• $300,000

  2017 (Duration 5 years)

  GLENCOE, ILLINOIS — Writers’ Theatre produces works of literary significance in intimate settings at its facility in Glencoe, Illinois. It stages established plays and musicals from the canon, as well as premieres and second-run productions of contemporary playwrights. Writers’ Theatre also commissions, develops, and presents new plays and playwrights. Its year-round, award-winning, standards-based educational programs are available to students in the Chicago Public Schools. This award recommends five years of renewed general operating support to Writers’ Theatre.

• $262,500

  2012 (Inactive Grant)

  GLENCOE, ILLINOIS — This grant will provide renewed multi-year general operating support to Writers’ Theatre, a nationally-recognized, critically-acclaimed theatre that produces classic and contemporary works of literary significance in intimate settings. Writers’ Theatre develops new works through its Literary Development Initiative, and has commissioned and developed new plays that have toured nationally, such as A Minister’s Wife. It engages more than 7,500 underserved Chicago area students through free, academically rigorous arts education curricula that were recognized in a 2010 Chicago Community Trust-commissioned arts education survey as one of the largest local theatre educational outreach programs.

• $240,000

  2007 (Inactive Grant)

  Arts & Culture in Chicago

  GLENCOE, ILLINOIS — In support of general operations (over five years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Writers Theatre $802,500 between 1978 and 2017.