How much funding does Writers Alliance Grants provide?

Writers Alliance Grants provides $5,000 to writer + $5,000 to theater in funding.

When is the deadline for Writers Alliance Grants?

This grant has a rolling deadline or the deadline has not been announced.

Writers Alliance Grants

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Funding Amount

$5,000 to writer + $5,000 to theater

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Writers Alliance Grants

Overview: The Writers Alliance Grants provide $5,000 to a writer and $5,000 towards a nonprofit theater's production of that writer's new work. These grants celebrate working relationships between writers and theaters that align with DGF core values.

Purpose: To ensure writers' contributions to theater are respected and to change the national conversation about how writers are treated by institutions that produce their work.

Geographic Scope: National (United States)

Eligibility:

Writers whose work pushes boundaries and shows tremendous promise

Nonprofit theaters demonstrating superlative ethical standards in supporting writers' livelihoods and careers

Strong contracts that treat writers well

What They Fund:

Productions of new theatrical work by emerging writers

Direct support to both writers and producing theaters

Work that demonstrates artistic merit and theatrical innovation

Selection Criteria:

Strength of contracts between writer and theater

Artistic merit of the project