For four years, Salt Lake Acting Company has been proud to partner with The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists to offer a playwright 35 years of age or younger a grant for a week-long rehearsal and development process of a new work, culminating in a public staged reading.
Read about the past grantees below.
2018
FORM OF A GIRL UNKNOWN by Charly Evon Simpson
Director - Shannon Musgrave
Dramaturg - Martine Kei Green-Rogers
Actors - Latoya Cameron, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, Susanna Florence, Tristan Johnson, Nicki Nixon, Erika Ovuoba
Stage Manager - Kallie Erickson
Design Consultant - Spencer Potter
2018 Finalists: MOTHER’S SON by Dominic Finocchiaro, WATCH ME JUMP by Jeremy Gable, BLACK CREEK RISIN’ by LaDarrion Williams
2017
LAND OF NO MERCY by Rae Binstock
Director - Jamie Rocha Allan
Dramaturg - Sydney Cheek-O'Donnell
Actors - Flo Bravo, Gordon Dunn, Louis Hillegass IV, Natalie Keezer, Ali Kinkade, Heidi Mendez, Ashley Ramos, Ryon Sharette
Stage Manager - Ash Crystal
Design Consultant - Cara Pomeroy
Language Consultant - Peihui Wu
2017 Finalists: KINGS OF AMERICA by Sean Patrick Nill and THE ROOM WHERE I WAS HELD by David Zax
2016
SYNCHRONICITY by Brynne Frauenhoffer
Director - Jason Bowcutt
Dramaturg - Kathleen Cahill
Actors - Eric Cadora, Erica Carvalho, Greg Carver, Holly Fowers, Darby Mest, Kali Scott, Christy Summerhays
Stage Manager - William Richardson
Special Effects Makeup - Kelly Donahue
2016 Finalists: CHILL by Eleanor Burgess, SINNER-MAN by Liz Maestri, and PASSING TIME IN ANIMAL TOWN by Ryan Oliveira
2015
THE FERMI PARADOX by Katherine Vondy
Director - Chase Ramsey
Choreographer - Cynthia Fleming
Dramaturg - Megan Noyce Attermann
Actors - Carleton Bluford, Ariana Farber, Brighton Hertford, Jaten Lee McGriff, Jay Perry, Topher Rasmussen, Sarah Danielle Young
Stage Manager - Martin C. Alcocer
Projection Design - Conor Long
Sound Design - Shea Madson
For more information about this grant, contact Cassie Stokes-Wylie, Literary Manager: 801-363-7522 or .
