NAC offers outstanding theatre practitioners and playwrights the chance to interact with and benefit from the experiences and insights of their internationally-renowned counterparts in the Umbrian countryside at La Mama Umbria, Spoleto, Italy.

The first ever residency for outstanding Singapore playwrights to attend the prestigious annual 4th Annual La Mama International Playwright Retreat held from 28 July to 7 August 2010 is now open for application. Local theatre practitioners can also apply for the esteemed 11th Annual La Mama International Symposium for Directors, held from 27 June to 25 July 2010.

The Arts Creation Fund (ACF), is a new initiative that provides artists with resources to support artistic works in the germination phase. Through this initiative, we seek to grow our trove of original, high-quality performing, visual, literary and multi-disciplinary arts works that draw on experiences in Singapore and Asia.

Application for ACF is open now till 31 March 2010. For more information, visit our page.

Enrolling into the prestigious theatre school Ecole Phillippe Gaulier (EPG) in Paris may be the stuff some dreams are made of. After all EPG’s former students include theatre director Simon McBurney, and actors like Emma Thompson, Marcello Magni, Kathryn Hunter and Sasha Baron Cohen.

The National Arts Council is offering to make this dream come true for one theatre practitioner every year through its five-year partnership with EPG to offer annual residencies to the selected Singapore theatre practitioners.

Part of the International Arts Residency initiative launched earlier this year under the third phase of the Renaissance City Plan, the award covers tuition, living and flight expenses, and the first Singapore participant will join the 2010 intake, which runs from 12 October 2010 to 25 June 2011.

Application to participate in the EPG residency programme is open now till 15 February 2009. Practicing professional actors or theatre directors who are Singapore citizens or Permanent Residents actively engaged in the arts industry are eligible to apply. For more information, visit http://www.nac.gov.sg/residency/.