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CA$H Theatre Grant is sponsored by Theatre Bay Area. The CA$H Theatre program provides vital financial support to individual theatre artists and small theatre companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. It supports new work development, career growth, capacity building, and productions.
CA$H Performs specifically supports fully produced public performances.
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CA$H Theatre Grant - Theatre Bay Area Spring 2026 CA$H Theatre grant applications are now closed. Next round of CA$H Theatre grant applications will open in Fall 2026. The CA$H Theatre Grant Program — short for Creative Assistance for the Small (Organization) and Hungry (Artist) — provides vital financial support to individual theatre artists and small theatre companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Founded in 1999, these grants support a range of creative projects artists and companies need, from capacity-building projects to fully-produced public performances. Read about the most recent CA$H Theatre Grant recipients, projects funded in Spring 2026 . CA$H Theatre is an entirely artist-driven granting program.
Each cycle, a panel of five artists and administrators is assembled to review the applications and make all granting decisions. To become a grant panelist, check out our panelist guidelines and fill out the grant panelist registration form . Dancers and Dance Projects Theatre Bay Area no longer administers applications for dancers or dance projects.
CA$H grants for dancers and dance projects are administered by Dancers Group. Learn about CA$H Dance Grant. To hold ourselves accountable on the equity of our application processes, we collect demographic data on our grant applicants and awardees that are anonymized and aggregated.
TBA Thanks Our Generous Supporters CA$H Theatre is grateful to have the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Gerbode Foundation, and the Campbell Foundation. CA$H Theatre is now one of six Bay Area grant programs using the Common App for the Arts . With the same questions across our applications, it's now easier to apply for more grants.
(There are a few CA$H-specific questions, so please check out our guidelines and worksheets!) The Spring 2026 round of CA$H Theatre opens Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM and closes Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM. We apologize, but we are not able to grant extensions.
CA$H Theatre Grants are available to individual theatre artists and small, professionally-oriented theatre companies with operating budgets no greater than $100,000 located in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more detailed eligibility information, please see the guidelines PDFs linked below. Types of CA$H Theatre Grants There are three funds available: CA$H Creates, CA$H Performs, and CA$H Sustains .
Theatre companies and individual theatre artists are eligible to apply for CA$H Creates and CA$H Performs, while CA$H Sustains is specifically for theatre companies. Applicants may submit only ONE application in each granting round. Submitting multiple applications for the same project, individual, or company will result in all applications being disqualified.
CA$H Creates is a $2,500 grant that supports the development of artistic projects or capacity-building projects not directly tied to a fully-produced performance of a piece. CA$H Performs is a $5,000 grant that supports fully-produced performances of artistic projects that are open to the public, or projects that support the creation of multiple works by multiple artists.
CA$H Sustains is a $5,000 grant that supports the general operating costs of a Bay Area theatre company. Sustains applications will only be open once per year, during the fall granting cycle. Our guidelines contain detailed eligibility requirements, as well as our funding priorities, decision-making process, timeline and more.
Click below to download our guidelines. CA$H Creates and Performs Guidelines We strongly recommend using one of our worksheets! They contain all the questions that are on the application, along with important requirements not listed elsewhere and tips to make your application more competitive.
You can review the questions and prep your answers on the worksheet before beginning the CA$H Theatre application. Click one of the links below to download the worksheet that's right for you. CA$H Creates and Performs Worksheet for Individual Applicants : PDF , Word .
docx , Google docs CA$H Creates and Performs Worksheet for Company Applicants : PDF , Word . docx , Google docs CASH Sustains Worksheet : PDF , Word . docx, Google docs Click below to download our budget templates.
You are not required to use our budget template. If you plan to create your own budget, we recommend downloading one of them to use as a guide to ensure your budget contains all the information the panel would like to see. Simplified Budget Template Interested in Being a CA$H Panelist?
We use peer panels for all our grants. Click here to learn more about the requirements to be a grant panelist . Click here to register as a grant panelist.
Email Melissa@TheatreBayArea. org . A Special Thanks to Our Funding Partners Spring 2021 CA$H Creates Recipient With TBA's support, I was able to finish writing Part III of Hello, Boar, which I performed at Monday Night Marsh at The Marsh in San Francisco...
I also had the chance to read new work at APAture Festival by Kearny Street Workshop at Bindlestiff Studio... The new piece I read from also won the 2021 Sewanee Review Nonfiction Contest... Thank you to TBA for putting together this incredible support, and thank you to the 2021 panelists for your vote of confidence in my work.
Fall 2021 CA$H Performs Recipient CA$H Grant made it possible for The Chikahan Company to develop and produce a culturally specific show in San Francisco. The grant provided for by Theater Bay Area made our fledgling company realize one of our goals to introduce Filipinx American arts and culture back into the American Theater here in San Francisco Bay Area.
Spring 2026 CA$H Performs Grants Ramon Abad, Keiko Carreiro, Jamie Coventry, Charles Hawthorne, Anthony Jefferson, Antonio Lee, Allan S.
Manalo, San Francisco Recovery Theatre, Underground Rainbow Experiment Spring 2026 CA$H Creates Grants Edith Castorena, More Más Marami Arts, Montserrat Nava/Teatro Del Barrio, Torange Yeghiazarian Spring 2026 CA$H Sustains Grants The Chikahan Company, Oakland Public Theater, Put Ur Play On Productions Fall 2025 CA$H Performs Grants The Auntie Pho Comedy Hour, Megan Calfas, Jordan Guingao, Molly Rose-Williams, Lysol Tony-Romeo Fall 2025 CA$H Creates Grants Wynne Chan, The Director's Collective, Lauren Doyle, Nicole Jost, Micia Mosely, Trudi's Sunset Cruise, Sid Zhang Fall 2025 CA$H Sustains Grants Analog Theatre, Fuse Theatre, Pinecones and Portals Hiking Theater Company, Theatre Lunatico Spring 2025 CA$H Performs Grants The Chikahan Company; Melina Cohen-Bramwell; Left Coast Theatre Company; Isaiah Mateas; Queer AF; Salim Razawi; Aisha Rivera Spring 2025 CA$H Creates Grants Rebecca Pingree; Oakland Public Theater; Christopher Wemp Fall 2024 CA$H Performs Grants Marc Abrigo; Eric Avery; Allan Samson Manalo; Pinecones and Portals Hiking Theatre Company; Baruch Porras Hernandez; Monica Slater Fall 2024 CA$H Creates Grants The Director's Collective; Aidaa Peerzada; Lisa Sniderman; Phaedra Tillery Boughton; Livian Yeh and Ely Sonny Orquiza Fall 2024 CA$H Sustains Grants ArtPärdē; Awesome Theatre; Fuse Theatre; La Lengua Teatro en Español; More Más Marami Arts; Play Cafe; Plethos Productions; San Francisco Recovery Theatre Spring 2024 CA$H Performs Grants Ramon Abad; Analog Theatre; Jud Ferrer; Left Coast Theatre Company; Oakland Public Theater; Fred C.
Riley III; Torange Yeghiazarian Spring 2024 CA$H Creates Grants The Chikahan Company; Nicole Jost; Radhika Rao Fall 2023 CA$H Performs Grants Aureen Almario; Dan Hoyle, Lisa Ramirez, Michael Moran, and Aldo Billingslea; Bryan Pangilinan; Sixth Line Studios; Perla Violetta Fall 2023 CA$H Creates Grants Elizabeth Carter; Doyle Ott and Julia Norton; Conrad Panganiban; Xinyuan Pu; Lisa Marie Rollins; Natacha Ruck; Sanjit Sengupta Fall 2023 CA$H Sustains Grants Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project; La Lengua Teatro en Español; Pinecones and Portals Hiking Theater Company Spring 2023 CA$H Performs Grants Crescent Moon Theater Productions; La Lengua Teatro en Español; Metzmecatl: Moon Rope Theater; Oakland Public Theater; Plethos Productions; Queer Cat Productions Spring 2023 CA$H Creates Grants The Chikahan Company; Mike Chin; Nicole Jost; Julius Rea; Lisa Sniderman Fall 2022 CA$H Performs Grants Dazié Grego-Sykes; Violeta Luna; Tan Sang; Kathryn Seabron; Hector Zavala Fall 2022 CA$H Creates Grants Amal Bisharat; Toni Cannon; Daniel Duque-Estrada; Ai Ebashi; Juliana Frick & James Sundquist; Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko Fall 2022 CA$H Sustains Grants Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project; Play Cafe; Stage Werx Theatre Spring 2022 CA$H Performs Grants Native Writers’ Theater; More Más Marami Arts; Theatre Cultura; Windy City Productions; Yiddish Theatre Ensemble; Gabrielle Lochard; La Lengua Teatro en Español; The Chikahan Company Spring 2022 CA$H Creates Grants Torange Yeghiazarian; Silk Worm; Landmark Musical Theatre; Ray Oppenheimer and Michelle Talgarow Fall 2021 CA$H Performs Grants AlterTheater; Left Coast Theatre Company; India Davis Fall 2021 CA$H Creates Grants Melissa Koh & Jeremy Liu; Lynea Diaz-Hagan; Tony Ortega & The Latinx Mafia; Sango Tajima & Susanna Martin; Leticia Duarte; Denmo Ibrahim; Norman Gee Spring 2021 CA$H Performs Grants Granny Cart Gangstas; Kunoichi Productions; Ely Sonny Orquiza; Fuse Theatre; Nkeiruka Oruche; Conrad A.
Panganiban, Krystle Piamonte, and Alan S.
Quismorio; Poltergeist Theatre Project; Adam L Sussman; Justin Taylor Spring 2021 CA$H Creates Grants Hannah Dworkin and Min Kahng; Malcolm Grissom; Sarah Matsui; Bryan Pangilinan; Lauren Spencer Fall 2020 CA$H Performs Grants BoomShake Music; Eye Zen Presents; Latinx Mafia; Metzmacatl, Moon Rope Theater; Beatrice Thomas; Dazié Rustin Grego; Sabrina Wenske; Skyler Cooper Fall 2020 CA$H Creates Grants The Forum Collective; Queer Cat Productions; Uplift Physical Theatre; Rebecca Pingree; Eteya Trinidad; Bob Shryock; Tierra Allen Spring 2020 CA$H Performs Grants Bay Area Theatre Cypher; Crescent Moon Theater Productions; Those Women Productions; Be Steadwell; Erin Merritt; Virginia M.
Blanco Spring 2020 CA$H Creates Grants Gamal Chasten; Katja Rivera; Keiko Shimosato Carreiro Fall 2019 CA$H Performs Grants Fuse Theatre; Project Poltergeist; Ritual Art Troupe; Solo Opera; Sweet Can Productions; Teatro Nahual; Marc Abrigo; Aureen B.
Almario; Chibueze Crouch; Mark Kenward Fall 2019 CA$H Creates Grants Footloose Presents; Emma Attwood; Denmo Ibrahim; Amy Grace Lam; Doll Piccotto; Lisa Marie Rollins; Elissa Stebbins Spring 2019 CA$H Performs Grants AlterTheater Ensemble; Eye Zen Presents; San Francisco Recovery Theatre; Those Women Productions; Syr Beker; At Ebashi; Alexis Macnab; Baruch Porras Hernandez; Bridgette Portman; Kevin Seaman Spring 2019 CA$H Creates Grants Wry Crips Disabled Women's Theatre; Megan Cohen; Marieke Gaboury; Linda Maria Girón; Nina Wise Spring 2018 CA$H Performs Grants Fuse Theatre Inc.; Inferno Theatre; Theatre Lunatico; Theater of Others; Lynea Diaz-Hagan; Siobhan Doherty; Barry Eitel; Antoine Hunter; Ana Nelson; Brian Thorstenson Spring 2018 CA$H Creates Grants Actors Ensemble; Idiot String; Julie Drucker; Zahra Noorbakhsh; Caitlyn Tella Fall 2017 CA$H Performs Grants AlterTheater Ensemble; Arabian Shakespeare Festival; Just Theater; The Lower Bottom Playaz; San Francisco Neo-Futurists; Those Women Productions; Krista DeNio; Jovelyn D.
Richards; Dan Wolf Fall 2017 CA$H Creates Grants Patricia Cotter; Chibueze Crouch; Bora C Koknar; Charlie Levin; Jon Wai-Keung Lowe; Jubilith Moore Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience; Eugenie Chan Theater Projects; Ferocious Lotus; Fuse Theatre; Repulsive Women; Theatre Lunatico; Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park; James Ard; Kieran Beccia; Richard Ciccarone; Beth McLaughlin; Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko; Salim Razawi; Kevin Seaman 13th Floor; AlterTheater Ensemble; Crescent Moon Theater Productions; FaultLine Theater; Left Coast Theatre Company; Play Café, Inc.; Theater MadCap; TheatreFIRST; Safiya Fredericks; Lisa Hori-Garcia; Min Kahng; Bridgette Portman; Andrew Saito Bindlestiff Studio; Klanghaus; Leela; The Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc.; Diane M.
Barnes; Sophie Becker, Kristen Rulifson, Hien Huynh; Andrea L. Hart Black Box Baroque; Just Theater; Naked Empire Bouffon Company; Ubuntu Theater Project; Rotimi Agbabiaka; Christopher Chen Eye Zen Presents; The Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc.; Red Ladder Theatre Company; Delina P. Brooks; Christine Crook; Min Kahng; Lisa Marie Rollins AlterTheater Ensemble; DivaFest; Echo Brown; Peter L.
Stein; Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller; Megan Trout; Michael Gene Sullivan; Ana-Catrina Buchser Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience; Idiot String: Joan Howard and Rebecca Longworth; FoolsFURY Theater; Corey Fischer; Sara Kraft; Kevin Rolston; David Szlasa; Eli Wirtschafter, Marica Petrey and Hannah Michahelles AlterTheater Ensemble; Just Theatre; BrickaBrack; The Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc; Michael Gene Sullivan; Eugenie Chan; Steve Boyle DIVAfest; Erling Wold's Fabrications; Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company; Symmetry Theatre Company; Erin Bregman; Lisa Scola Prosek
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Individual theatre artists and small theatre companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. For new world premieres, eligible companies must be based in specified Bay Area counties and TBA members; playwrights may live anywhere if they meet the emerging criteria. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $1,000 - $2,500 (for new full-length world premieres by emerging playwrights); $5,000 (CA$H Performs). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was January 1, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
CA$H Theatre Grant is funded by Theatre Bay Area. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
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