Puppetmongers is accredited as a Recommending Company for the 

Ontario Arts Council’s Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators for 2021-22

Puppetmongers is seeking applications from artists currently involved in the development of puppetry projects.  Our priorities and areas of interest are:

• The development of theatrical work with puppetry
• The integration of puppetry into theatre productions
• The creation of new forms of puppetry and new theatrical uses of puppetry
• The nurturing of new generation and culturally diverse artists

Projects may be at any stage of development prior to production or workshop production.  These small grants are particularly suited to helping artists with the earliest phases of creation, the development of ideas, the building of a creative team etc. 

These small Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators are to provide time in which to explore, experiment, and develop an idea in its infancy, and the why, what and how of the puppetry of it. This is not a grant to write or finish a script; it is not a grant to build already-designed puppets; or to complete a show for performance bookings.

With puppetry being such a visual artform, to help us get a feel for your proposed project please attach in your application any images, inspirations and influences; sketches and storyboards; any mock-ups of puppetry and performance ideas – anything that would give us insight into how puppetry is to be incorporated into your plans – We do not want scripts!

We have a total of $5,000 to assign between all successful applications, thus the grants we can recommend range from a minimum of $1,000 to the unlikely maximum of $5,000.  They have tended to be on the lower end, spread over a few projects.

Deadline for applications is 1 p.m. November 12, 2021.  We strongly recommend that you submit your application at least by the day before this deadline.

We request submissions include the following:

• A project description or artist statement
• A budget
• Participant CVs
• Support materials