Dramatists Guild Fund Awards $170,000 to Theaters Nationwide
By: Tyler Peterson Jan. 02, 2015
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
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
Decades Out
DIVAfest
Dixon Place
Dorset Theatre Festival
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre
Emerging Artists Theatre Company
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, Inc.
Friends of Bristol Valley Playhouse
Genesis Theatrical Productions
Geva Theatre Center
Hi-ARTS
History Theatre
Illusion Theater
INTAR
InterAct Theatre Company
Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company
Lark Play Development Center
Magic Theatre
Marin Theatre Company
McCarter Theatre Company
Medicine Show Theater Ensemble, Inc.
Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
Musically Human Theatre
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
National New Play Network
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 Theatre of New Jersey
Playwrights' Arena
Profile Theatre Project
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 Playwrights Center
The Tank
Theater Breaking Through Barriers
Theater for the New City
Theater West
Theatre Communications Group
Theatre Kapow
TheatreWorks
TOSOS
Urban Stages
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/.
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