Nashville Repertory Theatre Now Accepting Applications for 2016-17 Ingram New Works Lab

Now through June 13, 2016, Nashville Repertory Theatre is accepting applications from playwrights for the 2016-17 Ingram New Works Lab. The Lab is one of three components of the Ingram New Works Project, the other two being the Ingram New Works Fellowship and the Ingram New Works Festival. The Project was launched by Nashville Rep in 2009 thanks to the generous support of Martha R. Ingram.

About The Lab

The Ingram New Works Lab gives playwrights an opportunity to develop new theatre works with support of Nashville Rep.

The Ingram New Works Lab is an artistic home for playwrights and a fertile environment for the creation of great new plays. Selected from a highly competitive pool of national applicants, Lab Playwrights are a dynamic cohort of artists that participate in a year-long developmental residency. During monthly Lab meetings in Nashville, playwrights share and develop a new work based on artist-determined goals and receive transformative support and project guidance from dedicated staff.

In addition to the monthly meetings, each playwright will participate in a week-long New Works Symposium in January 2017 with the recipient of the Ingram New Works Fellowship. Each playwright will be expected to work toward the creation of a new play that will be presented in a staged reading featured at the Ingram New Works Festival in May 2017.

At the end of the Residency, Lab Playwrights have become a vibrant part of the Nashville arts ecosystem, have developed a muscular new play from its earliest stages to presentation in front of an audience, and are ready to springboard themselves into the next phase of their writing career.

About Applying

Nashville Rep will accept applications for the 2016-17 Ingram New Works Lab until June 13, 2016. Applicants must submit a writing sample, a one-page bio, an artistic statement, and a letter of intent that describes the new play they intend to develop during the residency.

Interested playwrights should visit nashvillerep.org/ingram-new-works-application to apply, to learn participation commitments and application guidelines, and for additional details about the Ingram New Works Lab.

About The Fellowship

The Ingram New Works Fellowship is a season-long fellowship designed to support the development of a single new play by an exceptional career playwright of the highest national reputation. Ingram Fellows participate in the Ingram Project as a valuable mentor to Lab Playwrights and as an integral part of the Ingram New Works Festival.

Past Fellows have included David Auburn (Proof, The Columnist), John Patrick Shanley (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Doubt) Stephen Dietz (Lonely Planet, Becky's New Car), Theresa Rebeck (Bad Dates, Seminar), Doug Wright (Quills, I Am My Own Wife ), Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends, The Country House), and Rebecca Gilman (The Glory of Living, Luna Gale,).

The recipient of the 2016-17 Ingram New Works Fellowship has yet to be announced.

"Many theaters offer lip service to the fostering of new work, but Nashville Rep makes it a core mission through this program," says past Ingram New Works Fellow Doug Wright. "In a climate that forces many young writers to seek a safe harbor in film and television, the Ingram New Works Project makes an enduring case for the viability of theater and the nurturing of new voices. The Project makes an invaluable contribution to our forever-imperiled national literature."

Doug Wright's play Posterity, created during his Ingram Fellowship, will be produced by Nashville Rep in February 2017.

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