Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program
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Program dates
July 2023-June 2024
Application & Program Details
Who should apply? How do I apply? What is the time commitment?
You can't be what you can't see.
Marian Wright Edelman, advocate and activist
Vision
The TSGP I/M program seeks to make the theatre world more equitable by empowering theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender, including but not limited to cis and trans women, non-binary folks, and trans-masculine+trans-feminine folks, to move into professional playwright or director roles.
What
The 2023-2024 Incubator/Mentor Program is a 12 month tuition free program designed to offer participants the opportunity to build their professional skills and confidence as a practitioner, the tools to create and maintain a safe, inclusive, anti-racist and consent-based space for creating theatre, and a network of relationships within the cohort and with the broader Seattle theatre community.
The program will center around a series of monthly cohort peer group meetings covering a range of activities from practice area discussions to drop-in meet and greets with working playwrights and directors. Following two months of cohort-building activities, cohort members will participate in eight weeks of skills-based workshops, leading into developmental work and rehearsals of new scripts, written and directed by cohort members. The program will culminate with a fully-produced One-Act Play Festival.
When & Where
Program Dates:
July 2023 through June 2024
Program Details and Time Commitment
See Application and Program Details Page.
Meetings and Workshops:
Cohort meetings will take place on Monday nights throughout the 12 month program.
Workshops will take place weekly on Monday nights between September 11-October 30, 2023.
Workshop & Meeting Location:
MLK FAME Center, 3201 E. Republican St., Seattle, WA 98112
One-Act Festival:
The One-Act Festival will take place in May 2023, exact dates to be determined, when the venue is identified. Rehearsals and production meetings for the One-Act Festival will be scheduled in collaboration with the cohort members.
Intersectionality
TSGP acknowledges that our focus on gender justice is not an excuse to ignore racism, homophobia, ableism, transphobia, ageism and other intersecting oppressions faced by the people our organization seeks to empower. We work to take an intersectional approach to empowering emerging theatre decision makers and future leaders. [‘Intersectionality’ is the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination - such as racism, sexism, and classism - combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experience of marginalized individuals or groups.]
Questions are welcome at info@shatteredglassproject.org.