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Los Angeles New Play Project
Supporting original work in the Los Angeles Theater Community
Los Angeles New Play Project
Supporting original work in the Los Angeles Theater Community
LANPP is a newly established grant program, launching in 2021, that helps support original work presented on the Los Angeles stage. We offer two-tiered, interconnected grants of $20,000 to playwrights and an additional grant up to $20,000 to producing entities to help support productions. With these awards, LANPP hopes to contribute to exciting, high-quality original work on the small and mid-size stages of Los Angeles County.
LANPP grants are intended to attract excellence in playwriting to the Los Angeles theater community, and to encourage the production of new and untried plays. Producers in partnership with playwrights are invited to submit new plays under consideration for production in the producer’s upcoming season. Through a distinguished peer panel review process LANPP will identify and reward the strongest works submitted.
In providing financial support to the high-risk arena of new work production, LANPP hopes to:
- Help reinforce the Los Angeles region's significance as an international center of creativity for the performing arts
- Positively influence artistic standards
- Challenge contemporary audiences with the important debates of our time
- Support voices that have been silenced, neglected, or less-understood
In addition to the grant program for playwrights and producers, LANPP is proud to support the UCLA/Geffen Playhouse Apprenticeship Program, which places the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television students in internship positions at the Geffen Playhouse.
FROM LANPP DIRECTOR PAULA HOLT
Welcome to Year Two of Los Angeles New Play Project! We launched this funding support for Los Angeles smaller theaters at a time when our entire cultural landscape remained eerily closed. We asked to see new original play submissions and received an outpouring of stories, most of them sharing a sense of urgency to be read and seen. We took in 50 outstanding plays our first year, impaneled a gifted group of jurists, and announced our 2021 winners in October. We anticipated that the theaters of LA would begin to reopen in early spring of 2022 and are thrilled to see just that happening – robustly, tentatively, masks on, masks off, vaccinations in hand, but open! We believe more than ever in the small and midsize theater creators eligible for support under this program. Welcome back, LA theater creators! We see you returning to existing spaces, reconfiguring new spaces, trying out new models, returning to life. Your stories help us to better shape our own understanding of the universe. Submit your applications by June 1 — and let’s all work together to keep this fragile and essential industry afloat.