MTC Announces Sloan Foundation Commissions

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the 2008 recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions. This year’s five commissioned writers are Rinne Groff, Beau Willimon, Mark Schultz, Lucy Kirkwood, and Hannah Moscovitch.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has provided a grant to Manhattan Theatre Club to support the development of plays that address themes of math, science and technology or plays that depict scientists, mathematicians and engineers as major characters in order to bridge the divide between the arts and sciences.

Since partnering with the Sloan Foundation in 2000 on David Auburn’s Proof, MTC has commissioned a total of 22 writers including Craig Lucas, Shelagh Stephenson, Ron Hutchinson, Rona Munro, Itamar Moses, Bryony Lavery, Stephen Belber, Eric Simonson, Dava Sobel, Liz Meriwether, Peter Morris, Kenneth Lin, and Brett Neveu.