EST/Sloan
New Play Commissions
Submissions will be accepted from September 15 to November 3. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before drafting your proposal.
Individuals or creative teams interested in receiving an EST/Sloan Project commission should submit 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.