DGF Bridge Grants

The DGF Bridge Grants provide essential financial support of $500 to professional dramatists facing hardships. This one-time award helps cover non-emergency daily expenses such as housing, utilities, and healthcare. Eligible applicants must be U.S.-based dramatists with limited financial resources and have not previously received a DGF Bridge Grant. By nurturing today's creators, DGF ensures the continuation of impactful storytelling in the theater community.

Please Note: It may take up to four weeks for a decision on your application to be made, as well as for your payment to be processed once approved. Please keep this in mind as you plan your application.
DGF Grants
The history of DGF is rooted in knowing that there is a community that will support you when you are facing hard times.
DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
The Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Bridge Grants are one-time need-based awards of $500 to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses including:

• Housing costs
• Utilities
• Groceries
• Accessibility support
• Transportation
• Dependent care
• Medications
• Holistic health care
• Mental health care
• Reproductive care

Eligibility

You have not previously received a DGF Bridge Grant.
You hold less than $15,000 in your combined bank accounts.
You are a professional dramatist meeting at least two of the following requirements:You have written two or more completed works for the American theater within the past 10 years and were at least 18 years old at the time the work was written.
You are currently enrolled in or have graduated from a degree program in dramatic writing or musical theater.
You are a member or have participated in one or more writer’s associations (e.g. Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, the Dramatists Guild, the Playwright’s Center).
Your work has been professionally developed, workshopped, or produced.
Your work has been presented for a paying audience
You have been commissioned or paid to write a play.DGF serves all dramatists based in the United States, regardless of their immigration status.

Ineligibility

Creative or nonfiction writing programs are not eligible.