Boise Contemporary Theater to Receive $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for BIPOC Playwrights Festival
May 19, 2022 – Boise, ID – Boise Contemporary Theater (BCT) is the grateful recipient of a
$15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)’s principal grants program,
Grants for Arts Projects. This NEA program provides project-based funding and “supports
public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of
art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of
community life.” As Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, chair of the NEA, puts it, “The arts are
crucial in helping America’s communities heal, unite, and inspire, as well as essential to our
nation’s economic recovery.”
Benjamin Burdick, Producing Artistic Director added, “As ever, we are incredibly grateful to
the NEA for their steadfast support of theater and arts across the nation. Their support for our
Second Annual BIPOC Playwrights Festival cements for us its importance and our
commitment to growing this Festival into something that becomes an annual destination not
only for people in Boise but for playwrights, artists, and patrons from across the nation.”
This $15,000 grant will help fund the BCT BIPOC Playwrights Festival which brings new
stories, penned by artists from all over the country, to Boise, ensuring that all aspects of the
human experience are explored on BCT’s stages.
For more information on the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, visit
https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects.
For more information on the City of Boise’s Cultural Ambassador, Boise Contemporary
Theater, please visit www.bctheater.org.