Opportunities for Performing Artists

Competitions, Fellowships & Young Artist Programs

531 competitions, grants, fellowships, residencies, awards, and training programs across opera, classical music, theatre, musical theatre, and dance — each with its official deadline and source.

Competitions, Fellowships & Young Artist Programs

Arts Council England – Project Grants

Canada Council for the Arts – Individual Grants

Doris Duke Performing Artist Award

Fulbright Program – Performing Arts

Guggenheim Fellowship – Performing Arts

MacDowell Fellowship

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (Harvard)

Steinberg Playwright Award

Arts Council England — Project Grants

Arts Council of Ireland – Individual Artist Grants

Arts Council of Wales — Revenue & project funding

ArtsWA – Individual Artist Fellowships (Washington)

Atlantic Acting School Summer Intensive

Australia Council — Music / Theatre / Dance

Australia Council for the Arts – Individual Grants

Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship

Boston Conservatory at Berklee — Summer Programs

British Council Performing Arts Grants

Broadway Artists Alliance Summer Intensives

California Arts Council – Individual Artist Fellowships

Canada Council — Explore and Create

Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Drama

Creative Capital Award

Creative Europe — Cooperation Projects (Performing Arts)

Creative Scotland — Open Fund

Creative Scotland Grants

Danish Arts Foundation — Performing Arts

Dramatists Guild Fellowship

Entertainment Community Fund Emergency Assistance

Florida Division of Arts and Culture – Individual Artist Fellowships

Fonds Darstellende Künste — Germany

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants

French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts

Goethe-Institut — International coproduction funds

Goethe-Institut Artists-in-Residence

Grants for Arts Projects

Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship

Idyllwild Arts Summer Program

Illinois Arts Council Agency – Individual Artist Support

Interlochen Arts Camp

Irish Arts Council — Project Awards

Japan Foundation Performing Arts Grants

Jerome Foundation Grants

Lucille Lortel Awards

MacDowell Fellowship — Fall Winter 2027

MacDowell Fellowship — Spring Summer 2027

MAP Fund 2026

MAP Fund Grant

Mass Cultural Council – Artist Fellowships

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Grants

Minnesota State Arts Board – Artist Initiative Grants

National Arts Club Prize

National High School Institute — Theatre Arts (Cherubs)

National YoungArts Foundation – Theater

NEA Art Works Grant – Music / Theater & Musical Theater

New York State Council on the Arts – Individual Artist Grants

New Zealand — Creative New Zealand

Norwegian Arts Council — Project support

NYU Tisch Summer High School (Drama)

Ohio Arts Council – Individual Excellence Awards

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts – Individual Grants

Point Park University Summer Programs

Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Awards

Singapore National Arts Council — Grants

SSHRC / FRQSC – Performing Arts Research (Canada)

Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp

Stella Adler Summer Conservatory

Swedish Arts Grants Committee

Switzerland — Pro Helvetia (performing arts)

Syracuse University Summer College — Acting & Musical Theater

Texas Commission on the Arts – Individual Artist Grants

UNCSA Summer Session

Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise – Performing Arts

Walnut Hill Summer Theater

Whiting Award – Drama