Overview
- The foundation confirmed ongoing annual funding for NYPSI’s Horowitz-Sondheim Clinic, which offers affordable mental-health care to playwrights, composers, and lyricists.
- The inaugural institutional grantees are Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Millay Arts, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.
- The Playwrights’ Center award expands its Core Writer Fellowships that provide three-year artistic and professional development for playwrights.
- Steppenwolf’s grant revives the SCOUT new-play development program for the 2026–27 season and includes commissioning an emerging playwright for ensemble-driven work.
- The funding supports Millay Arts’ Core Residency and new Artist in Residency programs and underwrites Rhinebeck’s summer writing residencies with stipends for musical-theatre teams.