The Hatchery: New Works Development Festival / Calls & Submissions
Deadline
January 31, 2025
Organization Name: Many Hats Collaboration
Organization Location: Portland, OR
Type: Residencies
Fee: Free
Discipline:
The Hatchery is a new play development festival celebrating and supporting new works for the stage that center music and movement. Produced by Portland, Oregon theater company Many Hats Collaboration, The Hatchery is a short-term, paid performance residency program with a public-facing workshop performance. Our goal is to serve local and regional artists and ensembles by providing a nontraditional new works development model that provides support in the form of money, space, marketing and audience attendance. The Hatchery promotes the creation of groundbreaking, music and movement-driven new works for the contemporary theater canon, nurtured in the Pacific Northwest.
In our second year producing The Hatchery, we will select 1-2 community-sourced projects based on proposals submitted. A selection panel will evaluate proposals using the stated selection criteria (below) using a committee-based process.
Important information
– Dates: Exact dates TBD between August 13-24, 2025 with public performances on August 24. Artists need to be available in person for these dates.
– Space: The Judy, (The Judy Kafoury Center for Youth Arts), 1000 SW Broadway T-100, Portland, OR 97205
– Deadlines: Proposal deadline is January 31, 2025. Interviews (by webconference) will be held between March 10-28. Artists will be notified of their application status by March 31, 2025.
What does The Hatchery provide?
– 30 hours of in-person rehearsal time culminating in an informal workshop showing for a live audience
– Paid stipends to all collaborators for projects with 5 performers or less (sorry, no Equity contracts at this time)
– Collaborative personnel as needed (director, composer, choreographer, castmembers, stage manager)
– Limited design and materials support
– Marketing in support of public performance
– 5 hours of optional creative and structural consulting from Many Hats to support workshop design, pre-Hatchery, or “next steps” planning, post-Hatchery.
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