The Performance Project Artist-in-Residence Application 2025 - 2026

For 2025 -2026 The Performance Project @ University Settlement is calling for dynamic artists who are ready to engage, connect, and co-create with our communities. Their model continues to move towards greater community engagement centering community voice in curation, production, and decision making. They want to work with artists who prioritize casting and integrating members of their programs into both their creative process and when possible their productions. The Performance Project welcomes applications from people of all genders, nationalities, races, cultural backgrounds, ages, religions, languages, different abilities, sexual orientations or socio-economic statuses. This opportunity is open to artists working in the performing arts, including but not limited to dance/movement, spoken word, theater, music, and immersive experiences. Artists must live in New York City. Residencies will culminate in June 2026. One application per artist or company/collective, please. They are seeking artists who create work that addresses themes resonant with New Yorkers who live in public housing, who are recent immigrants, and who too often do not see their stories and perspectives reflected on the stages of the city. Before submitting an application, they highly encourage you to learn more about University Settlement, the communities it engages with, and the programs offered. You can visit them online at universitysettlement.org. To see work from their communities and other artists they’ve worked with, visit their YouTube Channel: For 2025 - 2026, they highly encourage applications from artists who would like to engage with participants and students in University Settlement Senior Centers, Early Childhood programs, and Cornerstone Centers. If you are a prior Performance Project Artist in Residence from 2019/20 or earlier, they welcome you to apply for 2025/26!