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Monday, November 4, 2024

EST/SLOAN NEW PLAY COMMISSIONS

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Deadline: November 15, 2024

SUBMISSION FORM ONLINE

Individuals or creative teams interested in receiving an EST/Sloan Project commission should upload a single document which contains the following as their application for a grant:

A one-page description or a simple outline/synopsis of the project. Your proposal should describe the story you want to put on stage. All the science has to be discussed as part of the story, not as a separate section. Focus on plot and character development, as well as the aesthetic style you envision for the piece.

A resume or biography of each collaborator involved.

SUBJECT AREAS ELIGIBLE FOR SUBMISSION

The EST/Sloan Project is open to a broad range of topics related to the issues, people, ideas, processes, leading-edge discoveries, inventions, and/or history of the "hard" sciences and technology, as well as explorations of the culture of those fields.

HARD SCIENCES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

Mathematics
  • Physics (geological, nuclear, theoretical, etc.)
  • Biology (evolution, zoology, animal behavior, ecology, molecular, genetics, etc.)
  • Chemistry (industrial, biochemistry, etc.)
  • Neuroscience
  • Anthropology and Archaeology

TECHNOLOGY INCLUDES:
  • Computer Science
  • Software Development, Computer Development
  • Engineering (civil, chemical, mechanical, electrical, aerospace, vehicle design)
  • Space Research

AREAS NOT CONSIDERED FOR COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:
  • Science Fiction
  • Medical Conditions and/or Victims of Disease
  • Psychology and Human Behavior

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