2024-2025 Fellows:

Ari Afsar, Musical Theater Writing
Emma Ashford, Musical Theater Writing
Sophie Boyce, Musical Theater Writing
Fouad Dakwar, Musical Theater Writing
Jen Diamond, Playwriting
Matthew Jellison, Playwriting
Yilong Liu, Playwriting
Jaime Lozano, Musical Theater Writing
Veronica Mansour, Musical Theater Writing
Ro Reddick, Playwriting
Phillip Christian Smith, Playwriting

2024-2025 National Fellows:

Alan Stewart, Playwriting
Beth Kander, Playwriting
Germaine Shames, Playwriting
Hope Villanueva, Playwriting
Joe Barsanti, Musical Theater Writing
Katie Winkler, Musical Theater Writing
Lachrisa Grandberry, Musical Theater Writing
Nabra Nelson, Playwriting
Nicolette Blount, Musical Theater Writing
Petron Brown, Playwriting Fellow
Orlando Morales, Musical Theater Writing

 


Alumni

Since its inception in 2000, the Fellows program has given over 160 writers a path forward in the industry, with several going on to achieve the highest levels of recognition in both theater and film.

Fellows alumni include Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen, In Transit, Coco), Chisa Hutchinson (She Like Girls, The Wedding Gift), Michael R. Jackson (Pulitzer Prize Winner, A Strange Loop), Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, La La Land), Lauren Yee (The Great Leap, King of the Yees), and many more.

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DGF National Fellows Program

Our historic Fellows program has expanded to have a virtual offering for playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists located across the United States.

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