FUNDING & SPACE SUBSIDY
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The Stage Door foundation
The Stage Door Foundation is a not-for-profit organization providing support to artists as they develop theatrical projects, allowing individuals to focus on the creative process.
Their mission is to secure and provide support to theatrical artists by providing access to professional mentorship, subsidized investments, and a supportive network infrastructure that can ignite the innovation of art.
The vision of The Stage Door Foundation is to shape a world where art can be dreamed, developed, and realized without obstacles, to cultivate a performing arts ecosystem that celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and the untold stories waiting to be unveiled.
SPACE SUBSIDY PROGRAM:
The Space Subsidy Program provides affordable, accessible rehearsal space to writers, directors, choreographers, and other creative artists at highly subsidized rates. Grants are provided to rehearsal spaces so the studios can, in turn, offer studio rentals to qualifying artists at rates between $5-10/hour, allowing artists to focus on their creative work.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The Foundation provides grants to the rehearsal space to enable the studio to offer low rental rates to qualified participants.
SHOW ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS:
Each year the Foundation provides an up-front investment to a select number of creative projects. This funding can be utilized for studio rental, printing costs, professional fees, and other production resources needed during each key developmental phase:
writing/development
readings/workshops
pre-production
fundraising presentations
world premieres
In effect, the Foundation is working to build a brand new pipeline for the next generation of theatre makers by forming strategic partnerships with industry professionals, regional theatres, resource companies, and other arts organizations around the country.
PROGRAMS:
The Broadway Workroom
New, Next, Now: Musicals in Progress
Scholarships/Grants
The scholarship program provides scholarships to young developing artists (onstage and backstage) for university, college, summer programs, year-round programs removing the barrier so many face while in pursuit of artist development in the crafts of writing, directing, choreography, performance, production management for the theatre.
The Foundation also coordinates grants for young professionals to assist other professionals to observe the creative process and learn from the best in the industry.
PROGRAMS:
The Time Step Symposium
Open Jar Institute Residency
DO YOU HAVE A SERVICE YOU’D LIKE TO OFFER?
Let us know if you have a service you’d like to offer through the Stage Door Network.
DONATE:
The Stage Door Foundation works with our partners to help provide services and support to members of the theatre community. If you’d like to make a donation to the Foundation, your help will go directly to help support these ongoing efforts to provide subsidized service and support.
Provides creative teams with free studio space and technical support for a developing new work, culminating in a semi-staged presentation with audiences.
NEW: A one-week residency for writers and creative teams, culminating in a private table reading.
NEXT: A one-week residency to add actors, musicians and a focus group audience for a weekend of performances.
NOW: A fully staged concert version of the production across two weeks of public performances
THE TIME STEP SYMPOSIUM, a first-of-its-kind program bringing emerging music arranger/music directors and choreographers together once a week for a series of lectures from Broadway's most prolific choreographers and dance arrangers. Through mentored assignments, different teams of Broadway veterans will illuminate the process of developing original dance music in an effort to inspire and preserve this important relationship between song and dance.