The Venturous Capital” grant program is designed to support the production of bold, experimental, and/or large-scale new plays at not-for-profit theaters by funding specific extraordinary costs that are integral to those plays’ production, and which might otherwise make them difficult or impossible to produce.
Donor Name: Venturous Theater Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/15/2022
Grant Size: $5,000 – $30,000
Details:
Their goal is to support writers of these venturous plays by giving theaters the ability to say “yes” instead of “no” to writer-driven projects perceived as especially challenging. They believe that now is the time to celebrate theaters that are doubling down on venturous work.
Productions They Support
They make grants to theater companies to support productions of text-based, author-driven new plays that are:
- Challenging in form;
- controversial in subject matter;
- ambitious in scale or scope;
- audacious, irreverent;
- (and/or) experimental in concept.
In short, plays that are venturous.
Their support is limited to new plays, though not necessarily to world premieres. They welcome the opportunity to support second/third productions and other stagings of new plays with the playwright’s involvement, in which case we may ask that the theater provide a statement from the playwright.
Funding Information
- Grant Range: $5,000 – $30,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Support is limited to small- and medium-sized theaters, i.e., TCG budget groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 (pre-COIVD). Theaters must be professional, independent producing organizations located within the U.S. They must be not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 organizations or be fiscally sponsored by a 501 (c) 3 organization. They must produce on an AEA contract.
- They does not make grants to individual writers or non-producing organizations under this program.
For more information, visit Venturous Theater Fund.
