Resident Artist Program

Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, established in 1991, is a laboratory for emerging artists to experiment with performance ideas. Once emerging artists ourselves, we understand the formidable pressures upon early career artists and the difficulty in finding a non-academic setting to explore new ideas. We believe that process-focused development is the best way to create original work and that the opportunity can prove crucial to an artist’s career. Mabou Mines’ Artistic Directors see it as our privilege and responsibility to guide new artists along the path we have found so rewarding.

The Program offers emerging artists the opportunity to work in residence at Mabou Mines for six months, receiving mentoring from our Artistic Directors and Associates, a stipend, rehearsal/performance space, and administrative and technical assistance. Participants attend monthly meetings, creating an artistic community through shared ideas in a forum-like setting. Resident Artists show their work at the program’s culmination. The showings are free to the public.

Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program is open to individual artists and small companies of all disciplines – playwrights, directors, performers, poets, dancers, dramaturges, composers, photographers, musicians, choreographers, film & video artists, digital & computer artists – anyone with a compelling performance idea. You must be a resident of New York City to apply.

*Information about how to apply for the next cycle of the Resident Artist Program will be posted Fall 2019.

This program is supported, in part, by the Jerome Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.