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According to its website, its mission is "to aid and nurture writers for the theater; to fund non-profit theaters producing contemporary American works; and to heighten awareness, appreciation, and support of theater across the country. Dramatists Guild Foundation DGF is a national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it.

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DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book-writers at all stages of their careers. DGF sponsor educational programs; provide awards, grants, and stipends; offer free space to create new works; and give emergency aid to writers in need. By supporting and nurturing the creators of today, DGF are able to protect the stories of tomorrow.

The Legacy Project is a set of filmed interviews between an experienced dramatist and an emerging one. Volume I was released in DGF also hosts the Traveling Masters program that partners professional writers with American theaters across the country. The writer travels to the theater and conducts workshops and leads discussions with local dramatists.

The DGF Fellows program is a year-long intensive for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book-writers. In April , DGF launched its New Voices program, which brings trained teaching artists into classrooms to lead students in the collaborative creation of their own plays. In , DGF opened the Music Hall to provide a free space for writers to feel inspired and supported.

Emergency Grants - provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness. Housing Assistance Grants - one-time grants to help theater writers with housing expenses that have accumulated due to the COVID pandemic. DGF is committed to preventing evictions and displacement of dramatic writers as well as helping them rebuild their lives during the period of recovery from the pandemic.

These funds are unrestricted, for the writer to use to best serve their individual needs.