Fellowship 2023-2024
The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language
Monetary award to playwright: $3000 for works with a running time of at least 40 minutes.
Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.
Conditions for Consideration
Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provide a meaningful challenge to the actors. This includes, but is not limited to, works using meter, verse, rhyming schemes, pidgins, creoles, and code-switching.
Plays must contain at least 60% heightened language.
Submissions may be translations or adaptations of works in the public domain.
No works under 40 minutes are eligible.
Authors awarded a grant must be willing to participate in a brief rehearsal process culminating in an online video reading of their submitted work*.
Submitted works cannot be currently attached to a theater or production company.
Submitted works cannot have had a prior development cycle outside of an educational program.
Submit Your Play
We accept English-language plays from anywhere in the world.
Submission deadline for our next round: April 30, 2024. Submissions open on November 1, 2023.
Submission portfolio must include:
- This Google form: https://forms.gle/UvKck6fqLy9iGKp47
- The play in standard script format, upload via the Google form or emailed as an attachment to [email protected]
Optional:
- C.V. or resume.
Applicants under the age of majority in their home countries will need the permission of a legal guardian in order to accept an award from Synecdoche Works.
Submission constitutes acceptance of the Fellowship’s terms and conditions.
Synecdoche Works will make reasonable efforts to facilitate an online video reading, but the reading is not guaranteed.