EST/Sloan
Regional Development Grants

Submissions will be accepted from September 15 to November 3. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before drafting your proposal.

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 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