Nashville Rep Receives NEA Grant

Nashville Repertory Theatre has received a $10,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help support Nashville Rep's 2016-17 Ingram New Works Project (the Project).

This is the second year Nashville Rep has received NEA funding specifically marked for the Project. Nashville Rep is proud to be one of only 14 Tennessee arts organizations receiving funding from an overall pool of 1,148 national recipients.

"The arts are all around us, enhancing our lives in ways subtle and obvious, expected and unexpected," said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. "Supporting projects like the ones in Tennessee offers more opportunities to engage in the arts every day."

The Project consists of three components - the Ingram New Works Fellowship, the Ingram New Works Lab, and the Ingram New Works Festival. The Project was launched by Nashville Rep in 2009 thanks to the generous support of Martha R. Ingram and provides playwrights with dramaturgical support, access to professional actors, directors, and designers, housing while in Nashville, and a stipend for travel and other expenses.

The NEA Art Works program supports artistic ventures that are of national, regional, or field-wide significance, including local projects that serve as models for that field. To that end, plays developed in the Ingram Works Project go on to additional development and production across the country.

Nashville Rep's 2016-17 Ingram New Works Festival will be held May 3 - 13, 2017.

Nashville Rep is a non-profit theatre producing classic and contemporary theatre for Nashville and Middle Tennessee that inspires empathy and prods intellectual and emotional engagement in audiences. The 2016-17 season includes The Last Five Years, Noises Off, A Christmas Story, Posterity, and A Raisin in the Sun. Visit nashvillerep.org to learn more.