FutureNow Fellowships

The FutureNow Fellowships support the partnership of a director and a playwright as foundational theater generators, offering these duos a stellar opportunity to collaborate, risk, imagine, and realize their work on stage in front of audiences.

Applications for the 2026 season are due January 5, 2026.

Fellowship Details

The FutureNow Fellowships support the partnership of a director and a playwright as foundational theater generators, offering these duos a stellar opportunity to collaborate, risk, imagine, and realize their work on stage in front of audiences. 

In this program, a director and a playwright apply together with a project they’d like to develop. The duos receive production opportunities, financial awards, housing, community building, and engagement with leading artists in the field. The Fellowship also includes dedicated writing time, developmental resources, and a public workshop with a full design team, tech, audience and actors. 

The directors and playwrights selected for this program converge halfway through the Fellowship. The Directing Fellows first attend Directors Project Week and the Directors Project Retreat at Carnegie Mellon, before spending nine weeks in residence at Chautauqua Theater Company, serving as assistant directors on mainstage productions and/or new play workshops and more.  

While at CTC, they are joined by the Playwriting Fellows for a period of five weeks. This period includes a two week workshop and culminates in the FutureNow Festival, where they will have a public workshop of the play in the new Roe Green Theater Center, a state-of-the-art complex opening in Summer 2026. The workshops will utilize the CTC Acting Conservatory and Design Fellows, who will serve as full production teams for the presentations. 

The Fellows also receive mentorship from a nationally-renowned FutureNow Mentor throughout the program, as well as CTC and TDL staff. 

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Contact Information

Chautauqua Theater Company
P.O. Box 1428
Chautauqua, NY 14722

Ticketing Questions:
(716) 357-6250

General Theater Questions: 
theater@chq.org

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