EST/Sloan
Regional Development Grants

Script submissions will be accepted from September 15, 2024 through November 15, 2024. The submission form will be active on this page during the submission window. 

If you are a theater applying for support for a project you have already scheduled, please note that we can only accept submissions for projects that will happen after September 1, 2025.

Theatre companies interested in receiving an EST/Sloan Project regional development grant should submit the following as their application for a grant:

  1. A current draft of the script, or a one- to two-page description or outline of the project.

  2. A resume or biography of each collaborator involved.

  3. A one- to two-page cover letter detailing the development history of the project and your goals for the commission.

  4. An estimated budget for the project.

Subject Areas Eligible for Sumission

The EST/Sloan Project is open to a broad range of topics related to the issues, people, ideas, processes, leading-edge discoveries, inventions, and/or history of the "hard" sciences and technology, as well as explorations of the culture of those fields.

HARD SCIENCES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

  • Mathematics

  • Physics (geological, nuclear, theoretical, etc.)

  • Biology (evolution, zoology, animal behavior, ecology, molecular, genetics, etc.)

  • Chemistry (industrial, biochemistry, etc.)

  • Neuroscience

  • Anthropology and Archaeology

TECHNOLOGY INCLUDES:

  • Computer Science

  • Software Development, Computer Development

  • Engineering (civil, chemical, mechanical, electrical, aerospace, vehicle design)

  • Space Research

AREAS NOT CONSIDERED FOR COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:

  • Science Fiction

  • Medical Conditions and/or Victims of Disease

  • Psychology and Human Behavior