Mellon Foundation Donates $10-Million for New Plays
October 21, 2008
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in New York, recently awarded $10-million to playwriting organizations and nonprofit theaters as a result of a three-year study the foundation conducted to look into specific problems playwrights and theaters encounter, The New York Times reports.
The grant maker has supported nonprofit theaters for years, but when writers and theaters alike reported having a harder time bringing new plays to fruition, the foundation decided to changes its grant-making approach.
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