The Lark Play Development Center and the Indo-American Arts Council are seeking playwrights from the South Asian Diaspora for a year-long Playwright Residency Program to commence in 23-29 September 2008. The selected IAAC Playwright-in-Residence will receive:

• $1000 Honorarium;
    
• Three additional roundtables, led by Lark leadership and professional directors and actors, to develop a new play during the 2008-09 Season;
    
• Participation as a 2008-09 Lark Artistic Associate, a committee of artists actively developing work at the Lark who attend others’ work, and meet four times during the year for in-depth discussions about artistic challenges facing the company.
  

ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE LARK AND THE INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL

The Lark and the Indo-American Arts Council began collaborating in 1999 when IAAC Executive Director, Aroon Shivdasani, approached the Lark to discuss the ways and means to support voices from the South Asian Diaspora community in the theater. The two organizations have collaborated annually on outreach to playwrights and theater artists locally and nationally. Together, the Lark and the IAAC have produced three South Asian Diaspora Playwright Festivals. This has resulted in artistic support for 14 South Asian Diaspora play projects at the Lark in the past five years, many of which have moved on to theaters around the country including Mixed Blood Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, East-West Players, RASA, and the Public Theater.

This initiative is made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.