The 2026 Green Violet Script Call, hosted by NYU Tisch’s Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, invites Tisch undergraduate and graduate students and (non-faculty) staff to write original scripts tackling one of the most urgent issues of our time: climate change.
Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools an activist has—and this is your chance to use it. Submit an original script for the stage or screen (30–120 pages), and the three most compelling scripts will each receive a $500 prize. Collaborative scripts are welcome and encouraged.
Deadline: May 1, 2026, at 11:59pm
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Introducing our final @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Moses Aina.
Moses is a pioneering beacon of transformation who unites her passion for empowering traditional African spirituality with her devotion to protecting the trans community. She graduated this past May from @tischdrama .
As a Nigerian trans woman, Moses’ work is centered on what it means to be African and trans - two identities that are rarely seen or celebrated together. As a fashion designer and activist, Moses not only strives to dismantle society’s harmful dogma of the trans community, but she elevates her people by portraying the black trans community through multimedia fashion in a light of luxury, elegance, and sophistication.
Moses’ project, IGBO-SISUN, is an immersive fashion collection that reconceptualizes the portrayal of black trans women. The project strives to uplift the trans community as people who are classy, professional, elegant, and sophisticated in order to dismantle the negative societal perceptions of black trans women.
Learn more about @igbosisun , Moses project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Matías Guibert Heitner. Matías is a New York City based director and editor who grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Washington, D.C. He is currently a senior at @nyutischfilmtv . Guibert is a director, editor, sound designer, graphic designer, and motion graphics designer who’s directed and edited multiple narrative films and documentaries. His project, The Human Right to Flee, gives representation to migrants who traveled North through the Darién Gap and asylum seekers in New York City, one of the largest hubs for asylum seekers in the U.S., who are often talked about, but rarely heard from. Learn more about @mati.heitner , his project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Ellie Tripp. Ellie is a writer, photographer and filmmaker. They were born in China, raised in Toronto and are currently pursuing a BFA at @nyutischfilmtv . Ellie seeks to explore narratives that centralize universal themes through diverse voices, focusing on a humanistic voice while rejecting oppression solely as identity. Their project, Rapid Eye Movement, is a short film following a teenage girl, as she obsessively relives the night her first Queer relationship began two years ago. Marked by a sense of innocence and violence, she drifts within the past and present as she grapples with an unchangeable past. Learn more about @ellie.tripp , their project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing two-time @nyutisch HEAR US grantee Paula Hung. Paula is a Venezuelan-American, Queer filmmaker who deeply values authentically elevating underrepresented voices to build multifaceted and joyous stories. Paula graduated from @nyutischfilmtv in May 2025. Combining their passions for activism and storytelling, they hope to create works that are accessible, representative, and transformative.
Paula’s 2025 HEAR US project, “Por La Patria” is a sci-fi thriller short film, where in a dystopian New York City where loudness is criminalized and surveillance is inescapable, a young musician must reckon with what’s left of her family, love, and freedom when surveillance drones target their church. Learn more about @paulahung_ , their project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
The Catwalk Art Residency provides a unique, low-tech residency opportunity for Tisch Alumni, Faculty, and Staff (with a graduate degree) to write, reflect, and create on a historic 70-acre property in Catskill, NY. Apply by March 1st through @tischcreativeresearch
WHAT: Low-tech residency for all disciplines
WHEN: May 20 - October 11, 2026
WHO IS ELIGIBLE: Tisch Faculty, Staff and Alumni with Advanced Degrees in the Arts
DEADLINE: March 1st, 2026 at 11:59pm EST
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Jerry Li. Jerry is a Chinese American photographer based between the Bay Area and New York City. Blending documentary and fine art, he seeks to fuse dreams and reality in his images to not only bridge the gaps of the Asian American diaspora but also attempt to restore lost history. His project, To Relive Old Dreams, is an attempt to reconcile his diasporic heritage by restoring the fading memory of his mother’s family. He searches for his great-aunt’s forgotten grave, juxtaposed with an exploration of a rapidly changing Suzhou through portraits of himself, his relatives, and the layering of the archival. Jerry’s project is currently on display in the @nyutisch 721 Broadway lobby as part of the @tischphoto 2026 BFA thesis exhibition. Learn more about @jearkkor , his project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Nyasia Cooper. Nyasia is an interdisciplinary artist who explores social/cultural analysis through lens based arts and research. They are an undergraduate @nyutischfilmtv student. They hope to foster discussion on how injustices affect Black & Brown people in the U.S. Those include but are not limited to; reproductive freedoms, birthing discriminations, and healthcare. Their project, Miracle Workers, is a research/documentary campaign that hopes to bring awareness to Traditional Black birth workers’ presence within underserved communities. It will highlight their unwavering defense of birther autonomy and how they frontrun the fight against increasing maternal mortality rates. Learn more about @imranae__ , their project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Ender Minyard. Ender, who was unhoused for six years, founded a tenant union in Ender’s former homeless shelter, and was interviewed about this organizing work by The Indypendent. Ender is an @itp_nyu student. Ender made zines about homeless organizing that have been added to collections in the Museum of Homelessness and in Barnard College’s Milstein Library. Ender’s project, The Harriet Network, allows unhoused New Yorkers to send text messages over radio. No mobile data or WiFi is needed. The Harriet Network is inspired by Harriet Tubman, a disabled organizer who created spaces of communal care for disabled and elderly people. Learn more about Ender, The Harriet Network, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Alex Sassine. Alex is a Lebanese writer, director, and editor pursuing an MFA at @nyugradfilm . With experience in public art installation and nightlife photography, he holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the American University of Beirut. His project, حِنِّي - Henni (Long for Me), is a short film following a conservative Christian Lebanese mother as she reckons with her son’s suicide in drag. The project was filmed in Lebanon in collaboration with Loyac and features Takla Chamoun, a renowned actress in the Middle East, and Zyad Al Seblany, a pioneering Arab drag artist. Learn more about Alex, his project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Raven Cassell. Raven is a Liberian-American dramatist who recently graduated from @nyuddw , and is based in NYC and West Africa. She is a playwright, television writer and screenwriter telling stories about global black culture. Raven is coining the term Africanist Storytelling. She describes it as work dealing with African continental and diasporic concerns, affairs and themes — centering African storytelling methodologies, ideologies and technologies. Her project, Africanist Storytelling: The West African Way of Dramatic Art, is an autoethnographic book project; a collection of essays, interviews, images, experiments, drama exercises and findings on West African dramatic art. Raven is also developing a course around this work titled, Embodied Research Studio: Africanist Storytelling. Learn more about Raven, her project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
Introducing @nyutisch HEAR US 2025 grantee Susan C. Li. Susan is a New York based Canadian musical theatre writer/composer, novelist and playwright completing her MFA at @nyu_tisch_gmtwp , Tisch. She has written for numerous genres and enjoys exploring new blends of mediums/styles. While procrastinating, she enjoys splurging on theatre and restaurants, reading and attempting to golf. Her project, 阴阳师 (Yin Yang Shi), is an Asian folklore-inspired coming of age musical, featuring supernatural mysteries and age-old folklore wisdom. Follow MoHua, a young apprentice 阴阳师 stranded far from home, as she journeys across the vast lands of Ancient China to find her Teacher. Learn more about @susan.c.li , her project, and HEAR US at the link in our bio.
