Fellowships
The Drama League Fellowships are career-transforming opportunities for stage directors focusing on creative development, skill building, and network expansion
Residencies and Assistantships
The Drama League Residencies incubate director-led projects for live performances and filmed projects across the United States. The Irene Gandy Directing Assistantships create intergenerational learning between directors working on major productions in large theaters across the United States.
Exchanges
The Drama League Exchanges bring together directors from around the world for training, research, collaboration, production opportunity, and cultural understanding.
Services
The Drama League offers opportunities and resources to Directors Project Alumni and to artists across the creative landscape.
Community
The Drama League boasts the largest community of directors in the world, offering a home for storytellers working with live performance in theater, film, television, streaming and more. For this community, The Drama League publishes acclaimed free industry e-communications, including “Directors In Action,” “Reading Roundup,” and “The Call Sheet.”
Awards
The Drama League Awards, the oldest theatrical honors in North America, recognize excellence in production, acting, and directing.
The Drama League is America’s only full-time, year-round career and creative development home for directors — the artists who stand at the center of performance collaborations in theater, film, television, VR, and dozens of related creative industries. Directors are architects of storytelling, fulfilling two essential human needs — to understand our world more deeply, and imagine new possibilities. Through their work with collaborators, directors enable us to explore the potential in human relationships, shared experiences, and collective understanding. Despite the critical role directors play in our society’s well-being, however their work is often invisible to audiences, and their profession is deeply under-supported and misunderstood even inside the field.
To address this, The Drama League offers a broad portfolio of acclaimed opportunities for directors at all stages of their careers, in order to accelerate their development and support the most impactful creative work possible.
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