Deadline: 28-Jul-22
The Arts Council is seeking nominations for the Theatre Project Award to support the development, generation, creation making and/or presenting of theatre to audiences.
The award is open to professional artists and organisations with a demonstrable track record in theatre practice, in collaboration with artists and/or in partnership with existing theatre organisations, arts centres or festivals, where that partnership is additional to, and separate from, that organisation’s core activity.
Schemes
- Theatre: The Arts Council’s definition of Theatre is dramatic work performed by actors in front of a live audience in the same space or location. This definition excludes proposals to develop audio-drama, radio plays, the recording of podcasts, performance art, or any type of filmed/videoed performance, save where a performance in front of a live audience is being captured for live broadcast and/or future dissemination, and/or where public health guidance prohibits the attendance of audiences at live events.
- Professional theatre artist: an individual with a demonstrable track record for professional work in a creative capacity within theatre – i.e. playwright, theatre-maker, director, actor, designer (lighting, sound, set, costume), creative producer.
Strands
The Theatre Project Award is offered across four strands, as follows:
- Play Development: The objective of the Play Development strand is to enable the development of a new play or text for performance, in which the playwright is central to the creative process. This could be an application by the playwright themselves or an application by a third party who proposes to commission and support the development of the new play text for performance.
- Theatre Creation: The objective of the Theatre Creation strand is to enable the devising of ideas for new work in a collaborative and interdisciplinary context. The emphasis of the award is on innovation and experimentation. The concept behind a proposal can be non-text-based or based on a piece of new writing for the theatre, a pre-existing dramatic text, an adaptation from another literary form, or a translation or adaptation of a text from another language. The objective of the award is to enable the development of ideas over time through collaboration without the requirement to present to audiences.
- Theatre Presentation: The objective of the Theatre Presentation strand is the presentation of innovative, collaborative and/or experimental work to audiences. The emphasis of the award is on presenting new forms of theatre in a live-performance context. The concept behind a proposal can be non-text-based or based on a piece of new writing for the theatre, a pre-existing dramatic text, an adaptation from another literary form, or a translation or adaptation of a text from another language.
- Theatre Production: The objective of the Theatre Production strand is to enable the presentation of ambitious mid-to-large-scale professional theatre productions by artists and/or producing entities with a demonstrable track record in the production of theatre for audiences.
Award Information
- Strand 1: Play Development Up to €15,000
- Strand 2: Theatre Creation Up to €25,000
- Strand 3: Theatre Presentation Up to €75,000
- Strand 4: Theatre Production Up to €150,000
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to professional artists and organisations working in theatre. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Be resident or based in the Republic of Ireland.
- There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland.
- However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application how the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland, and the Arts Council must be satisfied with same.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Theatre-Project-Award/