The New Works Fund
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. The New Works Fund annually awards two grants of $10,000 each to a creative team composed of a Bay Area playwright and theatre company with $5,000 going to the playwrights and $5,000 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.
Guidelines and application forms are available in PDF formats by clicking on the links below:
For questions regarding the New Works Fund contact Theatre Bay Area at (415) 430-1140 or members(at)theatrebayarea.org
