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$10,000 Ladder Commission for BIPOC Artists

  • Organization: The Movement Theatre Company
  • Type: Fellowship
  • Location: Global
  • Deadline: September 18, 2026
  • Funding: Fully Funded

The Movement Theatre Company, an Off-Broadway company based in Harlem, runs this commission with The Black List, the platform that has surveyed Hollywood's most-liked unproduced screenplays since 2005. It pays one BIPOC artist to write a brand new work for the stage, then spends a year developing it with them. This is the third year the two organisations have run it together. **What you get:** - A $10,000 commissioning award - A year of funding and development support through the Ladder Series, The Movement's new work development programme - Monthly meetings with The Movement's artistic team - A workshop of the new work - A public staged reading **What you'll do:** - Propose an ambitious new work for the stage that you have never written, workshopped or produced - Write and develop that work over a year alongside The Movement's artistic team - Take the work through a workshop and then a public staged reading **Key dates:** - Submissions close September 18, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT **More information:** - Questions go to info@themovementtheatrecompany.org - The submission agreement every applicant must accept is published in full as a PDF linked from the form

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The Movement Theatre CompanyFellowship

$10,000 Ladder Commission for BIPOC Artists

Sep 18, 2026 23:59:00 PT
Opportunity type
Fellowship
Funding
Fully Funded
Location
Global
Deadline
Sep 18, 2026 23:59:00 PT

About this opportunity

The Movement Theatre Company, an Off-Broadway company based in Harlem, runs this commission with The Black List, the platform that has surveyed Hollywood's most-liked unproduced screenplays since 2005. It pays one BIPOC artist to write a brand new work for the stage, then spends a year developing it with them. This is the third year the two organisations have run it together.

What you get:

  • A $10,000 commissioning award
  • A year of funding and development support through the Ladder Series, The Movement's new work development programme
  • Monthly meetings with The Movement's artistic team
  • A workshop of the new work
  • A public staged reading

What you'll do:

  • Propose an ambitious new work for the stage that you have never written, workshopped or produced
  • Write and develop that work over a year alongside The Movement's artistic team
  • Take the work through a workshop and then a public staged reading

Key dates:

  • Submissions close September 18, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT

More information:

  • Questions go to info@themovementtheatrecompany.org
  • The submission agreement every applicant must accept is published in full as a PDF linked from the form

Who can apply

  • Open to generative BIPOC artists, which The Movement defines as artists from any discipline who create new works for the stage
  • Your proposal must be for work that is brand new, meaning not written, workshopped or produced
  • An artistic statement of up to 750 words on how you work and what receiving this commission would mean
  • A proposal of up to 750 words for the ambitious new work you want to create
  • One or two work samples: a 10 page script excerpt, a video of 3 to 5 minutes, up to 10 photographs each with a one sentence description, or an audio sample of 3 to 5 minutes with time stamps. If you identify as a playwright or writer, at least one sample must be a 10 page excerpt
  • A resume of one to two pages
  • You must confirm that nothing in the application was created, processed or modified by any generative AI tool, in whole or in part
  • You must accept a submission agreement governed by California law that sends any dispute to individual binding arbitration in Los Angeles County
  • No age limit and no nationality or residency requirement is stated
  • Generative BIPOC artists making new work for the stage, from any discipline, who have a big idea they have never been able to make. The proposal has to be brand new, so it suits an artist carrying an ambition rather than one wanting to finish an existing draft.

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Good to know

  • +$10,000 commissioning award, plus a funded year in the Ladder Series with monthly artistic team meetings, a workshop and a public staged reading
  • +Free to enter, confirmed on the form and across all three pages of the submission agreement
  • +You keep your work. The agreement takes no ownership: you remain sole author and owner
  • +Open to generative BIPOC artists in any discipline making new work for the stage, with no age limit stated

Worth checking yourself

  • !The proposal must be brand new: not written, workshopped or produced
  • !The year that follows is based in New York, with monthly meetings, a workshop and a staged reading in Harlem, and travel is never mentioned
  • !You must certify that no generative AI touched any part of the application
  • !The agreement imposes California law and individual binding arbitration in Los Angeles County
  • !Closes 18 September at 11:59pm Pacific

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$10,000 Ladder Commission for BIPOC Artists
Sep 18, 2026 23:59:00 PT