Target Margin Theater Institute Fellowship

Overview

The TMT Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any goal or expected result. Each Fellow's journey is individual. Fellows create their own course as they reinvent, question, and challenge their artistic practice.

What Fellows Receive

• $2,000 stipend
• Space and material resources
• Access to collaborators and resources for experiments

Program Structure

• Three short intensive sessions across the season
• Monthly breakfast gatherings
• Occasional excursions and ongoing conversation
• Open Studio at end of season (not a performance; can be conversation, notes, demonstration, or discussion)

Program Philosophy

The Institute intentionally rejects product-oriented work. Fellows pursue no project, no developmental stage, no result of any kind. The goal is to create a place where artists set aside their assumptions about creating art and disrupt their established practice. Artists try new ways of working, new disciplines to explore, and new aesthetic goals and principles. Misfires, dead ends, and bad ideas are considered a fruitful and joyous part of the work.

Eligibility

Open to artists from any artistic discipline within or outside of theater, and also open to production, technical, and administrative workers in the arts.

Submission Deadline

• Apply by July 22, 2026