Grants & Awards
Providing financial support to writers is an investment in the future of American theater.
Please note, the granting process may take up to four (4) weeks for a decision on your application to be made, as well as for your grant to be processed once approved. Please keep this in mind as you plan for your grant application’s submission. As a reminder, incomplete applications or documentation will delay the grant process and distribution, and we may require you to resubmit your application. Please be sure to double check your application before you submit to make sure all required documentation has been included. For questions please contact: grants@dgf.org
Grants for Writers
If you are facing a financial crisis and need financial assistance and/or support, and are a dramatist (playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists in the theatrical genre), you are eligible to apply for our Grants. Click here to learn more:
Please review our new eligibility requirements before applying.
The history of DGF is rooted in knowing that there is a community that will support you when you are facing hard times. We are proud to be a part of that community. While every need is valuable, we cannot always meet every need. If you need support but are not a Dramatist, we encourage you to contact one of these other resources.
If you are primarily:
a musician/composer (other than musical theater), please click here
a novelist/nonfiction/fiction writer, please click here
a screenwriter, please click here
an actor or performance artist, please click here
a journalist, please click here
a director, please click here or here
Awards
DGF recognizes outstanding achievement in the theater by giving financial awards in several categories.
Dramatists Guild Foundation has earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency from Guidestar/Candid.