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.
This Golden State Part One: Delanoby 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, Earthby 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 Heroby 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 Disneyby 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
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
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