Collaboration Fund & Venturous Production Pipeline Award Details

Updated 9.13.24

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PROPOSAL DETAILS

2024-25 COLLABORATION FUND and VENTUROUS PRODUCTION PIPELINE AWARDS

Proposals Accepted: September 25 - November 1, 2024

National New Play Network’s Collaboration Fund and NNPN/Venturous Production Pipeline Awards support innovative, project-based partnerships. The latter program focuses specifically on empowering ambitious partnerships toward the production (or productions) of a venturous new play, while the former more broadly supports collaborations between theaters and theater makers.  

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FUNDING DETAILS

2024-25 COLLABORATION FUND and VENTUROUS PRODUCTION PIPELINE AWARDS

Proposals Accepted: September 25 - November 1, 2024

National New Play Network’s Collaboration Fund and NNPN/Venturous Production Pipeline Awards support innovative, project-based partnerships. The latter program focuses specifically on empowering ambitious partnerships toward the production (or productions) of a venturous new play, while the former more broadly supports collaborations between theaters and theater makers.  

Award Details

NNPN’s Collaboration Fund awards up to $15,000 to projects proposed by NNPN Core Member Theaters working together or with other organizations and/or theater-makers on a new work project or the betterment of the new play field.

NNPN/Venturous Production Pipeline Awards, funded by a generous grant from Venturous Theater Fund, gives up to $25,000 to projects proposed by an NNPN Core Member Theater working with at least one other NNPN Member Theater that support production-oriented endeavors for a new play that is “venturous” - - ambitious in scale, epic in scope, challenging in form, controversial in subject matter, experimental in concept, and/or unabashed in their theatricality and, because of their nature, have needs greater than the current awards provided by NNPN’s existing Collaboration Fund. 

For both, NNPN may award less than the full requested amount to a project, and all proposals must indicate the project’s viability without full funding.  

Collaboration Funds will not be provided for any portion of a project already awarded monies through another NNPN programs (such as Rolling World Premieres or Producer Residencies) but may be requested to support additional expenses for said project. 

NNPN/Venturous Production Pipeline Awards applications for projects that are also receiving NNPN Rolling World Premiere awards must apply as a Partnership and propose using NNPN/Venturous Production Pipeline Award for a resource or resources across the Roll. 

 Receipt of NNPN/Venturous Production Pipeline Awards would not preclude the project from receiving Venturous Capital Grants from Venturous Theater Fund in the future. However, any subsequent Venturous Capital Grant proposal for the same play must be collaboratively submitted by the same theaters that received a Pipeline Production Award (assuming all parties remain committed to the play) along with any additional theaters participating in an NNPN Rolling World Premiere. 

 If you have any questions, please be in touch with Anne G. Morgan, Programs Director (anne@nnpn.org).