Playwright Company 13P Earns Sizable Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The playwright's group 13P has received a sizable donation from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Variety is reporting. The group did not discuss the size of the donation, only that it will aid them in putting on the rest of their season. 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.) was formed in 2003 by 13 midcareer playwrights concerned about what the trend of endless readings and new play development programs is doing to the texture and ambition of new American plays. They decided they were ready to take matters into their own hands.

13P realizes full productions of new plays. The resources of the company are placed at the disposal of the playwright at work, who serves as the company's artistic director during the production of her play.

13P was the recipient of a 2005 Obie Grant. In their citation, the judges wrote: "Not since Circle Repertory have we seen playwrights in New York forging a home for each other."

The playwrights who make up 13P are made up of Shelia Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Madeline George, Rob Handel, Ann Marie Healy, Julia Jarcho, Young Jean Lee, Winter Miller, Sara Ruhl, Katherine Ryan, Lucy Thurbemm Anne Washburn, and Gary Winter. For more information, visit www.13p.org.

13P's productions are made possible, in part, through generous support from The Friends of 13P, The National Endowment for the Arts, The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The James Kirkwood Award of the Dramatists Guild Fund, The Daniel M. Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation, The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of A.R.T./New York, The Katherine Dalglish Foundation, The John Golden Fund, Off Broadway Angels, The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation, The Dramatists Guild Fund, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, The Edith C. Blum Foundation, The Posner-Wallace Foundation, The Tulchin Family Foundation, The Village Voice Obie Awards, and Samuel French, Inc.