PlayPenn Receives 2025 NEA Grant

PlayPenn is pleased to announce it has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) @neaarts for a Grants for Arts Projects award. This grant will support PlayPenn’s 2025 New Play Development Conference in Philadelphia. The NEA will award 1,127 Grants for Arts Projects awards nationwide, totaling more than $31.8 million, as part of the recent announcement of fiscal year 2025 grants.

“The NEA is proud to continue our nearly 60 years of supporting the efforts of organizations and artists that help to shape our country’s vibrant arts sector and communities of all types across our nation,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “It is inspiring to see the wide range of creative projects taking place, including PlayPenn’s 2025 New Play Development Conference.”

“Playwrights are the backbone of the American theater, and the NEA’s support of their work is everything,” said Che’Rae Adams, Artistic Director of PlayPenn. “We are so grateful for this recognition and investment in new plays.”

The NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem, including opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.