Target Margin Theater Institute Fellowship

The TMT Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any goal or expected result.

Each Fellow’s journey is individual. Fellows create their own course as they reinvent, question, and challenge their artistic practice. TMT supports fellows with space, material resources and a $2,000 stipend.

The Institute gathers for three short intensive sessions to help each Fellow advance this process. In between intensive meetings, we meet monthly for breakfast and go on occasional excursions to keep our conversation growing. After the second intensive, each Fellow is encouraged to define and commit to an exploration that they can pursue outside of group gatherings. Target Margin supports these experiments with resources: space, collaborators, materials, etc. Fellows share their progress and evolution through the duration of the Institute. At the end of the season, TMT hosts an “Open Studio” to invite our community of artists and neighbors to share in what we have been exploring. This is not a performance; it can be a conversation, notes, a demonstration, or simply the Fellow’s presence to discuss their work with anyone interested.

The purpose of The TMT Institute is pure experimentation, with no product-oriented end goal.

The Institute intentionally rejects product-oriented work; Fellows pursue no project, no developmental stage, no result of any kind. Our goal is to create a place where artists set aside their assumptions about creating art and disrupt their established practice. Artists try new ways of working, new disciplines to explore, and new aesthetic goals and principles. We value directionless exploration; we consider misfires, dead ends, and bad ideas to be a fruitful and joyous part of our work.

Who Can Apply?

The Institute is open to artists from any artistic discipline within or outside of theater, and is also open to production, technical, and administrative workers in the arts. Fellows must have an established, existing practice in the arts which they are committed to changing.

To read more about the guidelines and to apply, visit:

https://www.targetmargin.org/institute/

Members of TMT’s staff and artistic community will review applications and will invite a handful of folks for an interview to talk more about their artistic practice and interest in the Institute. We will announce new Fellows in October.

07/21/2025