Virtual Festival of Short Plays
Abingdon Theatre Company
DEADLINE: October 8, 2021
INFO: Abingdon Theatre Company continues to be committed to creating opportunities for all voices to be heard. With this in mind, they are thrilled to be producing their second annual Festival of Short Plays - a one-week virtual festival shedding light on stories by people of color.
Three new short pieces will be selected which were created and to be performed and directed by people of color. At the conclusion of the festival, a diverse panel of judges, theatre professionals who are BIPOC, will select a winner who will receive a $500 stipend to be used to support further exploration of their work.
All pieces must meet the following criteria: no more than 45 pages in length, no musicals and original, complete, unpublished pieces only. Any BIPOC playwrights who are interested, please submit your piece to bcavalieri@abingdontheatre.org
www.abingdontheatre.org/virtual-festival-of-short-plays-2/
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CALL FOR WRITERS
American Renaissance Theater Company
DEADLINE: October 31, 2021
INFO: American Renaissance Theater Company is seeking to expand its already diverse membership by inviting applications from Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander playwrights located in the NYC/Tri-state area.
ARTC is a dynamic community of theater professionals. They include actors and directors as well as writers who encompass the full range of gender, age and sexual orientations. They want to extend a welcome to the voices of all writers who believe they would benefit from the supportive process of the weekly workshop. The workshop meets at a midtown New York studio every Tuesday (via Zoom during Covid.)
Preliminary submissions should consist of the first 20 pages from a full-length or one-act play. Please put "Playwright Submission" in the subject field and send your writing sample and bio or resume to: artcorg@gmail.com. We aim to respond to applications within three months of receipt.
www.facebook.com/AmericanRenaissanceTheaterCompany/posts/4268170743303649
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NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre
NYFA
DEADLINE: November 1, 2021
INFO: The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre provides grants to encourage and support the creation of digital, film, music, television, and live or online theatre content that reflects the voices and perspectives of all who identify as women.
Now in its third cycle, the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre (“Women’s Fund”), administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in partnership with the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), is part of a groundbreaking series of initiatives that address the underrepresentation of women in film, music, television and theatre. The Fund provides grants to encourage and support the creation of content that reflect the voices and perspectives of all who identify as women.
In 2021/22 cycle, the Women’s Fund will distribute $2.5M in funding to Media, Music and Theatre projects in NYC.
THE PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE:
Finishing grants* for film, television, and digital projects
Funds for the creation of music recordings or videos
Production funds for live or online theatre
In addition to being made by, for, or about all who identify as women, projects are eligible if they feature a strong female perspective; and/or include a female-identified director and/or producer and/or writer/songwriter and/or engineer (for recordings) and/or female protagonist(s) or lead musical role.
*To be eligible, projects need to have completed principal photography.
GRANTS WILL BE GIVEN IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES (AMOUNTS LISTED ARE THE MAXIMUM POTENTIAL GRANT):
Fiction Feature (running time of 60 minutes or more) – $50,000
Fiction Short (running time of 59 minutes or less) – $25,000
Fiction Webisode/Webseries (all forms) – $20,000
Documentary Feature (running time of 60 minutes or more) – 50,000
Documentary Short (running time of 59 minutes or less) – $25,000
Documentary Webisodes/Webseries (all lengths and forms) – $20,000
Music: Classical/Experimental/Jazz/New Music – $20,000
Music General – $20,000
Theatre Production – grant amounts up to $50,000
https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/nyc-womens-fund-for-media-music-and-theatre/