Fill 51Group 3Page 1Page 1GroupImageboxFill 51Fill 51Group 8Fill 51DGF_Logo-KOFill 51Fill 51Fill 51Group 8Fill 51Site LogoPathLeft ArrowRight ArrowCloseLocationMenuSearchPage 1Google PlusFill 15LinkedInFill 1Fill 1
Dramatists Guild Foundation
Menu
  • Tony Honors Recipient
  • About
    • Contact
    • People
    • Anti-Oppression Statement and Cultural Impact Plan
  • Donate
    • Gala 2025
    • Ways to Give
    • Become a Partner
  • Programs
    • Overview
    • Roe Green Visiting Voices
    • Fellows
      • Fellows
      • DGF National Fellows Program
    • Catalyst Fellowship
    • The Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship
    • DGF: Legacy Project
  • Writing Rooms
  • Grants
    • Grants
    • Awards
    • Subvenciones
  • Gala 2025
  • Apply for Emergency Grants
  • Apply for Housing Assistance Grants
  • Keep up with DGF news
  • APPLY FOR GRANTS
  • Reserve Free Writing Rooms
  • Facebook
  • Twitter Username
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Tony Honors Recipient
  • About
    • Contact
    • People
    • Anti-Oppression Statement and Cultural Impact Plan
  • Donate
    • Gala 2025
    • Ways to Give
    • Become a Partner
  • Programs
    • Overview
    • Roe Green Visiting Voices
    • Fellows
      • Fellows
      • DGF National Fellows Program
    • Catalyst Fellowship
    • The Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship
    • DGF: Legacy Project
  • Writing Rooms
  • Grants
    • Grants
    • Awards
    • Subvenciones
  • Gala 2025
Programs

Catalyst Fellowship

In response to the timely need for innovation in the world of theater, The Dramatists Guild Foundation has designed an opportunity for some of the most brilliant Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latiné innovators of theater to radically imagine solutions to the equity, social justice, and change in theater.

The Catalyst Fellowship is the brainchild of the Dramatists Guild Foundation board member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins with research support and thought partnership from playwright, Nick Kaidoo. This unique fellowship was developed to create an opportunity to support dramatists that identify as the global ethnic majority who are interested in using their platform to incite political and social change in their communities.

Through this fellowship, the Dramatists Guild Foundation will award 10 dramatists a financial award of $30k each year over a period of 2-years totaling $60,000 for each fellow. With this financial support, we hope that each fellow can continue to address key issues around disrupting marginalization, inequity and disenfranchisement—and boldly create and pilot courageous ideas that transform theatre. These funds cannot be used toward productions or play development.

Due to the nature of this opportunity, dramatists should have a minimum of at least 5 years’ experience working in theater and must identify as a member of the global ethnic majority which include those who identify as Indigenous, Black, Latiné, Asian, and Pacific Islander or mixed-race or multiracial.

We are no longer accepting applications for this opportunity.

(Top Row, Left To Right)

Anu Yadav, Christine Toy Johnson, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Erlina Ortiz, Ife Olujobi

(Bottom Row, Left To Right)

Matthew Paul Olmos, Melissa Li and Kit Yan, Noa Gardner, Roger Q. Mason, Zachariah Ezer

Back to Top
  • Overview
  • Roe Green Visiting Voices
  • Fellows
    • Fellows
    • DGF National Fellows Program
  • Catalyst Fellowship
  • The Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship

520 8th Avenue, Suite 2401
New York, NY 10018
Tel: (212) 391-8384
Email: info@dgf.org

Dramatists Guild Foundation.
All rights reserved. © 2025
Site by Imagebox
WordPress Maintenance by Total WP Support

  • Facebook
  • Twitter Username
  • Instagram
  • YouTube