New Works Fund

The New Works Fund is currently closed. We are looking for ways to be able to bring this program back. Please keep an eye out here for future developments. In the meantime, please refer to previous year's information (below).

Theatre Bay Area's New Works Fund seeks to provide local playwrights with new ways to establish relationships with local theatres and to encourage Bay Area theatre companies to foster and produce the work of local playwrights. In 2010 The New Works Fund awarded two grants of $6-8,000 to a creative team composed of a Bay Area playwright and theatre company with half going to the playwright and half to the theatre company. In fulfillment of the grant, the writer and company will develop and fully produce the awarded new work.

Proposals are to be prepared jointly by a company and a playwright. Applicants (both companies and playwrights) may submit no more than one proposal per granting round.

Eligible companies must be members of Theatre Bay Area and have an annual operating budget between $50,000 and $750,000. Playwrights must be full time residents of the greater San Francisco Bay Area. For more information please read the guidelines.