NEW YORK CITY: Life Jacket Theatre Firm has introduced a brand new commissioning program for trans playwrights. A $10,000 fee might be awarded to a trans playwright to create a full-length play primarily based on interviews with trans individuals from throughout the nation.

“This new fee uplifts and celebrates trans voices,” inventive director Travis Russ stated in an announcement. “America has an extended and painful historical past of censoring, erasing, and whitewashing trans tales. That is sadly true at the moment, given the aggressively vitriolic political local weather and hatred confronted by the trans neighborhood. This fee will fund a brand new theatrical work that pulls trans tales from the margins and locations them centerstage, the place they belong.”

The deadline for trans writers to use is July 12. Playwrights will conduct interviews with trans individuals throughout various geographic areas in the US within the fall and winter of 2023, and can construct a verbatim play from interview transcripts by means of the winter, spring, and summer time of 2024. Life Jacket will produce a full studying of the play or excerpts from the play in fall 2024.

playwrights can discover out extra right here.

Life Jacket Theatre Firm is dedicated to championing untold tales and uplifting underserved communities. Life Jacket makes use of ethnographic analysis and documentary supplies to create extremely theatrical, visually ingenious, and lyrically wealthy works.

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