DGF Crisis Relief Grants

The DGF Crisis Relief Grants provide essential financial support to playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists facing unexpected hardships. Designed to assist with urgent needs such as housing, medical bills, and groceries, these grants aim to alleviate financial stress during critical times. Applicants must demonstrate professional experience in theater and meet specific eligibility criteria, including financial limits. The grants reflect the Dramatists Guild Foundation's commitment to supporting artists in need, ensuring they can continue their creative work.

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 Crisis Relief Grants are designed to assist writers experiencing unexpected financial, personal, or medical crises. Financial assistance is available to support housing and utilities costs, medical bills, groceries, legal fees, and other essential expenses.
While we hope our Crisis Relief Grants will be one time awards, we understand that hardship can occur unexpectedly and at different times during a writer’s career. With that in mind, dramatists may be eligible to receive multiple Crisis Relief Grants.

Eligibility

Eligibility:

• 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 I was 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.