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T Fellowship Created to Help Aspiring Bway Producers

By: Jun. 27, 2005
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A new fellowship program has been designed by Harold Prince, T. Edward Hambleton, the late Geraldine Stutz, Ed Wilson, and TDF (Victoria Bailey, Executive Director) to honor the legacy of Broadway producer Hambleton by supporting and developing gifted, emerging theatrical producers.

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The fellowship was created in cooperation with The Theater Division of the Columbia University School of the Arts (Bruce W. Ferguson, Dean; Steven Chaikelson, Chair of Theatre), and The Columbia Arts Initiative (Gregory Mosher, Director). "The T Fellowship will expose fellows to the best contemporary producing practices, but will not teach those practices as the only or most effective way to produce theater," states a press release. "The Fellowship will emphasize that the creative producer's role is to be the instigator, the collaborator, and the leader who gets art on the stage and to the public. The T Fellowship is looking to empower new producers to reinvent the wheel themselves on their own terms, following their own tastes, in their own style...The T Fellowship will draw on working professionals in the field as well as the extraordinary academic and cross disciplinary strengths that Columbia University offers including its MFA program in Theatre Management and Producing."

Each year, the T Fellowship will select one or two outstanding individuals to participate in a two-phase program. The first phase will expose the fellows to the widest possible range of contemporary theatrical producing practices while providing opportunities to discuss the shifting role of the creative producer. In the second phase, the fellows will produce a presentation of work they have developed. The T Fellowship will provide financial, legal, and production support of the project development and presentation.

The program will be free to the fellows. In addition, a need-based stipend will be awarded to assist in covering living expenses. The application process will begin this fall. The first fellow will be announced the following spring to begin the fellowship in the fall of 2006.

Hambleton, to whom the T Fellowship largely owes its creation, was one of the pioneers of the off-Broadway movement, according to the New York Times. He founded the Phoenix Theatre with Norris Houghton in 1953, which produced many new works by distinguished contemporary playwrights as well as fresh stagings of the classics. In addition, Hambleton serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as having served as a member of the Board of Governors of the League of American Theatres and Producers. He received a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre in 2000. In 2001, he was added to the Theatre Hall of Fame.

For more information about the fellowship or to apply, please go to www.tfellowship.com.




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