MacDowell
Fully funded (studio, room, meals) + need-based stipend up to $1,500 and travel assistance
A MacDowell Fellowship is a residency of up to eight weeks at MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire, giving artists exclusive use of a studio, accommodations and three meals a day at no cost, with financial assistance available for travel and expenses such as rent, lost income and childcare. Theatre is one of seven eligible disciplines alongside architecture, film/video, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition and visual arts, and roughly 300 fellowships are awarded each year by anonymous discipline-specific panels judging solely on artistic excellence. The deadline for Spring-Summer 2027 residencies is September 10, 2026.
Open to theatre artists incl. playwrights, librettists, composers; international applicants welcome; work-sample based; no residency fee.
Spring-Summer 2027 deadline: Sept 10, 2026. Theatre is one of seven disciplines. | Spring/Summer 2027 deadline Sept 10, 2026. ~300 fellowships/year across disciplines.
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