects each year, with commissioned artists meeting bi-monthly with the Goodman’s artistic staff and other cohort artists to develop their new works. Each selected project is awarded a $5,000 commission and is offered mid-point and final readings of their plays at the Goodman. Members are also considered artists-in-residence at the theater: they are invited to opening nights, meetings, rehearsals and special events as available. The New Stages Residency has expanded guidelines from the Playwrights Unit, and will consider any of the following types of project proposals: Single-author...

Since 2003, RLTP has supported the development of new plays by writers from Western New York.

At Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI), we are artists, innovative thinkers, and engaged citizens. We cultivate creative leadership and invest in community, culture, and place to reimagine a more equitable world.

SPACE on Ryder is an environment singular in its ability to invigorate artists and innovators and their work, and to contribute to the sustainability and resourceful preservation of one of the oldest organic family farms on the East Coast. Creative Residencies provide individual artists, activists, organizers and small groups (up to 4 people) the opportunity to create and ideate away from the stress and noise of everyday life in the company of other individuals. Residencies are centered around three farm fresh, communal meals daily, and residents have flexibility to structure their days to best suit their needs and the needs of their work. Creative residencies culminate with a short, informal sharing of the work accomplished while in residence at SPACE.

Stage Left Theatre inspires debate by producing and developing plays that explore political and social issues. Downstage Left residencies are designed to help playwrights take a project from the conceptual stage all the way to a production-ready script. Playwrights work closely with one of our ensemble directors and members of the literary team to design a process tailored to the particular needs of their project.

The Edward F. Albee Foundation is pleased to announce that we are relaunching our flagship residency program — The William Flanagan Memorial Creative Person Center (aka The Barn), located in Montauk, NY — after being shut for five years due to both the pandemic and extensive site-wide renovations. We have just opened our submissions window for 2025 and will be operating year-round for the first time in our nearly 60 year history. The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all artists to apply. The Center is open almost year-round and can accommodate comfortably up to four creative...

The purpose of The New Harmony Project is to create, nurture and promote new works for the stage, television, and film that sensitively and truthfully explore the positive aspects of life.

The WOMEN’S WORK LAB for short plays provides a supportive and nurturing environment to emerging and mid-career women playwrights. Six members are selected each year, along with a similar number of directors. The LAB meets monthly (Sundays) from February through June, allowing for time in between sessions for writers to continue to develop and revise their work in response to feedback. Members are expected to bring work to each session beginning with the development of an original short play based upon an assigned theme.

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre promotes excellence and innovation in the arts by providing residential opportunities and workspaces for artists with a proven record of achievement.

There are two residency sessions annually. Application deadlines are March 1 for Fall Session, which runs from August through the first Friday in December, and September 1 for Spring Session, which runs from March through the first Friday in June. Residencies vary in length from two to six weeks.

Each year five leading US-based artists are selected and provided funds to spend three to five months in Japan. This residency program allows artists to research and experience both the traditional and contemporary artistic milieu of Japan. Artists are free to live anywhere in the country to pursue activities of greatest relevance to their creative process.

Lucas Artists Fellows are selected through an international selection process, which is held for each discipline approximately every three years. The Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP) relies on an international group of over 200 nominators who are each requested to nominate three artists of exceptional merit. Nominated artists are then invited to submit a full dossier on their work, which is reviewed by a jury of experts in each discipline. Approximately 24 artists in each discipline are selected every three years. Artists are awarded three months in residency at LAP, which can be taken over three years.

Art Omi is a not-for-profit arts organization with residency programs for international artists, writers, translators, musicians, architects and dancers. Art Omi believes that exposure to internationally diverse creative voices fosters tolerance and respect, raises awareness, inspires innovation, and ignites change. By forming community with creative expression as its common denominator, Omi creates a sanctuary for the artistic community and the public to affirm the transformative quality of art. We welcome published writers and translators of every type of literature. International, cultural and creative exchange is a foundation of our mission, and a wide distribution of national background is an important part of our selection process.

Yaddo is a retreat for artists located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.

BRIClab is a commissioning and residency development program for Brooklyn and New York City-based artists to explore and expand the possibilities of their work in music, dance, theater and multidisciplinary performance. Free and open exploration and intentional commitment to process – with the support of the staff and resources that BRIC offers – are at the heart of the BRIClab program. Artists receive stipends and an intensive residency in BRIC’s Artist Studio with development time, opportunities for artistic mentoring, and work-in-process performances.

Fostering artistic excellence while developing cultural awareness and social responsibility. The Siena Art Institute’s Summer Residency Program grants accomplished professional artists & writers a studio space at the Siena Art Institute & a private one-bedroom apartment in the historic city center of Siena, as well as flight compensation for getting to and from Italy. Summer Residents are granted uninterrupted time to pursue their own independent projects, as well as the opportunity to explore the area of Siena and interact with the local community.

Located in Maine’s northerly “Downeast,” halfway between Mount Desert National Park and Campobello Island, one mile into the Atlantic Ocean, you’ll find a 150-acre island hosting a one-of-a-kind artist residency program. The Norton Island Residency Program, under the leadership of the Eastern Frontier Education Foundation, was founded as a nonprofit and developed to create an ideal place for artists to paint, write, sculpt and compose.

The Residency provides space for writers to step away from their lives and focus on writing in the comfort of a restored 19th century shotgun double. This July, the NOLA Writers' Residency will offer a small group of writers a four week writing retreat to focus on getting better at doing just that. The retreat will cover lodging, airfare up to $500, and a stipend of $200 per week to cover food and entertainment. During those four weeks, you will have complete freedom to plan your time in ways that best support your writing and build lifelong connections with other writers. You will also have the opportunity to receive in-depth personal mentoring in everything from writing routines to the details of your craft, by Kat, our resident mentor, career counselor, and editor extraordinaire. Eligi...

The Camargo Core Program is the historical and flagship program of the Foundation. Each year an international call is launched through which 18 fellows (9 artists and 9 scholars/thinkers) are selected. The Camargo Core Program offers time and space in a contemplative environment to think, create, and connect. By supporting groundbreaking research and experimentation, it contributes to the visionary work of artists, scholars and thinkers in the Arts and Humanities. By encouraging multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, it intends to foster connections between research and creation.

RealTime Interventions creates theatrical events and public experiences that depend upon the immediate nature of real time: events that come to life when people come together. We seek to generate human connection, curiosity and wonder, and to help audiences re-see their surroundings in new and unexpected ways. RealTime creates narrative art in conversation with a broad range of collaborators, from theater artists to scientists to rock bands to social workers to our neighbors down the street. We create vibrant “companies” with every new project, peopled by individuals from diverse walks of life and realms of experience who are bound by their stake in the story we are telling together.

Montana Repertory Theatre was established as a professional touring company in 1967, providing professional theatre to our own and neighboring Western states at an affordable cost. Our mission is to tell the great stories of our world to enlighten, develop, and celebrate the human spirit in an ever-expanding community.

An elegant, two-story home built by one of Breckenridge’s early pioneers, the Robert Whyte House now provides a temporary residence and workspace for visiting artists, who in turn offer open studio hours and public demonstrations in their craft. The Tin Shop Artists-in-Residence program provides time and space for artists to work on their medium of choice, while providing public interaction in the form of open studio hours and workshops to complement the growing Breckenridge Arts District. Artists also engage with the local school district. The Tin Shop has a working studio on the main level and a small fully furnished studio apartment on the upper level. Breckenridge Creative Arts is seeking artists in a variety of mediums to fill a one year time period, from January – December, with fle...

The Camargo Foundation hosts a number of partnership programs throughout the year, which are programmed and produced in collaboration with several partners in the United States and France such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation.

Butterfly Effect Theatre Company presents profound theatrical stories that inspire our audiences and enrich our community. Each season, BETC selects one playwright through a national competition to join us in Boulder for a one-week residency. During the residency week, the playwright works with a professional director, dramaturg, and actors to develop the selected script. The week concludes with a public reading and post-reading conversation. BETC takes pleasure in supporting our parent playwright residents’ writing careers post-residency, and advocating for production of their plays through connections within the National New Play Network. Competition guidelines will be posted in June on our website and through the New Play Exchange, with a September deadline. See website for details.

Chicago Dramatists provides the training, space, and connections needed to realize new work for the stage and screen. This six-year residency provides Chicago-area playwrights with the resources to develop their plays and grow as artists.

One of the first artist-run centres in Canada, La Centrale is run as a non-hierarchical organization and our members play a key role in our decision-making processes and in the development of our programming. Devoted to dissemination and creation, the centre also prioritizes experimentation. Annual performance residency. Est. 1973. The centre welcomes submissions by self-identified under-represented artists working in dialogue with issues of gender equality and social justice.

One of the leading artists communities in the world with locations in Amherst, Virginia and Auvillar, France, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) has as its mission advancing the arts by providing creative space in which our best national and international writers, visual artists and composers produce their finest creative work.

The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work seeks to enhance and expand the processes by which Berkeley Rep makes theatre. We invite artists to apply with projects that would benefit from a residency in Berkeley for 1–4 weeks. Berkeley Rep will provide transportation, housing, rehearsal space, basic technical support, and a modest stipend. We strive to offer the most flexible environment possible for artists to come together and share ideas in person, to receive customized support on each individual project and to work together across disciplines. We will maintain an ongoing conversation with our audience and community about the work we are creating, and we will champion the spirit of innovation so inherent to Berkeley and the Bay Area.

The Artist’s Cottage is available to artist of all disciplines. Used by visiting artists and their families, the sunny cottage is ideal short-term accommodation for singles or groups. This completely self-contained 3 bedroom cottage can provide you with everything you need to work undisturbed.

Gröndalshús is the charming former home of writer, illustrator and scholar Benedikt Gröndal (1826-1907). This writer’s home in the heart of the old town in Reykjavík has been renovated and opened as a cultural house and residency in 2017, run by Reykjavík City. The house is in Grjótaþorp, on the corner of Fischersund and Mjóstræti. The ground floor houses a residency flat for visiting writers, artists, scholars and translators of Icelandic literature who want to work on their art in Reykjavik. It can be rented for a period of 2 – 8 weeks for this purpose. See website for rates and details.

An apartment for visiting writers has been available in Gunnarshús since 1999. Gunnarshús is centrally located in Reykjavík (10 min by bus to downtown). The 60 square meter apartment, which is in the basement, comprises a living-room / study, a kitchen, and a bathroom. It is available for periods of 1 to 8 weeks at a time. See website for rates and details.

Tofte Lake Center provides a broad range of options for artists and arts organizations to participate in week-long residencies. We hope you will apply to be considered for one or more of our season's fifteen weeks of programming. See website for application information and grant opportunities.

Marble House Project is a multi-disciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration & the exchange of ideas by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work side by side. Our residency program is uniquely curated to bring together a diverse group of artists to facilitate exchange of different expertise, histories, techniques and perspectives. With a focus on conservation of natural resources, integration of small-scale organic food production and the arts, residents sustain their growth by cultivating and participating in the surrounding grounds, working on their artistic vision and forging partnerships within the community. Marble House Project is founded on the belief that the act of creating, whether in the studio or in nature, is how human p...

In 1997, a friend of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, purchased the former residence of Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso’s mistress from 1936 to 1945. In a five-year effort, the owner rehabilitated and updated this spacious 18th-century, four-story stone residence in the village of Ménerbes in the Lubéron valley of Provence. Her goal was to make it a retreat for scholars, artists, and writers, where they could work undisturbed on their research, art, or writing, for one to three months. In 2006 the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was asked to direct this project, which is now known as the Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House. Here outstanding midcareer professionals are offered fellowships that enable them to reside in the Dora Maar House and focus on the creative aspects of thei...

The Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals is the first of its kind in the country dedicated solely to the creation of new musicals. It provides a sanctuary for composers, lyricists, and librettists to embark on new musical theatre work or to devote a substantial amount of time to a work-in-progress in an environment rich with creative energy. For four weeks each year, 14 to 20 writers are immersed in this stimulating environment with the singular purpose of allowing the writers to write.

Liberation Theatre Company is a home for creative emerging black playwrights, providing resources to develop their work, nurturing and inviting them to express themselves in a supportive and focused environment. LTC brings together actors, directors, and playwrights to allow playwrights the room to learn and grow, culminating in their finest work, ready for production. The Writing Residency Program will select four early-career playwrights and provide them with dramaturgical and professional support over a nine-month period, during which time they will each be required to complete a new full-length play.

The Players Theatre in New York City is interested in helping plays and musicals move onto an off-Broadway run. While many shows move onto readings and festivals, few move beyond this point. Through mentoring and a theatre subsidy this program is meant to help creative teams self produce their show off-Broadway.

The foundation of our company is “Pass It On.” During our tenure, we pass the baton of Lead Producing Playwright from artist-to-artist, giving each playwright the chance to navigate the company using their individual artistic vision. Each group of Welders produces one show by each member playwright then passes the company (from board to bank account) on to a new group of artists. That group will produce one show by each member playwright then pass the company on again to a new group of DC-area artists, creating what we hope to be an ever-evolving platform for new play development right here in DC. While we are only accepting applications from fully-formed groups, we are more than happy to informally play matchmaker if we think an individual artist might be a good fit for a group we know...

Ox-Bow’s Artist-in-Residence program, located in Saugatuck, MI, offers artists and writers the time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation in their practice. During the fall residents are given the time, solitude, and focus often unavailable to so many working artists. Ox-Bow connects Artists to: -A network of creative resources, people, and ideas. -An energizing natural environment. -A rich artistic history and vital future.

The Writers House offers two residencies per year in an historic cottage in downtown Spartanburg, S.C. The program is open to emerging writers in the United States who have completed a college degree (BA, BFA, MA, MFA, PhD) in creative writing within the past five years or are pursuing a graduate degree (MFA, MA, or PhD) in writing. Residents receive lodging, utilities, and a stipend; they are responsible for their own transportation and meals. Our residencies include a community service component of 15 weeks with the Hub City Writers Project, and offer a stipend of $650 a month.

The Jan Michalski Foundation lies at the foot of the Swiss Jura Mountains in Montricher. Residences are open to all types of writing. Priority is given to writers and translators but the residences are open to other disciplines where writing is at the heart of the project. Residencies can be granted for individual projects or projects in pairs. See website for details.

The SPiN Artist Residency at Pikes Ibiza is a true art escape with the foresight to engage in creating a better World through art. Without the pressures from normal daily life, the attending artists will engage in progressive ideas, take risks and have mutual dialogue with other international artists. The residency accepts all forms of artistic approaches including, writers, painters, sketch artists, print makers, photographers, filmmakers, sound artists, new media artists, sculptors, graphic designers etc.

The key tenant of this program is flexibility. We understand that there are unique demands on parent artists, and look forward to working with each individual and their families to craft the most meaningful and least stressful experience that we can. Parent artists face a unique set of challenges, and The New Harmony Project is proud to launch a flexible residency program, designed to address each artist's individual circumstances. Selected writers will receive: A one-week residency in historic New Harmony, Indiana; Round-trip transportation to/from New Harmony; A daily meal stipend; Private housing; An additional flex stipend to support family travel, childcare, family meals, etc.

Each year in July the Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Program hosts a week-long residency for solo female artists at the 1812 Studio in Philadelphia. Two to three solo artists and a collaborator or mentor of their choice will be in residence, as well as program representatives from the Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Program Advisory Board. The focus of the residency is the development of a solo piece already in progress. Solo pieces in any stage of development will be considered.

The Orchard Project Greenhouse Program, for collaborators generating multiple new works and collaborations in a multitude of forms.

Stage Left Theatre inspires debate by producing and developing plays that explore political and social issues.

Creative teams are given retreat during a two-week long residency while working on the development of their new musical or a one-week residency while working on a new play. During this residency, we provide opportunities for creators to take their new musicals/plays into the next stage of development and explore their work with a community of artists in the rehearsal room as well as in front of an audience. Connecting emerging writers with our students and faculty offers mutually beneficial opportunities for artistic growth in a safe and focused environment.

The Compact is pleased to offer over sixty weeks in Fowler and C-Scape Dune Shacks from April to November, including several artist and writers residencies. The shacks are primitive — no electricity or indoor plumbing — and isolated, allowing for uninterrupted solitude and refuge. There are two writers residency weeks, June 1 - June 8, and November 2 - November 9, underwriten by The Compact.

The Mount is a National Historic Landmark and cultural center that celebrates the intellectual, artistic, and humanitarian legacy of Edith Wharton. We engage a diverse audience by providing context to Wharton’s life and achievements through our interpretive and public programs, and preservation of her historic estate. The Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in Lenox, Massachusetts, offers two and three week residencies each March for three women poet, fiction, or creative nonfiction writers (including published playwrights). The residents will be provided with a $1,000 stipend, a $250 travel allowance, work space at The Mount, and lodging for the entirety of their residency. Residents must provide their own transportation.

In recognition of Merrill’s own contributions to the Stonington community and his longstanding generosity to fellow writers, the fellowship provides living and working space to a writer in search of a quiet setting to complete a project of literary or academic merit.

The Players Theatre is dedicated to helping original plays and musicals move onto an Off Broadway or New York run. While many shows move onto readings and festivals few move beyond this point. Through mentoring and a theatre subsidy this program is meant to help creative teams self produce their show.

Since October 2015, The Studios at MASS MoCA have hosted over 500 artists and writers for residencies of up to 10 weeks. Selected artists receive: • Private, furnished studio space at MASS MoCA, available 24/7 • Housing (private bedroom/queen bed, shared kitchen, and bath) in newly renovated apartments directly across the street from the museum • One communal meal per day in the company of fellow artists-in-residence • MASS MoCA member benefits for the duration of the residency, including free access to the museum’s galleries and discounts on performing arts events and museum store purchases • Optional one-on-one artist-focused financial and business counseling through the Assets for Artists program. The full-price residency fee is $650/week, but many participants are offered both merit-...

Willapa Bay AiR, situated on 16 acres in coastal southwest Washington state, launched its residency program in March 2014. The Residency has been specifically designed, from the site selection to the architecturally specific building concepts, layouts, and materials, to combine the opportunity for solitude with the opportunity for daily community that fosters creative endeavor. We offer month-long, self-directed residencies to emerging and established artists, writers, scholars, singer/songwriters, and musical composers. The Residency provides lodging, meals, and work space, at no cost, to six residents each month from March 1 through September 30 of the year. Applications are evaluated by selection committees comprised of working artists and professionals in the applicants' respective fi...

The Jentel Artist Residency Program offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development. Here artists and writers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process in a setting that preserves the agricultural and historical integrity of the land.

The Bernard and Shirley Handel Playwright Fellowship, established in 2007, encourages the creative development of playwrights by enabling them to set aside time to pursue their work in an unstructured atmosphere at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, NY. The Fellowship annually provides a stipend that includes tuition to the Summer Byrdcliffe Artist In Resident Program at the Villetta Inn.

Since 1902, Byrdcliffe has offered uninterrupted time and space for creatives in all disciplines with fully and partially funded residencies including at least one playwright per session and at least one full fellowship for a playwright annually. Our serene mountain community is 2.5 hours north of NYC in the mountains of Woodstock NY. Artists are invited to participate in optional programming or are free to work in solitude during their entire stay. For information about The Annual Bernard and Shirley Handel Playwright Fellowship, please see Grants & Fellowships entry in the Career Development Opportunities section.

The Lighthouse Works’ Fellowship is an artist-in-residence program that strives to support artists and writers working in the vanguard of their creative fields. We are proud to have supported these artists, writers, and composers with the time and space to focus on their creative work.

PlySpace is a new, immersive Artist-in-Residence program based in the Emily Kimbrough Historic District in downtown Muncie, Indiana. PlySpace provides dedicated space and time for residents to investigate and pursue their own work. Additionally, it serves as a platform for experimentation and provocation by sparking conversation and collaboration with various Muncie communities.

The inaugural session of the SLV Social Practice Arts Residency will commence in the fall of 2019 and run through November 2020. We adopt the Alliance of Artist Communities’ definition of a social-practice residency as a program that primarily enables artists to engage in community-based work in significant ways throughout a residency. A social practice program necessitates residence because active community engagement and collaboration, and a local investment over time, are essential to deepen connections and address complex social issues in our region. The selected artists will be scheduled for 1 - 5 month residencies aligned with the university semesters. This will allow the guest artists the maximum benefit of university resources, such as facilities and student assistance, during t...

The 2019 Black Spatial Relics (BSR) Residency will support the development of two new performance works that address and incorporate the public histories of slavery and contemporary issues of justice. The artists-in-residence should pay particular attention to land -based histories of both the slave trade and its legacies on the Eastern seaboard of the United States as well as histories of chattel slavery, fugitivity and liberation. Applicants are invited to apply with performance projects that may traverse or engage dance, theatre, performance installation and/or ritual, spoken word, music/sound and or any multidisciplinary constellation of the aforementioned. Artists with both new and developing performance projects are welcome to apply.

During a one-year residency, playwright members gather monthly at the Geffen to share their work and receive feedback from their peers in a forum facilitated by Rachel Wiegardt-Egel, the Geffen’s Manager of New Play Development. With applications that are open to all Los Angeles-based playwrights, this program is ideal for those who would benefit from a structured and supportive environment in which to work on a new play.

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s residency is for queer theater and performance. It supports emerging artists interested in advancing the nature and discourse of queer theory through experimental work. This summer, there will be two month-long residency slots: one in July and one in August. Accordingly, the two chosen artists will receive free rehearsal space in the Leslie-Lohman Museum's Project Space on Prince Street in SoHo for one month alongside access to the museum's archives, guidance from staff, and an artist honorarium of $1,000. At the end of the residency, artists will be expected to present a work-in-progress showcase within the Project Space.

Nearly 200 residencies and fellowships are now offered annually to creative professionals of all types, making Ragdale one of the largest interdisciplinary artists’ communities in the country. Each session, 13 artists-in-residence experience uninterrupted time for dedicated work on a 5-acre historic campus beside a beautiful 50-acre prairie, 30 miles north of Chicago. With live/work studios, all meals provided, and unmatched staff support, Ragdale lets artists focus on what’s most important: creating new work.

The Embassy of Foreign Artists in Geneva Switzerland is launching calls for themed projects, open to all types of practice. These reflect our areas of interest and our aim to offer research time and visibility to original projects that examine their subject critically. The stay provides a private room as well as a working space and access to common areas shared with other residents; A residency of three or six months (the desired length of stay must be specified on the Application Questionnaire); A grant of 1200.- Swiss francs per month for the length of the stay.

The Tesseract Theatre Company is excited to offer one-year development residencies to playwrights in the St. Louis and surrounding area. Our residencies give playwrights an opportunity to have directors, dramaturgs, actors, and designers involved in the development process of their new work.

PLayLAB is Skylight’s professional playwrights-in-residence laboratory. We nurture and promote new works that speak to today's audience. Membership is by invitation with participants focusing on creating a brand new work from scratch each year. The session culminates in LAb Works, a public festival of selected new plays by the members.

New American Voices (NAV), Queens Theatre's renowned new play development program, is dedicated to supporting writers who represent the rich cultural diversity of the evolving populations of the borough of Queens, New York City and the United States. Since its inception in 2002, approximately one hundred new works have received Play Readings, Showcases and Full Productions on Queens Theatre's three stages.

Shaking the Tree realizes how important it is for emerging theatre groups/artists to have access to space in the exploration and creation phase of a new work. In this program, we will provide a week long residency to an emerging theatre group/artist that includes access to rehearsal space, basic tech support, marketing, and a two-three night performance run of their workshopped piece. Shaking the Tree audiences will benefit by attending this free event and learn about exciting emerging theatre/performance groups in the community.

Interrobang Theatre Project, in association with The Theatre School at DePaul University, is proud to announce The Playwriting Initiative. It is our belief that it falls on every theater in our community to nurture new work. Our commitment to playwrights will include providing a supportive environment with necessary resources such as actors, directors, and space.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons at Emerson College, established the National Playwright Residency Program (NPRP) in 2013. The program provides three years of salary, benefits, and a flexible research and development fund for a diverse group of American playwrights at selected theaters around the country. More than a standard residency, we conceived this initiative as an intervention into the traditional relationships between artists and institutions, as a way of reimagining what institutions might look like when an artist’s voice is at their cores.

Through a combination of personalized dramaturgy, group workshops, and professional development classes — featuring a roster of locally and nationally recognized artistic leaders — Company One Theatre’s PlayLab is an incubator of new work for writers of varied experience levels and backgrounds. Over its six seasons, C1 PlayLab has provided a multiplicity of dramaturgical support models for more than 40 playwrights, all with the goal of supporting Boston’s diverse artistic field.

The Boston Project is a new works initiative that supports the creation and development of new plays set in Boston, which explore what it means to live in this city at this moment and tap into the full breadth of experiences and identities that make up life in the Hub.

The Ingram New Works Project empowers exceptional new voices to write the stories they are most passionate about. Ingram New Works and Nashville Repertory Theatre provide playwrights with season-long developmental support, travel, lodging, hospitality, networking, and audiences, allowing them to focus on what they do best: creating powerful, necessary, impactful new plays. The three pieces of the Project are the Lab, Fellowship, and Festival.Since 2009, the Ingram New Works Project has supported the development of over 60 new plays. We are the playwrights’ home away from home, powered by Nashville’s authentic and radical hospitality.

Waterman’s Community Center, located on the midcoast Maine island of North Haven, is delighted to offer three 10-day residential retreats to developing female playwrights in late winter and early spring 2020. Designed to encourage new voices in theater, the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation grant will offer selected candidates time to create in a unique and beautiful setting and connect with the community there, sharing the power of theatre to inspire. The residencies will include a private efficiency apartment, a separate writing space with internet access, travel expenses covered up to $250 and a stipend of $500.

Waterman’s Community Center, located on the midcoast Maine island of North Haven, is delighted to offer three 10-day residential retreats to developing female playwrights in late winter and early spring 2020. Designed to encourage new voices in theater, the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation grant will offer selected candidates time to create in a unique and beautiful setting and connect with the community there, sharing the power of theatre to inspire. The residencies will include a private efficiency apartment, a separate writing space with internet access, travel expenses covered up to $250 and a stipend of $500.

Writers in residence are offered a room in the village center to pursue their current creative project. While in residence, they will contribute to the literary culture of Saint Paul de Vence by offering a community event or creative public program. Lunch every day is offered to the resident writers through partnerships with local restaurants and host families. The fellowship includes a $700 travel stipend.

The Greenhouse Residency offers seven aspiring playwrights, who have not had access to the professional theatre community through traditional means, a fully-subsidized weeklong residency on Ryder Farm in Brewster, NY (approximately 90 minutes north of NYC) to write and participate in workshops with mentor playwrights and other theatre professionals. The residency is intended for those who are mostly unaware of – or lacking access to – new play development or artistic residency opportunities and who may not have considered playwriting as a potential career because of socioeconomic reasons, despite having artistic passion and potential.

Rhymes Over Beat’s Resident Artist Program (RAP) is a three year residency, accepting one Resident Artist each year. The ROB Resident Artist will work closely with the Collective team members on the development of their work. The artist will be included as a ROB Collective Member during the three years. There is no submission fee, and no out of pocket expenses associated with the participation of this program.

Rapture Theatre is dedicated to elevating the quality of new works in Indianapolis. That is why we have created a program specifically designed for that purpose: The Dragon's Lair. ​The Dragon's Lair is a year-long development opportunity given to one Indiana-based playwright annually. We are looking for a new full-length play and a playwright who is eager to take their script to the next level.

Three schools commission and early career playwright to write a play that each school will independently produce throughout the academic year. The faculty, students, and playwright collaborate throughout the year in the development of the text. The script will be a full-length play with a minimum of five characters. The majority of the characters will be under thirty years of age so that undergraduate actors can successfully play the roles. The play will reflect the students’ thoughts on the theme suggested by the playwright.

The Cabal is an ambitious group of female-identified professional playwrights who promote the development of new scripted plays in the Twin Cities and one another’s success.

New Leaf is a local new play development program that focuses on uplifting the work of Minnesota-based emerging playwrights. This Fall, New Leaf will launch in collaboration with the Playwright Cabal and Arts Nest to present staged readings of five new plays between September and December 2019. Each event concludes with a facilitated feedback session between the audience and artistic team. By the end of the collaboration with us, we aim to elevate the playwright to the next level of their development process. All events are free and open to the public.

Artists need space to experiment—and cities need thriving arts communities. An artist-run organization, Base is accessible through a range of programs, all designed to encourage artists to take creative risks.

The Moore Artist Collective is committed to the creation of new works that directly address challenges experienced by young people and their families.

The Pat Graney Company began Keeping the Faith in 1992, which they offer to incarcerated women and girls nationwide. The program consists of performances, lecture-demonstrations and workshops for incarcerated women and girls.

Keeping the Faith-The Prison Project (non-religious) is an arts-based educational residency program designed to enable incarcerated women and girls to discover a sense of identity and to develop that identity within the context of community--through the vehicles of performance, video documentation and a published anthology of their writings.

Studio Current is an artist run culture creating subterranean laboratory.

Studio Current offers autonomous 9 month, 6 month, and 3 month residencies for artists across mediums.

Youngblood is Ensemble Studio Theatre’s OBIE-winning collective of emerging professional playwrights under the age of 30. Founded in 1993, Youngblood serves as a creative home for the next generation of theater artists. Youngblood provides artistic guidance, peer support, regular feedback and a fertile production environment which allows our member playwrights to hone their skills and explore their craft. We also provide exposure to the public and the press, professional outreach to the industry, and opportunities for production and publication.

BBC Writersroom works with writers at every stage of their career. We discover, develop and champion new and experienced writing talent across the whole of the UK. We’re based in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast.

ERS creates its performances through extended periods of collaboration. A typical development cycle includes 4-6 intensive work periods within a 2 year period, which conclude with work-in-progress showings. Time off between development is filled with touring and presentations of finished works. Following completion, the piece is presented in NYC for an extended run and is toured throughout the US and abroad.

Stripped Bare is Synchronicity Theatre’s arts incubator project. Created from the desire to use our new home as a midwife to new theatrical works and make space for emerging artists to flex their wings, Stripped Bare provides an incubator to test-drive new artistic ideas.

3GT was founded in 2011 for the express purpose of challenging the cultural bias that favors men’s voices over women’s on stage. At that time, fewer than 20% of plays produced by the American mainstream theatre establishment in any given year were written by women. Although change was afoot, in 2017 industry watchdog Theatre Communications Group noted “when it comes to the status of female playwrights in the American theatre, the long arc of history is bending toward parity-but so slowly, almost imperceptibly, that you’d be forgiven for despairing.” But recent data is more optimistic. Despite the Dramatists Guild’s findings that as of 2018, national production of plays by women overall is still languishing below 30% , TCG says the percentage of new plays by women getting production “has le...

The first residency in the United States exclusively for artists identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, is now accepting applications for its prestigious and internationally recognized summer program. Situated in the secluded community of Cherry Grove, NY, an historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island, five emerging visual artists and poets will share a live/work space for a four-week program marked by intimate studio visits with, and public lectures by, renowned leaders in contemporary art and curation. FIAR provides lodging, studio space, and a stipend for all meals.

We are offering a six-month residency to a writer who represents the LGBTQ+ community and/or explores LGBTQ+ topics in their work. The residency provides full-time (24 hour) access to both our Union Square and Williamsburg locations.(Runners up receive one-month residencies).

INCUBATE gives playwrights the opportunity to identify, for themselves, what form of support they need in order to develop their practice and to progress their work on a new concept or script. In partnership with COMMON, the Pleasance Theatre (Islington) will provide vital support to four working-class playwrights through giving them the time, money and space needed to explore a new concept / script, and to identify for themselves what support they need to do it.

RedLine is a nonprofit contemporary art center and artist residency that fosters education & engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change.

As RedLine's foundational program, our Artist Residency remains at the core of all the we do as an organization. We offer two-year residencies for 15-18 emerging, contemporary artists. RedLine Artist Residents receive mentorship, career development, and promotion, and all artists receive fully subsidized studio spaces, which provides financial flexibility, giving Residents the freedom to explore and experiment, without commercial constraints.

Creative Greensboro is proud to sponsor the NC New Play Project, an annual workshop production. Playwrights from across North Carolina may submit their full-length scripts or related one-acts for consideration. The deadline for submitting a play for the 2021 NC New Play Project is Monday, June 1

Wild Project provides a familiar home and attentive staff to our resident companies which enables the companies to continue their respective missions to serve the cultural landscape of New York City. Resident companies receive 2-8 weeks of exclusivity to Wild Project’s 89-seat theatre each year, which extends stability and clarity to theatre companies whose brand and artistic influence are experiencing growth.

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.

Serenbe Playhouse is a professional theatre company committed to producing bold new works and reinvented classics that connect art, nature and community.

Urbanite Theatre is committed to creating visceral, shared experiences by fearlessly lifting up the boldest new voices in theatre. We believe in inclusive, artist-first storytelling, daring honesty, and the powerful connectivity of an intimate space. The inaugural Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission at Urbanite Theatre is accepting applications from early to mid-career playwrights of color.

The 3 pillars of our mission: empowering artists to generate a dynamic, uniquely global program of adventurous work, innovating and celebrating the power of live theatre; pro-actively and meaningfully inviting our NYC community to engage in this artistic work; providing affordable access to ensure that our theatre is available to all.

This nine-month-long residency (January– September 2021) will offer one artist the opportunity to create a new project or body of work inspired by beautiful natural landscape, stunning monuments, and compelling history. The residency is open to emerging or mid-career artists residing in New York City and working in the visual and/or performing arts. The artist will be provided a $7,500 honorarium, private studio space in the landmarked Fort Hamilton Gatehouse, and access to the Cemetery’s professional staff and archives and historical collections. The selected artist will be announced at the end of September, 2020.

This nine-month-long residency (January– September 2021) will offer one artist the opportunity to create a new project or body of work inspired by beautiful natural landscape, stunning monuments, and compelling history. The residency is open to emerging or mid-career artists residing in New York City and working in the visual and/or performing arts. The artist will be provided a $7,500 honorarium, private studio space in the landmarked Fort Hamilton Gatehouse, and access to the Cemetery’s professional staff and archives and historical collections. The selected artist will be announced at the end of September, 2020.

Collaborative. Community-driven. Socially Engaged. Control Group cultivates a community driven by innovation and exploration. We create opportunities for learning, sharing, personal growth, and career development, for artists from recreational to professional. We bring our work and approaches into underserved communities, cultivating new voices and promoting simple life skills available through artistic practices. We stand at the forefront of innovation in Denver's independent performance scene. We are tirelessly building a community of artists, supporters, and audience/participants to carry local culture through the 21st century. Colorado-based and globally-faced, we seek to connect our work and community with larger flows and cutting-edge innovations around the world.

Created by award-winning playwright Donja R. Love in 2019, Write It Out! (WIO!) provides an affirming space for people living with HIV (PLWHIV) to create their narratives in a theatrical framing artistically. By placing PLWHIV at its core, WIO! builds community for people of similar lived experiences to express themselves freely while amplifying the visibility of PLWHIV in the theatre and beyond. The intention of WIO! is to use the power of imagination and healing to radically transform the landscape of theatre and those living with HIV.

The Ensemble Playwright Lab (EPL) is a residency program in which the playwright engages with Letter of Marque's (LOM) ensemble to create, develop, or reimagine a piece of work; which will be presented to the public at the end of the residency. There will be two residencies: Fall & Winter. Two playwrights, one for each residency, will be selected to work with our ensemble once a week, for a total of 21 hours of collaboration and discovery. And the best part? The EPL is FREE to the playwrights! Each residency is uniquely tailored to provide playwrights with the opportunity to collaborate closely with LOM’s artistic directors and professional multi-disciplinary ensemble. This experimental process of creation and development is designed to welcome the playwright into the rehearsal roo...

The Public Theater is San Antonio’s largest, most productive professional live theater organization and only Equity Theater. Established in 1912 as the San Antonio Dramatic Club and incorporated on April 6, 1927, as the San Antonio Little Theatre it is the most historic theater in South Texas. The company has had other brands such as The San Pedro Playhouse (1997), and The Playhouse San Antonio (2012). Its most recent brand, The Public Theater of San Antonio, was unveiled on January 7th, 2018 in an effort to align the organization’s new professional vision to the needs of the region. For over a century, The Public Theater has evolved to serve its community as a 501c3 non-profit organization.

Every month (mostly), we pick a featured playwright whose work we love. Then we curate a rotating group of resident and guest directors who in turn collaborate with the talents of the actors of their choice. Individually, each group rehearses and interprets one short work of a featured playwright before then all coming together to form that month's PLAYxPLAY. The series offers an audience the rare opportunity to see a wide range of a single writer's voice in one evening, while simultaneously offering the playwright the chance to see a variety of interpretations of their work by an array of artists. The group is run by co-producers and *resident directors: Jake Beckhard, Bryn Herdrich, and Lauren Zeftel.

At The Sappho Project, we provide the platform for women and TGNC musical theatre book writers, composers, and lyricists to share their work. We want our industry to more accurately reflect all perspectives, stories, and experiences. Don't you? By providing simple and direct access to resources, we are seeking to make original work visible. We support early career artists by producing new works and connecting artists to collaborators and mentors.

“MKE MaKEs” is a series to develop and present world premiere music theatre works. The program will encompass a wide range of new musical works from never-before-produced readings to fully produced world premieres. “Made in Milwaukee” is a proud moniker we will apply to all works under the MKE Makes umbrella,” said Michael Unger, Skylight Music Theatre Artistic Director. “Skylight feels that it is critical to the survival of the American music theatre to foster new works and new writers and encourage voices we have not yet heard to take center stage.”

Page to Stage Pipeline, a group to develop new plays on the University of Southern Maine’s campus.

THE GREENHOUSE is a play development program at FIU Theatre supporting South Florida playwrights. Three playwrights were selected for one-week intensive residencies in the summer to workshop/revise a draft of a full-length play. A director, a dramaturg, and age-appropriate actors will work with the playwright. The week will culminate in a public reading of the revised work — this year, virtually on Zoom.

Irons in the Fire is Fault Line Theatre's year-round reading series of new plays in development. We believe that every play and every playwright requires something a little different, and we want to give our artists the right sandbox to play freely within. So the format for both process and presentation is intentionally malleable. Each public presentation of these works in progress is the culmination of a few hours, a few weeks, or even a few months of rehearsal, depending on what each project requires. These readings are hosted in an environment that appropriately celebrate that particular new script, and are supported by a social event that brings the Downtown Theatre Community together in a fun and meaningful way. A Few Thoughts Before You Apply Applications are due Monday, September 2...

The fulcrum of our mission currently rests in our weekly Monday night workshop where we develop the work from our writers. Our structure is such that it evolves as we do. Just like our own artistic development, our process is ever-changing and always improving. Alongside the Monday night workshop, our membership participates in special programs to engage as a community and further their personal artistic goals. Master classes, development weekends and other career-focused events give Fierce artists the extra space to concentrate on the becoming a better artist through experiences. Projects that reach different levels of artistic readiness are selected for staged readings, workshop productions or full productions as part of our producing season. Everything produced by Fierce has been engag...

The Playwright Development Program (PDP) is a series of two-day workshops conducted by nationally-renowned playwrights in conjunction with the Theatre League of South Florida and the Deering Estate at Cutler. The program is designed to provide intensive support for developing new work from Miami-Dade County’s growing and diverse community of playwrights. Local playwrights are invited to submit work samples for review by a panel that will admit a limited number of participants into the series. The PDP Cycle lasts two years and consists of three weekend workshops each year (a total of 6 weekend workshops) with exact dates to be determined. Selected local playwrights must agree to attend all workshops, at which they will be provided with the opportunity to develop their work further in...

With its roots in the McCarthy Era Blacklisiting, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum has provided a home in Southern California for professional Shakespeare and the classics in its scenic, outdoor amphitheatre in rustic Topanga Canyon for over 45 years. Theatricum is also committed to finding new works and furthering new voices in theatre through Botanicum Seedlings. Opportunities through Botanicum Seedlings include Playreadings, Festivals, private GreenReads (for a fresh look at early drafts) and Dramaturgy Workshops, culminating in developmental GreenReads. Since its creation in 2002, the program has supported well over 150 new plays.

Clutch is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to creating opportunities for female artists in theatre and film. By commissioning and producing original works, Clutch provides vital creative space for female writers, directors, actors, and designers to collaborate and work together. Clutch welcomes the voices and work of writers, actors, directors, designers, technicians, producers, and artists who identify as female. All ages. All colors. All races. All faiths. All abilities. All sexual orientations. You are #SoClutch.

New York City is changing drastically during this pandemic and racial justice reckoning. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and playwright Cusi Cram invite artist investigators - playwrights, performers, designers, directors, dramaturgs, and other theatremakers - to artistically investigate a block in NYC. This is designed to be a block you have a connection to - it can be where you live, or just a block you love. It can be in your neighborhood or not. 5 artists will be selected to receive a mini-grant of $250 to produce any sort of artistic material that addresses one or more of the questions: Why did you choose this block? What is there to celebrate about this block? What are the challenges of the block? What was this block like in a previous time? How do you imagine this block in 3...

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation was founded on the premise that art, artists and creative culture offer significant value in our society. Our mission is to support artists, cultural organisations and educational institutions to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in the viewing and creation of art. The Bomb Factory enables contemporary visual arts practice to thrive through the provision of affordable studio and exhibition space as well as a supportive network of artists where peer collaboration and critique is encouraged. All resident artists support the organisation by contributing their skills and time to the public programme. Their engagement with learning and participation enables The Bomb Factory Art Foundation to demonstrate the social value of art.

Our mission is to inspire people to write and share their stories. We do this through events and workshops at our Writing Center and within the community, through our residency program, and by offering support to our writers.

The Road is proud to begin its fourth year of Under Construction, a playwright’s group that develops socially and politically relevant voices and thoughts for the American stage. The goal of Under Construction is simple: to leave with a deeper knowledge of playwriting through collaborating and sharing with one’s peers, and for each participant to create a new piece that is workshop ready. Playwrights are given live readings of their plays in our state of the art theatre on Magnolia. Initial drafts will be read by fellow playwrights, but participants in this program will also have access to The Road’s ensemble of theatre artists for private & public readings, as well as support from the Artistic Team at The Road.

Still Standing is a one-year residency, from March 2021 to February 2022, open to creatives across all disciplines. Twenty artists will live in a Stonehenge NYC apartment for free, in exchange for regular commissions of their work. The details and deadlines of these commissions will be agreed upon prior to move-in. While the structure may vary by medium, the goal remains the same -- we will show the world that New York City is still standing.

The PlayGround Experiment is a home for theatre artists to explore, test, and showcase new work while finding inspiration and support from the community that it creates.

Founded by musical theatre specialist Adam Lenson and based on extensive research and study about development methodologies, we create new musicals using an artist-driven approach. This places the voices and ideas of composers, lyricists and writers at the centre of our projects. We are especially interested in innovative and contemporary work that challenges people’s preconceptions of what a musical should sound like, look like and be about.

FORGE is a boutique consulting agency grounded in the philosophy that how you work matters as much as why you create and what you want to make. We believe in the power of process, and in building the skills, systems, plans, and practices that will carry you not only through your next set of goals, but your life’s work as a creator. We see ourselves as coaches as much as consultants. We are proud to bring our expertise to the table, as we encourage and enable our clients to build their own skills. Our goal is to teach you the tools to master your present challenges and meet those ahead with confidence. Our own process grows from the fundamental strength of our teamwork. Working with FORGE gets you the experience and expertise of both Chie + Greg, from first meeting to final check-in. Whet...

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 will carry you through your life’s work as a creator. Learn to articulate your work with gusto, concoct creative solutions to today’s conundrums, and retrofit your process with guidance from FORGE an...

To build international and cross-cultural collaborations through music theatre performance that cultivate, connect, and empower artists across borders.

The Seattle Arts Fellowship is a yearlong fellowship program hosted by Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony, and Pacific Northwest Ballet to develop the next generation of arts leaders. The fellowship is for individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color (BIPOC) and are seeking leadership positions in arts administration. The paid fellowship includes hands-on work experience in arts administration and learning opportunities including leadership training, skill building, mentorship, and networking. The fellowship cohort will engage in peer-to-peer learning, connect with local arts leaders, and build a strong network to support their career development.

A home for the arts on the North Fork.

Village Theatre announces open submissions for its new Northwest Creator Residency program, seeking Seattle-area Black, Indigenous and POC artistic creators of all experience levels, including but not limited to writers, composers, performers, choreographers, directors, designers, and producers, to begin work on any element of a new musical. If you make any kind of performing art we want to hear from you. We are interested in fostering your humanity as an artist and are not specifically interested in any one particular project. Creators will be chosen based on their artistic vision and residency goals. Artists are encouraged to bring their unique voice and point of view to their project and to create what is most present in their artistic spirit at this moment.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, a national leader in the creation of innovative theatre, is launching a transformative fellowship program in partnership and with a lead gift from the Miranda Family Fund, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s family philanthropic fund. This ambitious new program is designed to provide talented candidates from historically excluded communities, especially Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, with the resources and training necessary to build their careers as arts administrators or theatre technicians. Each fellowship is structured as a paid year-long department-specific position with benefits (including health insurance), and a housing stipend. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the inaugural fellowships will take place over one and a half years and begin as remote positions i...

Our mission is to create an international environment where all artists are welcome. A safe place to explore, contemplate and share ideas. A place without judgement, where all artists are free of explaining themselves. We aim to empower the creative spirit in its many forms, which in the process, has created a vibrant artistic community.

Los Angeles Performance Practice is a non-profit organization devoted to the production and presentation of contemporary performance by artists whose work advances and challenges multi-disciplinary artistic practices. Our mission is to support a unique and diverse constellation of artists and audiences through the active creation and presentation of groundbreaking experiences that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology and social engagement. Anchored in Los Angeles, our artists and projects have national and global reach. Across a range of platforms and partnerships, we build an active network of contemporary practitioners—curators and producers, artists and designers, audiences and patrons—all leveraged in service to the ideas and issues of our time.

A Studio in the Woods fosters creative responses to the challenges of our time by providing retreat to artists, scholars, and the public in our protected forest on the Mississippi River.

A Studio in the Woods fosters Gulf South Writer in the Woods, a program of A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, supports the creative work, scholarship and community engagement of writers examining the Gulf South region. Specifically, this year we aim to support BILAPOC Speculative Fiction writers working in prose, poetry and stage/screenwriting. Special consideration will be given to southern voices, under-represented communities, and perspectives not often heard. Eligible writers must live in the Gulf South, be from/have heritage in the Gulf South, and/or write about the Gulf South. The awardee will receive a stipend of $5,000, a 6-week residency at A Studio in the Woods over 18 months, Tulane University library access, and staff support from the presenti...

Dedicated to bringing art from elsewhere to New York, NOoSPHERE Arts’ all-volunteer team of artists & curators keeps seeking new ways to accomplish our goal: to offer the U.S. audience access to current art from other countries and to bring creative people together for artistic cross-pollination and transnational collaborations. NOoSPHERE Arts’ current presentation platforms include Mothership NYC, a live-work space with a huge outdoor stage in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Also founded and run by NOoSPHERE Arts’ director, this community of international creatives has a complementary mission: “to support and promote artists across multiple disciplines through residencies, public shows and collaborative opportunities; build sustainable transnational artist networks; and help retain creative f...

The Anderson Center’s Deaf Artists Residency (DAR) is an ASL-centric environment where Deaf artists can communicate and exchange ideas. The program provides 5 Deaf artists the opportunity to come together to live, work and share ideas with other native ASL signers, while advancing their own personal artistic projects.Because the program is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, only Deaf artists based in the United States of America are eligible to participate.

While the world is reeling from coronavirus consequences, it's all too clear that not everyone has been equally affected. Our greatest work right now is continuing to dismantle white supremacy, combating the calcification of xenophobia, racism, and all kinds of bigotry, and shifting more of our resources, time, and energy into generating restorative systems. Even and especially within the creative world, it is our duty to vision, in these socially distant recovery times, how we will come together again and thrive in collaboration when we’re ready to gather safety again.

Mentorship Matters is an intensive year-long mentorship program with a simple goal: To help place emerging writers of color inside television writers rooms, and change the landscape of who gets to tell stories in our industry.

The Orchard Project Performance Lab, for professional makers of live performance, either staged in traditional or digital venues.

The Orchard Project Episodic Lab, for writers working on the advancement of original TV scripts.

The Orchard Project Audio Lab, for early development of scripts and ideas in the audio storytelling form.

As part of the Orchard Project's ongoing commitment to push the storytelling form, it will be supporting a new online-only laboratory called the Liveness Lab. The Liveness Lab will explore how performance can address the questions of “liveness” in the current moment, looking into and far beyond live-streamed video chat. From technical solutions to process-based innovations, the artists and companies participating will explore possibilities, hear from experts in a variety of fields, and examine processes past, present, and future.

Playwright Residency in Manhattan, NY

The Theatre Department’s mission is to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive education in the practices and processes of creating theatre and live performance. Columbia offer a number of programs designed to suit your particular interests, including Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees as well as minors in Acting, Stage Combat, Theatre Directing, and Writing for Performance. The Musical Theatre Program of the Theatre Department at Columbia College Chicago is looking for a new musical theatre work that we will workshop, rehearse, and present either in-person or virtually (depending on vaccine distribution and mask mandates) in the Fall of 2021. We are looking for a piece (or pieces) that provide(s) a unique perspective on our contemporary moment, shine(s) a ligh...

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

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States.

Our role is to mentor Boston-based artists and reach diverse audiences. We want to challenge opinions and push artistic boundaries through socially relevant theatre.

NADIA is a non-profit organization based in New York City dedicated to coordinating the research, development, and implementation of industry-wide anti-discriminatory practices. NADIA supports a diverse group of project leaders and artists who are looking to think critically and discover new ways to produce culturally conscious art in order to develop practices that are equitable, inclusive, and sustainable. National Arts Diversity Integration Association (NADIA) is accepting script submissions for a new play or musical to be recorded and presented as a staged reading in their Spring 2021 Amplified Currents Festival of the Arts, which will be held online, April 17th-25th, 2021. Please note: There are no submission fees, nor is there a fee to be a part of the festival. This is a paid opport...

Founded in 2012, Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre elevates the voices of womxn by reimagining the classics. By investing in the growth of our artists, we nurture an inclusive and collaborative community that creates artistically excellent work.

The Bay Area Fellowship Program (BAF) represents a radical departure from Headlands’ traditional modes of working with artists. The BAF will engage each artist as a full collaborator in designing and producing their own Fellowship engagement, bringing them into the Headlands community as thought partners while developing an experience tailored to their specific needs. Applicants should come with a desire to work closely and deeply with their Fellowship cohort and Headlands staff to thoughtfully and iteratively design the vision, aims, schedule, scope, and allocation of resources for their own Fellowship. In short, Fellows will partner with Headlands to produce the nature of its support. This program aims to deepen support for Bay Area artists; engage artist Fellows as partners in collabora...

Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian and Asian American (A/AA) performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of A/AA artists’ words, and the presentation of A/AA bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established A/AA artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve.

Founded in 1971, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center is one of the largest ethnic arts and cultural centers of its kind in the United States. A hub for Japanese and Japanese American arts and culture and a community gathering place for the diverse voices it inspires—Japanese American Cultural & Community Center connects traditional and contemporary; community participants and creative professionals; Southern California and the world beyond.

Our mission is to provide playwrights the opportunity to excel at their craft by fostering an environment that nurtures the creation of powerful, thought-provoking and relevant plays that bring new, diverse voices to the local and national stage.

In 2000, the Norton Island Residency for Writers & Artists was founded as a nonprofit under the leadership of the Eastern Frontier Educational Foundation and developed to create an ideal place for writers to write, artists to paint and sculpt, and musicians to compose. In 2021, we celebrate our 22nd summer and 43rd & 44th residency sessions. In 22 years, more than 500 artists and writers have used the Norton Island venue for their work.

The Department of Outreach and Education is offering Playwriting and/or Poetry Residencies for middle school and high school students. Participants will have the opportunity to express themselves through the written word. Playwriting students will learn about the basics of playwriting, the elements of story, and will be challenged as their imaginations are stretched to the limits. Poetry Performance students will learn about using fresh language, developing a strong focal point, and how to ground their ideas by rooting them in a firm foundation. Students will be challenged as their imaginations are stretched to the limits with collaboration between creative writing and fine arts classes. The writing process, included in Arts Standard #1, will strengthen verbal skills, enhance literacy, a...

American Players Theatre’s mission is to perform timeless, challenging, poetic texts, with Shakespeare at the center, to the broadest audience possible. We strive to share our understanding that great poetry and stories, both from our past and from the emerging voices of our future, can illuminate the ever-expanding experience of what it is to be human.

Fall 2021 Residencies are available between August 30 and December 19, 2021. Our goal is to make it easier for New York City performing artists to safely make and share their work.

The Studios of Key West was founded in 2006 with the initial inspiration of simply providing space for artists to live and work, thereby drawing creative people to our island and enriching the lives of all who live here. In those earliest days, our founder Peyton Evans gathered fourteen of Key West’s most successful artists and writers and arranged for them to participate in artist residency programs throughout the country, then return to help us craft our own program combining the best of what they’d seen and learned. Hundreds of writers and artists have since come to Key West through the Peyton Evans Artist Residency (PEAR) Program, many returning and several relocating permanently. Each has benefited from the island’s unique character, and left something of themselves behind. The PEAR...

Stochastic Labs awards fully sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies in San Francisco are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials. Residents become part of Stochastic’s creative community, participating in weekly dinners and invitation events. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams. While applicants may be at any stage in their career, the selection is highly competitive.

As Un-American Blackbox centers artworks as the vehicle for fostering and promoting conversation about American identity, we’re also committed to offering time, space, and resources for the creation and development of those artworks. PLAYBOX Series is focused on workshops of new pieces of American theatre, culminating in virtual readings for a live audience.

Our mission at the cell is to mine the mind, pierce the heart, and awaken the soul through the incubation of new work.

Our mission at the cell is to mine the mind, pierce the heart, and awaken the soul through the incubation of new work. the cell residency program is a monthly program that commissions and aids in the development of new works from artists across all disciplines. Applicants that are selected receive up to $2,500 as well as free rehearsal space, staffing and developmental resources. Projects can range anywhere from workshops to full productions or exhibitions. The amount awarded will vary from project to project based on requirements.

In March 2020 a bunch of theaters* were producing plays, business as usual, when a global pandemic had other plans. Prioritizing the safety of their communities, they made difficult decisions to cease or postpone programming for the remainder of their seasons. But the story doesn’t end there. With a spirit of resilience, adaptation, and invitation, they came together to create the Play At Home project, a series of short plays commissioned specifically for this moment of unprecedented isolation to inspire joy and connection for all.

OUR MISSION: To create high-quality theatre in an intimate environment that inspires comm/unity with empathy, emotion, reflection, and conversation. We believe that empathy and shared experiences create grounds for respect, tolerance, and humanity within a community. Warehouse PAC aims to fine-tune a theatrical experience where audiences witness actors/artists inside plays more intimately than most playhouses, and thus with greater empathic and shared impact.

Arcola produces daring, high-quality theatre in the heart of East London and beyond.

CineStory runs two retreats a year, one for screenwriters and one for TV writers. To be eligible to attend a retreat, writers must submit to one of our contests. For more information about attending either retreat, please visit our Feature Fellowship & Retreat page or our TV Fellowship & Retreat page. Grand Prize Fellowships Writers who enter our contests also are eligible to win each contest’s Grand Prize Fellowship. A Fellowship consists of a cash prize, free tuition and housing for the retreat, and a 12-month educational mentorship with 2 Hollywood professionals hand-picked to continue to educate the Fellow about the craft and business of writing for the screen in the entertainment industry. A Fellowship winner must attend the retreat in order to receive the cash award and to b...

The BringAbout supports the development of new theatrical works by providing writers and creatives with time, space, and talent to realize their visions through movement. Jennifer Jancuska leads the fluid group of professional artists through the craft of collaboration, allowing dance to be used as a narrative tool. TBA works to meet the needs of each unique project in an imaginative and authentic way. who is JENNIFER JANCUSKA + THE BRINGABOUT? Jennifer Jancuska is a choreographer and creative producer, as well as the founding Artistic Director of the Brooklyn based company, The BringAbout. Over the span of three years, The BringAbout has been engaged in development of more than 25 new works leading towards productions in New York, California, and Connecticut. The BringAbout includes a...

The BringAbout supports the development of new theatrical works by providing writers and creatives with time, space, and talent to realize their visions through movement. Jennifer Jancuska leads the fluid group of professional artists through the craft of collaboration, allowing dance to be used as a narrative tool. TBA works to meet the needs of each unique project in an imaginative and authentic way. who is JENNIFER JANCUSKA + THE BRINGABOUT? Jennifer Jancuska is a choreographer and creative producer, as well as the founding Artistic Director of the Brooklyn based company, The BringAbout. Over the span of three years, The BringAbout has been engaged in development of more than 25 new works leading towards productions in New York, California, and Connecticut. The BringAbout includes a...

Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) in partnership with the Everglades National Park, empowers artists to think creatively and critically about their relationship to the environment with a mission of revealing new paths forward.

Theater Mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the Asian American experience.

Established in 2015, PAIR was inspired by artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles' residency with the Department of Sanitation, which she pioneered in the 1970s. Based on the idea that artists are creative problem-solvers, the program embeds artists in City agencies to propose and implement solutions to pressing civic challenges.

MUSE’s mission is to cultivate more racial equity in theatrical music departments by providing access, internships, mentorships, and support to historically marginalized people of color. MUSE aims to challenge systemic acts of exclusion and support musicians as we transition to a more diverse and inclusive environment for all.

MUSE’s mission is to cultivate more racial equity in theatrical music departments by providing access, internships, mentorships, and support to historically marginalized people of color. MUSE aims to challenge systemic acts of exclusion and support musicians as we transition to a more diverse and inclusive environment for all.

The MFA Musical Theatre Program at San Diego State is committed to the creation of new works of musical theatre. Our objective is to nurture the creation of new musical theater and to provide an invaluable educational opportunity to our students to work directly with top professionals in the field. Over the course of two years, MFA students will rehearse and develop to full production a new work of musical theatre under the guidance of faculty director Stephen Brotebeck and faculty music director (and Head of MFA Program) Robert Meffe. Brotebeck and Meffe have years of Broadway experience developing new musical works for the stage including shows such as Peter and the Starcatcher, Ghost and Little Women. Past artists have included Lynne Shankel, Crystal Skillman, Bobby Cronin, Caroline Pr...

Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. 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. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.

The Jewish Plays Project puts bold, progressive Jewish conversations on world stages. The JPP’s innovative and competitive development vehicle invests emerging artists in their Jewish identity; engages Jewish communities in the vetting, selecting and championing of new voices; and secures mainstream production opportunities for the best new plays.

Jouska PlayWorks is an assembly of Black playwrights, all of whom are committed to creating theatre to enrich, entertain, empower, and awaken the moral conscience. Simpatico Theatre promotes positive social change in the Philadelphia community through theatre.

We're a playwright service organization based in Charlotte, NC. We exists primarily, to serve playwrights in Charlotte & The South via the development of new work and theatre artists. Join us every 3rd Saturday for An Artist Talk and every 4th Friday for a play reading. All on Facebook! linktr.ee/qcnewplays

Founded in 2019, Write It Out! (WIO!) is a groundbreaking playwriting program and prize for people living with HIV and AIDS. WIO! takes pride in being created by community for community. Understanding the isolation one can feel when living with HIV, WIO! provides community and artistic tools as it amplifies the visibility of people living with HIV in the theatre and beyond. The goal of WIO! is to use the power of imagination and healing to strengthen the voice of those living with HIV and AIDS and transform the theatrical landscape into a more equitable and stigma-free space. The free workshops take place virtually every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-6:30pm EST, from September - December. Write It Out! is only for people living with HIV. All writing levels/experiences are encouraged to...

A lab to create a critical mass of TGNC plays so that the theater cannot say that this work never existed. In 2018, four trans and gender non-conforming playwrights/writing teams will develop 4 new plays in the Trans Lab Fellowship supported by the Women’s Project and The Public Theater. Plays written by trans and gender non-conforming playwrights are a rarity in American theater, as transgender stories get co-opted, commercialized, and poorly represented by cisgender writers, we are developing a lab to create a critical mass of tgnc plays so that the theater cannot say that this work never existed. Our lab will also support 1-2 emerging directors as we have noticed a lack of trans and gnc directors. The year long program culminate in a series of readings of the works developed in the lab....

ALL MY RELATIONS is an art, theater, film, and design collective committed to making new work that uplifts the interconnectedness of all living things past, present, and future. We shed the idea of prescriptive process. We weave together all parts of our artistic practices that we've developed in the concentric circles we work in; social justice, community organizing, reservations, broadway theaters, universities, and museums. All the story elements are interdependent. As a collective we are caretakers of each story, invested in its life and health. We show that same commitment each other, personally and artistically. As an ensemble we find our artistic home in each other.

Colie Creations Inc is a writing company founded by cystic fibrosis patient and double lung transplant recipient, Nicole Kohr. The up and coming 501c3 nonprofit is bringing the story time and Broadway experience to every patients bedside through accessible storytelling.

Our versatile ensemble creates visceral experiences that challenge perspectives through passionate storytelling. Shattered Globe is inspired by the diversity of our city and is committed to making the theater accessible to all audiences. Through initiatives like our Protégé Program, we create a space which allows emerging artists to grow and share the ensemble experience with us. Shattered Globe Theatre brings its audiences dynamic re-imaginings of classic works, as well as premiere productions that celebrate new voices and innovative viewpoints.

The International Writer's Lab (IWL) is a first of its kind creative accelerator whose core mission is to support global, emerging storytellers in the development of compelling film or television, projects (in live action), create a bridge between African and Hollywood-based African-American storytellers, and help position participants on a path to propel their careers forward through increased awareness and preparedness. Our vision is to create a premiere on-ramp for writers of exceptional talent, starting in Kenya, to high value opportunities and exposure to the best in the Hollywood film and television communities, which will also benefit from greater diversity and inclusion of these dynamic storytellers.

A Non-Profit Foundation offering Artist in Residence Programs, Museum In-Loan Programs, and Workshops inspired by our National Parks, National Monuments, World Heritage Sites, and other parks. Beautiful northern New Mexico in the spring and fall! Nestled against the far tip of the Sangre de Cristo Range and facing the great plains, Fort Union National Monument is one of New Mexico’s legendary and historic frontier army posts, located in Mora County near Watrous, NM, was the hub of commerce, national defense, and migration at the final stretch of the Santa Fe Trail. Open to all artists, writers, musicians or performance artists.

The Department of Drama offers conservatory-style training at a major American university, combined with a level of integration with a professional theater company that is unparalleled among undergraduate programs.

The Moxie Incubator is a season-long accelerated development program for new, unproduced plays. The Incubator Cohort will be made up of 3 playwrights, 3 directors, and 3 line producers - in alignment with Moxie's mission, we will select work by artists of historically-excluded genders for this program. All participating artists are paid a stipend for every round of the Incubator process. If you are interested in submitting to be a part of the Moxie Incubator Program, you can submit via the link below. Artists can submit to the Incubator as: A Playwright A Director A Line Producer

ATCA is committed to encouraging and developing new talent, promoting diversity among theater writers, and working to make arts journalism a more progressive and inclusive profession. The Helbing Mentorship Program has been designed to promote and amplify the voices of young LGBTQIA+ arts writers through scholarship, mentorship, and professional development. The Program, established in 2021, is a year-long mentorship to support the work of a theater writer. The program has been funded by ATCA members and others who seek to honor the memory of ATCA member and LGBTQIA+ pioneer Terry Helbing (1951-1994) who was a theater critic, editor, and co-founder of the Meridian Gay Theatre Production Company. ATCA members will work with the selected program participants to develop their critical wor...

Founded in 1970, OPERA America has an international membership that includes nearly 150 Professional Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and over 16,000 subscribers to its electronic news service. The Campbell Opera Librettist Prize is awarded annually to an American librettist who demonstrates exceptional talent and the potential to make a substantial contribution to the opera literature. Conceived and funded by acclaimed librettist and lyricist Mark Campbell, the Prize is the first award in the history of American opera that specifically recognizes the opera librettist. It is designed to highlight the crucial role librettists play in the creation and success of new operatic works, and inspire a new generation of writers to dedicate their pens...

AOP's mission is to develop and present new and innovative works of lyric theater, provide a creative home to emerging and established artists, and engage contemporary communities in a transformative operatic experience.

WNO’s acclaimed commissioning program for contemporary American opera enters its tenth exciting season, showcasing three new one-act operas by talented composer-librettist teams. This season, American Opera Initiative (AOI) mentorship is led by newly appointed AOI Artistic Advisor and librettist Kelley Rourke, librettist and filmmaker Kimberly Reed, composer Carlos Simon, and WNO Principal Conductor Evan Rogister, who will lead a chamber orchestra of WNO Orchestra members. The concert staging will be directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello.

ABOUT THE STUDIO The New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, presented in collaboration with Nautilus Music-Theater, is designed to provide an opportunity for five writers and five composers to work with professional performers, exploring the possibilities and basic elements of music-theater. The studio focuses on the process of collaboration through a series of brief exploratory assignments for the writers and composers. The exercises are then sight-read by the performers in brief working sessions. The participants rotate partners, and the process is repeated four more times. Within the two-week period, all composers work with all writers and all performers. Toward the end of the studio, an informal reading of all the compositions is held. The studio is co-directed by Ben Krywosz (Arti...

Mission Statement To add diverse, relevant and underrepresented creative work to the American opera theater repertoire.

Launched in the Spring of 2018, the Vanguard Initiative is COT’s three-pronged approach to the development of new opera. COT Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya leads the Initiative as the Vanguard Artistic Director. Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Program COT identifies promising composers ready to hone the specific skillset required to create quality opera. Composers become an integral part of the company for a period of two years of paid residency activities, including mentorship from COT staff, industry leaders, and Vanguard Composer Mentor Jake Heggie. The program culminates in a full-length opera commission in collaboration with an established librettist. Inside the Process COT opens up opportunities for Chicago audiences to become part of the development of new work, in dialogue wi...

Opera Philadelphia is committed to embracing innovation and developing opera for the 21st century. Our mission: -Delivering outstanding productions of traditional and new repertoire that engage our public and propel our genre forward -Identifying extraordinary artists, both established and emerging, and provide opportunities for them to create their most imaginative and inspired work -Presenting innovative programming relevant to the multi-cultural Philadelphia region that broadens and diversifies the opera audience

Founded in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater Company is a Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose primary mission is to develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers. Since its founding, Ma-Yi has distinguished itself as one of the country’s leading incubators of new work shaping the national discourse about what it means to be Asian American today.

The Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency is pioneering a radically new approach to supporting playwrights and the development of their new work. Annually, the initiative focuses on an individual playwright who receives a $10,000 commission to foster a single project from nascent idea to developed new work over the course of a year. The Residency begins each October with the Library hosting the recipient playwright for a month-long residency in a studio apartment at the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House and Preserve in Ketchum. During their stay, the playwright will begin developing an original, full-length commissioned work for the stage. Over the course of the subsequent year, they will continue writing the piece with support from the Library, Sawtooth Productions, and the initiative...

The Dallas Opera is a world-class performing arts organization producing outstanding mainstage and chamber opera repertoire; attracting national and international attention; committed to extensive community outreach and education; and managed to the highest possible standards of artistic excellence, accountability, efficiency and financial sustainability. The Dallas Opera opened with an unforgettable performance by legendary Greek soprano Maria Callas in November of 1957. Subsequently, the Dallas Opera has presented many international stars in their American debuts, including Dame Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers and Plácido Domingo, as well as designer/director Franco Zeffirelli.

Knoxville Opera’s mission is to provide the residents of East Tennessee with high quality, locally produced opera and to contribute to the future of the operatic art form by educating the community about opera and its role in our culture. Knoxville Opera, founded in 1978, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization presenting productions made possible, in part, by generous funding from our patrons, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Knoxville, the Arts and Culture Alliance of Knoxville, the Arts & Heritage Fund and the Cole Foundation.

Theatre UCF produces a full season of contemporary and classic plays and musicals each year at the University of Central Florida and downtown during UCF Celebrates the Arts. Each summer, Theatre UCF produces a new play festival called Pegasus PlayLab that invites playwrights from around the country to hold public workshops and readings in collaboration with our students and faculty. From dramas to comedies and theatre for young audiences to works tackling today’s pressing issues, there is something for everyone at Theatre UCF! Don’t want to miss a show? You can subscribe and save and not miss a single thrilling performance while getting perks like pre-sale access to UCF Celebrates the Arts and the best seats in the house. And we know UCF’s campus is big, so be sure to check out our locat...

Zoetic Stage accepts new, previously unproduced full-length plays from literary agents. We are unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts by playwrights who are not represented (lawyers and law firms do not qualify as representation). Florida residents may submit a manuscript without representation.

In 2020, Creative 360 celebrates 25 years as a not-for-profit community arts and wellness organization. 25 years ago, Cynthia Keefe and Linda Z. Smith founded “The Creative Spirit Center” with a vision to make creativity accessible to all. Since then, the nonprofit has become Creative 360 and welcomed countless people through its doors to experience, express and expand the creative process in all its forms. Our vision, mission and core values are at the heart of everything we do. Vision We envision a world in which creativity is integral to every life and its value is recognized. Mission To create environments that allow people of all ages and abilities to experience the creative process, and to enhance physical, mental and spiritual wellness through the arts and humanities.

OUR MISSION To enrich and connect the community through diverse opera experiences.

Highlights from the public programs include: symposiums such as Carrie Mae Weems’ day-long event called The Shape of Things, whose participants included Elizabeth Alexander, Theaster Gates, Elizabeth Diller, and Nona Hendryx; a day-long Lenape Pow Wow and Standing Ground Symposium held in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the first congregation of Lenape Leaders on Manhattan Island since the 1700s; salons such as the Literature Salon hosted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose participants included Lynn Nottage, Suzan Lori-Parks, and Jeremy O. Harris, and a Spoken Word Salon co-hosted with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; and most recently, 100 Years | 100 Women, a multi-organization commissioning project that invited 100 women artists and cultural creators to respond to women’s suffrage. Current Artist...

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Playwriting Program (NPP) offers three (3) programs for student-written work: ten-minute plays, one act plays, and full-length plays. See below for specific guidelines and awards for each program, but please make note of these overall guidelines for ALL manuscripts: All plays must be blind submissions, which means that the playwright’s name and any identifying information (including school information) must be removed from the manuscript in its entirety. This includes the title page, and all headers and footers throughout the text of the play. All plays will be evaluated by readers from outside Region 3. Playwrights’ names will be associated with their manuscripts through the electronic form submitted via the Submittable websit...

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 events team craft an experience to support your event goals. Our hosting team has experience working with corporate, nonprofit, and community based clients needing a plug-and-play venue covering all lo...

The Drama Factory is an independent, intimate theatre for Somerset West, Strand and surrounds! The Drama Factory is an intimate theatre space which aims to provide quality entertainment to suit a wide variety of tastes. As well as showcasing mainstream productions we provide creatives with a workshop to manufacture performances. An assembly line for theatrical productions of all natures. The Drama Factory endeavours to provide an affordable space for productions to bring their creative ideas to life and present high quality entertainment to our audiences. From music to theatre to poetry and more, there is something for everyone. Patrons are welcome to bring their own tipple as we are not licensed, we are happy to provide glasses. Soft drinks, hot beverages and sweets are on sale. Al...

The Rogue Lab is an incubator for new work that stretches the boundary of what is currently being done onstage, including immersive experiences, interactive design, puppet plays and genre-bending pieces that fit within the Rogues’ Hyper-theater aesthetic. This lab is an 8-month bi-weekly meeting of 6 playwrights that culminates in a public reading series. Each playwright is paired with a designer, composer, or choreographer and a director who will collaborate with the writer to work through theatrical magic and styles and incorporate the knowledge of those elements into the DNA of the new play. At the end of the residency, plays are presented in a public Rogue Lab Reading Series. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, our 2020 Reading Series is postponed until further notice. INTRODUCING ROGUE...

Mission: Circle X Theatre Co. is a not-for-profit ensemble of artists dedicated to highly provocative, boldly theatrical productions of new and rarely-seen plays and the development of new works for the stage. We believe in imagination over budget, adrenaline over inertia, irreverence over convention and excellence over all.

We're a playwright service organization based in Charlotte, NC. We exists primarily, to serve playwrights in Charlotte & The South via the development of new work and theatre artists. Join us every 3rd Saturday for An Artist Talk and every 4th Friday for a play reading. All on Facebook! linktr.ee/qcnewplays

Birdhouse Theatre is an incubator for professionally driven artists, of multiple mediums, that recruits and nurtures talent, while delivering professional quality. Utilizing local and outside talent, while educating and enhancing civic engagement of modern issues, we hope to create dividends of participants driven and motivated by the arts to be active citizens.

The West Side Show Room makes room for everyone to participate in the performing arts. Core Values: Making Room We want everyone in our community to have the opportunity to experience and participate in high quality live performance, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, country of origin, nationality, religion, functional ability, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, body type, economic status, or education level. Excellence We strive to continually and transparently improve our productions and programs to ensure artistic, operational, and fiscal quality. Education We believe engaging and educating the public are critical to transforming our community and the world. Collaboration We sustain our mission by fostering long-term relationships with artists and commun...

Wild Project provides a familiar home and attentive staff to our resident companies which enables the companies to continue their respective missions to serve the cultural landscape of New York City. Resident companies receive 2-8 weeks of exclusivity to Wild Project’s 89-seat theatre each year, which extends stability and clarity to theatre companies whose brand and artistic influence are experiencing growth.

Mission: The purpose of The New Harmony Project is to create, nurture and promote new works for the stage, television, and film that sensitively and truthfully explore the positive aspects of life.

Prima Volta is a Houston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to creating performance opportunities for young and upcoming artists, both behind-the-scenes creators and those bringing art to life on stage. Why the name Prima Volta? In music, the term “prima volta” means the “first time,” or first repeat of a section or verse. Prima Volta strives to perform new music and support young artists—the “first time” these pieces have been heard and these performers have been seen. What’s our story? Furman alumni Hailey Darnell (’10), Anna Diemer (’11), Samuel Hunter (’11), and Katie Pollock (’12) put their heads together and decided that, as young music professionals, it was time to actively contribute to the thriving and diverse world of music instead of passively waiting for opportunities...

Walking on Water Productions (WoW) is a Tompkins County musical theatre company that empowers local theatre artists by training, collaborating with, and showcasing them through production opportunities, internships, and educational workshops that provide individual development and community connection; together, we present both new and existing works that appeal to multi-generational audiences.

Theaterlab is an artistic laboratory dedicated to research into the nature of live performance. Through the development of new and experimental work, including theater, music, and visual arts, Theaterlab supports New York City’s diverse community of artists as well as the general public interested in seeing emerging new work. Theaterlab also focuses on audience development as a creative project. We regard the theatrical experience as a creative public assembly with the audience as an important partner in fulfilling our mission. In addition to producing and presenting new work, Theaterlab provides affordable space for rehearsal and project development, including resident and affiliate artists programs.

Play Incubation Collective is a hub for new play development based in Western Massachusetts. PIC’s mission is two-fold: ​To provide long-term, process-driven opportunities to develop new plays that challenge the status quo To build a collaborative network of local theater artists and supporters We aim to revolutionize the process of theater-making, as well as the experience of theater-going. It is our belief that the key to doing so is by going local. We are committed to cultivating locally sourced theater created by and for ALL the people in our community. We are invested in the notion that, in order to create a theater landscape that is accessible, sustainable, and equitable, it must be locally sourced and supported.

PIC’s process of play development is unique. We invite incoming playwrights to spearhead their vision with the support of our collective of theater makers. We bring a talented team of actors, dramaturgs, designers and more to collaborate with each writer on the development of their piece, and all of the participating artists help contribute to PIC’s monthly administrative duties. The specifics of what that development looks like are open to the writer. (more details at www.playincubation.org/playwrights) The 2022 PIC writer-in-residence will receive a stipend to go along with this 9-month residency, access to monthly rehearsal space, and a culminating public presentation of their play in the fall. Play Incubation Collective (PIC) see...

SPACE on Ryder is an environment singular in its ability to invigorate artists and innovators and their work, and to contribute to the sustainability and resourceful preservation of one of the oldest organic family farms on the East Coast. SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Family Residency, provides a residency on the farm for working parents and their children. The Family Residency offers artist-parents structured time to create while their child(ren) participate in nature-focused arts programming under the guidance of professional educators. All family residents (parents and children) enjoy three farm-sourced meals daily. (Please see SPACE’s FAQ page for information about diets and food allergies that SPACE’s chefs are able to accommodate.) The residency culminates in short, informal sharings of t...

SPACE on Ryder is an environment singular in its ability to invigorate artists and innovators and their work, and to contribute to the sustainability and resourceful preservation of one of the oldest organic family farms on the East Coast. BLKSPACE provides Black individual artists, activists, organizers and small groups (up to 4 people) the opportunity to create and ideate away from the stress and noise of everyday life and in the company of other Black people. Residents will manage their own time based on what they would like to achieve and the Residency will be centered around three farm fresh, communal meals prepared by a Black chef (please see SPACE’s FAQ page for information about diets and food allergies our chefs are able to accommodate).

Live & In Color develops new work for the stage that promotes and celebrates diversity. Emphasizing non-traditional casting, multi-ethnic participants, and bold theatricality, we offer unique development opportunities for new plays and musicals that encourage dialogue among artists from a variety of cultures.

The Emerging Artist Residency Program is an opportunity for early-career artists living within the state of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City in need of focused time and dedicated space in an inspiring residency work environment that empowers them take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving. Thanks to support from the Jerome Foundation, a month-long cohort of five artists will each receive a $625/week stipend, a travel honorarium, documentation support, and more. Selected artists, wait-list, and runners-up will be notified by March 2, 2023.

The Drama League Directing Residencies are designed to support the interrogative process of a director creating theater or other work that includes live performance. The residencies offer financial support for a developmental process, rehearsal and administrative space, dramaturgical/mentor support from The Drama League artistic staff, and the opportunity to present the findings of the process publicly. The Drama League is not and will not be the producer of the project, nor of any public or private event in conjunction with this residency; the recipient is responsible for all production, contracting/hiring, or other needs in this regard. The Drama League recently altered and expanded its Directors Project programming, and each has its own application and area of focus.

We believe that connecting people from different backgrounds and cultures opens minds and makes for a more interesting and compassionate world. As our children were growing up we hosted multiple exchange students and always felt that we received far more than we gave. When our children left the nest we were left with an underutilized studio apartment space above our garage and we decided to start an artist residency program to provide opportunities and support to emerging artists. One of our daughters and our son-in-law are professional artists, and we have observed the challenges artists go through to grow their practice. Bill and I also see the importance of time to be creative in our everyday lives, through creating wearable and functional art, and cooking. Based on all of our experi...

Kentucky Playwrights Workshop (KPW) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, encouragement, and support of playwrights who live in the state of Kentucky.

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Formerly at The Lark, BareBones® are simply staged public presentations of plays in the later stages of development. A BareBones® is the culmination of a comprehensive development strategy including Lark generative and/or workshop programs, and an intensive 80 to 100 hours of rehearsal in advance of six to eight public presentations, designed to foster a sense of community engagement around the rehearsal process. BareBones® are designed as a significant resource for playwrights and their creative collaborators to replicate many of the opportunities and challenges of a production rehearsal environment, while remaining in a controlled laboratory space. Plays that have been developed through the BareBones® program include Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, Chisa Hutchinson's She Like Girls, Ra...

The Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop program, formerly at The Lark, is an annual residency that gathers five playwright fellows at various career stages. Created and facilitated by playwright Arthur Kopit and a rotating group of esteemed playwrights including Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck, José Rivera, Doug Wright, and others, Goldberg Fellows meet in twelve bi-weekly sessions throughout the year, sharing excerpts of new work in progress, read cold by a group of high caliber actors in an informal but rigorous laboratory environment. As part of their residency, fellows are provided an opportunity in May of each year to present a public reading of work developed in these sessions, as an extension of the workshop process.

For over 15 years, TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS, INC. has been licensing popular small cast plays and musicals to theatres throughout the country and internationally as well. Best known as the creator of the hugely popular musical hit, ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE (which was named by AMERICAN THEATRE magazine as one of the top 10 most produced shows), TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS is a boutique licensing company that prides itself for its personalized service to our many client theatres. Other popular shows that TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS licenses include the musicals, THE HONKY TONK ANGELS and THE HONKY TONK ANGELS HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR and the plays, STORIES MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME and A SOUTHERN BELLE PRIMER ( OR WHY PRINCESS MARGARET COULD NEVER BE A KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA) which is based on the best selling, cu...

The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award winning not-for-profit theater that presents an annual season of new performance works. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving theatrical venue, a vital neighborhood arts center, and a destination for exciting and engaging performance. We provide a springboard for emerging professional artists to make career-defining leaps, and we are a sanctuary where established artists come to experiment and innovate. We are also a neighborhood playhouse, serving our Bushwick, Brooklyn community's diverse artistic needs and impulses. The Bushwick Starr began in 2001 as a developmental space for the New York based theater company, Fovea Floods, Inc. In 2004, the company helped to fully conver...

The Autry brings together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future. Through Generation Now, a partnership with four other theatre companies - Children's Theatre Company, Latino Theater Company, Ma-Yi, and Penumbra - and generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Native Voices will co-commission four playwrights over the next five years to create and develop three straight plays and one musical for young people to serve a multigenerational audience.

Theater for Young Audiences at 92nd Street Y is a series of performances and discussions centering children as the audience. Our shows are stimulating and compelling, using storytelling as a vehicle for building empathy, and learning essential life lessons. Our shows gather around movement as a shared language, a way to meet each other through the most universally shared experience: moving. Audience participation and a crafted handmade design remind children that they are essential creators in the story. Theater for Young Audiences at 92nd Street Y (92Y.org/MusicalTheater) is seeking to commission playwrights for a new series specifically designed to introduce 6-10 year olds to the exciting world of Shakespeare. The commission requires writing a 40-minute performance piece for children a...

The Ensemble Playwright Lab (EPL) is a residency program in which the playwright engages with Letter of Marque's (LOM) ensemble to create, develop, or reimagine a piece of work; which will be presented to the public at the end of the residency. There will be two residencies: Fall & Spring. Two playwrights, one for each residency, will be selected to work with our ensemble once a week, for a total of 21 hours of collaboration and discovery. And the best part? The EPL is FREE to the playwrights! Each residency is uniquely tailored to provide playwrights with the opportunity to collaborate closely with LOM’s artistic directors and professional multi-disciplinary ensemble. This experimental process of creation and development is designed to welcome the playwright into the rehearsal roo...

A first-of-its-kind, the Shange Residency honors luminary poet, playwright, and Barnard alumnae Ntozake Shange (BC ‘70), one of the world’s most revered writers whose groundbreaking works include her Obie-winning choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf (1974) to novels Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo (1982) and Liliane (1994). Her vast oeuvre of over thirty-six published works and interdisciplinary collaborations with activists, dancers, directors, musicians, photographers, and singers have made her a rich and compelling interlocutor for generations of artistic and scholarly creators. The Shange Residency will support distinguished women, femme, and non-binary scholar-playwrights of the African Diaspora for two-year terms. Each year, the playwr...

The New Jersey Play Lab is a collective of dramaturgs who are committed to collaboration, methodology, and excellence in their work. The New Jersey Play Lab is a home for playwrights and dramaturgs of all career levels who seek collaboration, methodology, and excellence in their work. At each and every point of engagement at The New Jersey Play Lab, whether through our early career foundational programming, play development forums, dramaturgical services, or our developmental residencies, the focus is on providing the knowledge and opportunity to move forward in one’s artistic and professional journey. While some of our programming is limited to NJ-based artists, many of our programs have no regional restrictions.

The Storyteller Studio is a collaborative space for young playwrights and dramaturgs under the age of 30 to hone their craft through peer and professional support, and to develop the skills and working habits necessary for success as they transition into professional careers. This program is intended for those who have recently graduated from university programs, or those who have established their initial interests in these art forms through alternative avenues.

Playwrights at any stage of their careers are encouraged to apply for this six month program that will include compensation for writing and research, potential production support for development of a work, mentorship and cultural competency training in a community of interest, and an opportunity to teach a playwriting workshop for writers from historically marginalized communities. The resident will receive $10,000 as an independent contractor over a six month period for 10 – 15 hours of work a week, averaging $35 an hour. The expectation is that this residency would be hybrid: both digital and in person. While in residence, the playwright will: DEVELOP NEW WORK: Each resident will develop a new work of interest, through an independently driven process that may include dramaturgy, table...

The Catskills Creative Residency invites two playwrights for a fully funded week-long stay in the Sullivan County Catskills of upstate New York. The residency includes accommodations in a lovely two-bedroom home in Livingston Manor, NY. Each playwright receives a $200 travel and food stipend. Playwrights collaborate with director Eugenia Manwelyan and Catskills-based actors to workshop their plays. The residency culminates in a works-in-progress performance at the historic Tusten Theater in Narrowsburg, NY.

Launched in 2015, the Soul Producing Residency Program’s mission is to unveil, uplift and inform the next generation of Black leaders in cultural production. As writers and artists of color continue to conquer new feats in the performing arts industry, it has become increasingly important to equip emerging Black producers with the tools needed to step into their power as leaders, general managers and cultural curators. Piloted as a fellowship with the two previous residents, Marie Cisco and Ngozi Anyanwu, this program calls back to Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s guiding principle of autonomy in Black storytelling, and provides an unprecedented opportunity for applicants of color to gain real-time experience. Under the supportive guidance of the L.A.B program staff, the 10-month residency supports...

The Circle in the Square Theatre School (CITSTS) Emerging Writers Residency aims to support the future of the theater industry with a truly collaborative residency. The program will nurture both writers and actors while developing new trailblazing plays and musicals that celebrate underrepresented stories and challenge theater norms. Due to the pandemic, many developmental spaces and residencies had to close their doors; we aim to fill that gap by providing writers a home for their developmental process. As educators, we have also noticed a gap in which students have not been given the tools to know how to support new work. This residency will give our students the experience needed to become true collaborators in a play or musical’s development.

Art Omi: Writers hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission. Guests may select a residency of one week to two months; about ten writers at a time gather to live and work in a rural setting overlooking the Catskill Mountains. Daytime is reserved for writing and quiet activities, while evenings are more communal. A program of weekly visits bring guests from the New York publishing community. Noted editors, agents and book scouts are invited to share dinner and conversation on both creative and practical subjects, offering insight into the workings of the publishing...

NPAF is offering Hawaii Volcanoes National Park residencies, and close to some of the best beaches on the island. This one for a one-month in May of 2024. The residency includes of $4000 stipend, a studio, housing, events, publicty, and much more...the change of a lifetime for Artists! This residency is open to single artists, families, artist couples, artists collective, or arts troupes.

Since its launch in 1973, The Banff Playwrights Lab has provided an inspiring, interdisciplinary, and inclusive environment for Canadian playwrights to work on their plays while surrounded by playwrights and performing artists from across the country and around the world. We are proud to gather on Treaty 7 territory to create, share, and explore theatrical storytelling. The upcoming 51st edition of the Playwrights Lab encourages applications from established and emerging playwrights that are telling compelling stories and exploring new creative landscapes in this time of both deep challenges and great opportunities for the theatre world. We invite artists developing new works for both adults and young audiences – especially artists that are new to the Lab – to join us in a dynamic co...

As part of the Next Forever initiative, two $10,000 commissions will be awarded annually to two theater makers to create original work that engages environmental subject matter. Proposed projects can be entirely new or in early stages of development. Collaborations between two artists will be considered. The initiative provides commissioned artists with the opportunity over an academic year to engage with Princeton faculty working in fields relevant to their projects. Each recipient will receive a $5,000 residency stipend, as well as a budget to support research activities, travel and a research assistant. Over the course of an academic year, the artists will engage with faculty and students. (Artists will not receive housing and are expected to live within commuting distance. The residen...

The Martin House Creative Residency Program is a project-based residency that provides creative individuals a designated time and space to develop new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture. The primary goals of the program are to: Nurture creativity by offering individuals from multiple disciplines a thought-provoking environment in which to produce works and present them to our community. Expand interpretation of our site through active solicitation of diverse perspectives and voices. Provide audiences across racial, ethnic, and economic lines an opportunity to discover and engage more fully with the Martin House and the creative arts. Strengthen the Martin House and the region as a center for architecture, art, design, and culture. T...

Our longest-standing program, the International Summer Program unites a community of international artists for an annual creative intensive. Since 1992, the Summer Program has provided a unique opportunity for artists to develop new works alongside other emerging and established creative professionals, to forge an international community of collaborators across disciplines, and to push the boundaries of contemporary creative practice. Culminating in The Watermill Center’s Annual Summer Benefit, the Summer Program allows artists to develop their practice in a communal and experimental environment. Participating artists share meals, exchange ideas, collaborate on projects, attend workshops, and participate in the daily life of The Watermill Center. The program also provides opportunities to...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Performing Artist in Residence program allows artists and visitors to experience the Garden through a different lens.

The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program began in 2006 when the Center officially opened as a year-round facility. Each year collectives and individuals take up residence at The Watermill Center to develop works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of artistic practice. The Artist Residency Program is process-based, without the expectation or promise of a final exhibition of the work. The Watermill Center provides artists with the time, space, and freedom to develop their practice in a communal environment that encourages experimentation. Artists-in-Residence share their creative process with the community through open rehearsals, workshops, and artist talks. Artists-in-Residence receive access to an extensive collection of resources central to The...

The School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University is excited to announce its inaugural New Work Development Artist Residency program. The school is committed to inspiring our campus and community by incubating new works of art in an environment of creative reciprocity between scholars and artists that crosses, blurs and erases disciplinary lines. The school was founded by three intrinsically interdisciplinary units: Dance Science (combining dance and the biological and health sciences), Visualization (uniting the fine and visual arts with computer science) and Performance Studies (a conjunction of music and theatre drawing on anthropology and related humanities fields). The New Work Development Artist Residency is designed to take advantage of these existi...

In July 2017, Ucross announced a new initiative to support the work of contemporary Native American visual artists at all stages in their professional careers. The Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists is open to disciplines that include but are not limited to painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, performance art, installation, ceramics, and collaborative projects involving multiple disciplines. “The High Plains setting of Ucross is particularly fitting for such a fellowship initiative. In recent years Ucross has directed significant energy toward broadening the cultural reach and depth of our visual arts program. Thanks to the support of the Ucross Board of Trustees, which has begun an endowment for this new Fellowship, we are excited to support the work of...

Saltonstall offers free residencies to artists and writers who are year-round residents of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein. Our residencies are designed for those looking for a quiet, supportive environment in which to focus on their craft. In 2019, we piloted a new program: a free one-week residency specifically for artist/writer parents with at least one dependent child under the age of 18 at home. This new residency was a huge success, and is now in its fifth year. We are not able to accommodate children, spouses, partners, or collaborators. This residency is designed for the artist/writer parent alone. NEW in 2025: our special one-week residency for artist/writer parent residency will now also include artists and writers who are full-time caregivers re...

The Hatchery is a short-term, paid performance residency program and public facing new play festival supporting works that center music and movement.

Supported by the Leonian Charitable Trust, this fellowship provides a fully-funded collaborative residency of up to two weeks with $500 honoraria for two artists who are working together on an artistic project combining words and music. The collaborative residency at Mt. San Angelo includes two private bedrooms with en-suite baths, two separate individual studios, and three meals a day in a community of cross-disciplinary artists.

The Kerouac Project provides six residencies a year to writers of any stripe or age, living anywhere in the world. We encourage BIPOC and LGTBQ writers to apply. In the past, we have accepted writers with no formal writing education alongside those with MFA’s and impressive résumés. You will be judged on the quality of the writing sample you submit. Each residency consists of approximately a two-month stay in the cottage where Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums. Utilities and a food stipend of $600 are included. As writer-in-residence, all you are required to do is live in the Kerouac House during your residency, work on your writing project, and participate in four events: a Welcome Potluck dinner for you, two creative workshops to host, and a Final Reading of your work at the Kerou...

The University of Alberta’s Department of Drama is seeking an experienced Playwright in Residence for a 12-month term, dedicated to both creative development and supporting Edmonton’s playwriting community. We are looking for a playwright with a proven record of professional productions who can offer dramaturgical guidance to playwrights at all stages of their careers while advancing their own creative work. This residency is a unique opportunity to develop new work while fostering the next generation of Canadian playwrights in a dynamic, creative environment.

Trans and Gender Nonconforming people have existed since the beginning of time across all cultures, yet we never learned this in our history classes. In an effort to teach the world our TGNC history and build a “Trans Canon,” Baltimore Center Stage is partnering with other forward-thinking theatrical institutions across the country to commission, workshop (and hopefully publish and produce) 10 new plays by 10 TGNC writers of differing cultures, allowing them to tell stories of TGNC folks from history/folklore and how it relates to the aggressive legislative attacks seeking to “eradicate” our community from society. Cohort 1 will begin a 2-year residency at a major theatre in the 2025/26 season with Cohort 2 beginning the following 2026/27 season. Starting in 2026, the writers, dramaturgs...

The Artists in Residence Program is an individually tailored, development-based residency for early career performing artists of all disciplines to explore a project in house at Ars Nova over the course of a season. The residency is a unique opportunity for artists who develop work in non-traditional ways to make use of Ars Nova’s customized, flexible support to discover new things about their project and process, and to build community and peer relationships with artists across genres in the residency cohort. Residents will be invited to develop a specific project in house at Ars Nova for a season, working toward goals and benchmarks for that project that are defined at the beginning of the residency. The focus of an artist’s residency at Ars Nova is on a fruitful process and the developm...

The Artist in Residence Program at Grand Canyon National Park provides a unique opportunity for visitors to engage with the land, cultures, and histories of the region through emotional, spiritual, and intellectually stimulating contemporary art – including exhibitions, films, performances, workshops, and unique participatory projects. Artists are selected annually for residence through a competitive application process. A review panel of local arts leaders select artists who can provide world-class educational and interpretive experiences to the community while enjoying the opportunity to work in a location that inspires pure awe. The Artist in Residence program serves the priorities of the National Park Service’s Department of Interpretation and Resource Education including inclusi...

Founded in 2010, Crosstown Arts (501c3) oversaw the transformation of the Crosstown Concourse building, a one-million-square-foot former Sears distribution warehouse, into a vibrant cultural hub. Today, the Concourse houses Crosstown Arts’ cutting-edge contemporary art center, boasting a diverse array of amenities such as galleries, exhibition spaces, a screening room, a performance venue, and a theater. Situated in Memphis, TN, the highly competitive artist residency program at Crosstown Arts welcomes only 15 artists and curators, both visiting and local, per year, spanning various disciplines including visual arts, music, film, and literature. Residencies afford artists 24/7 access to private studio spaces, along with complimentary use of on-site Shared Art workspace and music producti...

Since 1981, Bemis Center has provided artists from around the world with dedicated time, space, and resources to conduct research and to create new work. Located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district, 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 USD monthly stipend and $750 travel stipend. Due to the limitations of B2 visas (touring/visiting), international artists-in-residence are ineligible for direct stipend payment, but are eligible to receive reimbursement up to the total stipend amount of qualified expenses, such as airfare, ground transportation, and meals. Selected artists are responsible...