Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro supports young and emerging theater artists, with a strong emphasis on original Italian-language dramaturgy, contemporary performance, and creative development. Its giving is highly hands-on: rather than only cash grants, it provides residencies, rehearsal space, lodging, daily stipends, communication support, and artistic consulting to help projects move from research to production. The foundation is especially active in Ticino and collaborates across the Swiss-Italian border with Lombardy, often backing professional (non-amateur) companies and artists working in theater, prose, music-theater, and physical theater.
Annual open calls for residencies and a playwriting competition, plus rolling in-kind artistic hospitality requests; support typically combines cash prizes or daily stipends with free/discounted workspace, lodging, and professional accompaniment. Grants are modest-to-moderate in scale and often tied to specific projects, with no fixed application window for hospitality and fixed annual deadlines for calls.
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Watch the foundation website for annual call dates: testinscena® is typically posted once a year with a short application window, while residency calls also open annually. For artistic hospitality, reach out directly rather than waiting for a formal deadline, and make sure your project is professional, theatre-based, and connected to Swiss/Ticino or Lombardy when possible.
Current and upcoming funding from Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Artisti professionisti che necessitano di uno spazio per provare e creare; contatto via email per manifestare interesse.
Deadline: Nessuna finestra fissa indicata; contatto diretto per richieste.
Who can apply: Projects in Italian by professional artists from Switzerland and Lombardy, involving at most four people. Allowed: prose, teatro e musica, physical theatre. Not allowed: theatre for young audiences, dance, circus arts.
Deadline: Information request deadline: 1 December at 10:00. The call opens each year in November; for 2026 it runs from 1 November to 1 December.
Who can apply: Progetti in lingua italiana; artiste/i professionisti con un team massimo di quattro persone; non sono ammessi progetti di teatro ragazzi, danza e arti circensi.
Deadline: Per la call Residenze Artistiche 2026 il periodo indicato è dal 1° novembre al 1° dicembre; termine per richiedere informazioni via email: 1 dicembre ore 10:00.
Who can apply: Compagnie non amatoriali con sede in Svizzera o in Lombardia; tutti gli attori in scena non devono avere superato i 35 anni di età alla data indicata nel bando; progetti in lingua italiana.
Deadline: Tipicamente pubblicato annualmente. Esempio: edizione 2026 online dal 7 gennaio al 10 febbraio 2026 (termine ore 12:00).
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