DGF sponsor educational programs; provide awards, grants, and stipends; offer free space to create new works; and give emergency aid to writers in need.
[4] Volume I features Lee Adams with Brian Yorkey, Edward Albee with Will Eno, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick with David Zippel, A.R.
Volume II features Terrence McNally with Annie Baker, Tina Howe with Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty with DGF President Andrew Lippa, Frank Gilroy with Doug Wright, Thomas Meehan with Douglas Carter Beane, Charles Fuller with Lynn Nottage, Mary Rodgers with Marsha Norman, Jules Feiffer with Paul Rudnick, and Tom Jones with Harvey Schmidt.
Volume III features Tony Kushner with Michael Friedman, Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford with Georgia Stitt, Micki Grant with Charlayne Woodard, James Lapine with Lisa Kron, Larry Kramer with George C. Wolfe, Alan Menken with Kristen Anderson-Lopez, John Patrick Shanley with Stephen Adly Guirgis, John Weidman with J.T.
In April 2018, DGF launched its New Voices program, which brings trained teaching artists into classrooms to lead students in the collaborative creation of their own plays.