The Shattered Glass Project Awarded Hope Corps Grant From the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture
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September 29, 2022
The Shattered Glass Project, TSGP, announced today that it is a recipient of a Hope Corps Grant from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. TSGP is a non-profit theatre company with a mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender or sex. The grant from Hope Corps is to support creative worker wages and other project expenses, specifically focused on TSGP’s Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program.
“I am thrilled and humbled,” said Founder and Artistic Director Rebecca O’Neil. “The Hope Corps grant will allow TSGP to adequately compensate the artists participating in our Incubator/Mentor Program. Many of us in the theatre community earn our livings in a piecemeal fashion; this grant will increase and stabilize compensation for our teaching artists. Additionally, this money will support us to bring our teaching artists and cohort members into a space of our own. This funding is helping us realize our dream to build mutually supportive artistic connections among emerging playwrights and directors as well as with other artists in the Seattle theatre community .”
Hope Corps is an economic recovery program created by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture in the wake of the pandemic. The goal of the program is to provide economic and social opportunities for Seattle’s creative workforce. A total of $1.3 million has been awarded to 30 different artists and organizations.
“Awardees presented proposals that are outstanding and inspiring in their scope, creativity and potential impact on our city. We believe that these projects will inspire and serve as examples to public and private funders in the region regarding what can be achieved if you work with the community to move us all forward.” Mayor Bruce Harrell
About TSGP
Founded in 2019, TSGP is a non-profit theatre company based in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle with a mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized based on their gender or sex. They recently presented their first in-person production, the world premiere of Want by Seattle playwright Barbara Lindsay. The flagship program at TSGP, the Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program is a tuition-free program that features facilitated meetings and foundational workshops taught by Seattle theatre artists over a twelve-month period. Interwoven with developmental work and rehearsals of new scripts written and directed by cohort members, the program culminates in a short play festival. Alums of the 2021 program have been successfully working in Seattle theatre, including for TSGP.
TSGP launches their end-of-year fundraising campaign on October 3 with a goal of raising an additional $25,000 to fully fund the Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program for the 2023-24 cohort.
Media Contact: Rebecca O’Neil | rebecca@shatteredglassproject.org | www.shatteredglassproject.org
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Images from Ghosts: A Festival of Original One-Act Plays, Produced December 2021 by the 2021 Playwright and Director Incubator/Mentor Cohort
