Sandi Goff Farkas, wife of Andrew Farkas, created the Playwrights of New York (Pony) Fellowship.  This fellowship provides an apartment to live in for a year and a monthly stipend to help support emerging playwrights.  As a playwright herself, Sandi noticed many great ideas weren’t getting written into screenplays because of the lack of support, which Pony now offers.

Andrew Farkas, CEO of C-III Capital Partners, helped Sandi create the fellowship by buying an apartment for the playwrights receiving the fellowship to live in.  Farkas also asked 12 friends for $2,500 each “to support a playwright for a month.”

On Tuesday, October 11, Sandi Goff Farkas was awarded the first ever Lark Risktaker Award for the creation of Pony.  The event was held at the Midtown offices of the Lark Play Development Center.  A previous recipient of the Pony Fellowship, Katori Hall, who wrote the play “The Mountaintop”, was at the event to give Sandi her award.  Katori’s play started at the Lark in 2007 and opened on Broadway this week.