ACLU-Led Lawsuit for NEA Funding Relief Denied
The court refused to block the NEA from reimposing a restriction on funding for projects deemed to promote ‘gender ideology,’ even as they maintained that the rule likely violates the First Amendment.
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Artists Mount 1st Amendment Challenge to New NEA Grant Requirements
Filed by the ACLU on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, the suit is aimed at a new anti-trans guideline recently added by the endowment.
6 Theatres Partner for Black Trans Women Play Festival
Now in its fifth year, this digital festival marks the first cross-theatre partnership and will be available to stream starting Nov. 18.
NQT’s Criminal Queerness Festival to Focus on War in Ukraine
New work by Danielle Levsky, Wojtek Rodak, and Andrew Kushnir will tell LGBTQ+ stories against the backdrop of upheavals in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.
Adam Odsess-Rubin’s National Queer Theater, Still Dreaming Forward
The NYC-based company will next host Criminal Queerness Festival, welcoming theatremakers from nations where homosexuality is outlawed at a time when U.S. also faces renewed threats from the homophobic right.
Dominic Colón Receives Inaugural Write It Out! Prize
Colón will receive $5,000 and additional support to develop a new work and hire a dramaturg.
Playwrights Living With HIV Have His Love, and Now Support
To his HIV-focused ‘Write It Out!’ program, Donja R. Love adds a historic playwrights’ prize and plans a new intergenerational workshop.
National Queer Theater Names Inaugural New Vision Fellows
Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko and Ayla Xuan Chi Sullivan will receive $5,000 to develop new work thanks to a new fellowship for Black trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) playwrights.
Yilong Liu: In the Liminal Space, What Dreams May Come
The playwright of ‘PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute’ talks about expectations, intimacy, and the Zoom revolution.
National Queer Theater, Dramatists Guild Create New Visions Fellowship
The fellowship will support early-career Black trans and gender nonconforming artists.
