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Theatre Funding News, Volume #64
Published July 1, 2010
Dear Theatre Artist,
Welcome to Theatre
Funding News, Volume #64. This
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Contents - This newsletter
is organized into five sections:
- Playwright Festivals/Calls for Entries:
Festivals and other venues seeking scripts for publication, workshop, production, or for awarding prizes. Organized chronologically with earliest deadlines listed first.
- Ongoing Festival Deadlines/Ongoing Calls for Entries:
Lists festivals and other venues seeking scripts that accept submissions on an ongoing basis.
- Funding Opportunities:
Foundation deadlines for individual theatre artists AND theatres/arts organizations working in theatre. Organized chronologically with earliest deadlines listed first.
- Residencies:
Lists residencies for theatre and performance artists. Organized chronologically with earliest deadlines listed first and ongoing opportunities at the end.
- Resources: Other resources, such as helpful organizations and web sites, fundraising tools, and the like.
Highlighted entries -
Entries highlighted in red are specifically
seeking works by women.
Best of luck
in all your good work,
Deborah Steinberg
Director of Artist Services, WomenArts
Playwright Festivals/Calls for Entries
Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition (Buffalo, NY) – Sponsored by Alleyway Theatre. Seeking new plays and musicals in any style in 3 categories: Full Length (longer than 90 minutes; no more than 10 performers), One-Act (shorter than 20 minutes; no more than 6 performers), and Musical (must be accompanied by audio tape or CD). Only 1 submission per author. Scripts must be unproduced. The winning full-length play will receive a prize and a production at Alleyway Theatre; the winning one-act will receive a prize and production at the annual Buffalo Quickies festival. FEE: $25. Literary Manager, Alleyway Theatre, 1 Curtain Up Alley, Buffalo, NY 14202-1911, email@alleyway.com, http://alleyway.com. Deadline: Immediate! July 1, 2010
Call for Proposals – Thanatopolis at I-Park (October 2, 2010, East Haddam, CT) – The I-Park Foundation, an international arts community sited within an expansive nature preserve, is seeking creative proposals in the following disciplines: Music Composition/Sound Sculpture, Visual Arts/Environmental Sculpture, Theater/Choreography/Performance Art, Landscape/Garden Design, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture. Thanatopolis, an alternative memorial park/space in the advanced conceptual phase of its development, is looking for works that harmonize with the long-term goal of the project, which is to re-imagine our cultural and personal relationship to death, memory and memorialization - and to engage the above creative fields to bring about a new, profoundly sacred and evocative landscape/sound-space. Those invited to execute their physical, performance or music/sound sculpture pieces for the Thanatopolis Exhibition will receive a creative fee of $2,000 plus a budget for travel, materials and incidental expenses. Applicants invited to exhibit 'paper' (un-executable, future, conceptual) projects will receive a creative fee of $700. Additional funding may be available depending on the scope of the individual projects. See website for complete guidelines and submission procedure (online, through website). NO FEE. I-Park, 428 Hopyard Rd., East Haddam, CT 06423, T: (860) 873-2468, Contact: Agnes Miyuki, thanatopolis@gmail.com, http://www.i-park.org/Thanos.html. Deadline: July 5, 2010
Bay One Acts Festival (Spring 2011, San Francisco, CA) – Seeking one-act plays by San Francisco Bay Area writers. Plays chosen for production in the festival will also be published in the Bay One Acts Anthology. Preference given to world premieres and plays with limited production history. Plays must be by San Francisco Bay Area Writers; limit 1 submission per playwright. Plays must be between 15-50 minutes. Submission must include a title page with author’s full contact information and production history in the body of the script. NOTE: E-mail submissions in either Word or PDF format only, with “BOA” in the e-mail subject line. NO FEE. Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company, Literary Department, PO Box 640326, San Francisco, CA 94164-0326, T: (415) 776-7427, scripts@threewisemonkeys.org, http://www.threewisemonkeys.org/submit.html. Deadline: July 31, 2010
Reston Community Players New Play Project (monthly readings, Reston, VA) – Seeking bold, passionate, innovative new scripts for public readings followed by talk-back sessions with the audience, author, performers, and other personnel. Several authors will be invited back for a second public reading and talk-back, this time with some minimal production elements such as costumes of set pieces. Eventually, one script will be selected for a full production at the Center Stage at the Reston Community Center. Authors will receive a royalty for each public reading. There are no limitations on theme, style, or subject matter; edgy, avant-garde works are welcome in addition to more traditional forms. Scripts must be full-length (90 minutes or longer). NOTE: Hard copy submissions only. Download submission form from website. NO FEE. The New Play Project, Reston Community Players, PO Box 8232, Reston, VA 20195, newplays@restonplayers.org, http://www.restonplayers.org. Deadline: July 31, 2010
Sussex Playwrights’ Club Full Length Play Competition – Seeking one-act plays (30-50 minutes) on the theme of “Anniversaries” in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Club. Open to playwrights of any nationality who reside in any country. Plays must be original, written in English, and not previously produced or read at a club meeting. First prize winner receives £150 and a reading of the play at a club meeting; second prize is £100 and a reading; third prize is £75 and a reading. Plays must be entered under a pseudonym; all entries should include a sealed envelope with the play’s title and the pseudonym on the cover; inside the envelope, include a card with author’s real name and address, as well as postage for return of manuscript. Multiple entries are permitted. NOTE: Sussex Playwrights’ Club members are entitled to 1 free entry. FEE: £5. Mr. Dennis Evans, 2 Brunswick Mews, Hove, East Sussex BN3 1HD, http://www.sussexplaywrights.com/. Deadline: July 31, 2010
Global Age Project at Aurora Theatre (Spring, 2010, Berkeley, CA) – Seeking plays that celebrate fresh, forward-looking visions of global significance for a festival of staged readings. 4 scripts will be selected with the potential of full production the following season. In addition to a staged reading, winners will receive $1,000 and travel and housing for playwrights from outside the Bay Area. 1 submission per playwright. Plays may be any length and any style; experimentation with innovative forms is encouraged. Playwrights must be located in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. Plays must be in English; no translations. NOTE: E-mail submissions strongly preferred; submit through website. FEE: $20. Attn: GAP, Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94704, http://www.auroratheatre.org/gap.php. Deadline: August 1, 2010
The Yale Drama Series (New Haven, CT) – Seeking original, unpublished, full-length plays written in English. No translations, musicals, or children’s plays. The winner will receive the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of the manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep. Manuscript must begin with a title page with the play’s title, your name and full contact information, and page count. A second title page should list the title of the play, a list of characters, and a list of acts and scenes. Plays should be typed and page-numbered and should follow professional play format. Do not bind or staple manuscripts. Only one submission per playwright per year. NOTE: No e-mail submissions. NO FEE. Yale Drama Series, PO Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040, http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/drama.asp. Deadline: August 15, 2010
Little Fish Theatre Pick of Vine (January-February 2011, San Pedro, CA) – Accepting scripts for annual Pick of the Vine production. Preferred plays will require a minimal set, 6 or fewer actors, and run no longer than 20 minutes. No more than 3 scripts from any given playwright. NO FEE. Melanie Jones, Little Fish Theatre, 619 W. 38th St., San Pedro, CA 90731, melanie@littlefishtheatre.org, http://www.littlefishtheatre.org/scripts.html. Deadline: August 15, 2010
Ongoing Festival Deadlines/Ongoing Calls for Entries
NOTE: Please visit our Ongoing Calls for Plays page for more opportunities.
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA) – Presents high-quality, professionally directed plays by African-American playwrights, providing career building opportunities for local actors, directors, designers, and technicians of color. Seeking new works that explore, celebrate, and reflect the lives and experiences of African-Americans. See website for submission guidelines. NO FEE. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, 777 Jones St., San Francisco, CA 94109, Attn: Stanley Williams, Artistic Director, www.lhtsf.org.
New Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco, CA) – Seeking submissions in two categories: gay-themed plays or musicals and theatre for youth (traditional or progressive). Optimum cast size is 4-8. Submit cover letter with brief history of work and playwright contact information, character breakdown, synopsis, technical requirements, and information about current options/contracts. See website for guidelines. NOTE: No phone calls. NO FEE. Ed Decker, Artistic Director, The New Conservatory Theatre, 25 Van Ness Ave., Lower Level, San Francisco, CA 94102, ed@nctcsf, www.nctcsf.org.
Funding Opportunities
**Zion’s Bank Smart Women Grants** – Grants up to $3,000 to female residents of Utah or Idaho to support “the efforts of everyday heroines who strengthen women, children, and their communities.” Grants are awarded in 5 categories, including arts and culture. Submit application form (available on website), mission statement (how your application relates to the mission of the program), statement of purpose (clearly describe the focus, goals, and general direction of work or project, including artistic objectives), detailed description of project (including an explanation of how the grant will advance development of your work), proposed use of grant funds, plan for measuring performance and results, financial data and need (including list of other sources of funding), and supporting documents and work samples. See website for application form and complete guidelines. Smart Women Grants, c/o Zion’s Business Resource Center, 310 S. Main, Mezzanine North, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, T: (801) 594-8245, womensfinancial@zionsbank.com, https://www.zionsbank.com/swsm_grant.jsp?cid=2376. Deadline: July 2, 2010
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Transnational Cultural Remittances (TCR) Project – Grants from $2,000-$20,000 to strengthen the exchange of art and culture between communities linked by people’s migration from one country to another. Funds exemplary cultural exchange projects that support grassroots artistic and cultural practices and strengthen social networks across national boundaries in migrant communities. Eligible projects must demonstrate an ongoing connection between 2 or more of the following countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. Open to individual artists and non-profit organizations in any of these countries that are creating ongoing cultural exchange between disparate communities through work in human rights, social justice, and economic empowerment. These exchanges may be in person or electronic, but must be reciprocal and must extend cultural knowledge across borders. Grant period is from December of the current year through December of the following year. Grants are available for specific projects, i.e. community festivals featuring transnational arts and culture, or for planning, i.e. developing or documenting transnational artistic collaborations. NOTE: Application must be submitted partially online, through website, and partially by regular mail. See website for full guidelines and application forms. NALAC/TCR Program, 1208 Buena Vista, San Antonio, TX 78207, info@nalac.org, http://www.nalac.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=186&Itemid=232. Deadline: July 30, 2010
Irvine Foundation Creative Connections Fund – 2-year project grants of up to $50,000 each to support creativity and the expansion of diverse, relevant cultural offerings in local communities across California but primarily outside San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. Aims to support small and midsize arts organizations with a diversity of projects and ideas. Considers requests for projects that create new work or offer a contemporary reinterpretation of classic work and involve individual artists in collaboration with a local nonprofit organization. Applicant organizations must be located in California, have an annual revenue of at least $100,000, and have 501(c)(3) status or an established relationship with an approved fiscal sponsor. Project grant request can be for no more than 10% of annual organizational budget per year. Complete guidelines and application available online. NOTE: Applicants must have a profile on the California Cultural Data Project. Creative Connections Fund, T: (800) 374-6851, artsfund@irvine.org, http://www.irvine.org/grantmaking/grantmaking-programs/arts-program/fundingguidelines/creativeconnectionsfund/265-creative-connections-fund. Deadline: August 6, 2010
NEA Access to Artistic Excellence Grants – Supports projects that encourage and support artistic creativity, preserve our diverse cultural heritage, and make the arts more widely available in communities throughout the country. Particularly relevant are projects that demonstrate innovation by generating new forms of art making, new directions in the field, and/or innovative uses of creative resources, as well as those that extend the arts to underserved populations. Open to arts organizations in all disciplines; see website for complete guidelines (specific to each discipline) and application instructions. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20506, http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Artsed.html. Deadline: August 12, 2010
**Open Meadows Foundation Grants** – Funding to individuals and to nonprofit organizations for projects that are led by and benefit women. Grants of up to $2,000 to support projects that are designed and implemented by women and girls; reflect diversity of community served by project in both its leadership and organization; promote building community power; promote racial, social, economic, and environmental justice; and have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in search for funding. In addition to general grants, Open Meadows has 6 special targeted funds: the Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women’s Fund; the Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women; the Edie Windsor Fund for Old Lesbians; the India Fund; the Patsy Lu Fund for Women’s Music Projects; and the Susan F. Eastman Fund for Environmental Activists. Organizational budget should not exceed $150,000; small and start-up organizations strongly encouraged to apply. Open Meadows Foundation, PO Box 150-607, Van Brunt Station, Brooklyn, NY 11215-607, T: (718) 885-0969, openmeadows@igc.org, www.openmeadows.org. Deadline: August 14, 2010
Residencies
NOTE: Please visit our Residencies With Ongoing Deadlines page for more opportunities.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space (New York, NY) – Works with downtown building owners to make vacant space available to artists, curators, and arts organizations for the development and presentation of new projects in the visual and performing arts. Encourages creative, experimental and collaborative approaches to artistic practice in unconventional spaces. Recommended projects are matched with vacant spaces as they become available. Applications are accepted for development space, presentation, and office space for projects in the visual and performing arts. Projects are placed in spaces from 1-6 months, depending on project needs and space availability. Spaces are varied in nature, and have included raw office floors, finished offices, ground-floor retail storefronts, and basement bank vaults, in varying states of condition. Limited access to equipment may be available. LMCC will publicize projects on their website. Visual and performing artists and curators must have at least 3 years of experience working at a professional level in their filed; arts or cultural organizations must have 501(c)(3) non-profit status or fiscal sponsorship. Applicants do not need to be based in New York; however, artists should be within commuting distance for the duration of the project, and must be able to accept a space on short notice. Housing not provided. See website for complete application guidelines and procedures. NOTE: Applications must be submitted partially online and partially by mail. NO FEE. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038, (212) 219-9401, Fax: (212) 219-2058, http://lmcc.net/art/swingspace/overview/2009/apply.html. Receipt Deadline: July 22, 2010
Elsewhere Collaborative (March-November, 2010, Greensboro, NC) – Residencies between 2-6 weeks from creative artists working in all media. The collaborative is a three-floor former thrift store turned into a living museum. Residents constantly compose and re-imagine the environment through projects that respond to layers of objects, artworks, collections, architecture, histories, and concepts within the building. Residents enter into an evolving collaborative artwork, inhabit production spaces, and establish living sites throughout the museum, using the resources from the 58-year-old inventory. Residency provides housing, workspace, and materials; artist responsible for program fee ($250), travel, and participation in food co-operative ($35/week). See website for application and complete guidelines. NO FEE. Elsewhere Collaborative, 606 and 608 S. Elm St., Donwtown Greensboro, NC 27406, http://elsewhereelsewhere.org/programs/residencies. Deadline: July 31, 2010
Yaddo (year-round, Saratoga Springs, NY) – Residencies of an average of 5 weeks for writers, media artists, visual artists and performing artists working at the professional level in their fields. Facilities include dance/choreography studios, exhibition/installation spaces, metal shop, music studio, and performing arts space. Residency provides housing, meals, studio, travel assistance, and materials stipend. Artists responsible for additional materials or travel costs. FEE: $20. Yaddo, PO Box 395, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, T: (518) 584-0746, FAX: (518) 584-1312, yaddo@yaddo.org, www.yaddo.org. Deadline: August 1, 2010
Other Resources
There are no new resources this month. For a complete list of funding sources, visit: http://www.womenarts.org/fund/fundlists.htm.
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