Dramatists Guild Fund Announces $170K in Grants

The Dramatists Guild Fund has awarded $170,000 to dozens of nonprofit theaters across the country, from the firmly established Soho Repertory Theatre in New York City to the young Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company in San Diego.
Dramatists Guild Fund Announces $170K in Grants
Kenny Leon at the 68th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2014, in New York City. The Dramatists Guild Fund has awarded $170,000 to non-profit theaters across the country. The Fund on Jan. 1, 2015, announced 129 winners, including Tony Award-winning director Leon's True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
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NEW YORK—The Dramatists Guild Fund has awarded $170,000 to dozens of nonprofit theaters across the country, from the firmly established Soho Repertory Theatre in New York City to the young Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company in San Diego.

The fund on Thursday announced 129 winners, including Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon’s true colors Theatre Company in Atlanta, as well as Plan-B Theatre Company from Salt Lake City, and the Spooky Action Theater in Washington, D.C.

Winners must develop or produce contemporary American plays and musicals and usually have operating budgets of less than $1 million. Other winners included the San Francisco Playhouse, the Chicago Dramatists, Fine Arts Center Colorado Springs, and Dallas Theater Center. Grants have been handed out since the Fund was founded in 1962.

"It's really a wide variety of theaters interacting with their community."
Rachel Routh, executive director, Dramatists Guild Fund