FREE APPLICATION HELP

This is a pilot program designed to offer free assistance with application writing for playwrights who have been historically underrepresented in the field.

During a town hall at Playwrights Horizons in June 2025 about the lack of women+ representation in season announcements across the country, I was struck by what multiple writers had to say about application writing as a barrier to access. This kind of writing is different from playwriting and the vast majority of us are never taught skill even though it stands between us and the residencies, workshops, writers groups, and grants that we need in order to have a career.

When I say underrepresented, I'm including gender, race, deafness, and disability. My goal is to help you present your work in a way that is specific to you and clear to your readers. I work with writers from the 360 degree perspective of writing applications myself and of reading applications for organizations across the country.

When you fill out this form you will be added to the mailing list and periodically receive emails about new application help appointments. I will work with you for two half-hour sessions with a week in between to rewrite.

Credentials:
I have read applications for the Public Theater, Hedgebrook, Magic Theatre, Sewanee Writers' Conference, PlayPenn, MIT, Breaking the Binary, Geva Theatre, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. I have applied my way into MacDowell, Yaddo, Wildacres, Hedgebrook, Fresh Ground Pepper's BRB residency (highly recommend), Jentel, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Breaking the Binary, SPACE on Ryder Farm, a Toulmin commission, Colt Coeur residency, a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and the Yale School of Drama.