EST/Sloan
New Play Commissions
Script submissions will be accepted from September 15 through November 5, 2025.
Individuals or creative teams interested in receiving an EST/Sloan Project commission should upload a single document which contains the following as their application for a grant:
A one-page description or a simple outline/synopsis of the project. Your proposal should describe the story you want to put on stage. All the science has to be discussed as part of the story, not as a separate section. Focus on plot and character development, as well as the aesthetic style you envision for the piece.
A resume or biography of each collaborator involved.
Subject Areas Eligible for SuBmission
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
Medical Research (NOT the experience of having a medical condition or disease)
TECHNOLOGY INCLUDES:
Computer Science
Software Development, Computer Development
Engineering (civil, chemical, mechanical, electrical, aerospace, vehicle design)
Space Research grounded in currently existing technologies
AREAS NOT CONSIDERED FOR COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:
Science Fiction (i.e., a work that utilizes science or technology that is neither currently possible nor in late-stage development)
The experience of having a Medical Condition or Disease
Psychology and Human Behavior
Applicants will be notified of decisions by late summer.