The Hatchery

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