We have a fund for offsetting the costs of producing plays written by our student playwrights called the New Works Initiative fund. If you are able to get a theatre you work with to include a play by a Hollins playwright in their season, whether studio or main stage, and you will be involved as either the director or assistant director, that theatre can apply for production assistance of between $500 and $5,000. Additionally, since we encourage mutually beneficial relationships between playwrights and directors, it is possible that should a playwright get a production and they are asked if they have a director they prefer to work with, you might be that director. In that case, a request could be made by the producing theatre that NWI funds be used to help pay for your travel and accommodations, although we are prohibited by law from paying current students in order to avoid any appearance that grades are related to any kind of pay-to-play scheme.
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