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Deadline: February 2, 2020
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The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship Program awards four early-career playwrights with nine months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals. Over the course of the season, Fellows develop a single new play. Monthly group meetings provide a collaborative, energizing space for writers to share and refine their work. One-on-one meetings with The Realm’s artistic staff support each writer’s specific artistic process. Fellows work with a director, design consultants, and actors over the course of two readings to see their work come to life. Professional development resources are also an integral part of the program and are tailored to the individual group of Writing Fellows. Mentor opportunities, meet-and-greets, and professional seminars are designed to shed light on the business of theatre, and empower the Fellows to be active, informed participants in their own careers. The culminating event of the program is our INK’D Festival, which features a public reading of each Fellow’s play.
Writing Fellows Receive
$3,000 Award
Internal reading
Public reading
Professional development activities
Access to Realm office resources
An occasional hug
What We’re Looking For
Above all, we look for dedicated early-career writers who crave a long-term, rigorous development process. We value intellectual curiosity, imagination and bravery. We love plays with evocative language, plays that contemplate big, unanswerable questions, that embrace the complexity of life, and demonstrate an understanding of the possibilities of dramatic storytelling. And of course, plays that are inherently theatrical—that could never be anything other than a play!
As a playwright-centric company hoping to help create the next generation of successful playwrights, we believe it is our responsibility to ensure that the playwrights and the stories we support fully reflect the diversity of the society we live in. As such, we encourage writers and stories with unique cultural perspectives, experiences and backgrounds.
Program Criteria
Playwrights must be able to attend meetings and readings in New York City approximately twice monthly from September 2020 through early June 2021.
Playwrights should identify as early-career.
Submitted script must be a full-length play, at a stage of development that would benefit from a nine-month developmental process.
Plays should have no commitments to other theaters that will limit their development with The Playwrights Realm.
Those enrolled in an academic program during the span of the fellowship are not eligible.
Plays which have had a production outside of an academic environment are not eligible.
Plays committed to another similar development process during the same period as the Writing Fellowship are not eligible.
Writing Fellows Application Components
Online application (short-answer questions)
Theatrical résumé
A complete draft of the play you wish to develop, with your name and play title on a cover page (PDF format)
Optional professional reference or letter of recommendation
Follow up questions may be sent at a later date (See detailed information on questions here)
Deadline: February 2, 2020
Submit via Submittable
The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship Program awards four early-career playwrights with nine months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals. Over the course of the season, Fellows develop a single new play. Monthly group meetings provide a collaborative, energizing space for writers to share and refine their work. One-on-one meetings with The Realm’s artistic staff support each writer’s specific artistic process. Fellows work with a director, design consultants, and actors over the course of two readings to see their work come to life. Professional development resources are also an integral part of the program and are tailored to the individual group of Writing Fellows. Mentor opportunities, meet-and-greets, and professional seminars are designed to shed light on the business of theatre, and empower the Fellows to be active, informed participants in their own careers. The culminating event of the program is our INK’D Festival, which features a public reading of each Fellow’s play.
Writing Fellows Receive
$3,000 Award
Internal reading
Public reading
Professional development activities
Access to Realm office resources
An occasional hug
What We’re Looking For
Above all, we look for dedicated early-career writers who crave a long-term, rigorous development process. We value intellectual curiosity, imagination and bravery. We love plays with evocative language, plays that contemplate big, unanswerable questions, that embrace the complexity of life, and demonstrate an understanding of the possibilities of dramatic storytelling. And of course, plays that are inherently theatrical—that could never be anything other than a play!
As a playwright-centric company hoping to help create the next generation of successful playwrights, we believe it is our responsibility to ensure that the playwrights and the stories we support fully reflect the diversity of the society we live in. As such, we encourage writers and stories with unique cultural perspectives, experiences and backgrounds.
Program Criteria
Playwrights must be able to attend meetings and readings in New York City approximately twice monthly from September 2020 through early June 2021.
Playwrights should identify as early-career.
Submitted script must be a full-length play, at a stage of development that would benefit from a nine-month developmental process.
Plays should have no commitments to other theaters that will limit their development with The Playwrights Realm.
Those enrolled in an academic program during the span of the fellowship are not eligible.
Plays which have had a production outside of an academic environment are not eligible.
Plays committed to another similar development process during the same period as the Writing Fellowship are not eligible.
Writing Fellows Application Components
Online application (short-answer questions)
Theatrical résumé
A complete draft of the play you wish to develop, with your name and play title on a cover page (PDF format)
Optional professional reference or letter of recommendation
Follow up questions may be sent at a later date (See detailed information on questions here)