DGF Nationwide Virtual Fellows

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

The Fellows program has traditionally only been offered to dramatists based in the tri-state area who could attend writing workshops and mentorship sessions in-person, but in DGF’s continued work to expand accessibility and resources for writers at all stages of their careers, the program will now offer a virtual option. Designed to eliminate historical barriers of entry, the Fellows program is a completely free program, hosted and designed by the Dramatists Guild Foundation.

Selected writers for the DGF Nationwide Virtual Fellows Program will:

  • receive a stipend
  • become part of a nationwide cohort of dramatists
  • have opportunity to participate in a virtual presentation of their work for top theater professionals

The deadline to apply for the inaugural class of DGF’s Virtual Nationwide Fellows Program was Monday, February 27 at 11:59 pm ET. Applications are now closed.

About the Fellows Program

The DGF Fellows Program was founded in 2000 by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Janet Neipris, and Susan Miller. They believed it was vital to put playwrights and musical theater writers in the same room, to learn from each other’s different perspectives, to see how collaboration creates magic, and to foster community. 

Former Fellows include Michael R. Jackson (Pulitzer Prize Winner, A Strange Loop), Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over), Lauren Yee (Cambodian Rock Band), Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Academy Award winner, Frozen), Rajiv Joseph (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), and Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (Tony winners for Best Score, Dear Evan Hansen). 

DGF Fellows is supported through the generosity of the Seller-Lehrer Family Foundation.