Applications open for the 2023 Playwright and Director Incubator/Mentor Program.

The Shattered Glass Project is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2023 Playwright and Director Incubator/Mentor Program. The I/M Program is a 12-month tuition-free program for emerging playwrights and directors, focused on women, non-binary and trans theater artists. Full program details and information about applying are available at www.shatteredglassproject.org/2023-incubator-mentor-program. Questions about the program can be sent to info@shatteredglassproject.org. 

The 2023-24 Incubator/Mentor Program is 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 centers around monthly cohort peer group meetings and includes 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. Annie Lareau and Rachel Atkins, long-time Seattle theatre professionals, will serve as the director and playwright mentors for the 2023-24 cohort. 

The 2023-24 program will be the second full iteration of TSGP’s Incubator/Mentor Program, and was selected as one of only two theaters funded by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Hope Corps Grant. Participants in the 2021 program have gone on to creative work at organizations such as Macha Theatreworks, ACT Theatre, and the Seattle Opera; to creative leadership roles with The Shattered Glass Project; and to found their own theatre companies. 

Who Should Apply?

The TSGP Incubator/Mentor program is intended for people who:

  • have faced barriers to career advancement in theatre on the basis of their gender;

  • have paid or unpaid experience with theatre outside of a classroom context, in any role;

  • are demonstrably interested in pursuing playwriting or directing professionally;

  • want to approach (or already approach) their art and career with an intersectional social justice lens, and are committed to ongoing growth and learning in this area;

  • are able to participate in meetings, workshops, and rehearsals in person (either live in Seattle or can get to Seattle on a regular basis); and

  • can commit to the full twelve month program.

Full program details and information about applying are available at www.shatteredglassproject.org/2023-incubator-mentor-program. Questions about the program can be sent to us at info@shatteredglassproject.org. 

About The Shattered Glass Project

The Shattered Glass Project is a theatre company with the mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender or sex, including but not limited to cis and trans women, non-binary folks, and trans-masculine/trans-feminine folks, by providing unique opportunities to create and grow professionally. TSGP offers the Incubator/Mentor Program for emerging directors and playwrights every other year, and produces 2 mainstage productions, a one-act play festival, and 3-4 developmental readings or other developmental theatre projects each year, serving 50-100 artists and 500-1000 audience members. We are a fringe theatre company with aspirations.

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