DEADLINE: February 1st
WEBSITE: www.repertorio.nyc/opportunities
The Miranda Family Foundation Voces Latinx National Playwriting Competition is to discover, develop, promote and amplify Latinx plays and playwrights. Repertorio Español is now in its 53rd season and 2nd decade of championing new works through playwriting initiatives. To that end, this competition and our theatre will prepare the way for an American Theatre that is reflective and representative of the Pan Latinx Community. An endeavor that becomes increasingly more important.
QUALIFICATIONS
Latinx culture, history, ideals and characters must be central to the play submitted. The community must be accurately depicted and the focus of the work.
No screenplays, one act plays, adaptations or translations will be accepted.
New and un-produced plays preferred. Plays that have had readings or a workshop production are acceptable.
All plays must be original and full-length (minimum running time: 75 minutes) and can be written in Spanish and/or English.
The competition is inclusive of all playwrights who are at least 18 years of age and residents of the United States or Puerto Rico.
2 TABLEWORK PRESS
DEADLINE: February 1st
WEBSITE: https://www.tableworkpress.org/submissions
Table Work Press publishes and advocates for promising plays. Now in our second season, we look forward to continuing our mission of championing playwrights whose work is important, pressing, and worth writing home about. Our 2020-21 open submission period for full-length plays will be held from December, 2020 until February, 2021. Selected plays will be published, and playwrights will receive a $500 stipend, a cut of profits, and their play will be shared with TWP’s network of partner organizations. Playwrights who are not selected to be published this season may be invited to partner for other opportunities.
Full-length, unpublished script
A 10-page sample from your play (Note: this sample can be from anywhere within the play, but please be sure to provide any context necessary for reading your sample within the document.)
A one-to-two page artist statement. Artist statements give us an opportunity to learn more about you, your process, and your work, and may address the following questions:
Who are you, and how have you gotten to where you are? Why are you choosing to submit this play, and where is it in its development? What are your goals for your play and how can TWP help you achieve those goals? What are your core values as a playwright?
Additionally, you’ll be asked to provide us with a short one-to-two sentence synopsis of your play. All 10-page samples will be read by a minimum of two readers, and all applicants will be notified of their status in the Spring of 2021. We are unable to consider musicals at this time and ask that each writer submit only one play for consideration. Please note that due to the volume of submissions, we will only consider the first play submitted by each writer in the event of multiple submissions. Please feel free to reach out to us with any updated materials, questions, or concerns at admin@tableworkpress.org.
3. NOOSPHERE ARTIST RESIDENCY
DEADLINE: February 4th
WEBSITE: http://www.noosphere-arts.nyc/residency-award
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 forces in New York City.”
In collaboration with the Mothership Crew, we are pleased to offer the annual grant program NOoSPHERE Arts Residency Award: Once a year, we provide a month-long residency free of charge to one talented artist or curator of any nationality. Selected by a committee of peers, the award winner will spend their time on board Mothership NYC developing a creative project for presentation to the NYC audience under the aegis of NOoSPHERE Arts.
Disciplines: The residency program is open to all media, but the private workspace is most suitable for the following disciplines: visual art, painting, drawing, writing, film, theater, dance, performing arts, filmmaking, animation, new media, and curatorial.
Accommodation:The resident stays in private living quarters in the Mothership NYC live-work community housing 5-6 artists total. The private workspace comes with a desk, easel, bare walls to work on and WiFi. Kitchen, lounge, and bathrooms are shared.
Financial Support: The award winner receives one month’s free accommodation in private live-work space. We will also cover the reception costs and assistance with logistics for awardee’s final show. Travel costs, art supplies and living expenses are winner’s own responsibility.
Artist Contribution: We expect the awardee to give a slide talk about their work at Mothership’s monthly artists’ salon and to present their residency project at a public event towards the end of their month-long stay.
4. APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
DEADLINE: February 5th
WEBSITE: https://theatreanddance.appstate.edu/
Appalachian State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance is looking for ten-minute plays in a zoom setting to be performed by the directing class of Spring 2021. We are looking to find new playwrights who are interested in having their works produced in an academic setting for a 3000-level undergraduate class. There is no application fee.
These plays will be performed and recorded via zoom and available on a password protected website to showcase the actor's and directors hard work in the academic setting. No royalties will be paid for this production, but playwrights are encouraged to register for the event if their script is chosen in order to see their produced work.
10-minute plays
Drama, comedy, tragedy, other
Cast size: 2-3
At least 50% female, non-binary, non-gender specific
Scripts written specifically for zoom (plays that have been adapted to this setting will be accepted.)
Plays selected will be produced by the undergraduate directing class via Zoomfor academic purposes.
Plays will be recorded and available on a website for department students, faculty, staff, and friends and family of the directors and actors during the first week of May 2021. Playwrights' information will be displayed on the website. No royalties will be paid for the plays selected.
Send plays to appstate10minuteplays@gmail.com. Submit in .pdf format. Please include a title page with play title, casting breakdown, playwright's name, contact information
5. THE CRYSTAL RUTH BELL RESIDENCY - MEDIATED
DEADLINE: February 9th
WEBSITE: https://www.chinaresidencies.com/news/317
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.
For the seventh edition of the Crystal Ruth Bell Residency, we are inviting people who work with all kinds of media to apply for a fully-funded, 6 month remote residency in 2021. We welcome your proposals of media arts and mediated projects.
We are calling for individuals and collectives working in all types of creative practices, of all passports, ages, gender-identities, backgrounds, abilities, and interests to send us proposals. Individuals and duos from all nationalities are encouraged to apply, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. This is a wide open call, with no restrictions based on age, medium, educational background, or any other criteria.
We want to support as many projects as possible, and we know that media projects are labor intensive and expensive. While we are still raising funds that will determine how many people we can support, each selected project(s) will receive a total USD $10,000. The residency dates will be flexible and take place between March 2021 and December 2021, with many opportunities for project feedback and visits with illustrious guests, in-depth workshops on budgeting & fundraising, mentorship and introductions, and help visioning paths completion and new ways to share your project with the world.
We are looking to support your projects of all kinds:
➕ Especially if this project relates to mainland China, Hong Kong, and the greater Chinese & Asian diasporas worldwide
➕ Especially if this is your first or second project.
➕ Especially if you started before the Covid-19 pandemic and experienced serious disruption this year
➕ Especially if this project started during the pandemic and needs to continue in 2021, but you're not sure how
➕ Especially if you are in an area deeply affected by the coronavirus
➕ Especially if your community is bearing the quintuple brunt of the pandemic because of long standing oppression
➕ Especially if you’ve been protesting and advocating for and supporting the movements for all Black lives
➕ Especially if you've been furloughed, fired, or lost your sources of livelihood, especially if you're still waiting on benefits that may or may not arrive, or if where you live has no support for you and your work
➕Especially if you've lost folks you love, especially if you're caring for folks, especially if you need care.
6. THE PLAYWRIGHTS REALM
DEADLINE: Feb. 7th
WEBSITE: https://playwrightsrealm.org/submit
The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship Program awards four early-career playwrights with nine months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals. Over the course of the season, Fellows develop a single new play. Monthly group meetings provide a collaborative, energizing space for writers to share and refine their work. One-on-one meetings with The Realm’s artistic staff support each writer’s specific artistic process. Fellows work with a director, design consultants, and actors over the course of two readings to see their work come to life. Professional development resources are also an integral part of the program and are tailored to the individual group of Writing Fellows. Mentor opportunities, meet-and-greets, and professional seminars are designed to shed light on the business of theatre, and empower the Fellows to be active, informed participants in their own careers. The culminating event of the program is our INK’D Festival, which features a public reading of each Fellow’s play.
Writing Fellows Receive $3,000 Award, Internal reading, Public reading, Professional development activities, Access to Realm office resources, An occasional hug
What We’re Looking For: above all, we look for dedicated early-career writers who crave a long-term, rigorous development process. We value intellectual curiosity, imagination and bravery. We love plays with evocative language, plays that contemplate big, unanswerable questions, that embrace the complexity of life, and demonstrate an understanding of the possibilities of dramatic storytelling. And of course, plays that are inherently theatrical—that could never be anything other than a play! As a playwright-centric company hoping to help create the next generation of successful playwrights, we believe it is our responsibility to ensure that the playwrights and the stories we support fully reflect the diversity of the society we live in. As such, we encourage writers and stories with unique cultural perspectives, experiences and backgrounds.
7. THE GENEVA THEATRE GUILD
DEADLINE: Feb. 14th
WEBSITE: genevatheatreguild.org
The Geneva Theatre Guild is now accepting submissions of original one-act play scripts with a running time of 30 minutes or less for the annual Playwrights Play Readings event. This year the Play Readings will again be held live online for a series of Thursday evenings beginning April 22nd. All selected playwrights will be invited to participate in a talk-back session after each performance with the cast and director of each play, giving writers of all ages the chance to not only experience the actors' interpretations of their work but to receive audience feedback in real time.
All submissions will be given a blind review by a play selection committee who will choose the works to be presented this season. All playwrights will be notified of the selections by March 17th. This year there is a separate category for college age submissions. One play will be selected from this category.
The guidelines for all submissions are as follows:
Plays should be submitted electronically in PDF format to Geneva Theatre Guild seasonplanninggtg@gmail.com. If you are unable to submit electronically, mail four copies of your script, unbound in a folder. If you want your scripts returned, please include a self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage. Plays can be mailed to the Geneva Theatre Guild, P.O. Box 424, Geneva, NY 14456
Limit - one play, which cannot have been published and has not previously been submitted to the Geneva Theatre Guild’s Playwrights Play Readings.
The number of submissions accepted will be cut off after the first 150 have been received.
Title page should include the title of the play playwrights name, address, phone number, email address and approximate running time of the play.
Include a brief synopsis of the plot, setting, and a list of characters before the first page of dialogue.
All pages must be numbered starting with the first page of dialogue on page one.
8. 2021 JEROME EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY
DEADLINE: February 15th
WEBSITE: theandersoncenter.submittable.com/submit/174353/2021-jerome-emerging-artist-residency-for-mn-nyc-artists
Application via Submittable
The Anderson Center’s Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program offers month-long residency-fellowships at Tower View to a cohort of early-career artists from Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City for concentrated, uninterrupted creative time to advance their personal artistic goals and projects.
The program aims to meet the specific needs of emerging artists while welcoming them into a supportive and inspiring residency environment that empowers them to take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving.
Thanks to support from the Jerome Foundation, selected emerging artists receive $625/week in honoraria, documentation support, art-making resources, facilitation of community connections, lodging & studio space, a travel stipend, groceries, and chef-prepared communal dinners.
Located at the historic Tower View estate, a venerable research-and-development lab for the arts rooted in an expansive natural setting, the program is an ideal fit for early-career artists whose work reveals a significant potential for cultural and community impact, is technically accomplished, engages diverse communities.
The Anderson Center’s goal is for connections participating artists make with one another, as well as connections made with other creatives and community members, to outlast the duration of their residency visit. The organization believes that the environment and resources of Tower View, along with an exchange of ideas across disciplines, can serve as a catalyst for new inspiration and innovative directions for the work emerging artists create while in residence.
Jury review will take place in late February and early March. Applicants will be notified by March 4 at the latest as to the status of their application. A phone interview process with finalists will take place in late March following a second round of jury review. Selected artist residents, wait-list and runners-up will be notified by April 5, 2021.
Artists must be legal residents of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City to be eligible to apply. To be considered, eligible artists must submit an application through the Anderson Center’s online form via Submittable. Please contact Adam Wiltgen at 651-388-2009 x4 or adam@andersoncenter.org for any questions.
9. GOOD HART ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM
DEADLINE: February 17th
WEBSITE: https://goodhartartistresidency.org/program-details/
Residency includes:
A one- week, or two-week ,or three-week residency stay depending on the program selected. Most residency time slots are two weeks long.
Use of the 1,150 sqft residence and a 24×14 detached studio(for visual artists). Housekeeping services are not provided.
Food is provided. The residence has a fully stocked and well equipped kitchen for the resident to prepare meals. We provide homemade baked goods and jams, locally sourced ingredients, and seasonal vegetables from the host’s garden when available.
$500.00 stipend
Must be over 21
Need to have completed an undergraduate degree in a related field and pursuing art, writing, or composing as a professional career or if self-taught have pursued art, writing, or composing as a professional career
Collaborating artists may apply and be accepted as collaborating artists who share studio space and housing. Each must submit an application.
Artist’s and writer’s and composer’s applications will be considered based on their work submitted, their interest in the program, and the proposed collaboration with a partnering organization.
Your application must include:
Preference for dates of residency
Resume including related experience and website information
Statement of intent including a one or two paragraph project description outlining your purpose for the residency
Two references including contact information
Application fee of $25 dollars U.S. Please contact us if you are experiencing financial hardship due to the pandemic to request an application fee waiver.
Provide a brief summary of a proposed community event or workshop you would offer during your residency. Please review the partner’s page carefully regarding the type of collaboration the partner is looking for with an artist, writer, or composer. Connecting with the local community is an important part of our program. Once a candidate is selected they will work with the Good Hart Artist Residency and a nonprofit partner to better define a community event that works for all parties.
Writers must be currently working on a project. Writers shall submit three to five pages of a work in progress and an excerpt of no more than ten pages of a completed work. Samples of previously published work must include a link to the published work or information for accessing the published work. Projects may be in poetry, short stories, novels, essays, plays, screenplays, and/or creative nonfiction. Writing submissions must be in English, and easily accessible without fee by the jurors. Residents are housed at 910 N. Lamkin Rd in Good Hart, Michigan. The house is a one-bedroom contemporary space with beach access to Lake Michigan a short walk away. If you have questions about the Good Hart Artist in Residency Program please email susan@goodhartartistresidency.org
10. BABES WITH BLADES/SWORD & PEN
DEADLINE: Feb. 18th
WEBSITE: babeswithblades.org/jsp-how-to-submit/
Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s Joining Sword & Pen (JS&P) competition is live and underway! Since 2005, JS&P has challenged playwrights to write a full-length play based on the story they see in our contest image. The winner receives a full production and the Margaret Woolley Martin Award, which carries a cash prize of $1000. We’re seeking submissions from playwrights of underrepresented genders. This includes cis women, trans women, trans men, non-binary people, and those who are otherwise marginalized based on gender.
What We’re Looking For:
1. The moment depicted in the inspirational image at the bottom of this page must be physically dramatized/incorporated into the play. We want to (literally) perform that moment on stage. Include the page number of your script where the contest’s image is depicted in your submission email.
2. Scripts must be inclusive of the BIPOC community. Whether the script lends itself to characters being played by actors of any race/ethnicity or whether it includes stories that are race-specific, BIPOC characters must not be limited to secondary or background characters.
3. All JS&P submissions must be new, full length, original works, inspired by the artwork that is the focus of the contest. Previously written, workshopped, published or performed submissions will not be considered and we will not contact you. Please do not insert the contest image into an existing script.
4. Please email your JS&P submission in a PDF file to swordandpen@babeswithblades.org. The filename must start with the title of the play (ex. “Patchwork Drifter.pdf”). If the title of the play begins with “the,” “a,” or “an,” please place that article at the end of the title (ex. “Last Daughter of Oedipus, The.pdf”).
11. THE SUSAN HAAS FELLOWSHIP
DEADLINE: February 21st
WEBSITE: https://www.haasfellowship.org
Emmy- and WGA-award winning writer Cord Jefferson is excited to partner with the WGA Foundation to launch the 2021 Susan M. Haas Fellowship, which will provide two journalists interested in TV-writing with financial and creative support as they develop original pilots. Jefferson’s experience as a journalist turned screenwriter gives him a unique lens into the entertainment industry. After regularly offering advice and behind-the-scenes counsel to journalists interested in pursuing careers in film and television, Jefferson decided to offer support in a more formal way with the Haas Fellowship.
Two writers with backgrounds in journalism will receive $25,000 each to assist with living expenses for a six-month period, during which recipients will develop their original teleplays. Each writer will also be paired with a mentor who will provide notes and guidance throughout the drafting process. At the end of the six months, fellows will have the opportunity to meet with at least two industry professionals (agents, managers, and/or executives) to aid in the process of representation, staffing, and/or further project development.
This fellowship is open to journalists without a full-time job or steady source of income. This includes part-time, freelance, unemployed, or laid-off journalists. Applicants must not have earned credit(s) or financial compensation for any prior television or film work to be considered. Writers of all race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply. Special attention will be given to applicants from communities which have been traditionally underrepresented in television writers’ rooms. You must be 21 or older and authorized to work in the United States to participate.
Additionally, applicants must be:
Committed to completing one (1) TV pilot during the program.
Able to participate in all program meetings and fulfill all program requirements.
Open to constructive criticism and respectful of all other participants and mentors.
12. THE CREATIVE CAPITAL AWARD
DEADLINE: March 1st
WEBSITE: https://creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award-open/
Creative Capital supports forward-thinking and adventurous artists across the country by providing up to $50,000 in project funding, counsel, and career development services. Our pioneering venture philanthropy approach helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices. Creative Capital takes chances on artists by supporting your bold, challenging, and genre-stretching ideas. Over the past 20 years, we have developed a four-part approach that includes support for you, your project, your community, and your audience. Through funding, professional development, individual meetings with close colleagues, and consistent engagement with our staff, we provide you with the resources you will need at strategic moments in your process. These include: consultations with legal, financial, marketing, public relations, and web consultants; an orientation meeting, Artist Retreats and Regional Gatherings; ten meetings with a strategic planning coach; and much more.
Our application questions are designed to help you better articulate your project, your goals, and how you would like to position yourself in the field. Many people have told us that the application itself taught them a lot about their project and their life goals. Additionally, our application evaluation process ensures that your work will receive additional exposure. In the first round, two colleagues from your field will read about your project. If you make it to the second round, two more people will read about it. If you make it to the panel review stage, five to seven more people will know about your work. That means that, just by applying, up to ten professional curators, programmers or editors in your field will have been informed about your project.
The Creative Capital Award application is a highly competitive process, but the questions are designed to help artists articulate and think through the ideas and goals behind a project, in order to make the time the artist spends on the application worthwhile. The application questions are designed to provoke meaningful reflection about a project, why it needs to be made, and for whom. Although Creative Capital has funded artists who are working in a discipline that is new to them, we want to make sure that the applicant has the appropriate professional capabilities to execute the project—especially if the impact is ambitious! The Creative Capital Award is not ideal for artists just beginning their creative practices—that’s why we require artists have five years of experience. It’s important that the applicant demonstrates a deep understanding of the professional landscape of their field. They should also have a certain amount of momentum in their career that we can help them build upon. Beyond looking at the ideas of the artist’s project, we ask evaluators to determine if the applicant is ready to examine their creative and professional approach. Because we offer more than just financial support, we want to know if the applicant could benefit from additional resources of capital and skills building to complete their project.
The resources that Creative Capital offers our Awardees work best over a long period of time. So, if the artist applied with a project that will premiere a year or less after the award announcement, it is not a strong match. Entering the life of a project at a key moment is important to us, and we have found that projects premiering within the first year are less able to take advantage of our resources. Finally, we are looking for artists who demonstrate a strong sense of mutual generosity and engagement in a community. Artists who receive Creative Capital Awards stay in our community of supporters long after they’ve premiered their projects, and we expect them to pay forward what they gain from us to future artists. We value artists who are generous toward their peers and professional colleagues.
13. NEW VISIONS FELLOWSHIP (NATIONAL QUEER THEATER)
Deadline: March 5th
WEBSITE: https://www.nationalqueertheater.org/new-visions-fellowship
This Spring, National Queer Theater and the Dramatists Guild are launching the New Visions Fellowship, an innovative new program for Black trans and gender nonconforming playwrights. The New Visions Fellowship will select two playwrights for a rigorous year-long professional development initiative aimed at celebrating the brilliance of and uplifting Black TGNC writers in the face of the systemic exclusion that Black TGNC writers have endured within American theater.
We believe the New Visions Fellowship is essential because of its opportunity to create space for the Black and queer imagination, a perspective long and consistently forced to take a backseat to “safer” LGBT stories in American culture, and even American queer culture.
The curiculum of traditional artistic conservatory programs is heavily influenced by a white, cisgender male patriarchal perspective, particularly centering on male-identifying writers from both the classical and modern eras. Our program seeks to help remedy the exclusionary bias that riddles traditional channels of training and mentorship.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
The fellows will be paired with a primary mentor and supplemental mentor figures who will guide writers through the development of a play, musical, or performance experience of their design and choosing. Roger Q. Mason, pictured above, will serve as one of the primary mentors. In addition, writers will have the opportunity to participate in professional development sessions covering a wide range of artistic topics. The fellows will also receive access to Dramatists Guild contracts, business advice and career services in an effort to for the purpose of aiding fellows in protecting both the artistic and economic integrity of their work. These workshops will help writers broker relationships with Off-Broadway or regional theaters. A theater will host a professionally cast and directed reading of their play at the end of the program. Selected fellows will receive $5,000 and a three-year complimentary Guild membership.
APPLY TO THIS PROGRAM
Applications are due on March 5th at 6pm EST. Please click the link below to apply. This program is specifically for Black playwrights who identify as trans or gender nonconforming.
14. CINCINNATI LAB THEATRE’S 2021 NEW WORKS FESTIVAL PLAY
DEADLINE: March 31st
WEBSITE: https://cincylabtheatre.wixsite.com/cincylab/submissions
Submissions are now open! Cincinnati LAB Theatre is planning its eighth producing season and is now accepting submissions to fill staged reading slots for its New Works Festival in the summer of 2021. It is our hope that we will be able to produce theatre in-person in July of 2021, but if we are still unable to do so due to COVID-19 we will hold our New Works Festival completely remote again to protect the health and safety of our artists as well as our patrons. To be considered for a staged reading a playwright must submit an original, unpublished, fully realized script of at least 30 minutes in length. Only plays with no more than 6 characters will be accepted. Playwrights must be available to be present for at least 50% of the workshop/rehearsal process and during at least one performance.
Submissions will be accepted by emailing a script to cincinnatilabtheatre@gmail.com.
Please attach the script to the email as a portable document file (.pdf) or as a Microsoft Word file (.doc). In the body of the email, please include the playwright’s full contact information and a short synopsis of the play being submitted. Furthermore, if the play has been previously workshopped and/or had a staged reading, please provide all the pertinent details of the workshop and/or reading.
Please feel free to contact one of the artistic directors directly by emailing us at cincinnatilabtheatre@gmail.comif you have any questions for concerns.
15. AUDIBLE EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS
DEADLINE: Year round
WEBSITEhttps://www.audible.com/ep/audible-theater
In 2017, Audible launched a theater initiative, intended to radically increase access to exceptional plays and performances. A core pillar of the initiative is the Emerging Playwrights Fund, a program that invests in and nurtures self-identifying emerging playwrights, some of our most inventive, delightful, and provocative storytellers. Through the Fund, Audible aims to connect extraordinary performers with remarkable original work, amplifying new voices and harnessing the power and potential of audio to reach millions of listeners. The Fund specifically supports the creation of original dramatic work, written with audio in mind, but theatrical in spirit. If you are looking to submit an idea for an audio project that is not a play, please visit www.audible.com/pitch.
Audible is dedicated to commissioning, developing, and producing work that reflects the diversity of our members and our world. To accomplish this, Audible is committed to granting at least 50% of emerging playwright commissions to artists of color and women.
Submission Guidelines: To be considered as an applicant for a commission, please submit all of the following to AudibleTheater@audible.com:
1. One full-length script for an original or adapted play (in English language only) that represents your voice ("Script"). The Script can be in any genre and may include one-acts and solo pieces;
2. A short biography; and A brief statement about why audio plays appeal to you.
If you have an idea for an original audio play, you are welcome to include a pitch or summary along with your statement (this is encouraged, but not required).
Any applicant over the age of 18 may submit a Script. Employees or independent contractors, or immediate family members (spouses, domestic partners, parents, grandparents, siblings, children, and grandchildren) or those living in the same household of employees or independent contractors of Audible Inc., Amazon or any entity involved in any aspect of the Theater Fund may not submit a Script for consideration, unless it is determined by Audible in its sole discretion in accordance with Audible’s then current policies and procedures that no conflict of interest exists in connection with accepting the relevant submission for consideration.
Submissions are accepted year-round. Due to the number of Scripts that Audible receives, Audible will only consider one Script at a time from each applicant and will not consider resubmissions, including those that have been significantly revised. The Audible team evaluates submissions on a rolling basis, and applicants will be notified regarding the status of their submissions via email. Thanks in advance for your patience while we process your Script; our typical response time is 6-8 months.
16. ARTIST RESCUE TRUST
DEADLINE: Ongoing
WEBSITE: https://artistrescue.org/
The mission of Artist Rescue Trust is to provide relief funding to musicians and artists totaling $1,500 over three months and amplify their stories, performances and art to the world. We invite eligible artists and musicians who are facing financial complications from cancelled events and bookings to fill out the application form to be considered. Qualifying applicants who meet the eligibility requirements will be entered into a pool. A new fund recipient will be randomly selected from the qualified pool each time $1500 is donated to A.R.T. We are continuing to accept applications, so if you feel you would be eligible, please apply! The longevity of this effort will be assessed by, 1) the status of COVID-19 and its economic effects. 2) The impact of this program to date. The need is great. So we will continue our work and help as many as possible.
Basic requirements to be eligible for our grants are:
Be 18+
Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident in the United States, District of Columbia, or U.S. Territories (e.g. citizen, green card holder, and/or permanent resident who can provide a W9 and SSN or ITIN).
Be a professional, actively practicing musician or artist whose primary source of income is made through live performances, tours, gallery openings, book tours/readings, or other bookings/events and not working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
Demonstrate a commitment to current and ongoing activity in their artistic discipline/s.
Show a demonstrated need for emergency relief to recover the immediate loss of income through cancellations and bookings due to COVID19.
Not be enrolled in unemployment benefits.
Not a full-time employee, board member, director, officer, or immediate family member of any of the coalition partners.
Not previously awarded a relief grant from this fund.
17. STOCHASTIC LABS
DEADLINE: Rolling
WEBSITE: https://stochasticlabs.org
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.
