UPDATE 5.6.24: The 2024 AGE Legacy Playwright Grant Submissions are closed
Due to an influx of submissions over the past week, we have reached our capacity for submissions. Thus, we will no longer be accepting applications for this year’s 2024 AGE Legacy Playwright Grants. AGE thanks you in advance for your understanding. We believe your applications and play submissions deserve ample time to be read and reflected upon so that we can give everyone’s work the time, consideration, and respect it merits. We hope you’ll consider applying next year. Should you have any questions, please email alpgrants@ageinthearts.org.*
*Please note: AGE consists of a small Team, dedicated to managing our operations and efficiently supporting our mission. We appreciate your patience if responses are delayed. Before sending an email, we do encourage you to look at our website for information you might be seeking, such as eligibility criteria. Thank you.
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Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) seeks to change the American Theatre canon by increasing the representation of BIPOC playwrights of marginalized gender*, 40+ years of age. Three playwrights will receive individual unrestricted grants of $10,000 each. AGE is intentional in making our grant funding unrestricted. When funders dictate how grant money is used and require complex systems of documentation, it can disempower the recipient. Shared power is a core value for AGE. We are mindful of the layered history of oppression, trauma, and disempowerment for BIPOC women and gender-diverse people.
AGE is accepting applications for our AGE Legacy Playwright Grant 2024. Eligibility criteria is listed below. The playwright will submit their piece with the intention of creating lasting change both in gender and racial equity and in the canon of the American Theatre. A panel of professional BIPOC theatre artists, both Portland-based and nationwide, will adjudicate the submissions anonymously. Playwrights are asked to submit full-length play or musical. Special consideration will be given to plays/musicals that have at least one principal character who is gender diverse or of marginalized gender, is a BIPOC person, and is 40+ years of age.