Servicing the Successful Playwright of today & in the New Millennium
IS THE NEA ALIVE OR DEAD? Just checking, as the question is still out! For us at the Workshop, anyway, it could be. After 25 years of support, the Expansion Arts, Theatre and Dance Programs of the National Endowment for the Arts, closed back in December, 1996 and replaced everyone, but the receptionist. After that time, the former NEA Chairperson Jane Alexander, left also, and returned to the theatre, film and her acting career.
Is this the end of "the Great Second WPA?" With the critical loss of federal funding support from the defunct Expansion Arts Program, the Workshop is now urgently seeking new donations from any and all private, individual arts supporters and theatre goers. With your financial help, the Workshop's continued vital new young emerging playwrights' development, will continue to grow new talented playwrights,