Programs

  • EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project

    EST operates the year round EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project to commission, develop and produce new plays that illuminate the lives of people working in science and technology. Project outcomes include a month long festival of readings and new commissioned works called First Light and also features a mainstage production of a new science themed play. Youngblood - EST's Obie Award winning program for emerging playwrights meets weekly from September through June, offering artistic guidance, peer support, regular feedback and a fertile production environment for playwrights to hone their skills and explore their craft. Includes the monthly Sunday Brunch one act play series that takes place November thru June; a week-long summer group retreat; the Read/Write/Read workshop series (5-8 year round); and the Bloodworks reading series (one full-length play reading opportunity for each of the 30 Youngblood playwrights) in May/June. EST also sponsors a Tuesday night reading series called Memberfest for its artist members; a Playwrights Unit for playwright members from September thru June, a weekly opportunity for them to meet and develop work, through group support and feedback; and has begun a podcast series interviewing different EST members about their artistic lives and careers, and EST and beyond.
    Geographies
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2022 – Jun 30, 2023
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $1.5M

  • Program 1 [2025]

    EST operates the year round EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project to commission, develop and produce new plays that illuminate the lives of people working in science and technology. For our 2024-2025 season, EST presented two Mainstage productions as part of the EST/Sloan Project: Franklinland by Lloyd Suh and Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother? by Michael Walek. The EST/Sloan project also commissioned 10 new plays, gave out 5 regional seed grants, gave one mainstage initiative (Las Borinqueas) and did 6 developmental FL projects. EST also did a Sloan Brunch, a playwright Cultivation Event and 5 post-show panels.Youngblood, EST's Obie Award winning program for emerging playwrights, meets weekly from September through June, offering artistic guidance, peer support, regular feedback and a fertile production environment for playwrights to hone their skills and explore their craft. In 2024-2025 we welcomed 5 new early-career playwrights as members, and presented 30 new plays in six episodes of the Sunday Brunch series, along with 6 workshops and 11 public readings. We also hosted 22 of our member writers on a week-long Summer Retreat in upstate New York.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jul 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2025
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $1.5M