Mellon Foundation Awards for Open Arts Network Partners

Continuing a week of large funding announcements, Fractured Atlas would like to congratulate the four theatrical organizations that were awarded significant Mellon Foundation grants.  Two of the four companies, New Dramatists and The Playwrights’ Center, are Open Arts Network partners.  Here is some more information about the grants….

“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has named the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, and The Playwrights’ Center as organizations that will receive grants ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000 over the course of the next three to five years in support of new work. The Mellon Foundation issued the following statement regarding the 2008 grant recipients: ‘These centers have a distinguished history of providing support for artists and of collaborating successfully with regional theaters across the U.S. in producing new works that have been developed at their labs. While different in terms of programming, all share a goal of bringing new voices to the American theatre repertoire.’”