About Groundbreakers
Applications are no longer being accepted for 2012. Application and Guidelines for 2013 will be available in June 2012.
Questions about Groundbreakers? Email Jessi D. Hill
Through Groundbreakers, terraNOVA has developed over 80 plays and solo shows. Groundbreakers is an annual developmental playwrighting lab, in which 6 playwrights receive the unique opportunity to work on a specific project with the goal of creating a completed draft. Each playwright will hear their play read around the table by professional actors 3 times over 18 weeks, receiving feedback from the Groundbreakers playwrights group, special guests and the artistic staff of terraNOVA Collective. terraNOVA assembles a diverse group devoted to creating theatrical, original, innovative, socially relevant new work for the stage and welcomes submissions of new plays and solo shows in various stages of development that will benefit from collective feedback and further terraNOVA Collective's artistic mission. We are especially interested in playwrights who, in addition to working on their own play, have an interest in attending weekly workshops to give other playwrights in the group feedback. Groundbreakers is made possible through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Dramatists Guild Fund.
PARTICIPATING PLAYWRIGHTS WILL:
Questions about Groundbreakers? Email Jessi D. Hill
Through Groundbreakers, terraNOVA has developed over 80 plays and solo shows. Groundbreakers is an annual developmental playwrighting lab, in which 6 playwrights receive the unique opportunity to work on a specific project with the goal of creating a completed draft. Each playwright will hear their play read around the table by professional actors 3 times over 18 weeks, receiving feedback from the Groundbreakers playwrights group, special guests and the artistic staff of terraNOVA Collective. terraNOVA assembles a diverse group devoted to creating theatrical, original, innovative, socially relevant new work for the stage and welcomes submissions of new plays and solo shows in various stages of development that will benefit from collective feedback and further terraNOVA Collective's artistic mission. We are especially interested in playwrights who, in addition to working on their own play, have an interest in attending weekly workshops to give other playwrights in the group feedback. Groundbreakers is made possible through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Dramatists Guild Fund.
PARTICIPATING PLAYWRIGHTS WILL:
- Attend a weekly writers group led by terraNOVA’s Artistic Staff.
- Create a 10-minute play to be showcased in terraNOVA’s Annual Benefit.
- Receive complimentary tickets to all terraNOVA events in the current season.
- Receive artistic support and professional development guidance from the artistic staff.
- Receive a workshop and reading performance in terraNOVA's annual New Play Series.
- Must be able to attend weekly sessions. Attendance in mandatory.
- Must live within the tri-state area.
