Theater

Grand Arts

Discipline: All Eligibility: Emerging and mid-career artists Session: Varies Deadlines: Unsolicited proposals are accepted at any time and reviewed twice yearly. Description: Support includes transportation, housing, materials and equipment, skilled assistance, marketing and publicity, documentation and opening reception to bring the project to the public.

The Watermill Center

Discipline(s): Music, Theater, Dance, Performance and Visual Arts Eligibility: Watermill invites emerging artists to submit ambitious proposals for the creation of collaborative works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice. Watermill also welcomes research proposals from established scholars. Session: Fall (Sept-Dec) and Spring (Mar – June); 1-4 week sessions Description: Living space (dormitory), workspace and use of one large passenger van for local use.

The Orchard Project

Discipline(s): Theater Companies Eligibility: Emerging to Professional. Session: Summer, sessions vary in length depending on the project Description: Companies and artists are supported through overlapping residencies during which time they are provided with free rehearsal space, room, and board. Throughout the residencies, open rehearsals invite residents of Hunter and surrounding towns to play an active role in the development of new works.

La Mama Experimental Theatre Club – Umbria International

Discipline(s): Directing, Playwriting Description: Dedicated to the creation of activities which foster cultural exchange and international understanding, the center provides the opportunity for culturally diverse artists to live together while working on productions or participating in workshops and to develop their artistic skills immersed in a creative, natural environment. $2,700/session

HERE Arts Residency Program (HARP)

Deadline: Early January Discipline(s): Puppetry and “hybrid” Theater/Performance, Dance submissions are accepted on a year-by-year basis Session: 1-3 years Description: Through the HERE Artist Residency Program, HERE commissions and develops new hybrid works. As part of the HERE community of artists and audiences, our residents show works-in-progress, develop workshop productions, and mount full–scale productions. Through our residency programs, HERE seeks to not only grow innovative artistic work, but also give artists the awareness and skills—in areas such as audience relations, budgeting, grantwriting, and touring—they need to continue to grow their careers.

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) Residencies

Application by invitation. BAC residencies provide artists with space and resources to research and develop new independent projects or collaborations without the pressure of producing a finished product. Rental of Studios, Howard Gilman Performance Space, and Jerome Robbins Theater.