The Flea
2024 Open Submissions
We support and invest in experimental art by Black, brown, and queer artists.
We provide space, financial support, producing partnership and other resources so that they may develop and share their vision in community with audiences.
Apply for a Production Commission
The Flea is seeking performance proposals for its 2024-2025 season. We are looking for work that asks genuine and challenging questions and resists status quo thinking/binaries/moralizing; work that invites us into deep consideration while embracing humor or absurdity; odd, strange work that inspires awe and unique ways of seeing and being.
One exciting proposal will be selected for The Flea’s 2024 – 2025 season and its lead artist will be awarded a $6,000 development fee as well as a $6,000 production fee.
Submissions are now closed. Please look here next Fall to apply.
Apply to be a resident company
The Flea is seeking proposals for its 3-year Resident Company Program. The new cohort will begin Jan 1, 2025. We are looking for companies who produce performing and/or visual art that asks genuine and challenging questions and resists status quo thinking, binaries, and moralizing; work that invites us into deep consideration while embracing humor or absurdity; odd, strange work that inspires awe and unique ways of seeing and being.
One company will be chosen as the Key Resident Company and two additional companies as Resident Companies.
The Key Resident Company program is a reparative grant and partnership offered to a nascent company that centers Black, brown and queer artists and leadership. The company will function as an autonomous company and will receive:
- $10,000 unrestricted cash support each year
- $36,000 space rental credits each year
- Printing and office supplies
- Some production resources (i.e., costume shop usage, long-term storage, etc.)
- Digital Marketing support
- Quarterly fellowship activities with the cohort of Resident Companies
- The Key Resident Company commits to presenting a minimum of two (2) productions each year at The Flea
- The Key Resident Company must fairly compensate all artists, contractors and employees who work with them.
The Resident Company program offers two mission-aligned artistic companies the ability to leverage The Flea’s in-house support system—creative, technical, and producing—to further their artistic reach. The company will function as an autonomous company and will receive:
- Three (3) weeks of free development space in the Pete theater
- One (1) rent-free fundraising event for the year at The Flea (galas, benefits, funders briefings)
- Quarterly fellowship activities with the cohort of Resident Companies
- Discounted rental rates for production weeks
- Printing and office supplies as needed.
- Some production resources (i.e., costume shop usage, long-term storage, etc.)
- Digital Marketing support
- The Resident Company commits to presenting a minimum of two (2) productions, exhibitions or installations each year at The Flea
- The Resident Company must fairly compensate all artists, contractors and employees who work with them.
Submissions are now closed. Please look here next Fall to apply.