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Proboscisbunny
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 06:18 pm |
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I sent a play and then recieved a reply asking for a specific theme...wanted to pass it along. Call for scripts is first, followed by their reply.
Vanessa
10-Minute Plays Festival
The Rogue Valley 10-Minute Plays Festival has a submission deadline of May 1 (postmark) every year. The 2008 event will be held in the latter half of August.
The Process
Working with graduating seniors from the directing and acting programs at Southern Oregon University, all submissions are read. Six to nine plays are selected and then cast. Rehearsals are held during the week before the event opens. Each play is given at least three rehearsals.
The Reward
The event is held at the SOU campus, usually in a cabaret or other casual setting. The event opens on a Friday night and closes with a Sunday matinée.
Submissions
We accept sample scenes from playwrights between February 1 and May 1. If we choose to provide a prompt, a setting, or a thematic concept as a requirement, then this information will be posted here. For example, some year we might choose to provide a blackboard, teacher's desk, and two student desks as the set. Or, we might choose a theme of "exchange". (NOTE: For 2008, there are no prompts, settings, or themes.)
The scene and your contact information are sent via e-mail with a subject line of "TMPF Submission" to:
info@AshlandNewPlays.org
Please keep the scene to 12 pages or fewer. The scene, however, must be a complete one-act play.
Acceptable file formats are limited to:
- PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
- Plain text
- Microsoft Word
Returns
Submissions are via the Internet, and thus there are no script returns necessary.
Notification
Beginning in mid-June, the selected playwrights are notified via e-mail or the other contact information provided.
Playwright Requirements
Playwrights may be of any nationality and currently reside anywhere in the world. The plays, however, must speak to North American audiences.
Winners are encouraged to attend. You may meet with your director and cast and attend a rehearsal if you choose.
Winning playwrights are responsible for their own transportation to and from the area as well as their own lodging and meals.
About the Fee
Fee? What fee? This event has no fees for submission or participation.
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The original deadline has been pushed out to July 1, 2008 because we're also announcing a
change to the event. Beginning in 2008, this festival will be held as a benefit for some other
worthy group in our region. For this year, the beneficiary is Friends of the Animal Shelter.
FOTAS meets the special dietary and medication requirements of animals that come into the
Jackson County Animal Shelter. They also help manage the shelter and they hold adoption
clinics, spay/neuter clinics, and other useful events throughout the year.
Though all scripts submitted will be read and treated the same, we're hoping to find a few gems
that touch on the relationships and interplay between humans and animals. Provided that these
are among the best plays, they will receive preference in determining the line-up.
We therefore encourage you to submit another play or two that speaks to human-animal
interactions. Note that all of the winning selections will be listed in a packet to go out to other
animal shelters across the United States, in hopes that they might also look to using theatre as
a way to attract attention and sponsorship for their own needs.
Please let us know if you have any questions. And please do consider helping to support this
project with your scripts.
Thank you for today's submission.
Cheers,
John H. Lee, president
ArtWork Enterprises
info@AshlandNewPlays.org
541/482.4357
PO Box 453
Ashland OR 97520-0453
NEWS & SLIDESHOWS: http://www.AshlandNewPlays.org/index.html
NEXT DEADLINE: July 1 (Rogue Valley Ten-Minute Plays Festival)
NEXT EVENT: September 2008 (RV-TMPF)
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Posted: Sun Apr 20th, 2008 10:05 pm |
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| Yes. I got the same treatment. I am going to tell them to withdraw my submittal. I think it is extremely dishonest and amateurish to change the rules in the middle of the game
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Proboscisbunny
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Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2008 02:12 am |
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aww...but it's for the puppies...and kitties...maybe bunnies, too...
I understand your frustration...but, sleep on it. You don't want to rumple the wrong feathers...
Just my two cents...
Vanessa
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Martin H
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Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2008 10:48 am |
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| They haven't completely changed the rules, only suggested this is a preferred theme. They may regret the theme nudge if they have to run 6-9 animals or groups of animals through an onstage scenario.
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Posted: Tue Apr 22nd, 2008 02:04 am |
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| finally a chance to submit my noah's ark play. hope they have a bunch of shovels.
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 05:01 pm |
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As noted by others, the Rogue Valley Ten-Minute Plays Festival (TMPF) has not undergone a rule change, but has found its raison d'etre. From here on out, the festival will use theatre to engage the community on behalf of good causes, such as our local animal shelter.
One frequent problem we see with submissions happens if playwrights do not keep current with their target events. Furthermore, some theatre sites list annual events but do not check to see whether there is new information as each year comes along. Others leave outdated information posted in the forums without a caveat to check with the event site for current notes. Some offer outdated links that lead to nowhere.
While it is important for producing companies and festivals to spread the word, it's equally important for everyone else to check with the originating source for current information and guidelines. At the very least, this will cut down on feeling caught off guard.
Anticipating that some playwrights may not understand that we were not changing the rules, we placed a message on the website page devoted to our festival guidelines. Of course, it only worked for those who came to the site to get those guidelines. Here's what can be found there:
| Note that all scripts received will be considered, no matter the theme. We're changing horses for this event and will not punish any playwrights in the process. |
You can read the full text here:
http://www.ashlandnewplays.org/participate-tmpf.html
This means that all scripts submitted will be read and treated equitably, although we're hoping to find a few gems among our final selection that touch on the relationships and interplay between humans and animals. Provided that these are among the best plays, they will receive preference in determining the line-up. If we end up with no plays that touch on the theme, then so be it.
Why did we make the decision to change the nature of the event? Why not wait until 2009? Primarily it was because our new board (beginning in February) had looked at the response to the previous two years of this particular festival and felt that it should be better.
Furthermore it was decided that AWE should do something to "give back" to the community. Putting those two thoughts together, we arrived at some changes. If we waited until 2009, chances are that the winning plays of 2008 would be seen by fewer than 150 people. With our new production plan and opportunities for joint marketing efforts, it's more likely that the plays will be seen and appreciated by at least twice that number.
Of course it's distressing to see that anyone has misunderstood our good intentions as we try to grow and improve the value of the festival for all parties: playwrights, audiences, and our community. What's most needed, perhaps, is some grace and understanding that few situations in theatre are perfect for everyone involved. Claims of malice and of amateurism rarely improve anything.
In this particular case, no malice was intended and we worked to ensure that we not only maintained the same rules and guidelines, but also extended the deadline and made general plans to improve the event as a whole.
Fortunately, of the more than 380 plays submitted to date (a record for us) only one playwright has chosen to withdraw a script. That particular email surely didn't reflect the general character and best intentions of the playwright as the word choices likely were informed more by adrenaline than by experience.
Still, it was a reminder that theatre is all about drama and emotion.
We have also received dozens of emails praising the concept of using theatre to give a voice to the missions and concerns of other community organizations. The outpouring of support by playwrights for this year's beneficiary has been nothing short of astounding--and for that we are grateful.
The stageplays-forum.com continues to send dozens of people to our site each month, and many of the playwrights here have submitted works to both our Ashland New Plays Festival and this year's TMPF. We hope that more of you will consider us as a worthy group and likewise worthy of your efforts.
Please let your colleagues and fellow playwrights know that the Rogue Valley Ten-Minute Plays Festival has not changed its rules, but rather its heart. Tell them that the event is hoping to become a model for theatre/community collaboration and that they should look to our website for the real, current, and accurate scoop.
Cheers,
John H. Lee
President, ArtWork Enterprises
Ashland, Oregon
http://www.AshlandNewPlays.org/index.html
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