Submit Your Work
Submissions for all 2025 labs are due by December 15, 2024.
The Orchard Project is proud to announce its 2025 lab programs. Our goal remains simple — to support the most innovative artists and diverse voices, helping creators to explore, create, and share their work in new ways. 2025 will welcome growth and an increase in opportunities to our hallmark in-person labs, but will still allow opportunities for artists to participate in labs from around the country and world.
Our annual Performance, Episodic, Audio, and Greenhouse Labs all return in 2025, including various threads based on the needs of various projects and the resources available (cohort-based development vs in-person rehearsal room development).
In 2025, The Orchard Project is accepting submissions for the following programs:
- The Orchard Project Performance Lab (link), for development of work intended to be performed in front of a live or virtual audience.
- The Orchard Project Greenhouse Program (link), for collaborators generating new works and collaborations in a multitude of forms;
- The Orchard Project Episodic Lab (link), for writers working on the advancement of original TV scripts;
- The Orchard Project Audio Lab (link), for early development of scripts and ideas in the audio storytelling form.
Learn more with last year's information session videos
More on our Opportunities for 2025
PERFORMANCE LAB (RESIDENCY SESSIONS IN SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY):
The OP’s Performance Lab generally manifests as a vivid series of overlapping in-person summer residencies in Saratoga Springs, NY, where performing artists take advantage of time, space, and the direct support of on-campus artistic staff to accelerate their work and projects.
EPISODIC AND AUDIO LABS (OPEN SUBMISSION, VIRTUAL):
Our Episodic and Audio Labs will hold open calls for projects for virtual labs in Summer 2025. In these labs, we will continue to build on the success of our virtual lab settings — in particular, the virtual setting’s ability to unite an international and diverse cohort of high-caliber voices, while simultaneously providing each artist the autonomy to write freely from their own corner of the world.
GREENHOUSE (OPEN SUBMISSION, HYBRID):
Our Greenhouse Program has successfully already transitioned back to a hybrid process since 2022, allowing for bi-weekly meetings to be complemented with various weekend NYC intensives for group and project development. the Greenhouse program — dedicated to unexpected cross-disciplinary collaboration in a sustained year-long setting — is a very specific program for the OP, and is not project development-based, instead prioritizing community and flexibility above the simple deliverable to a single project.