A place for playwrights to write, collaborate, experiment, and grow.
APPLICATIONS FOR OUR 2023-24 COHORT ARE OPEN! Apply by AUGUST 28th!
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We support the development of new, full-length plays by playwrights in the Greater Baltimore region for Greater Baltimore audiences by providing the essential safe space, time, and structure for artists to experiment and bring their new plays into the world.
Selected playwrights receive a stipend ($2,000) along with feedback, hands-on support, and readings of their work.
Each Horticulture Playwrights Workshop cohort is made up of two playwrights, a dramaturg, and two directors connected with each playwright for the duration of the Workshop. The year-long program of meetings and readings sets manageable deadlines and creates ample room for a long iterative creative process. The input of the dramaturg and directors is key to the playwrights’ writing process: the dramaturg helps the playwrights to explore the thematic and structural options for their plays, while the directors help the playwright to understand how the script would function as the basis for a live production - the ultimate goal of a playwright.
Playwrights hear their work out loud twice over the year: first at closed table reading with actors at the midway point and in the final public Staged Readings after rehearsals. These readings provide new feedback from the performers and audiences and offer the playwrights the chance to gain a new perspective on their work. From beginning to end, the process adapts to serve the needs of the playwrights as their scripts develop.
Applications for the 2023-24 cohort are open through August 28, 2023. Please join our mailing list for updates.
Questions? Contact Program Director Abigail Cady: abby@sistersfreehold.org
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The Horticulture Playwrights Workshop originated as the Playwrights Fellowship at Cohesion Theatre Company. In 2021, it became a program of Sisters Freehold.
PAST PLAYWRIGHTS
2022-23: Sharea Harris & Julia Marks
2020-21: Francisco Benavides & Lyra Yang
2018-19: Laura Fuentes & DJ Hills
2017-18: R. Eric Thomas & Aladrian Wetzel
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Horticulture seeks to help writers from the Baltimore area develop a so-far unwritten idea into a full-length script.
Experience with playwriting is not required.
Applicants must be 18 or older.
Completed or partly-written projects will not be considered.
Horticulture serves artists living in or within a 60-minute drive of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Emerging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), women, and gender-nonconforming theater artists are especially encouraged to apply.
APPLICATION
(BEST ACCESSED VIA DESKTOp)
The application is a chance for you, the playwright, to introduce yourself and your idea to us and to get a sense of whether Horticulture is the program for you. There are multiple options for completing the application components - please fill out the combination you feel best represents you and your work! Take your time, and feel free to reach out with any questions.
You can see all components of the application in pdf format HERE. Please note that the application must be filled out through the google form link above.
The form sections of the application will take 10-20 minutes to complete.
The form will save your answers and uploads as you go. If you have any technical difficulties, please contact abby@sistersfreehold.org.
There are four components to the application:
ASSESSMENT: a set of questions to determine whether your goals and the goals of Horticulture align.
BACKGROUND: a set of questions to provide information that helps Horticulture meet you where you are.
PITCH: the outline/sketch/rough notion of the idea or concept you want to develop into a script over the course of the program.
SAMPLE: an introduction to your artistic voice.
The application will be open from Monday, July 17 - Monday, August 28, 2023.
Applications will be reviewed from Monday, August 28 - Tuesday, September 26, 2023.
All applicants will receive a response by Wednesday, September 27, 2023 & feedback will be available.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28, 2023
Curious about the application process?
WATCH A VIDEO WALK-THROUGH OR JOIN US FOR A LIVE APPLICANT INFO SESSION ON AUGUST 19 @ 1pm
PROGRAM DIRector: ABIGAIL CADY
ABBY@sistersfreehold.org
APPLICATIONS FOR OUR 2023-24 COHORT ARE OPEN! Apply by AUGUST 28th!
-
We support the development of new, full-length plays by playwrights in the Greater Baltimore region for Greater Baltimore audiences by providing the essential safe space, time, and structure for artists to experiment and bring their new plays into the world.
Selected playwrights receive a stipend ($2,000) along with feedback, hands-on support, and readings of their work.
Each Horticulture Playwrights Workshop cohort is made up of two playwrights, a dramaturg, and two directors connected with each playwright for the duration of the Workshop. The year-long program of meetings and readings sets manageable deadlines and creates ample room for a long iterative creative process. The input of the dramaturg and directors is key to the playwrights’ writing process: the dramaturg helps the playwrights to explore the thematic and structural options for their plays, while the directors help the playwright to understand how the script would function as the basis for a live production - the ultimate goal of a playwright.
Playwrights hear their work out loud twice over the year: first at closed table reading with actors at the midway point and in the final public Staged Readings after rehearsals. These readings provide new feedback from the performers and audiences and offer the playwrights the chance to gain a new perspective on their work. From beginning to end, the process adapts to serve the needs of the playwrights as their scripts develop.
Applications for the 2023-24 cohort are open through August 28, 2023. Please join our mailing list for updates.
Questions? Contact Program Director Abigail Cady: abby@sistersfreehold.org
-
The Horticulture Playwrights Workshop originated as the Playwrights Fellowship at Cohesion Theatre Company. In 2021, it became a program of Sisters Freehold.
PAST PLAYWRIGHTS
2022-23: Sharea Harris & Julia Marks
2020-21: Francisco Benavides & Lyra Yang
2018-19: Laura Fuentes & DJ Hills
2017-18: R. Eric Thomas & Aladrian Wetzel
-
Horticulture seeks to help writers from the Baltimore area develop a so-far unwritten idea into a full-length script.
Experience with playwriting is not required.
Applicants must be 18 or older.
Completed or partly-written projects will not be considered.
Horticulture serves artists living in or within a 60-minute drive of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Emerging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), women, and gender-nonconforming theater artists are especially encouraged to apply.
APPLICATION
(BEST ACCESSED VIA DESKTOp)
The application is a chance for you, the playwright, to introduce yourself and your idea to us and to get a sense of whether Horticulture is the program for you. There are multiple options for completing the application components - please fill out the combination you feel best represents you and your work! Take your time, and feel free to reach out with any questions.
You can see all components of the application in pdf format HERE. Please note that the application must be filled out through the google form link above.
The form sections of the application will take 10-20 minutes to complete.
The form will save your answers and uploads as you go. If you have any technical difficulties, please contact abby@sistersfreehold.org.
There are four components to the application:
ASSESSMENT: a set of questions to determine whether your goals and the goals of Horticulture align.
BACKGROUND: a set of questions to provide information that helps Horticulture meet you where you are.
PITCH: the outline/sketch/rough notion of the idea or concept you want to develop into a script over the course of the program.
SAMPLE: an introduction to your artistic voice.
The application will be open from Monday, July 17 - Monday, August 28, 2023.
Applications will be reviewed from Monday, August 28 - Tuesday, September 26, 2023.
All applicants will receive a response by Wednesday, September 27, 2023 & feedback will be available.