The Hatchery is a new play development festival celebrating and supporting new works for the stage that center music and movement. Produced by Portland, Oregon theater company Many Hats Collaboration, The Hatchery is a short-term, paid performance residency program with a public-facing workshop performance. Our goal is to serve local and regional artists and ensembles by providing a nontraditional new works development model that provides support in the form of money, space, marketing and audience attendance. The Hatchery promotes the creation of groundbreaking, music and movement-driven new works for the contemporary theater canon, nurtured in the Pacific Northwest.

In our second year producing The Hatchery, we will select 1-2 community-sourced projects based on proposals submitted.

  
**Selection Criteria**

Projects will be evaluated based on the following:

* Strength of team/artists and their collective track record of creating new work
* Strength of content and ideas in the project description
* Use of music / use of movement
* Articulation and achievability of goals within given constraints
* Many Hats’ ability to create the conditions for a successful experience

Equity, inclusion and diversity are core values to Many Hats Collaboration and will be part of the proposal evaluation process.

  
**Timeline:**

**April-June** \- Project kickoff, contracting, pre-production

**June-July** \- Artists announced, marketing launch

**August 13-24** \- The Hatchery workshop phase and public performance

**September** \- Project evaluation

* 30 hours of in-person rehearsal time culminating in an informal workshop showing for a live audience
* Paid stipends to all collaborators for projects with 5 performers or less
* Collaborative personnel as needed (director, composer, choreographer, castmembers, stage manager)
* Limited design and materials support
* Marketing in support of public performance
* 5 hours of optional creative and structural consulting from Many Hats to support workshop design, pre-Hatchery, or "next steps" planning, post-Hatchery

  

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