Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) invites applications from small budget organizations (under $1 million), collectives, or individual artists for its 2026/27 Artist Residency Program. VAP is a performing-arts residency and creative incubator dedicated to supporting the development of innovative new work in dance and theatre by emerging and established artists from around the world. The program provides dedicated time, housing, and studio resources in a collaborative environment designed to foster experimentation, artistic dialogue, and meaningful engagement with audiences.
Residents are hosted on VAP’s Edgartown campus, which includes multiple rehearsal studios and shared living facilities, enabling artists to focus intensively on the creative process while in residence.
Previous Residents include: A New Musical from the Creators of TRANSPARENT (Jill Soloway & Faith Soloway), Armitage Gone! Dance, Ars Nova, BalletCollective, Boston Dance Theater, Cirio Collective, CoLab Dance (Brain on Fire), Cullud Wattah (produced by The Public Theater), Dance Theatre of Harlem, Emily Kikta & Peter Walker, Email From an Unknown Woman (Sharon Kenny & Peter Duchan), Far From The Tree (directed by Michael Greif), Flying Over Sunset (featuring Christine Ebersole; Lapine/Kitt/Korie), Gemma Bond, Home Street Home, Jeremy McQueen (Where the Wild Things Are), Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, Khiyon Hursey, Julian Hornik, Mark Sonnenblick, and Adin Walker, Mark Stuart Dance Theatre, Mordance, Musical Theatre Lab, New Writers/New Plays (featuring works by Nastaran Ahmadi, Tommy Smith, and PigPen Theatre Co.), New York Choreographic Institute, nicHi douglas’ (pray) (Ars Nova), No)one. Art House, Pontus Lidberg Dance, Pony Box Dance Theatre (The Quick and the Dead), Posterboy (produced by The Public Theater), Sell/Buy/Date (featuring Sarah Jones), Sonia Dawkins (Prism Dance Theater), Standard Time (featuring Mark Stuart Dance), The Ashley Bouder Project, The Bengsons, The Black Iris Project, The Lucky Ones, The Public Theater, and UNIVERSES.
