Dramatists Guild Fund Awards $170,000 to Theaters Nationwide

The Dramatists Guild Fund awards $170,000 to theaters across the country. As a part of its mission to support writers, the Dramatists Guild Fund provides grants to non-profit theaters and theatrical institutions across the country that develop and/or produce contemporary American plays and musicals.

"Our grants to non-profit theaters across the country are an important part of our mission to nurture writers at all stages of their careers. Every year, we are inspired by organizations that keep dramatists at the heart of their work and build their communities through theater." - DGF Board President Gretchen Cryer

The awarded funds help theaters to provide dramatists with the crucial opportunity to hear their work, experience production and build careers.

"Reading the inspired mission statements from theaters across the country leaves us on the Dramatists Guild Fund whooping with excitement and joy."

- Tina Howe, DGF Advisory Council and Theater Grant Review Committee

Throughout the year DGF also provides aid to writers in need with Kesselring Emergency Grants and helps early and mid career dramatists develop their craft through educational programs.

All recipients have meet the following general criteria:

• DGF seeks to recognize applicants that pursue a clearly defined mission and support American writers for the theater and their work
• Applicants must be a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (or have a fiscal sponsor)
• Applicants must be located within the United States or its territories
• Applicants must have a minimum of three years of documented production experience
• Applicants must demonstrate fair dealings with dramatists as determined by their contracts
• Preference will be given to applicants whose annual operating budget is less than $1,000,000

To increase the impact of funds to support writers directly, DGF now restricts grants to support only:

• Payments made directly to writers (commissions, stipends, etc.)
• Productions, readings, and workshops of contemporary American work

Theaters receiving DGF grants include:

11th Hour Theatre Company

52nd Street Project

Abingdon Theatre Company

Act Theater

Actor's Express

Actors theatre of Louisville

Adirondack Theater Festival

Alliance of Los Angeles playwrights

Alternative Theater Ensemble

Ars Nova Theater, Inc.

Artistic New Directions

Astoria Performing Arts Center, Inc

Athena Theatre

Atlantic Stage

Bloomington Playwrights Project

Boomerang Theatre Company

Brave New World Repertory Theatre

Buntport Theater Company

Bushwick Starr

Chance Theater

Chicago Dramatists

Circle Theatre

City Theatre

Classical theatre of Harlem

Collaboration Town

Collaborative Arts Project 21, Inc.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Theatre

Colt Coeur

Crowded Fire Theater Company

Dallas Theater Center

Decades Out

DIVAfest

Dixon Place

Dorset Theatre Festival

Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre

Emerging Artists Theatre Company

Ensemble Studio Theatre

Flux Theatre Ensemble

Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, Inc.

Friends of Bristol Valley Playhouse

Genesis Theatrical Productions

Geva Theatre Center

Hi-ARTS

History Theatre

Hudson Stage Company

Illusion Theater

INTAR

InterAct Theatre Company

Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company

Lark Play Development Center

Long Wharf Theatre

Luna Stage

Ma-Yi Theater Company

Mabou Mines

Magic Theatre

Marin Theatre Company

McCarter Theatre Company

Medicine Show Theater Ensemble, Inc.

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company

Musically Human Theatre

Naked Angels

National Alliance for Musical Theatre

National New Play Network

New Dramatists

New Georges

New Jersey Repertory Company

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Partial Comfort Productions

Penumbra Theatre Company

Phoenix Theatre, Inc.

Plan B Theatre Company

Playground

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company

PlayPenn Inc.

Plays and Players

Playwrights Foundation

Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Realm

Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey

Playwrights' Arena

Primary Stages

Profile Theatre Project

Prospect Theatre Company

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Red Fern Theatre Company

Red Tape Theatre

Reno Little Theater

Rising Circle Theatre Collective, Inc.

Riverside Theatre

San Francisco Playhouse

SAY Stuttering Association for The Young

Seattle Public Theater

Soho Repertory Theatre

Space on Ryder Farm

Spooky Action Theater

Stage Left Theatre

Studio 42

TADA

TeCo Theatrical Productions, Inc

Terra Nova Collective

The Actors Company Theatre

The Actors Fund

The Brick Theater, Inc.

The Flea Theater

The Foundry Theatre

The Play Company

The Playwrights Center

The Tank

Theater Breaking Through Barriers

Theater for the New City

Theater West

Theatre Communications Group

Theatre Development Fund

Theatre Kapow

TheatreWorks

TOSOS

Urban Stages

Vineyard Theatre

Washington Ensemble Theatre

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum

William Inge Center

Winding Road Theater Ensemble

Women in the Arts & Media Coalition, Inc.

Women's Project & Productions

Wordsmyth Theatre Company

Workhaus Playwrights Collective

Working Theatre Company

Z Space Studio

The Dramatists Guild Fund is the public charity arm of the Dramatists Guild of America. Its mission is to aid and nurture writers for the theater, to fund non-profit theaters producing contemporary American works, and to heighten appreciation of theater across the country.

For more information, visit the Dramatists Guild Fund at http://www.dgfund.org/.