Grant History

Selected Venturous Theater Fund Grants

Note: Our grants are made through Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation, a donor-advised fund.
All grants are prospective until approved by the Board/CEO of the Tides Foundation.

Summer 2023

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Middle of the World by Juan José Alfonso          
    Boise Contemporary Theater, Boise, ID
  • Artificial Flavors by Steve Cosson
    The Civilians, Brooklyn, NY
  • Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular by Lisa Sanaye Dring
    Rogue Artists Ensemble, Sun Valley, CA
  • Bee ﺯﻧﺒﻮﺭ by Sean Michael Welch & Melody Erfani
    LES Shakespeare Co., Portland, OR
  • Zoetrope by Javier Antonio González
    Caborca, Brooklyn, NY
  • Where the Summit Meets the Stars by Frank Henry Kaash Katasse
    Native Voices at the Autry, Los Angeles, CA
  • The Fires by Raja Feather Kelly
    Soho Rep
    , New York, NY
  • Pang Spa by David Johann Kim at Chalk Repertory Theatre
    Two Stop by David Johann Kim at Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA
    Los Angeles, CA
  • House of Telescopes by Kairos Looney
    Pipeline Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • Gen U by Jim McManus
    Notch Theatre Company, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Infinite Life by Annie Baker at Atlantic Theater Co., New York, NY
  • Staff Meal by Abe Koogler at Playwrights Horizons, New York, NY
  • Entertainment Community Fund
  • Latinx Playwrights Circle
  • Afro-Atlantic Playwrights Festival at Illusion Theatre, Minneapolis, MN

Fall 2022/Winter 2023

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • The Gaaga (The Hague) by Sasha Denisova
    Arlekin Players Theatre, Needham, MA
  • Edit Annie by Mary Glen Fredrick
    Crowded Fire, San Francisco, CA
  • Hang Time by Zora Howard
    Flea Theatre, New York, NY
  • A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson
    AlterTheater Ensemble, San Rafael, CA
  • Measure Still for Measure by Jessica Kubzansky
    Boston Court Pasadena, Pasadena, CA
  • How Blood Go by Lisa Langford
    Congo Square Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • The Overview Effect by Lynn Rosen
    Contemporary American Theater Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
  • Malvolio by Betty Shamieh
    Classical Theater of Harlem, New York, NY
  • Nancy by Rhiana Yazzie
    Mosaic Theater, Washington, DC

Other Grants

  • The Dream King by Marvin Quijada at Teatro Vista, Chicago, IL
  • Center for International Theatre Development – LINKAGES: Poland          
  • Dramatists Guild Foundation
  • The Indie Theater Fund
  • La Mama, New York, NY – Dmitry Krymov Emergency Residency
  • Latinx Playwrights Circle
  • National New Play Network
  • Peacedale Global Arts
  • The Pool 3.0, New York, NY
  • Sol Project

Summer 2022

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Hotel Happy by Camilo Almonacid
    Houses on the Moon Theater Co., New York NY
  • The Devil Is a Lie by Jennifer Chang
    Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Public Obscenities by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
    Soho Rep, New York, NY – NAATCO National Partnership Project
  • Wicoun by Larissa FastHorse
    Cornerstone Theater Co., Los Angeles, CA (South Dakota tour)
  • Josephine’s Feast by Star Finch
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • The Unbelieving by Marin Gazzaniga
    The Civilians, New York, NY
  • demons. by Keelay Gipson
    JAG Productions, White River Junction, VT; Co-production with The Bushwick Starr
  • Desert Stories for Lost Girls by Lily Rushing
    Latino Theater Co., Los Angeles, CA; Co-production with Native Voices
  • Salesman 之死 by Jeremy Tiang
    Yangtze Rep, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Action Art Collaborative, St. Louis, MO
  • Clubbed Thumb, New York, NY – Summerworks
  • The Tent, New York, NY

Winter/Spring 2022

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Hound Dog by Melis Aker
    Ars Nova, New York, NY
  • Schlitzie: Alive and Inside the Decaying Sideshow by Eric Fagundes
    Rogue Artists Ensemble, Los Angeles, CA
  • The Magnolia Ballet by Terry Guest
    About Face Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • Menstruation: A Period Piece by Miranda Rose Hall
    Big Little Theater Company, Los Angeles, CA
  • Once Upon a (Korean) Time by Daniel K. Isaac
    Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York NY
  • sandblasted by Charly Evon Simpson
    Vineyard Theatre/WP Theater
    , New York, NY
  • Arden: A Ritual for Love and Liberation by Niegel Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Peter Born, Diana Oh, and Okwui Okpokwasili
    The Flea, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • On Sugarland by Aleshea Harris
    New York Theatre Workshop
    , New York, NY
  • Songs About Trains by Beto O’Byrne et al.
    Working Theater/Radical Evolution, New York, NY

Covid Response (2020-2021)

Special Grants

  • Emergency Grants to playwrights via the Dramatists Guild Foundation, The Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation, and New Dramatists
  • Plays for Now” grants for projects employing playwrights to create new work during the pandemic.
  • Next Act” grants to theaters for general support during the pandemic recovery
  • Cultural Solidarity Fund, New York, NY

Summer 2020

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Bruise & Thorn by C. Julian Jiménez
    Pipeline Theatre Co.
    , New York, NY
  • Fat Ham by James Ijames
    Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA
  • Animate by Ken LaZebnik
    Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis, MN
  • In Every Generation by Ali Viterbi
    Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL

Other Grants

  • The Sol Project – Playwright Retreat
  • Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
  • Kyoung’s Pacific Beat
  • Legacy Playwrights Initiative of the Dramatists Guild Foundation
  • New Dramatists – “Toil and Trouble” initiative

Spring 2020

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • The Light at the End of the Tunnel by Eliza Bent
    Bentertainment, New York, NY
  • What You Are Now by Sam Chanse
    The Civilians, New York, NY
  • I’m Revolting by Gracie Gardner
    Atlantic Theater Company, New York, NY
  • Whitelisted by Chisa Hutchinson
    Contemporary American Theater Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
  • A Woman Among Women by Julia May Jonas
    The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
    Co-presented with New Georges
  • Refuge Co-Created by Satya Jnani Chávez & Andrew Rosendorf; Transcreation by Mari Meza-Burgos
    Curious Theatre Company, Denver, CO

Other Grants

  • The Pool 2020
    New York, NY

Fall 2019

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch
    Atlantic Theater Company
    , New York, NY
  • The Seagull/Woodstock NY by Thomas Bradshaw
    The New Group
    , New York, NY
  • Lunch Bunch by Sarah Einspanier
    The Play Company
    , New York, NY
  • Don’t Eat the Mangos by Ricardo Pérez González
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Wolf Play by Hansol Jung
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • There’s Always the Hudson by Paola Lázaro
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC
  • Tumacho by Ethan Lipton
    Clubbed Thumb
    , New York, NY
  • Mothers by Anna Moench
    The Playwrights Realm
    , New York, NY
  • Devilfish by Vera Starbard
    Perseverance Theatre
    , Douglas, AK
  • Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) by Andrea Thome
    En Garde Arts, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • The Playwrights Realm, New York, NY – in support of Radical Parent-Inclusion Project
  • Theater Accident (Matthew Freeman), New York, N

Spring 2019

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Plano by Will Arbery
    Clubbed Thumb
    , New York, NY
  • Playing Hot by Kevin Armento and C. A. Johnson
    Pipeline Theatre Company
    , New York, NY
  • We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber
    City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Third Eye Moonwalk by Jon Bernson
    Encore Theatre and the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco, CA
  • Ripped by Rachel Bublitz
    Z Space
    , San Francisco, CA
  • Passage by Christopher Chen
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • St. Vincent’s Project: Novenas for a Lost Hospital by Cusi Cram
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
    , New York, NY
  • Scenes from 71 Years by Hannah Khalil
    Golden Thread, San Francisco, CA
  • Autonomy by Ken LaZebnik
    Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • Leap and the Net Will Appear by Chana Porter
    New Georges, New York, NY
  • Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of A Native Son by Psalmayene 24
    Mosaic Theater Company, Washington, DC

 Other Grants

  • Afro-Atlantic Playwrights’ Festival, The Playwrights Center/Carlyle Brown, Minneapolis, MN
  • Blockchain Theater Project, New York, NY

Fall 2018

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Good Grief by Ngozi Anyanwu
    Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY
  • BLKS by Aziza Barnes
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC
  • Catch As Catch Can by Mia Chung
    Page 73, New York, NY
  • Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow by Halley Feiffer
    MCC Theater, New York, NY
  • Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris
    The New Group, New York, NY
    (Co-production with the Vineyard Theatre)
  • Rightlynd by Ike Holter
    Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • Jazz by Nambi E. Kelley
    Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA
  • Stinkers by Josh Tobiessen
    Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, MN

Other Grants

  • Problematic Play Festival – Z Space, San Francisco, CA

Spring 2018

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Red Hills by Deborah Asiimwe and Sean Christopher Lewis
    En Garde Arts, New York, NY
  • Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • The Mermaid Hour by David Valdes Greenwood
    Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
  • Eddie and Dave by Amy Staats
    Atlantic Theater Co., New York, NY
  • Black History Museum… According to the United States of America by Zoey Martinson
    HERE Arts Center, New York NY
  • Members Only by Oliver Mayer
    Latino Theater Company, Los Angeles, CA
  • Lewiston and Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
    , New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Trans Lab Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA

Fall 2017

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Thomas and Sally by Thomas Bradshaw
    Marin Theatre Co., Mill Valley, CA
  • Sound House by Stephanie Fleischmann
    New Georges
    , New York, NY
  • The Eva Trilogy by Barbara Hammond
    Magic Theatre
    , San Francisco, CA
  • Is God Is by Aleshea Harris
    Soho Rep
    , New York, NY
  • Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle
    Detroit Public Theatre
    , Detroit, MI
  • Good for Otto by David Rabe
    The New Group
    , New York, NY

Other Grants

  • The Pool (Lynn Rosen, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Susan Bernfield), New York, NY
  • [Porto] by Kate Benson, The Bushwick Starr/WP Theater/New Georges, New York, NY

Spring 2017

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • School Girls (Or; The African Mean Girls Play) by Jocelyn Bioh
    MCC Theater, New York, NY
  • (Not) Water by Sheila Callaghan
    New Georges, New York, NY
  • A Tale of Autumn by Christopher Chen
    Crowded Fire, San Francisco, CA
  • Welcome to Fear City by Kara Lee Corthron
    Contemporary American Theater Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
  • CasablancaBox by Sara Farrington
    HERE, New York, NY
  • Kaidan by Lisa Dring and Chelsea Sutton
    East West Players, Los Angeles, CA
  • {my lingerie play} by Diana Oh
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York, NY
  • The Ice Front by Eric Samuelsen
    Plan-B Theatre Company, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Peaceable Kingdom by Mary Tuomanen
    Orbiter 3, Philadelphia, PA

Other Grants

  • Home by Geoff Sobelle – FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA
  • Tiny Little Band, New York, NY
  • Justin Kuritzkes Company at JACK, New York, NY
  • Headlong Dance Theatre (for MJ Kaufman‘s Destiny Estimate), Philadelphia, PA

Fall 2016

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Balls by Kevin Armento & Bryony Lavery
    One Year Lease Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • Baby Screams Miracle by Clare Barron
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC
  • Alligator by Hilary Bettis
    New Georges, New York, NY
  • The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe
    The Playwrights Realm, New York, NY
  • Your Best One and The Luckiest People by Meridith Friedman  
    Curious Theatre Company, Denver, CO
  • Ballast by Georgette Kelly
    Diversionary Theatre, San Diego, CA
  • Nogales by Richard Montoya
    Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Syncing Ink by NSangou Njikam
    The Flea Theater, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Minor Theater, New York, NY
  • National New Play Network, Washington, DC – Collaboration Fund

Spring 2016

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Caught by Christopher Chen
    The Play Company, New York, NY
  • A Wonder in My Soul by Marcus Gardley
    Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL
  • Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
    National Asian American Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • The Sensuality Party by Justin Kuritzkes
    The New Group, New York, NY
  • Tell Hector I Miss Him by Paola Lázaro
    Atlantic Theatre Co., New York, NY
  • Samara by Richard Maxwell
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • This Is Reading by Lynn Nottage
    Labyrinth Theater Company, New York, NY
    Produced in Reading, PA
  • Kentucky by Leah Nanako Winkler
    Co-produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre and Page 73 Productions, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Andy Bragen Theatre Projects, New York, NY

Fall 2015

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally by Kevin Armento
    One Year Lease Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus
    Clubbed Thumb, New York, NY
  • Spill by Leigh Fondakowski
    TimeLine Theatre Company, Chicago, IL
  • Charles Francis Chan’s Most Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery by Lloyd Suh
    National Asian American Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • Sojourners and runboyrun by Mfoniso Udofia
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Indecent by Paula Vogel
    Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • 6NewPlays, San Francisco, CA
  • Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Workhaus Collective, Minneapolis, MN

Spring 2015

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • This Golden State Part One: Delano by Luis Alfaro
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Swimmers by Rachel Bonds
    Marin Theatre Co., Mill Valley, CA
  • Fulfillment by Thomas Bradshaw
    The Flea Theater, New York, NY
  • We Are Pussy Riot by Barbara Hammond
    Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
  • O, Earth by Casey Llewellyn
    Foundry Theatre, New York, NY
  • Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl
    Ars Nova, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Carlyle Brown & Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT
  • The Kilroys, Los Angeles, CA

Fall 2014

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • You Got Older by Clare Barron
    Page 73 Productions, New York, NY
  • Pussy Valley by Katori Hall
    Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • They Call Me a Hero by Guillermo Reyes
    Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
  • 10 out of 12 by Anne Washburn
    Soho Rep, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Orbiter 3, Philadelphia, PA

Spring 2014

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York, NY
  • The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen
    Crowded Fire, San Francisco, CA
  • Charm by Philip Dawkins
    Northlight Theatre, Skokie, IL
  • An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • Ludic Proxy by Aya Ogawa
    The Play Company, New York, NY
  • Zombie: The American by Robert O’Hara
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC
  • Down Past Passyunk by A. Zell Williams
    InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA

Other Grants

  • National New Play Network, Washington, DC – Collaboration Fund
    The Welders: A Playwrights Collective, Washington, DC

Fall 2013

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • The Ashes Under Gait City by Christina Anderson
    Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
  • Colossal by Andrew Hinderaker
    Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • Every Five Minutes by Linda McLean
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Superheroes by Sean San José
    The Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco, CA
  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Roy Williams
    Atlantic Theatre Co., New York, NY

Other Grants

  • New Dramatists, New York,  NY

Winter 2012-2013

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • The Bereaved by Thomas Bradshaw
    Crowded Fire, San Francisco, CA
  • Intimacy by Thomas Bradshaw
    The New Group, New York, NY
  • A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
     Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL
  • Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreitzer
    Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA
  • Trade Practices created by David Morris and Kristin Marting, written by Erin Courtney, Eisa Davis, Robert Lyons, Qui Nguyen, KJ Sanchez, and Chris Wells
    HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
  • The Hill Town Plays by Lucy Thurber
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York, NY
  • The Insurgents by Lucy Thurber 
    Labyrinth Theater Company, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • Playwrights Horizons, New York  NY
  • Lark Play Development Center, New York, NY

Spring 2012

Inaugural Grants

  • Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, WV – Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams
  • Epic Theatre Ensemble, New York, NY – Dispatches from (A)mended America by Brandt Adams and Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.
  • Flux Theatre Ensemble, New York, NY
  • Labyrinth Theater Company, New York, NY
  • Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York, NY – For Ma-Yi Writers Lab
  • Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York, NY – Massacre (Sing to Your Children) by José Rivera
  • Soho Rep, New York, NY – Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, adapted by Annie Baker
  • Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL – Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfar

Venturous Theater Fund Grants and Prospective Grants

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Hound Dog by Melis Aker
    Ars Nova, New York, NY
  • Schlitzie: Alive and Inside the Decaying Sideshow by Eric Fagundes
    Rogue Artists Ensemble, Los Angeles, CA
  • The Magnolia Ballet by Terry Guest
    About Face Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • Menstruation: A Period Piece by Miranda Rose Hall
    Big Little Theater Company, Los Angeles, CA
  • Once Upon a (Korean) Time by Daniel K. Isaac
    Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York NY
  • sandblasted by Charly Evon Simpson
    Vineyard Theatre/WP Theater
    , New York, NY
  • Arden: A Ritual for Love and Liberation by Niegel Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Peter Born, Diana Oh, and Okwui Okpokwasili
    The Flea, New York, NY

Other Grants

  • On Sugarlandby Aleshea Harris
    New York Theatre Workshop
    , New York, NY
  • Songs About Trains by Beto O’Byrne et al.
    Working Theater/Radical Evolution, New York, NY

“Plays for Now Grants” >> See our  Additional Grant Programs.

Other Grants

  • Cultural Solidarity Fund, New York, NY

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Bruise & Thorn by C. Julian Jiménez
    Pipeline Theatre Co.
    , New York, NY
  • Fat Ham by James Ijames
    Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA
  • How the Baby Died by Tori Keenan-Zelt
    Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH
  • Animate by Ken LaZebnik
    Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis, MN
  • The In Between: A Love Story by Deepa Purohit
    National Asian American Theatre Co., New York, NY
  • In Every Generation by Ali Viterbi
    Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL
 

Other Grants

  • The Sol Project
  • Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
  • Kyoung’s Pacific Beat
  • Legacy Playwrights Initiative of the Dramatists Guild Foundation
  • New Dramatists – “Toil and Trouble” initiative
  • Emergency Grants to playwrights via the Dramatists Guild Foundation, The Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation, and New Dramatists

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • The Light at the End of the Tunnel by Eliza Bent
    Bentertainment, New York, NY
  • What You Are Now by Sam Chanse
    The Civilians, New York, NY
  • I’m Revolting by Gracie Gardner
    Atlantic Theater Company, New York, NY
  • Whitelisted by Chisa Hutchinson
    Contemporary American Theater Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
  • A Woman Among Women by Julia May Jonas
    The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
    Co-presented with New Georges
  • Refuge Co-Created by Satya Jnani Chávez & Andrew Rosendorf; Transcreation by Mari Meza-Burgos
  • Curious Theatre Company, Denver, CO
 

Additional Grant

  • The Pool 2020
    New York, NY

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Redwood by Brittany K. Allen
    Ensemble Studio Theatre
    , New York, NY
  • Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch
    Atlantic Theater Company
    , New York, NY
  • The Seagull/Woodstock NY by Thomas Bradshaw
    The New Group
    , New York, NY
  • Lunch Bunch by Sarah Einspanier
    The Play Company
    , New York, NY
  • Don’t Eat the Mangos by Ricardo Pérez González
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Wolf Play by Hansol Jung
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • There’s Always the Hudson by Paola Lázaro
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC
  • Tumacho by Ethan Lipton
    Clubbed Thumb
    , New York, NY
  • Mothers by Anna Moench
    The Playwrights Realm
    , New York, NY
  • Tuvalu or The Saddest Song by Antoinette Nwandu
    Vineyard Theatre
    , New York, NY
  • Devilfish by Vera Starbard
    Perseverance Theatre
    , Douglas, AK
  • Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) by Andrea Thome
    En Garde Arts, New York, NY


Additional Grants

  • The Playwrights Realm, New York, NY – in support of Radical Parent-Inclusion Project
  • Theater Accident (Matthew Freeman), New York, NY

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Plano by Will Arbery
    Clubbed Thumb
    , New York, NY
  • Playing Hot by Kevin Armento and C. A. Johnson
    Pipeline Theatre Company
    , New York, NY
  • We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber
    City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Third Eye Moonwalk by Jon Bernson
    Encore Theatre and the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco, CA
  • Ripped by Rachel Bublitz
    Z Space
    , San Francisco, CA
  • Passage by Christopher Chen
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • St. Vincent’s Project: Novenas for a Lost Hospital by Cusi Cram
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
    , New York, NY
  • Scenes from 71 Years by Hannah Khalil
  • Golden Thread, San Francisco, CA
  • Autonomy by Ken LaZebnik
  • Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • Leap and the Net Will Appear by Chana Porter
    New Georges, New York, NY
  • Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of A Native Son by Psalmayene 24
    (performed in rep with Native Son adapted by Nambi Kelley)
    Mosaic Theater Company, Washington, DC
 

Additional Grants

  • Afro-Atlantic Playwrights’ Festival, The Playwrights Center/Carlyle Brown, Minneapolis, MN
    Blockchain Theater Project, New York, NY

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Good Grief by Ngozi Anyanwu
    Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY
  • BLKS by Aziza Barnes
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC
  • Catch As Catch Can by Mia Chung
    Page 73, New York, NY
  • Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow by Halley Feiffer
    MCC Theater, New York, NY
  • Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris
    The New Group, New York, NY
    (Co-production with the Vineyard Theatre)
  • Rightlynd by Ike Holter
    Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • Jazz by Nambi E. Kelley
    Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA
  • Stinkers by Josh Tobiessen
    Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, MN
 

Additional Grant

  • Problematic Play Festival – Z Space, San Francisco, CA

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Red Hills by Deborah Asiimwe and Sean Christopher Lewis
    En Garde Arts, New York, NY
  • Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • The Mermaid Hour by David Valdes Greenwood
    Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
  • Eddie and Dave by Amy Staats
    Atlantic Theater Co., New York, NY
  • Black History Museum… According to the United States of America by Zoey Martinson
    HERE Arts Center, New York NY
  • Members Only by Oliver Mayer
    Latino Theater Company, Los Angeles, CA
  • Lewiston and Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
    , New York, NY
 

Additional Grant

  • Trans Lab Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Thomas and Sally by Thomas Bradshaw
    Marin Theatre Co., Mill Valley, CA
  • Sound House by Stephanie Fleischmann
    New Georges
    , New York, NY
  • The Eva Trilogy by Barbara Hammond
    Magic Theatre
    , San Francisco, CA
  • Is God Is by Aleshea Harris
    Soho Rep
    , New York, NY
  • Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle
    Detroit Public Theatre
    , Detroit, MI
  • Good for Otto by David Rabe
    The New Group
    , New York, NY
  • Additional Grants
  • The Pool (Lynn Rosen, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Susan Bernfield), New York, NY
  • [Porto] by Kate Benson, The Bushwick Starr/WP Theater/New Georges, New York, NY

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • School Girls (Or; The African Mean Girls Play) by Jocelyn Bioh
    MCC Theater, New York, NY
  • (Not) Water by Sheila Callaghan
    New Georges, New York, NY
  • A Tale of Autumn by Christopher Chen
    Crowded Fire, San Francisco, CA
  • Welcome to Fear City by Kara Lee Corthron
    Contemporary American Theater Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
  • CasablancaBox by Sara Farrington
    HERE, New York, NY
  • Kaidan by Lisa Dring and Chelsea Sutton
    East West Players, Los Angeles, CA
  • {my lingerie play} by Diana Oh
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York, NY
  • The Ice Front by Eric Samuelsen
    Plan-B Theatre Company, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Peaceable Kingdom by Mary Tuomanen
    Orbiter 3, Philadelphia, PA
 

Additional Grants

  • Home by Geoff Sobelle – FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA
  • Tiny Little Band, New York, NY
  • Justin Kuritzkes Company at JACK, New York, NY
  • Headlong Dance Theatre (for MJ Kaufman‘s  Destiny Estimate), Philadelphia, PA

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Balls by Kevin Armento & Bryony Lavery
    One Year Lease Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • Baby Screams Miracle by Clare Barron
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC
  • Alligator by Hilary Bettis
    New Georges, New York, NY
  • The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe
    The Playwrights Realm, New York, NY
  • Trilogy of plays by Meridith Friedman
    Curious Theatre Company, Denver, CO
  • Ballast by Georgette Kelly
    Diversionary Theatre, San Diego, CA
  • Nogales by Richard Montoya
    Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Syncing Ink by NSangou Njikam
    The Flea Theater, New York, NY
 

Additional Grants

  • Minor Theater, New York, NY
    National New Play Network, Washington, DC – In support of The Collaboration Fund

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Caught by Christopher Chen
    The Play Company, New York, NY
  • A Wonder in My Soul by Marcus Gardley
    Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL
  • Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman
    National Asian American Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • The Sensuality Party by Justin Kuritzkes
    The New Group, New York, NY
  • Tell Hector I Miss Him by Paola Lázaro
    Atlantic Theatre Co., New York, NY
  • Samara by Richard Maxwell
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • This Is Reading by Lynn Nottage
    Labyrinth Theater Company, New York, NY
    Produced in Reading, PA
  • Kentucky by Leah Nanako Winkler
    Co-produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre and Page 73 Productions, New York, NY
 

Additional Grant

  • Andy Bragen Theatre Projects, New York, NY

Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally by Kevin Armento
    One Year Lease Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus
    Clubbed Thumb, New York, NY
  • Spill by Leigh Fondakowski
    TimeLine Theatre Company, Chicago, IL
  • Charles Francis Chan’s Most Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery by Lloyd Suh
    National Asian American Theatre Company, New York, NY
  • Sojourners and runboyrun by Mfoniso Udofia
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Indecent by Paula Vogel
    Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY
 

Additional Grants

  • 6NewPlays, San Francisco, CA
  • Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Workhaus Collective, Minneapolis, MN

Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • This Golden State Part One: Delano by Luis Alfaro
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Swimmers by Rachel Bonds
    Marin Theatre Co., Mill Valley, CA
  • Fulfillment by Thomas Bradshaw
    The Flea Theater, New York, NY
  • We Are Pussy Riot by Barbara Hammond
    Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
  • O, Earth by Casey Llewellyn
    Foundry Theatre, New York, NY
  • Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl
    Ars Nova, New York, NY
 

Additional Grants

  • Carlyle Brown & Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT
  • The Kilroys, Los Angeles, CA

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • You Got Older by Clare Barron
    Page 73 Productions, New York, NY
  • Pussy Valley by Katori Hall
    Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • They Call Me a Hero by Guillermo Reyes
    Borderlands Theater, Tucson, AZ
  • 10 out of 12 by Anne Washburn
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
 

Additional Grant

  • Orbiter 3, Philadelphia, PA

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York, NY
  • The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen
    Crowded Fire, San Francisco, CA
  • Charm by Philip Dawkins
    Northlight Theatre, Skokie, IL
  • An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • Ludic Proxy by Aya Ogawa
    The Play Company, New York, NY
  • Zombie: The American by Robert O’Hara
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, DC
  • Down Past Passyunk by A. Zell Williams
    InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA
 

Additional Grants

  • National New Play Network, Washington, DC – In support of The Collaboration Fund
    The Welders: A Playwrights Collective, Washington, DC

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • The Ashes Under Gait City by Christina Anderson
    Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
  • Colossal by Andrew Hinderaker
    Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN
  • Every Five Minutes by Linda McLean
    Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA
  • Superheroes by Sean San José
    The Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco, CA
  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Roy Williams
    Atlantic Theatre Co., New York, NY
 

Additional Grants

  • New Dramatists, New York,  NY

“Venturous Capital” Production Grants

  • The Bereaved by Thomas Bradshaw
    Crowded Fire, San Francisco, CA
  • Intimacy by Thomas Bradshaw
    The New Group, New York, NY
  • A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath
    Soho Rep, New York, NY
  • Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
     Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL
  • Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreitzer
    Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA
  • Trade Practices created by David Morris and Kristin Marting, written by Erin Courtney, Eisa Davis, Robert Lyons, Qui Nguyen, KJ Sanchez, and Chris Wells
    HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
  • The Hill Town Plays by Lucy Thurber
    Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York, NY
  • The Insurgents by Lucy Thurber 
    Labyrinth Theater Company, New York, NY
 

Additional Grants

  • Playwrights Horizons, New York  NY
    Lark Play Development Center, New York, NY

Inaugural Grants

  • Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, WV – Support for Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams
  • Epic Theatre Ensemble, New York, NY – Support for Dispatches from (A)mended America by Brandt Adams and Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.
  • Flux Theatre Ensemble, New York, NY
  • Labyrinth Theater Company, New York, NY
  • Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York, NY – Support for the Ma-Yi Writers Lab
  • Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York, NY – Support for Massacre (Sing to Your Children) by José Rivera
  • Soho Rep, New York, NY – Support for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, as adapted by Annie Baker
  • Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL – Support for Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro
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