For four years, Salt Lake Acting Company has been proud to partner with The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists to offer a playwright 35 years of age or younger a grant for a week-long rehearsal and development process of a new work, culminating in a public staged reading. Read about the past grantees below. 2018 FORM OF A GIRL UNKNOWN by Charly Evon Simpson Director - Shannon MusgraveDramaturg - Martine Kei Green-RogersActors - Latoya Cameron, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, Susanna Florence, Tristan Johnson, Nicki Nixon, Erika OvuobaStage Manager - Kallie EricksonDesign Consultant - Spencer Potter 2018 Finalists: MOTHER’S SON by Dominic Finocchiaro, WATCH ME JUMP by Jeremy Gable, BLACK CREEK RISIN’ by LaDarrion Williams 2017 LAND OF NO MERCY by Rae Binstock Director - Jamie Rocha AllanDramaturg - Sydney Cheek-O'DonnellActors - Flo Bravo, Gordon Dunn, Louis Hillegass IV, Natalie Keezer, Ali Kinkade, Heidi Mendez, Ashley Ramos, Ryon SharetteStage Manager - Ash CrystalDesign Consultant - Cara PomeroyLanguage Consultant - Peihui Wu 2017 Finalists: KINGS OF AMERICA by Sean Patrick Nill and THE ROOM WHERE I WAS HELD by David Zax 2016 SYNCHRONICITY by Brynne Frauenhoffer Director - Jason BowcuttDramaturg - Kathleen CahillActors - Eric Cadora, Erica Carvalho, Greg Carver, Holly Fowers, Darby Mest, Kali Scott, Christy SummerhaysStage Manager - William RichardsonSpecial Effects Makeup - Kelly Donahue 2016 Finalists: CHILL by Eleanor Burgess, SINNER-MAN by Liz Maestri, and PASSING TIME IN ANIMAL TOWN by Ryan Oliveira 2015 THE FERMI PARADOX by Katherine Vondy Director - Chase RamseyChoreographer - Cynthia FlemingDramaturg - Megan Noyce AttermannActors - Carleton Bluford, Ariana Farber, Brighton Hertford, Jaten Lee McGriff, Jay Perry, Topher Rasmussen, Sarah Danielle YoungStage Manager - Martin C. AlcocerProjection Design - Conor LongSound Design - Shea Madson For more information about this grant, contact Cassie Stokes-Wylie, Literary Manager: 801-363-7522 or .