Princess Grace Foundation Scholarships

Scholarship is for students in their last year of professional training at a non-profit school located in the United States. Applicant must submit online application, resume, personal statement and work samples. Student must be nominated by a school department chair/dean or company artistic director. There are scholarships available for playwriting, theater, dance performance, choreography, and film.

Award: Varies

Deadline: March 31, 2016

More info: http://www.pgfusa.com/grants-program/guidelines

VSA Playwright Discovery Award

This award is for students in 6th through 12th grade who are US citizens or permanent residents. Applicants are invited to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. Applicants must submit a one-act play script on the subject of disability; entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by a group or class of students. Playwrights can write from their own experience or about an experience in the life of another person or a fictional character. Young playwrights with and without disabilities are encouraged to submit a script. The five award recipients receive a $1,000 cash award and a trip to Washington, DC over Labor Day weekend to participate in workshops and view a reading of their work on stage.

Award: $1000 

Deadline: April 28, 2014 

More info: http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/vsa/programs/playwright_discovery.cfm