BCA Playwright Residency 2022–2023

Associated Residency Program

The BCA Playwright Residency is designed to support emerging playwrights by providing office space, rehearsal and performance space, marketing support, professional mentorship, access to community partnerships and workshops, and a platform for creating and producing innovative work.

In addition, this residency is designed to cater to each individual artist’s needs and help further their creative process. The playwright must create a new work while in residency.

Program applications will be evaluated based on an artist’s demonstration of the following 5 pillars:

  • Experimentation – Does the artist’s practice display innovation, openness to new ideas, perspectives and techniques?
  • Responsiveness – Is the artist’s work relevant, topical, in dialogue with issues of contemporary interest?
  • Balance – Does the artist think holistically about the relationship between art and life?
  • Community Engagement – Does the artist demonstrate a willingness and aptitude for significant give and take exchange among colleagues and audience?
  • Potential Impact – How does the artist articulate the impact of access to their artistic career?

WE ARE LOOKING FOR PLAYWRIGHTS WHO:

  • Are committed to incubating a new work
  • Have written a complete work (short or full length play)
  • Interested in presenting their work at a final staged reading at the end of the residency
  • Playwrights local to Boston and surrounding areas
Deadline
Residency Length
1 year - 1 year
Average Number of Artists in Residence at a Time
3
Collaborative Residency
Must apply and be accepted individually
Discipline
Playwriting
Companions
N/A
Country of Residence
Only open to artists based in country the program is located
Family Friendly
N/A
Stage of Career
Any stage of career
Emerging
Additional Expectations/Opportunities
Give artist talk or presentation
Accessible Housing
N/A
Meals Provided
N/A
Studios/Special Equipment
Private Studios
Shared Studios
Performance/Presentation Facilities
Theater
Studios/Facilities Accessibility
Partially Accessible (50% or more)
Type of Housing
N/A
Number of Artists Accepted in Most Current Year
3
Artist Stipend
0
US Dollar (USD)
Travel Stipend/Material Stipends
0
US Dollar (USD)
Residency Fees
0
US Dollar (USD)
Grant/Scholarship/other Funding Support
0
US Dollar (USD)
Application Fee
0
US Dollar (USD)
Application Type
Open application