All Atlanta area artists are invited to submit a project as a lead artist to Round 9 of the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab. In the Lab, three projects will be given $10,000 each in development support culminating in a public showcase of the artists and their work in the Spring of 2024. The Reiser Lab seeks to foster the growth of generative artists of all varieties through work on collaborative projects. To that end the Alliance Theatre provides an artistic home, space to work, artistic counsel, financial resources, and a showcase opportunity.

The Lab is available for generative lead artists of any practice – actor, director, designer, writer, composer, choreographer or musician (and these are just examples) – to develop a collaborative work. Artists who are not playwrights are strongly encouraged to be lead artists! It is the goal of the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab to celebrate the breadth and vision of Atlanta-based artists, to encourage collaboration among Atlanta’s artistic community, and to seed projects that will promote artistic growth and create projects ready to be produced here in Atlanta. 

Each application will be evaluated using the following criteria:

How can the ideas and goals of this project be achieved?
Do the artists involved make sense as a team?
What is the quality of the work sample?
What is the strength of the application?
Is the described product producible?

Please note that the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab is devoted to taking projects and artists to the next level of development, and is not a showcase for completed work.

The projects will be judged by a panel of judges comprised of an Alliance Theatre Artistic Director; an Atlanta area Artistic Director; an artist or Artistic Director NOT currently Atlanta based; a current or alum Lab participant; and a member of the philanthropic community.

 

TIMELINE

Applications Open: February 1, 2023

Information Session: March 13, 2023

Application Deadline: April 28, 2023 at midnight

Optional Video Pitch Submission: May 10

In-Person Pitch Party: May 17

Award Notification: May 22, 2023

Grant Period Begins: June 1, 2023

Final Public Presentation: May 2024

Grant Period Ends: May 31, 2024

 

Before you start the application....

It is STRONGLY encouraged that you read through the FAQs.

You won't be able to save your form, so we STRONGLY suggest that you read through the form before starting to fill it out.  You may find it helpful to use a word doc to write your answers in advance before entering them here. 

Good luck and we're looking forward to reading your application!

Each project must have three Atlanta-based artists, including the Lead Artist. All artists participating can only submit one application per year. Applying artists must live in the greater Atlanta, Georgia region. 

Each project must have three Atlanta-based artists, including the Lead Artist. All artists participating can only submit one application per year. Applying artists must live in the greater Atlanta, Georgia region. 

Each project must have three Atlanta-based artists, including the Lead Artist. All artists participating can only submit one application per year. Applying artists must live in the greater Atlanta, Georgia region. 

Once you've submitted this application, you still have one more step - the pitch.

We will invite everyone who submits to a reception during which each team will pitch their idea to the room.

The idea behind this is multifold.  In part, we want to make the process of applying for this program a useful thing unto itself.  We can only offer so many opportunities, but we'd like to make everything as useful to artists as possible.  Having that 90 second elevator pitch is part of the arsenal of working artist.  We'd like to give folks this opportunity to work on theirs.

In addition, we recognize that some people express themselves better on paper and some in person.  We'd like to give everyone the chance to work in both mediums so that our judges have a more complete version of your project and group.

For the Round 9 Submission process, we are offering two ways to complete your pitch: in-person and virtual. NOTE: YOU ONLY NEED TO COMPLETE ONE PITCH.

Directions for the in-person pitch:

1. Mark your calendars for the on-campus Pitch Party on May 17, 2023
2. Prepare the 90 second elevator pitch with your team telling us about your project - synopsis, play some songs (if your project has music), give us a sense of you and what you'd want to achieve during your Lab.
3. Keep it as low tech as possible. This isn't the moment for spectacle. Your passion for your project is more important than anything else.

Directions for the virtual pitch:

1. Prepare a 90-second pitch video with your team telling us about your project - synopsis, play some songs (if your project has music), give us a sense of you and what you'd want to achieve during your Lab.
2. Keep it as low tech as possible. This isn't the moment for spectacle.  Your passion for your project is more important than anything else. 
3. Upload your pitch video to the online submission form by May 10 at 11:59pm.

If you have any additional questions about how to submit the pitch videos, contact reiserlab@alliancetheatre.org.

That's it!  You've (almost) finished!

As a reminder, there will be an application reception and Pitch Party on May 17, 2023 (an invitation will be mailed to you once we receive your application) and we will notify you of the final selections by May 22, 2023.

If you have additional questions, please email ReiserLab@alliancetheatre.org.

Reminder: All fields are required until you reach the "Work Samples" section. If you reach the end of your application and the "Submit" button hasn't appeared, it might be because you have left a field empty earlier in the application.