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Selected Fellowship Programs and Writing Workshops
Playwrights' Center
In partnership with the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, they provide more than $400,000 each year to playwrights and theater artists in the United States. In addition, we continue breaking ground with playwright-centric development processes, bold theater partnerships, and online and onsite resources serving 2,300 member playwrights worldwide.
New Dramatists
Each resident playwright acts as the artistic director of their own seven-year new play laboratory, utilizing a menu of programming resources to pursue their artistic, process and development goals.
L.A. Writers' Workshop
The L.A. Writers' Workshop is a dynamic and talented community of playwrights at Center Theatre Group. Since 2005, we have invited seven local playwrights to spend a year researching and writing a new work with the feedback of their fellow writers and artistic staff.
The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP) is a service and support organization dedicated to protecting the rights and addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community. Founded in 1993, ALAP has a large and diverse membership of area playwrights ranging from students and beginning writers to established professionals.
Playwrights' Arena
Playwrights’ Arena, under the leadership of artistic director Jon Lawrence Rivera, is dedicated to discovering, nurturing and producing bold new works for the stage written exclusively by Los Angeles playwrights. Playwrights’ Arena develops new materials through several series of readings, workshops and round table discussions.
The Writers' Room - Geffen Playhouse
A group for Los Angeles-based playwrights, The Writers’ Room is a product of the Geffen’s deep commitment to supporting new plays and specifically to fostering bold, relevant work by the vibrant artistic community of this city. During a one-year residency, playwright members gather monthly to share their work and receive feedback from their peers in a forum facilitated by Rachel Wiegardt-Egel, the Geffen’s Director of New Play Development.
The IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab
The IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab is an artistic home for early-career and emerging Los Angeles-based playwrights. Over the course of this one-year residency, the writers will meet on a monthly basis, to share and develop a full-length play in a peer-guided format. Members of the Lab will also be given dramaturgical support from the Artistic and Literary staff at IAMA, as well as a ticket to each of IAMA's mainstage productions.
Playwrights Project - California Arts Council
The Mission of Playwrights Project is to advance literacy, creativity, and communication by empowering individuals to voice their stories through playwriting programs and theatre productions.
Dramatists Guild Foundation - Fellows Program
The DGF Fellows program is a year-long New York City-based intensive for dramatists looking to develop their existing work in pursuit of further production and development in the next level of their careers. The Fellows is a free program, hosted by the Dramatists Guild Foundation, to eliminate historical barriers of entry for many emerging dramatists. This cohort of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists will work together under the guidance and leadership of Award-winning dramatists.
The Playwrights Realm - Writing Fellowship
The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship Program awards four early-career playwrights with nine months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals.
New York Theatre Workshop - 2050 Artistic Fellowship
For over 25 years, NYTW has honed an artistic fellowship program for early-career theatremakers representing a multiplicity of perspectives. These fellowships have taken many forms, supporting playwrights, directors, designers and administrators.
Huntington Playwriting Fellowship
The Huntington Playwriting Fellows (HPF) program creates relationships between a local community of writers and a nationally prominent producing theatre, forges those bonds through authentic conversation and artistic collaboration, and encourages dialogue between local artists.
Alliance of Artists Communities
The Alliance advocates on behalf of the field of artists' communities and creative environments and provides professional development opportunities and links to funding partnerships.
Academy Nicholl Fellowship
The Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is an international screenwriting competition established to identify and encourage talented new screenwriters.
Black List / Women in Film Episodic Lab
The Black List and WIF will invite six to eight promising non-professional television writers who are of an underrepresented gender (women, NB/GNC, and/or trans, and others) to the Lab. The Lab will run twice weekly for four weeks beginning on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 and will consist of script development, pitching, peer workshopping sessions, and Master Classes with established writers and industry executives.
Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment New Writers Fellowship
The CAPE New Writers Fellowship (CNWF) discovers and nurtures emerging Asian and Pacific Islanders writers launching their careers in television. Over the course of several weeks, CAPE brings in top television and film writers, producers, agents, managers, and executives for a series of intimate panels, workshops, and discussions. The Fellowship also features a Writing Lab where each Fellow is matched with a high-level industry mentor to help them revise their original script into professional level writing samples to get them noticed and land that all-important first staff job.
Disney/ABC Writing Program
The goal is to staff emerging and diverse television writers on DGE scripted series. Program Writers are contract employees of Disney for one year, or until they staff on a show, and receive mentorship, professional development, and unprecedented access to the company and its creative executives, producers, showrunners, and program alumni.
1497 Features Lab
The 1497 Features Lab is designed to elevate and develop screenplays by writers of South Asian descent, while providing career support.
The Ojalá Ignition Lab
The Ojalá Ignition Lab is committed to empowering creators by offering a nurturing artistic space to hone their voice. The Lab will serve as a culturally safe creative environment for writers to gain industry insight from established showrunners and producers, all while developing a television pilot script from start to finish. The Lab aims to give development access to TV writers who haven’t yet been staffed or whose careers have been stalled by repeating lower staffing levels, as well as storytellers from other disciplines who desire to enter the television space. Five writers will be selected to write a new original television project from story idea to finished pilot script. UCP will compensate the writers for this pilot.
Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room
Emerging storytellers who are selected to join the Writers’ Room will receive hands-on writing experience guided by Sesame Street veterans and other media industry leaders. Each participant will develop and write a pilot script for their own original kids concept.
Sundance Episodic Storytelling Lab
The Sundance Episodic Program is an entry point and sustaining force for emerging episodic writers and creators across all scripted platforms. Through a rigorous Lab experience and customized year-round support, the program provides artists with the tools, training, and industry access to move their projects and careers forward.
Tribeca All Access
Launched in 2004, the fund provided year-round support to passionate and motivated directors, writers, and producers who come from communities underserved in the U.S. film industry.
Universal Writers Lab
The only feature film lab sanctioned by the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), the Lab develops storytellers who organically incorporate multicultural and global perspectives in screenwriting.
Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop
Every year, the Workshop selects up to eight participants out of more than 2,500 submissions and exposes them to Warner Bros. Television’s top writers and executives, all with the ultimate goal of earning them a staff position on a Warner Bros.-produced television show.