WARNING
When a theatre is asking for a full-length play that has not been previously produced and does not state up front that they are providing anything to the playwright other than the privilege of having your play produced on their stage, think twice. Remember that once you have your play produced it is no longer eligible for contests and theatres looking for original, unproduced work that may pay substantially. Remember, when it comes to play production, you're only a virgin once.
* * * * * * * * * * Any submission opportunity that calls for a fee from our members is considerad an ad and we do not post ads of any type in this forum. Should you run across any opp requesting a fee, please let me know and I will remove it immediately.
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Here's a tip for you. Go through the old opps going back to last year and earlier this year. Chances are many of those theatres are running the same deadlines this year. Check their websites or email them to see if they are.
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At Hand Theatre is looking for you to help us out once again by being involved in our Spring fundraising theatrical event POP! Last May many of you were involved in POP! - a fantastic evening of theatre focusing on new one act plays (peppered with dance, song and comedy). POP's brief run was wildly successful. POP!: Riffs, rants and ramblings on the current state of pop-cultural affairs was a fun, irreverent and timely evening of theatre. Not to mention the proceeds of POP! helped us to produce our first mainstage show last season.
So here we are once again, hoping that you'll start scratching your head, grab a laptop, desktop, IBM Selectric, Underwood, pencil, pen, or etch - a- sketch and come up with something wonderful to contribute to May '08's return of POP! Like last year we hope to cultivate an evening that it is fun, energetic, diverse and thought provoking as these are some of the core values of At Hand.
If you would like to participate (and we will love you forever for it) please have a somewhat near to final piece (old or new) by FEBRUARY 1ST!!!
FURTHER GUIDELINES!!!!
- The rules are: There are no rules
- Length, style, etc are up to you. We want to you to give us whatever you got, whether it be a short play, a song, a monologue, a sketch, poem or a sentence.
SEND TO: Tye at tyeblue@gmail.com
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CENTENARY STAGE COMPANY
2008 Women Playwrights Series
Deadline: 2-1-2008 for Playwrights’ Center members
The Centenary Stage Company, an SPT Equity theatre located 50 miles west of New York in Hackettstown, NJ, is accepting submissions for the 2008 Women Playwrights Series to be held in April. The Women Playwrights Series seeks full-length, unproduced scripts by contemporary women playwrights.
Now in its 15th year, the CSC Women Playwrights Series is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working forum for the unique voice of women writing for the theatre today. Playwrights selected for the WPS workshops series are offered the opportunity to work with a professional director and actors in a brief rehearsal period over a period of one week, culminating in a presentation for the public as part of the Series. Each year one play from the WPS series is selected for full production in the Centenary Stage Company mainstage season. Playwrights receive an honorarium of $250 if accepted into the program. Travel and housing are available for a limited number of projects. Playwrights who are selected to be produced in the mainstage season receive a royalty of $1500.
For full information about submission guidelines, please contact:
Catherine Rust
Program Director, Playwright Series
Centenary Stage Company
400 Jefferson Street
Hackettstown, NJ 07840
rustc@centenarycollege.edu
908-979-0900 x http://www.centenarystageco.org/05SpecialPrograms/WPS/specialPgm_wpp.htm
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LAST FRONTIER THEATRE CONFERENCE
Prince William Sound Community College, Valdez, AK
Deadline: 2-1-2008 (received)
The Last Frontier Theatre Conference has released its Call for Plays for the 2008 Play Lab. The Conference takes place from June 14 to 21, 2008. Selected plays receive staged readings at the Conference, with both public and private feedback sessions led by theatre professionals.This year will feature plays from 20 minutes to 2 hours in length. Accepted writers will also have an additional opportunity to present their work in the 10-Page Play Slam and in the late-night Fringe Festival.The submission guidelines are as follows:
Plays must have a running time between twenty minutes and two hours.
Submissions cannot have received a professional production, although readings and amateur productions are acceptable.
No musicals are accepted.
One submission per author.
Plays can be submitted via e-mail to dmoore@pwscc.edu.
Plays presented at the Conference have gone on to productions throughout Alaska and the rest of the United States due to the exposure received. More details about this year’s Conference are available at http://www.pwscc.edu. Questions can be addressed to Conference Coordinator Dawson Moore at 907-834-1614 or dmoore@pwscc.edu
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NEW WORKS FOR YOUNG WOMEN
University of Tulsa
Deadline: 2-8-2008 (received)
The University of Tulsa (TU) is the sponsor of New Works for Young Women. This new competition is intended to increase the number of quality plays and roles for female performers of college age.
Competition Requirements:
1. The play must be an unproduced/unpublished script. Plays which have been previously produced or published professionally are not acceptable (this includes any situation in which an admission fee has been charged: staged readings, community theatre performances, etc.). Plays that have received college/university productions and/or have been published in a college/university literary journal or magazine will be accepted.
2. There is no restriction on the age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, or ethnicity of the playwright. The play must be authored by a student enrolled in a graduate theatre program at the time of submission. Co-authored works are acceptable, provided both authors are currently enrolled graduate students. Entrants and winners from previous years may enter as long as they are still in graduate school. (Note: Student status must be verified at the time of submission with the inclusion of the contact information for either the playwriting instructor or department chairperson.)
3. The play must have a cast that is either all-female or majority female in the principle roles. The primary roles must be within a reasonable age range (16-35, approximately) for female university actors; secondary roles may be older or younger.
4. The play may be a full-length or long one-act (minimum running time of one hour). No adaptations or translations. Musical theatre and works for young audiences are acceptable. Writers may submit a maximum of two plays.
5. There are no restrictions on genre, style, language, subject matter, cast size, ethnicity, locale or period. Writers should keep in mind, however, that the work is potentially for university production and budgets for technical/scenic requirements may be limited.
6. Submission requirements: Send three (3) copies of the play. Manuscripts must be securely bound with brads, printed cleanly in standard format. Do not use a cover; paper will be recycled. The name(s) of the playwright(s) should only appear on the title page; works will be read as blind submissions. Please be sure to include all phone numbers, e-mail address, and postal address. If you wish to be notified of receipt of the play, include a self-addressed, stamped postcard with your submission. Scripts will not be returned.
7. The playwright must be willing to have an excerpt of their play posted on The University of Tulsa website if their play wins any place in the competition. This is to give universities and theatres around the country the opportunity to see a portion of each work, to encourage contact with the playwright for the full script. The playwright gets to select the portion to be posted (up to 20 pages), and is asked to provide a brief synopsis, bio and contact information.
8. Submission deadline (not postmark) is Friday, February 8, 2008. Plays received after this date will not be considered. Award Notification date: March 24, 2008.
9. The first-place play will be optioned for first production or public reading by the TU Theatre Department. TU may also elect to option the other plays. All rights will return to the playwright after the production or reading. The playwright(s) whose work is optioned will be invited to the TU campus to attend the production or reading, and to provide a workshop or lecture on a topic of the playwright’s choosing (in consultation with the project director) for students at the university. Transportation, housing and meals will be provided.
10. Prizes: First place $1,000; Second place $500; Third and Fourth place $250 each. A number of Honorable Mentions may be selected each year.
Send to:
Michael Wright
Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Creative Writing
Kendall Hall
The University of Tulsa
600 S. College Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74104
Please direct all questions to Michael Wright, Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Creative Writing: michael-wright@utulsa.edu.
http://www.cas.utulsa.edu/writing
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THEATRERATS
The Fourth Annual Chester Horn Short Play Festival
Deadline: 2-15-2008 (email)
On the heels of its third successful Festival, TheatreRats is now accepting submissions for The Fourth Annual Chester Horn Short Play Festival, to be held late Spring/Early Summer 2008. Plays may be any genre, any cast size.
Scripts must be 15 pages or less. Submissions must be submitted electronically as Word or PDF files. Limit 2 submissions per playwright. Due to the high volume of submissions, entries that do not follow these guidelines will not be considered. International submissions and short musicals are strongly encouraged as well.
Email all scripts to scripts@theatrerats.com in PDF or Word format only.
http://www.theatrerats.com
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HEARTLAND THEATRE COMPANY
10-Minute Play Festival
Deadline: 2-1-2008 (received)
Wake up and smell the coffee! A jolt of java may be just what you need to wake up your playwriting. Take a coffee shop. Tell us what time of day it is. Add a few characters who fit that time and place. Make it ten minutes long. Give us your jolt of java and we may just put it on stage next summer!
Guidelines:
1. Stick with the theme: The Coffee Shop
2. Stick with the scenic requirements. (See below.)
3. We prefer submissions by email. If you submit hard copy, please include a $25 entry fee.
4. No more than 4 characters, no fewer than 2.
5. Characters should be within the 18-70 age range.
6. Your play should mainly consist of dialogue. Ten-minute monologues will not be considered.
7. No plays previously submitted to Heartland Theatre Company, no children's plays, no musicals, and no previously staged productions will be considered. In this context, previously staged means any production for which tickets were sold and admittance charged.
8. If your play cannot be considered for any reason you will be notified as soon as the problem is discovered.
9. Please include a title page including your name, address, phone number and email address. Do not put your name on the play itself as plays are judged blind. Your title should appear on each page of the play. We'll also need a brief summary or "blurb" of your play to help our readers as well as provide a guide for auditions and advertising if your play is produced. Please include this summary—one paragraph, no more than 50 words—after your cover page but before your script.
10. Plays will be videotaped for archival purposes.
11. No contracts beyond the guidelines mentioned here will be offered.
12. Applicants must complete and submit the Heartland Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival Entry Form. If sending your submission by regular mail, please complete the entry form on-line and print it to include with your entry.
13. No scripts will be returned
14. Keep it ten minutes long and in English.
15. Keep in mind the physical space at Heartland. (Scenic Requirements: Counter with 4 bar stools, 2 tables with 4 chairs each, street entrance/exit to coffee shop, exit to restrooms, clock on wall).
16. Remember something has to happen in those ten minutes.
17. Make it good!
You may email your script in MS Word, pdf or rtf format in an email to playfest@heartlandtheatre.org or mail one hard copy to:
Heartland Theatre Company
P. O. Box 1833 Bloomington, IL 61702
(Attention: Play Fest 2008)
Winners will be posted on the Heartland website by April 15, 2008.
For more information call Heartland's Box Office at (309) 452-8709 or email to playfest@heartlandtheatre.org
http://www.heartlandtheatre.org
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ICICLE CREEK THEATRE FESTIVAL
Leavenworth, WA
Deadline: 2-15-2008 (postmark)
The Icicle Creek Theare Festival of new plays affords all artist-participants a unique opportunity to work creatively in an extraordinarily beautiful natural setting. ICTF will again provide two to three new playwrights the opportunity to develop their plays as they live, work and share meals with professional directors and actors (a balance of Equity and non-Equity). The workshop will culminate in partially-staged, script-in-hand presentations on the final weekend.
The 2008 ICTF is tentatively scheduled for nine days, August 9-17, 2008 (subject to change). ICTF will again take place at Icicle Creek Music Center and Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. ICTF currently selects two to three projects for the Festival. Artists can only submit one application each year; previous applicants may re-apply.
ICTF seeks writers who are interested in genuinely exploring their material. ICTF offers an environment that encourages and supports experimentation, re-imagining, and rigorous RE-WRITING. If you feel your work is done except for minor tweaking, this would not be the place for you.
ICTF welcomes applications for projects at any stage of development, but focuses on work that is ready to be explored, at least in part, on its feet. Playwrights who submit their work MUST commit themselves to be available and in residence for all 9 days of the Festival. ICTF's support to playwrights includes providing professional actors, dramaturgs, rehearsal space, stage management, round-trip transportation, shared resort lodging, meals, and an honorarium of $500. All artists, including playwrights, reside in very large modern cabins.
Before submitting a script, you must send an email to info@iciclecreekact.com. That email should contain the following:
* Synopsis of play
* Brief statement of: (a) inspiration for the play (why you wrote it), (b) what themes you develop in the play, (c) where you think the play currently is in its development, and (d) what you believe you can accomplish at the festival
* Character breakdown (genders & ages, etc.)
* Status of the play, including prior readings
* Your brief history as a playwright (if you are unknown to ICTF)
If ICTF's email reply to you requests that you send your play, the postmark deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008. Applicants will be notified by email by May 15th, 2008.
For full submission guidelines, please visit http://www.iciclecreekact.com/submit.shtml
http://www.iciclecreekact.com
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Ten by Ten in the Triangle:
Submit: January 15 -- February 12, 2008.
The call for plays for our international festival of new, ten-minute plays goes out in January. http://www.artscenterlive.org/
Call for Submissions to the 7th Annual 10 by 10 in the Triangle]
part of the OffCenter series
January 15 -- February 12, 2008.
Call for Submissions to 10 by 10 in the Triangle, an international festival of new, ten-minute plays. 10 plays, 10 actors, 10 minutes, 10 bucks. A panel of judges will select ten plays to showcase in The ArtsCenter mainstage theatre July 17-27, 2008.
The Submissions: Please email new, ten-minute plays with minimal set requirements to theatre@artscenterlive.org. We do not accept monologues but do accept musical submissions, provided they can be performed with little or no accompaniment. All ten shows run each night and are performed by an ensemble of five men and five women on a unit set with flexible set pieces. Playwrights may submit up to two plays in standard format (Courier or 12 pt font) in Word or PDF.
Please send two separate emails for each play.
Email 1. The subject line and name of attached file are the same and are the name of the play and the phrase "contact info." For example: The subject line is "Poker Face contact info" and the attached file title is "Poker Face contact info." The attached file contains only the title page with contact information. Please use the full title of the play as we often receive plays with similar titles.
Email 2. The subject line and name of attached file are the same and are the title of the script. For example, the subject line of this email is Poker Face and the attached file is Poker Face. This file contains cast, set requirements, and script. No contact information, please. If you are submitting two scripts, please send four separate emails. Please do not zip the files.
The Deadline: Submissions must be received by February 12, 2008. We will notify finalists by email and will post those titles on our website by April 18. We are sorry we cannot respond to each individual playwright. We will announce the ten productions by May 16.
The Award: Playwrights receive an award of $100. Playwrights who attend our playwright gala on July 14 will also receive $100 travel stipend.
The Space: Our main stage is a 300-seat theatre with basic light and sound capabilities.
The Producer: ArtsCenter Stage will provide directors, actors, and technical staff for the festival. The directors will contact the playwrights at the beginning of the rehearsal process. For more about The ArtsCenter, go to http://www.artscenterlive.org.
The Dates: Festival dates are July 12-22, 2007. Playwright gala Saturday, July 19.
The Production: The ten plays will be presented together as an evening of theatre. All ten shows run each night and are performed by an ensemble of five men and five women on a unit set with flexible set pieces. Playwrights are invited to a post-show discussion/reception and an overnight stay at a local hotel or bed and breakfast on Saturday, July 19.
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***Icicle Creek Theatre Festival is open for submissions until February 15, 2008***
The 9-day playwrights workshop is scheduled for Aug. 2 - 9, 2008. ICTF mounted a very successful first season in 2007, presenting works by Anna Ziegler and C. Denby Swanson that were then re-shown in Seattle.
ICTF offers: Honorariums, resort lodging and meals, travel expenses, skilled directors and dramaturgs, excellent Equity actors; time, space, support and artistic freedom in an extraordinarily beautiful natural setting in the Cascade Mountains; and a direct connection with a major Seattle regional theatre (A.C.T.) Most importantly, we make every effort to have plays presented at ICTF moved on to production.
There are revised guidelines, please check the website: http://www.iciclecreekact.com
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2007 is February 15. For this year's finalists, please visit the home page and click on the Ten by Ten in the Triangle link. The Women and Theatre Program
of the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
with
Scott Family Chair in Drama, University of Texas at Austin
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA
Northwestern University
Division of Theatre, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
announce the
JANE CHAMBERS PLAYWRITING AWARD DEADLINE: Feb. 15, 2008
We seek plays and performance texts created by women which reflect a feminist perspective and contain significant opportunities for women performers. We encourage submissions by and about women from a diversity of positions in respect to race, class, sexual preference, physical ability, age, and geographical region. We strongly encourage experimentation with the dramatic form. Scripts may be produced or unproduced. There is no limitation on length, style, or subject. Playwrights may be from any country. This is an annual award, given in the memory of the late, lesbian playwright Jane Chambers who became a major feminist voice in American theatre through her plays "A Late Snow," "Last Summer at Bluefish Cove," "My Blue Heaven," "Kudzu," and "The Quintessential Image". The award consists of $1000, free registration to attend the conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in late July, hotel and travel costs, and a rehearsed reading of the winning piece at the ATHE conference. The winner should be available to attend the conference. Undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled (through May 2004) who submit plays will be entered into the student category of the competition; the prize is $250 award and a reading at the Women and Theatre pre-conference in late July (no travel and hotel fees are included). In addition, the award recognizes a first runner-up, finalists, and honorable mention winners. Only one entry per playwright annually. Submissions must include two copies of the play (typed or printed), application form, resume, and synopsis. A SASPC may be included for acknowledgement of the script's arrival is desired. A letter of endorsement from a theatre professional may be included, from someone familiar with the work which will only be used for publicity purposes. No translations. Scripts will not be returned, but recycled. Submissions must be postmarked by February 15. The winner and finalist will be notified after June 15. To obtain an application form, contact the Awards Administrator by e-mail or by letter (include a SASE) only. Our application form is available online. JANE CHAMBERS AWARD
c/o Gretchen E. Smith
Division of Theatre, Meadows School of the Arts
P.O. Box 750356
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275-0356
gesmith@mail.smu.edu _________________________________________________
13th Street Rep Company Festival '08
Deadline Feb. 22, 2008
Now accepting submissions from playwrights who have scripts that are unpublished and run between 10 to 20 minutes in length. Seeking plays of all genres, comedies encouraged. Selected Festival pieces will run for at least 3 performances during May 2008.
Submission Guidelines:
• Submission postmark deadline is February 22, 2008.
• No email scripts will be accepted.
• Submit two copies of the script.
• Submit the application unattached.
• Script must by typed and bound by staple in the upper left corner.
• You may include a Self Addressed Stamped Postcard for confirmation upon receipt. Please include on the postcard your name, the script’s title, and "HSPF 08".
• Submissions will not be returned.
• Maximum amount of scripts that can be submitted is two.
• Please mail application and scripts in duplicate to
Karen Raphaeli
HSPF 08 Producer
2705 Avenue J
Brooklyn, NY 11210
For application, email producer at FestivalProducer@gmail.com
Selected plays will be notified on or before March 7, 2008.
No actors or directors may be attached to a script.
Please no calls to the theater.
For questions, email FestivalProducer@gmail.com
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DYLAN DAYS CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST
Hibbing, MN
Deadline: 2-28-2008
Dylan Days is an annual event and an association dedicated to advancing the arts in Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota. Dylan Days is sending out its annual call for poetry, short fiction and—new for 2008—one-act plays for the Dylan Days Creative Writing Contest. In the brand new one-act play competition, one winner will be named along with honorable mentions. The winning playwright will receive $100 and have their work performed on the Hibbing Community College stage during Dylan Days as the featured entertainment for our annual Literary Showcase. The play will be cast with experienced actors and directed by Michael Ricci, the award-winning director of the HCC theatre program.
All submissions should be plays that have not been produced in any other theatres. They can be of any genre except musicals, or puppet theatre. Scripts should be between 30 and 60 minutes in length, and contain 3-6 characters. Settings should be fairly modest, staying away from extravagent set pieces and special effects. Content and subject matter are completely open, but should reflect what Bob Dylan came to be known for—an original voice who embraced a new direction, a unique vision with the power to move people. All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges, and the winning entry will be given a fully mounted production on the Hibbing Community College Theatre stage.
Entries need not be about Bob Dylan or use his style of writing; but they should strive for creativity, originality and literary theme.
You will be asked to provide your name, the title of piece, your phone number, address and your e-mail address along with the text of your work. Students will be asked to list the school or college they are enrolled in at the time of entry. Any special formatting must be done in HTML; otherwise entries should be submitted text only.
For more information on the one-act competition, contact Aaron Brown at aaronbrown@hibbing.edu or 218-262-7213, or Mike Ricci at 218-262-7377.
http://www.dylandays.com
BEREA QUILT EXTRAVAGANZA IV
Ten Minute Quilt Play Festival
Deadline: 2-29-2008 (email)
During the fourth annual Berea Quilt Extravaganza, the Berea Arts Council will sponsor a ten-minute play festival featuring ten plays. Plays with a theme of quilts or quilting are preferred, but not necessary. This year’s theme is “Family Relationships,” so if your play has a theme about a family relationship but does not have a quilt or quilt theme, send it on. And use your imagination; creativity counts!
Submission Information:
* Anyone may submit a play for consideration. You do not have to be a professional playwright for your work to be considered.
* The plays should be no longer than 10 minutes running time.
* Each playwright may only submit one play for consideration, so send us your best work.
* Please limit the number of actors needed for your play to four (4).
* Although we will use a full cast and each play will be put on its “feet” (not reader’s theatre) the performances will be technically minimal, so works using little or no set/props/costumes are preferred.
* Submitted plays must be royalty-free (we’re on a budget) and unpublished. The plays can have been performed elsewhere as long as they have not been professionally produced in Kentucky.
* Each script should be typed and submitted as a Microsoft Word document or a .pdf.
Send two electronic files: 1) a separate cover/title page with the playwright’s name, address, phone number and e-mail address and 2) the script—with the name of the play followed by a comma and then the page number in the upper right-hand corner of each page. The playwright’s name should not appear in the file with the script, only on the cover/title page.
If you use Final Draft or other script writing software, you can send a .pdf (without the cover page filled out), but just make sure you send a second file with your cover page only.
E-mail your play by February 29, 2008 as a Microsoft Word document to the Berea Arts Council at info@bereaartscouncil.org. Use the subject line “Submission.”
If you have any questions that have not been answered here, please call the Berea Arts Council at (859) 985-9317.
For submission guidelines and timeline in printable PDF format, visit http://www.bereaartscouncil.org/events/2008/quilt_play/call_for_entries.pdf
http://www.bereaartscouncil.org/events/2008/quilt_play/submissions.htm
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