The Jonathan Larson Grants are the Wing’s annual investment in emerging musical theatre artists, offering support through unrestricted cash grants, as well as additional support in the form of residencies, concerts, and recording grants.
Donor Name: American Theatre Wing
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/26/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Jonathan Larson Grant is an unconditional annual investment in individual talent. The grant is awarded to musical theatre composers, lyricists, and librettists, or writing teams, early in their career, to support artistic endeavors and safeguard long-term music writing careers.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Jonathan Larson Grants are intended to honor and recognize emerging musical theatre artists. Composers, lyricists, and librettists who work in musical theatre are the focus of the grants. ATW is committed to serving artists who are creating new, fully producible works for the theatre, and advancing the art form. The grants do not honor a specific piece or project.
- Grant awards are based on merit, and are intended for those artists with a demonstrated commitment and dedication to a career in musical theatre. Further, the grants are not intended to be scholarships, and artists applying for grants should be working professionally in the field.
- Applications are accepted in the following areas:
- Individuals may apply as lyricists, composers, librettists, or any combination of the three.
- Collaborative teams may apply together as composer, lyricist, and/or librettist, or any combination of the three.
- Collaborators who work together regularly are strongly encouraged to apply as a team. If your collaborative team has more than three individuals, please contact the ATW offices.
- United States citizenship is not a requirement to receive the grant, but you must be eligible to work in the U.S. and reside/work here on at least a part-time basis and submitted work should be predominately in English.
- Artists may apply only once per grant cycle. You may not apply as part of a team and as an individual applicant.
- Prior Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients are not eligible.
For more information, visit ATW.
