The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has made a profound commitment to raising funds for need-based scholarships, enabling more students to attend NTI. We thank the individuals and institutions that have made investment in scholarships, as they are critical in training an emerging and more diverse generation of artists.

 

Please note, the scholarship funds for NTI are limited by the amounts that are in the O’Neill endowment and contributed annually by foundations and donors. It is our aim to award funds equitably and to maximize the diversity and talents of the NTI class. Unfortunately, this often means that scholarship funds are not sufficient for every potential student to afford the tuition, even at a much-reduced rate.

 

On your initial NTI application, you will be asked if you intend to apply for scholarships. If the answer is yes, upon receipt of your NTI application, we will provide you with a separate scholarship application. This will allow you to be considered for all available scholarship funds. Please note, the Miranda Family Fellowship requires an additional application. For information about what information these applications will request from you, please click here for our Scholarship Application Requirements.

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Available Scholarships​

• Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Scholarship: For over 50 years, thousands of new artists have been nurtured, discovered, and developed at the O’Neill. This scholarship helps to provide students with the opportunity for a semester of study where careers are launched every year. The Eugene O’Neill Center Scholarship directly supports students to ensure that critical aid is received by those who need it most.

• Hendel Family Foundation Scholarship

• John Gore Scholarship: Through its family of companies, the John Gore Organization is committed to supporting the theater industry and our communities in a variety of ways. From the John Gore Foundation, which grants funding for theater education programs, to providing underserved communities access to Broadway, to supporting local social service agencies through food and clothing drives, JGO is dedicated to keeping performing arts centers throughout North America thriving and contributing to their local communities.

• Miranda Family Fellowship: The Miranda Family Fellowship Program supports emerging artists and arts administrators from underrepresented communities through access to education and long-term support that advances their careers within theatre and tv/film. The Fellowship collaborates with the O’Neill’s National Theater Institute to provide financial assistance and wrap-around programming that supports artistic development, increases understanding of the business aspects of the entertainment industry, and connects artistry with advocacy. Multi-discipline creative artist Lin-Manuel Miranda's first professional production was with the O'Neill's National Music Theater Conference in 2005, In The Heights.

• Ron Cowen & Daniel Lipman Scholarship: Ron Cowen & Daniel Lipman, writers of groundbreaking film An Early Frost and the iconic television shows Queer as Folk and Sisters, were playwrights in the formative years of the National Playwrights Conference. This scholarship is awarded to talented students with varying financial needs in one of the following divisions of the National Theater Institute: 

  • NTI Semester Playwriting Focus

  • National Music Theater Institute

  • NTI Theatermakers Summer Intensive Playwriting Focus

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Scholarship Appeal​

If the scholarship funds offered to you by NTI are insufficient to allow you to attend the program and other sources of funding are unavailable to you, you may appeal your NTI scholarship award by contacting our admissions team at ntirep@theoneill.org. 

 

Any additional scholarship funds awarded, upon appeal, would be the result of scholarships not accepted by another potential student. Therefore, this process will lead to a waiting period. We are unable to assess final aid until all applications are completed and returned by the final application deadline. 

 

In your written appeal, please supply information regarding your current financial situation and outlook. It is most useful in these cases to understand what you estimate you could pay prior to matriculation, your total projected monthly income, and your estimate of the monthly amount you could afford to pay in tuition (perhaps over a longer period of time). Our team will consider that information as we accept and enroll the remainder of the class.