LOS ANGELES– Calling all small-to-midsize Los Angeles theatre makers! Applications are being accepted now.
LA NEW PLAY PROJECT’s (LANPP) two-tiered grant program offers $20,000 grants to playwrights for new, unproduced plays, with an additional $20,000 to producers to help support the play’s world premiere production. The funding is intended to award excellence in playwriting, encourage the production of new and untried plays on the smaller stages of Los Angeles, and help stabilize theatrical productions that originate here but that may resonate beyond the borders of Los Angeles County.
Producers in partnership with playwrights are invited to submit new scripts that are under consideration for production. A distinguished peer panel selects one-to-three projects for the award.
Past Awardees
2023
HAPPY FALL: A Queer Stunt Spectacular by Lisa Sanaye Dring
Produced by Rogue Artists Ensemble
Four Women in Red by Laura Annawyn Shamas
Produced by Victory Theater Center
2022
Two Stop by David Johann Kim, Produced by EST/LA
Pang Spa by David Johann Kim, Produced by Chalk Repertory Theatre
Unrivaled by Rosie Narasaki, Produced in collaboration by Playwrights Arena and Boston Court Pasadena
She by Marlow Wyatt, Produced by Antaeus Theatre Company
2021
Both And…A Play About Laughing While Black, By Carolyn Ratteray, Produced by Boston Court Pasadena
Revenge Porn Carla Ching, Produced by Ammunition Theatre
The Hands That Could and Josh Wilder, Produced by Watts Village Theater Company
The Los Angeles New Play Project grant is the brainchild of producers Paula Holt and Nathan Birnbaum.
More information on grant guidelines for submissions: http://lanpp.org/grant-guidelines-and-application/
LA New Play Project: http://lanpp.org/
CURRENTLY ON STAGE:
Two Stop and Pang Spa by David Johann Kim, currently running in conjunction with EST/LA and Chalk Repertory Theatre
- Two Stop by David Johann Kim
May 2-June 9, 2024
Get your tickets here! - Pang Spa by David Johann Kim
May 16-June 9, 2024
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Deadline: June 1, 2024: https://lanpp.org/grant-guidelines-and-application/