Below are some opportunities for playwrights….please note that they are in no way affiliated with LAWC so questions must be addressed to the institutions who are asking for the submissions. Good luck!
REDCAT's Studio: Summer 2012
REDCAT is seeking original performance works for the next edition of Studio, REDCAT's quarterly series of new works in progress in dance, theater, multi-media and music. If you have a project 15 minutes or under and would like to be considered - apply now.
Applications are due by 5:00PM: SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012
Showings are scheduled for: SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012
Performance dates: SUNDAY & MONDAY, JUNE 24, 25, 2012 at 8:30PM
Visit our website: http://www.redcat.org/about/artist-opportunities and complete the online application.
Help us spread the word by forwarding this call to fellow artists.
For questions email: studio.redcat@calarts.edu
ABOUT STUDIO
Studio was created to give new artists an opportunity to hone their skills and offer established artists a chance to test new material and works-in-progress before an audience. A revolving panel of working artists curates each edition, selecting artists through a live showing process.
ASUNCION PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT
The submission period for the 2010-2011 Asunción Playwrights Project competition is now closed. The next postmark deadline is February 14, 2012. Please join us for the readings of the 2011 Finalists. CLICK HERE for the full schedule of readings.
Pregones Theater’s Asunción Playwrights Project showcases the work of Latino and Latina playwrights exploring issues of difference and transformation at the limits of queer identity. The project fosters fun and genuine dialogue between playwrights, theatermakers, LGBTQ communities, and a general audience. We especially seek works that challenge normative straight/gay binaries. Submissions by women writers are encouraged. Both Spanish and English language manuscripts are welcome.
Finalists commit to a public reading and open discussion. A panel of peers, industry professionals, scholars, critics and previous winners makes the final selection of the year’s winning play.
The winner recieves a $500 award and the play is given a professionally cast workshop production at Pregones Theater.
Selection Process
The selection process is made up of two preliminary rounds.
The first round is open to all. A completed application form must be submitted with a 10 page sample of the work.
The second round is by invitation only. Up to eight playwrights from the first round are invited to submit their work in its entirety for final review. The public readings are selected from this group of finalists.
All plays must be original, full length works for the stage that have never been produced and are not currently under option. Plays may be submitted in Spanish or English. Monologues and/or one-person shows will not be considered. Asunción will only consider works of superior artistic rigor that meet one or more of the project’s criteria:
• explore issues of difference and transformation at the limits of queer identity;
• challenge normative assumptions of gender;
• present Latino spiritual and sensual explorations beyond the boundaries of gender and essentialist notions of sexual orientation;
• go beyond coming out stories;
• challenge normative notions of family;
• dwell in alterity and encounter;
• place queer expectations of love and sex in a Latino cultural/historical context;
• are significant to the lives of Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer people.
The Asunción Playwrights Project is recognized with a special merit recognition from HOLA Organization of Latin Actors and a feature in Ollantay Theater Magazine.
APPLICATION guidelines
1. Download and complete the Asunción Application Form or request a hard copy by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Jorge B. Merced, Associate Artistic Director, Pregones Theater, 571-575 Walton Avenue, Bronx NY 10451.
2. Include a brief description of the play and two copies of a ten-page sample. DO NOT INCLUDE A FULL COPY OF THE SCRIPT.
3. Samples must be typewritten or word-processed in typeface no smaller than 12 point, double-spaced and on 8½” X 11″ white paper. You may submit works in either English or Spanish.
4. If you are submitting more than one script, you must complete an application for each work. No more than two entries per writer will be accepted each year.
5. Include a copy of your resume with the application.
6. Please include a self-addressed stamped postcard, or e-mail address to confirm receipt of your entry. COD Deliveries will not be accepted.
7. Please include a return package with sufficient postage if you would like your script returned.
8. All applications must be written, signed, and submitted by the playwright.
APPLICATION Deadline
The current application deadline is February 14, 2012 (postmarked).
Faxed, e-mailed, or incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Apply online at: http://www.pregones.org/asuncion.html
The Durango Arts Center 10-Minute Play Contest
The Durango Arts Center is pleased to sponsor its second annual 10-Minute Play Contest in 2012, which will culminate in a full production during the annual Durango Showcase of the Arts in September.
10-minute plays were officially introduced by the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville in 1977, when the genre was promoted as part of the Humana Festival of new American Plays. Often referred to as the “haiku of the American stage” as well as “a streak of theatrical lightning,” 10-minute plays have become an engaging and popular genre for today’s audiences and playwrights.
The Durango Arts Center
Located in the heart of Durango, Colorado at 802 East Second Avenue, the Durango Arts Center is home to a 200-seat theater, an art gallery, library, and gift shop, as well as administrative offices, classrooms, and rehearsal spaces. The DAC is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to promote the exploration, education, enrichment, and enjoyment of the arts for people from all artistic levels and backgrounds within the Four Corners region and beyond.
Contest Director
Dr. Rochelle Mann, Professor Emerita at Fort Lewis College, has been a part of the arts community in Durango for over 25 years. During her tenure at FLC, she served as Music Department Chair and also as Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She currently holds the position of Vice President on the Durango Arts Center Board of Directors, and is pleased to launch the inaugural 10-Minute Play Contest.
Artistic Consultants
Dr. Dinah Leavitt Swan, retired Professor of Theatre at Fort Lewis College, served as Director of the highly-acclaimed Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest in Oxford, Mississippi. An actor, director, and published playwright herself, she is actively involved in the both the competition and production aspects of the Durango contest.
Terry Swan, President of the Durango Arts Center Board of Directors, also brings valuable expertise from his work with the Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest. Mr. Swan is the former Managing Director of the New Stage Theatre in Jackson, Mississippi, and recently served as the director for the DAC’s “Greater Tuna” performance.
2012 Schedule of Events
February 10, 2012 – Deadline for submissions (Entries must be postmarked on or before February 18.)
May 2012 – The top entries of the 2010 contest will be presented as staged readings at The Durango Arts Center in Durango, CO. The Judges will select the top 5 entries and the winner of the Grand Prize Award ($500). Audience members will select their favorite 10 Minute Play for an award of $50.
September 2012 – The Grand Prize winning play and selected others will be performed at the Durango Arts Center as part of the Durango Showcase of the Arts.
Contest Guidelines and Rules
Only original plays, never before produced, are eligible.
Each play should require 2-4 characters and minimal props and costumes.
The play, exclusive of title and cast pages, may be no more than ten pages.
Script submissions should include the following:
Judging Process
Authors may submit multiple plays, but each play must include a separate entry fee.
Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked on or before February 18,2012. No exceptions.
Entry fee: $10 check addressed to Durango Arts Center. The fee MUST accompany each entry.
Send your submission to:
10 Minute Play Contest
Durango Arts Center
802 East Second Avenue
Durango, CO 81301
For more information, email TenMinutePlayDirector@gmail.com
The 2012 Hamilton Fringe Festival
New Play Contest Entry Form
http://www.hamiltonfringe.ca/play-writing-competition
How To Enter:
1. Read the Rules & Regulations on the back of this page.
2. Fill out and sign The New Play Contest entry form.
3. Mail in or drop off the completed entry form, a hard copy of the script, as well as a disc
with a PDF version and the entry fee starting on Wednesday December 1st 2011.
Deadline for entries is February 25, 2012 at 5:00pm or when 30 entries have been
received. E-mail submissions will not be accepted.
4. The entry fee is $30.00 and can be paid in cash or cheque payable to The Hamilton
Festival Theatre company. (A $20 fee will be levied if a cheque is returned to us NSF.
Until paid, the application will be deemed ineligible.)
5. Each play must have a title page bearing only the play title. The Fringe will assign the
play a letter or symbol, which will keep the names of the playwrights anonymous.
Rules & Regulations:
1. Open to all playwrights/writers.
2. Only one entry per playwright is permitted.
3. All entries must be original, unproduced plays/musicals.
(Plays that have been workshopped are eligible.)
4. Plays must be submitted in English.
5. First time stage adaptations of other work from another medium are not eligible.
6. The playwright may have received funding to create or workshop this play.
7. All plays must have a performance time of 90 minutes or less. There is no page limit but
the play must fit within The Fringe’s 90-minute running time policy.
8. Scripts must be type written or word processed, printed on one side of 8 ½” x 11” paper.
Please include a title page without the playwright’s name.
9. Pages must be numbered and scripts should be loose or paper clipped (not stapled or
bound).
10. Scripts entered will not be mailed back to playwrights after the contest.
11. Playwrights who enter The Fringe New Play Contest may also enter The Fringe Lottery.
If the winning playwright of the contest has entered The Fringe Lottery, his/her
application will be removed from the lottery and the application fee will be refunded.
12. The winner must use their Fringe slot to produce the play that was submitted to the
contest.
13. Any current members of the Board of Directors of the Hamilton Festival Theatre
Company (aka The Hamilton Fringe Festival) are not eligible to participate in this
contest.
14. Please mark the outside of the envelope clearly with “New Play Contest” submission.
Prizes & Notification:
1. A panel of jurors will judge the plays and all entries will be anonymous.
2. First place prize will be a spot in the 2012 Hamilton Fringe Festival, for the winning play,
plus $300.00 in Canadian Funds. The performance slot has no cash value and can’t be
sold or transferred to another party. The winning playwright will have to fill out and sign
an Indoor Application Form and abide by all of the policies of The Hamilton Fringe
Festival.
3. Second place and Third place prizes will be 2012 Festival “binge” pass.
4. The winning plays will be announced on April 15, 2012.
Hamilton Fringe Festival, 279 King Street East, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 1B9 info@hamiltonfringe.ca
Red Bull Theater’s Short New Plays Festival-2nd Annual Short New Play Festival – Open Submissions
New plays! Heightened language! Epic circumstances! 10 minutes long!
The Deal
After the success of last season’s inaugural Festival, Red Bull Theater’s Short New Plays Festival returns in 2012. Six short plays will be selected from an open-submission process and presented in staged readings with two short plays by commissioned writers (John Guare and one other TBA). Plays will be selected based on relevance to Red Bull Theater’s mission, incorporation of stated theme and excellence of the work. Directors for the plays are Ken Rus Schmoll and Anne Kaufmann.
The Drill
Write a short play of no more than 10 minutes in length that contains heightened language, verse, classical themes, or is an adaptation of a great classic story. This year, each play must respond to the following word:
REVOLUTION
Take a look through http://www.redbulltheater.com/History to see the kind of work we have done. Respond to a play we’ve produced, or choose a classic of your own. Adapt one, Riff on a character, Create a whole new Jacobean-like world – you choose!
The Rules
• Each playwright may submit ONE SCRIPT only.
• Each play may be no more than TEN PAGES in font no smaller than 11pt.
• We ONLY accept electronic submissions in PDF form. Do not mail printed scripts.
• Include writer contact information on the title page.
• Plays should be self-contained with a beginning, middle and end.
• Excerpts of full-length works are ineligible.
The Timeline Email scripts to submissions@redbulltheater.com by the deadline of February 28th, 2012.
Submissions will only be accepted electronically in PDF format.
Selected plays will be announced by April 30th, 2012.
New Play Festival is June 18th, 2012.
*Due to the volume of scripts, we are unable to comment on submissions.
Apply online at: http://www.redbulltheater.com/Collaborate
Questions? Contact Wendy Anderson, Director of Artistic and Strategic Development at wendy@redbulltheater.com. Thank you!
The Rep’s 2010 Ten Minute Play Competition
“An Evening to Hang Your Hat On”
Ten minute plays are being solicited by the Rochester Rep for performances scheduled in July 2010.
A reading panel comprised of The Rep’s Board of Directors, Staff and Advisory Members (excluding the Board’s Artistic Liaison) will select eight plays to be produced from submissions received. “An Evening to Hang Your Hat On” is a continuing project following “Glass Half Full” (2008), “Reflections in a Mirror” (2006), “Treasures From The Trunk” (2003) and the first “An Evening to Hang Your Hat On” (2002). These productions have had one central goal: To support new and emerging playwrights as they experiment with an emerging and more accessible, but highly challenging, art form. We wish to showcase the considerable talents of new playwrights, provide a venue for their scripts, and provide director(s) and actors with the opportunity to work with a “work-in-progress.” It is The Rep’s intent to sponsor an evening of ten minute plays as a summer production, opening July 16, 2010, and running Thursdays – Saturdays, July 16-17, 22-24, and July 29-31, 2010. The Rep will arrange for directors, cast and technical crew for all plays chosen for production.
The theme for the evening of plays should incorporate The Rep’s coat rack.
Requirements:
1.The playwright should take for inspiration incorporation of the free-standing coat rack in the action of the play. The playwright must also consider the space available on The Rep’s stage. All other props and set pieces must be minimal in demand (benches, stools, tables, etc. For example, four cubes might be arranged as a sofa).
2.All scripts must be at least 10 minutes in length, not to exceed 15 minutes. Estimate that one page of dialogue equals approximately a minute of stage time.
3.Plays may be any genre from farce to tragedy, excluding musicals.
4.Scripts must be the original, previously non-produced work of the playwright, and not a translation or adaptation.
5.Number of characters in a script should not exceed four (as the same actors may well perform throughout the evening).
6.The play should adapt well to a bare stage, with a minimum of props, set pieces, costume demands, and no special effects, lighting, or scenic demands.
7.Selected plays will be directed by director(s) chosen by the Rep’s Artistic Liaison and all casting of actors will be managed by the Rep..
8.Because of the interest and enthusiasm shown in past competitions, a playwright may submit only one script for consideration.
Submission:
1. The deadline for submission of scripts is Saturday, February 13, 2010. Early submission is strongly suggested.
2. The Title Page should include the play’s title, playwright’s name, e-mail, postal address and telephone number. Please do not put your name elsewhere on the manuscript. The Title Page should not be attached to the rest of the script.
3. Scripts should be typed or printed in 12-point Times font on 8.5”x11” standard white paper, one side only and should be stapled or bound. The title of the script should appear on each page of the script along with page numbering.
4. Scripts will not be returned to the playwright. If you wish acknowledgement of receipt of your script, please include a self-addressed stamped postcard with your script submission.
5. Submission of scripts implies permission to produce said scripts royalty-free.
Rochester Repertory Theatre
103 7th St., NE
Rochester, MN 55906
Scripts may also be emailed to boxoffice@rochesterrep.org
The Rep Board readers will evaluate scripts on personal appeal, suitability to site, perspective on the theme, directorial and acting challenges, and audience appeal. Each script will receive at least three readings; readers will be encouraged to make written comments to each playwright. Winning playwrights will be notified by April 30, 2010 at the opening of “1776”, as well as by letter/email.
The Rochester Repertory Theatre Company
103 Seventh Street NE
Rochester, Minnesota 55906
Telephone 507.289.1REP
Avatar Repertory Theater (A.R.T.)
presents A VIRTUAL SHORT PLAY BUFFET, inviting writers to submit original short plays (3-10 minute plays or excerpts from larger pieces that stand on their own) to be produced on the virtual platform of Second Life® (www.secondlife.com). Of the 24 plays selected for readings at A.R.T. Plays Around on Friday nights at 5 pm April-May 2011, five will receive a full production in July 2011. Playwrights do not have to be residents of Second Life® but are encouraged to explore this unique venue for live theater.
If you are unfamiliar or new to Second Life®, email virtualshortplaybuffet@gmail.com and request a Tech Sheet. Join the Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php….
In an email include your name title of your play, number of characters and technical requests. Remove your name from the script and attach to the email and send to virtualshortplaybuffet@gmail.com.. DEADLINE IS MARCH 10, 2011.
A.R.T. was founded in 2008 by Sodovan Torok and Ada Radius and now consists of 21 actors, directors, playwrights and designers, most of whom have extensive real life experience. Actors use Second Life Voice to accompany avatars of all shapes and sizes. Sets, costumes, scripted objects and props, animations and avatar designs are created by company members. The options for creativity allow for innovation beyond the possibilities in real life. Some presentations have streamed on the internet and machinimas (cinema + machine) are in the works. The trailer for A.R.T.’s production of Oedipus Rex can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnW2…
The Arts & Letters Prizes
competition offers publication and a $1000 (US) prize for winners in: Fiction (Short Story), Poetry, Drama (One-Act Play), and Creative Nonfiction (Essay). A $15 submission fee (or $17 for online submissions), payable in US dollars, includes a one-year subscription to Arts & Letters. Please make checks or money orders payable to “GCSU” (note “Arts & Letters” in the memo section). All submissions will be considered for publication. (International authors: Please see below for our new policy concerning international submissions.)
Submission Deadline: Submissions should be postmarked February 1 to March 15. We also accept online submissions during the same time period.
For all submissions: Submit only original, unpublished work in English. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately that the work has been accepted elsewhere. Authors may submit more than one manuscript; however, each submission should include the required entry fee of $15 (or $17 for online submissions), which provides for a one-year subscription, entitling you to the print edition of our special spring issue (featuring all the contest winners) as well as our new ePublication, Arts & Letters PRIME, which appears in the fall and, with new material, again later in the year.
Include a cover sheet with your name, address (where you want your subscription/s to be sent), phone/email contact information, and the title of your work. For those submitting more than one manuscript, you may designate a gift subscription to be sent (please provide name and address where you want the subscription sent). Send a no. 10 self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish to receive an announcement of winners (usually in late June/early July). No manuscripts can be returned.
The author’s name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript, only in the cover letter (for creative nonfiction, if relevant to this policy, please avoid using your full name in the manuscript).
For fiction and creative nonfiction: Submit one story or essay, typed, double-spaced, no more than 25 pages long.
For poetry: Submit up to eight PAGES of poetry, typed, single-spaced, one poem (or part of a poem) per page.
For one-act plays: Submit one work, typed in standard format.
For all submissions: Please mail your submission unfolded and unstapled in a large-size manila envelope and write “Fiction,” “Poetry,” “Nonfiction” or “Drama” on the outside.
For online submissions only: Please make sure to include your address (for where you want your subscription to be sent) when prompted. Please also remember not to include your name anywhere on your document, though you will need your name and contact information on the cover sheet.
Send to:
Arts & Letters Prizes
Campus Box 89
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Special Information for International Authors Please submit online if possible at http://al.gcsu.edu/prizes.php If submitting by post, please add $10 to the reading fee (for a total of $25) to cover the high cost of international postage for delivery of the spring print issue. Your entry fee also entitles you to our ePublication, Arts & Letters PRIME, which appears in the fall and, with new material, again later in the year.
However, if an international author is able to use a US mailing address (or wishes to have a gift subscription mailed to a friend in the US), please tell us so in a cover letter, provide us the appropriate US mailing address, and include the usual $15 reading fee for hard-copy submissions.
Also: International authors do not need to send a SASE or International Postal coupons for notification of winners. If the author will provide an e-mail, we will send the results (usually late June/early July) via e-mail (this information will also be listed on our web site).
Please note: Unless costs are reasonable, we can only provide domestic (US) airfare for our winners to travel to our campus for special prize programs; travel costs will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Publication and prize money, of course, remains the same.
City Theatre of Independence-Playwrights Festival 2012
Fourth Annual Playwrights Festival – Performances July 12, 13, 14, 2012 at 8PM and July 15 at 2PM in the Powerhouse Theatre located in the Roger T. Sermon Community Center, 201 N. Dodgion, Independence
City Theatre is currently accepting submission of short plays not previously produced for our Fourth Annual Playwrights Festival. Requirements for this season are;
* 10 to 15 minutes in length
* never previously produced
* content pertinent to adolescents, i.e. self-esteem, bullying, peer pressure (not limited to these subjects but to the adolescent age group)
* received no later than March 1, 2012. Send your submission to our VP Of Funding
Playwrights of all ages are encouraged to submit.
Playwrights Festival Auditions – Saturday April 28, 2012 from noon to 4PM in the North Room of the Roger T. Sermon Community Center.
Auditions will be for all plays and directors at the same time. Since there will be a variety of roles no character descriptions are available at this time.
Log onto http://citytheatreofindependence.org/?page_id=320
EVCT Aspiring Playwrights Contest Aspiring Playwrights Contest
Sponsored by East Valley Children’s Theatre
East Valley Children’s Theatre is searching for aspiring playwrights to become a part of the theatre’s future seasons of performances. Contest rules and prizes are listed below.
• All Plays must be submitted to EVCT no later than March 15, 2012. Must include a cover sheet with name, address, phone number, email address.)
• Plays must be suitable for children to perform for children. (Small casts are not as likely to be chosen for performance.)
• Plays must be one hour to one hour and a half in length. (Shorter plays may be submitted but they will not be considered for production by the theatre as one of its season’s productions.)
• Plays and Musicals must not have been previously performed. They must be original and unpublished.
• Musicals must include a copy of the music in some form, either manuscript or recorded.
• Cash prizes will be given for the first, second and third place entries.
• The first place entry will not only receive a cash prize but also will be produced by East Valley Children’s Theatre in its upcoming season, if it meets all the criteria for performance.
Send entries to:
East Valley Children’s Theatre
P.O. Box 20514
Mesa, AZ 85277-0514
Or email them to: Karen@evct.org
For more information or questions call EVCT at 480-756-3828.
EVCT is currently accepting scripts for its 2012 Aspiring Playwriting Contest. Entries are due March 15, 2012.
The Eclectic Company Theatre
is proud to present its Ninth Annual HURRICANE SEASON, a new works festival and playwrights competition. HURRICANE SEASON will blow through Los Angeles July 13th through August 5th, 2012. Each of the first three weekends of HURRICANE SEASON will feature a new program of one-act plays that have never been produced before. The audience favorite of each weekend will be invited back for a finals weekend of three more performances. The plays will be selected by the members of the Eclectic Company Theatre’s reading committee, with monetary prizes given to the top three best-written plays as selected by an independent jury.
Submissions:
In order to save trees and save time, The Eclectic requests that ALL submissions are sent in electronically ONLY! Please email the following to ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com:
1. A cover letter that includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail, method of payment and source (how you first came to hear about this contest/festival). Please make sure your name and the name of your script is in the body of your email.
2. ONE PDF of the script WITHOUT the name of the author anywhere in the document. This is important to ensure our reading committee has no knowledge of who wrote the script.
DEADLINE: All submission and payments must be received by March 18, 2012.
Payment:
Please note: Early entry fee is $10 – script and payment must be received by February 19, 2012.
Regular entry fee is $15 – script and payment must be received by March 18, 2012.
You have TWO options for payment processing:
1. Send the processing fee via PayPal to ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com.
2. Send a check via snail mail to the following address. Please make all checks out to Eclectic Company Theatre.
HURRICANE SEASON 2012
C/O THE ECLECTIC COMPANY THEATRE
5312 LAUREL CANYON BLVD
VALLEY VILLAGE, CA 91607
IMPORTANT: Submission Criteria
1. Scripts must be previously un-published.
2. Scripts must not have been previously produced in California. Prior productions in other states or countries is acceptable. Produced is defined as any production, reading, or staging for a paying audience.
3. The running time of the script should be 15-40 minutes. This is approximately 10-35 pages.
4. One-person shows will not be considered.
5. Submissions must be in English.
6. Production requirements in the script (i.e., size of set, special effects, etc.) must be able to be adapted to fit into a black-box theatre using minimal set pieces, props, and costumes. We reserve the right to reject any script we believe cannot be produced in our facility.
7. Make sure your name and/or personal information is removed from the PDF submitted to ensure unbiased review.
8. We encourage you NOT to submit the same script to Hurricane Season two years in a row unless you have made significant changes. While this may not hurt the chances of your script being chosen, we like to see new and varied work each year. Different scripts will help us get better acquainted with your voice as a writer.
Important Fine Print (Please Read!)
The Eclectic Company Theatre’s Hurricane Season Playwriting Competition is a part of the Hurricane Season New Play Festival. You are submitting to our Festival. Contestants are competing to win cash prizes for the top three best-written plays, as well as non-cash audience favorite awards. The competition is open to anyone but submissions must comply with submission criteria.
Authors must guarantee that they have sole rights to all matter contained within the script.
By submitting a script for consideration to the competition, the playwright agrees that The Eclectic Company Theatre may produce the script during the Hurricane Season Festival and has control over the artistic choices of this particular production. The Eclectic Company Theatre agrees to produce the script, if chosen, to the best of its ability.
Furthermore, the playwright agrees to waive any royalty for the production of the script in the festival.
The committee’s decision is final and no correspondence concerning the results can be entered into.
Play Selection Process
The Play Selection Committee will be made up of members of the Eclectic Company Theatre.
ONLY the producers of Hurricane Season will know the identity of the playwrights. The producers will not be a part of the reading committee.
At least two different members of the Play Selection Committee will read each script.
The Play Selection Committee will select the 9 scripts to be produced in the festival.
The Producers of Hurricane Season will notify playwrights of their status in a timely manner.
The 9 selected scripts will be sent to a committee of 3-5 Judges. These Judges will be active Directors, Producers, Educators, and Playwrights in the theatre profession. None of the Judges will be members of the Eclectic Company Theatre or have any other involvement in the Festival, including submitting scripts of their own.
The Judges will select a First, Second, and Third place winner, which will be announced during the award ceremony on August 5th, 2012.
All nine scripts sent to the judges, including the three winners, will be performed for one guaranteed weekend consisting of three performances and be eligible for audience favorite awards. The script that receives the Audience Favorite Best Overall Production Award from each weekend will be rewarded with an additional three performances during the final weekend of the festival. (See Schedule below)
Cash Prizes
First Prize: $150
Second Prize: $100
Third Prize: $50
Production (Non Cash) Prizes
Audience Awards for Best Actor & Actress
Audience Awards for Best Playwriting
Audience Awards for Best Overall Production & Direction
Festival Schedule
Block A: July 13-15, 2012
Block B: July 20-22, 2012
Block C: July 27-29, 2012
Finalist Weekend (Winners of Best Overall Production from Block A, B, C): August 3-5, 2012
Please email us at ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Lost Theatre Company One Act Festival
If, having read through all the information, including the rules & regulations, you would like to apply to perform in the Festival then complete the on-line application form and submit it along with a copy of the script. Alternatively there are downloadable forms. Fill these in and post it to the following address*:
One Act Festival Co-ordinator
LOST Theatre Company
208 Wandsworth Road
London
SW8 2JU
Any queries please call the Co-ordinator on 0207 622 9208 or email losttheatre@yahoo.co.uk *Please note – LOST Theatre cannot return scripts. Also, we require the actual script that you are proposing – another example of your work will not suffice.
To apply, Log onto: http://www.losttheatre.co.uk/festivals/oneactfestival/oneactfestival
MOMENTS OF PLAY 2012 – 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Salem Theatre Company
Salem Theatre Company is now accepting 10-Minute Play submissions in preparation for their 6th Annual MOMENTS OF PLAY scheduled for July 11- 15, 2012.
A Playwrights Panel will be held at 7:30 on Saturday, July 10. Past panels have included Lydia Diamond, Richard Dresser, Melinda Lopez, Ronan Noone & Kate Snodgrass. Panelists attend the 5PM performance and give feedback to participating playwrights during the panel discussion.
Woodward/Newman Drama Award
The BPP has begun accepting submissions for the 2012-13 Woodward/Newman Drama Award. Submissions are due by March 1, 2012. The top 10 finalists will be announced at the end of May with the winner announced in June 2012.
The Woodward/Newman Drama Award is an exclusive honor offered by Bloomington Playwrights Project, sponsored by the Newman’s Own Foundation, remembering the many great dramas Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman performed in together. It presents the best unpublished full-length drama of the year with a prize of $3,000, a full production as part of the BPP’s 2012-13 Mainstage season and travel expenses up to $300.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
(subject to change):
1. “Full-length” plays will have a complete running time of between 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) to 2 hours 15 minutes (135 minutes).
2. Plays submitted must be unpublished at the time of submission. Plays that have received developmental readings, workshop productions, or productions at small theatre companies are acceptable. No scripts with previous productions at major regional theaters will be accepted. Once entered, subsequent activity does not change the acceptability of the script.
3. Each submission must include a synopsis (1 page or less) including the cast size. A separate page should include a brief bio of the playwright, and production/development history if applicable.
4. Each submission must include a cover letter with contact information and a $10.00 reader fee. Agent submissions require no fee. The fee will be waived for Dramatist Guild members with an enclosed photocopy of a membership card. The BPP only accepts U.S. checks or money orders (Make check payable to “BPP”). No international checks or money orders will be accepted. If submitting internationally or if you want to avoid paying by check, pay online with your credit card here:
Make sure to note with your submission that you have paid the reader fee online.
5. It is preferable for musicals to include a demo CD. The complete score is not necessary but may be included. All plays are read by BPP’s literary personnel led by and including the Literary Manager and Artistic Director.
6. We do not accept email submissions. Scripts will not be returned.
7. The BPP reserves the right not to name a winner and/or name a winner but not commit to a reading or production. These instances are rare but can and do occur.
8. Send to:
Woodward/Newman Drama Award
Bloomington Playwrights Project
107 W. 9th Street
Bloomington, IN 47404
9. Scripts must be postmarked by March 1, 2012, and received no later than March 10, 2012. We are not responsible for postal delays, and recommend you not choose to send Media Mail unless you are submitting several weeks in advance.
10. For further information, write BPP, Attn: Literary Manager, 107 W. 9th Street, Bloomington, IN 47404. For faster replies, please email us at literarymanager@newplays.org.
REDCAT's Studio: Summer 2012
REDCAT is seeking original performance works for the next edition of Studio, REDCAT's quarterly series of new works in progress in dance, theater, multi-media and music. If you have a project 15 minutes or under and would like to be considered - apply now.
Applications are due by 5:00PM: SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012
Showings are scheduled for: SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012
Performance dates: SUNDAY & MONDAY, JUNE 24, 25, 2012 at 8:30PM
Visit our website: http://www.redcat.org/about/artist-opportunities and complete the online application.
Help us spread the word by forwarding this call to fellow artists.
For questions email: studio.redcat@calarts.edu
ABOUT STUDIO
Studio was created to give new artists an opportunity to hone their skills and offer established artists a chance to test new material and works-in-progress before an audience. A revolving panel of working artists curates each edition, selecting artists through a live showing process.
ASUNCION PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT
The submission period for the 2010-2011 Asunción Playwrights Project competition is now closed. The next postmark deadline is February 14, 2012. Please join us for the readings of the 2011 Finalists. CLICK HERE for the full schedule of readings.
Pregones Theater’s Asunción Playwrights Project showcases the work of Latino and Latina playwrights exploring issues of difference and transformation at the limits of queer identity. The project fosters fun and genuine dialogue between playwrights, theatermakers, LGBTQ communities, and a general audience. We especially seek works that challenge normative straight/gay binaries. Submissions by women writers are encouraged. Both Spanish and English language manuscripts are welcome.
Finalists commit to a public reading and open discussion. A panel of peers, industry professionals, scholars, critics and previous winners makes the final selection of the year’s winning play.
The winner recieves a $500 award and the play is given a professionally cast workshop production at Pregones Theater.
Selection Process
The selection process is made up of two preliminary rounds.
The first round is open to all. A completed application form must be submitted with a 10 page sample of the work.
The second round is by invitation only. Up to eight playwrights from the first round are invited to submit their work in its entirety for final review. The public readings are selected from this group of finalists.
All plays must be original, full length works for the stage that have never been produced and are not currently under option. Plays may be submitted in Spanish or English. Monologues and/or one-person shows will not be considered. Asunción will only consider works of superior artistic rigor that meet one or more of the project’s criteria:
• explore issues of difference and transformation at the limits of queer identity;
• challenge normative assumptions of gender;
• present Latino spiritual and sensual explorations beyond the boundaries of gender and essentialist notions of sexual orientation;
• go beyond coming out stories;
• challenge normative notions of family;
• dwell in alterity and encounter;
• place queer expectations of love and sex in a Latino cultural/historical context;
• are significant to the lives of Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer people.
The Asunción Playwrights Project is recognized with a special merit recognition from HOLA Organization of Latin Actors and a feature in Ollantay Theater Magazine.
APPLICATION guidelines
1. Download and complete the Asunción Application Form or request a hard copy by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Jorge B. Merced, Associate Artistic Director, Pregones Theater, 571-575 Walton Avenue, Bronx NY 10451.
2. Include a brief description of the play and two copies of a ten-page sample. DO NOT INCLUDE A FULL COPY OF THE SCRIPT.
3. Samples must be typewritten or word-processed in typeface no smaller than 12 point, double-spaced and on 8½” X 11″ white paper. You may submit works in either English or Spanish.
4. If you are submitting more than one script, you must complete an application for each work. No more than two entries per writer will be accepted each year.
5. Include a copy of your resume with the application.
6. Please include a self-addressed stamped postcard, or e-mail address to confirm receipt of your entry. COD Deliveries will not be accepted.
7. Please include a return package with sufficient postage if you would like your script returned.
8. All applications must be written, signed, and submitted by the playwright.
APPLICATION Deadline
The current application deadline is February 14, 2012 (postmarked).
Faxed, e-mailed, or incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Apply online at: http://www.pregones.org/asuncion.html
The Durango Arts Center 10-Minute Play Contest
The Durango Arts Center is pleased to sponsor its second annual 10-Minute Play Contest in 2012, which will culminate in a full production during the annual Durango Showcase of the Arts in September.
10-minute plays were officially introduced by the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville in 1977, when the genre was promoted as part of the Humana Festival of new American Plays. Often referred to as the “haiku of the American stage” as well as “a streak of theatrical lightning,” 10-minute plays have become an engaging and popular genre for today’s audiences and playwrights.
The Durango Arts Center
Located in the heart of Durango, Colorado at 802 East Second Avenue, the Durango Arts Center is home to a 200-seat theater, an art gallery, library, and gift shop, as well as administrative offices, classrooms, and rehearsal spaces. The DAC is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to promote the exploration, education, enrichment, and enjoyment of the arts for people from all artistic levels and backgrounds within the Four Corners region and beyond.
Contest Director
Dr. Rochelle Mann, Professor Emerita at Fort Lewis College, has been a part of the arts community in Durango for over 25 years. During her tenure at FLC, she served as Music Department Chair and also as Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She currently holds the position of Vice President on the Durango Arts Center Board of Directors, and is pleased to launch the inaugural 10-Minute Play Contest.
Artistic Consultants
Dr. Dinah Leavitt Swan, retired Professor of Theatre at Fort Lewis College, served as Director of the highly-acclaimed Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest in Oxford, Mississippi. An actor, director, and published playwright herself, she is actively involved in the both the competition and production aspects of the Durango contest.
Terry Swan, President of the Durango Arts Center Board of Directors, also brings valuable expertise from his work with the Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest. Mr. Swan is the former Managing Director of the New Stage Theatre in Jackson, Mississippi, and recently served as the director for the DAC’s “Greater Tuna” performance.
2012 Schedule of Events
February 10, 2012 – Deadline for submissions (Entries must be postmarked on or before February 18.)
May 2012 – The top entries of the 2010 contest will be presented as staged readings at The Durango Arts Center in Durango, CO. The Judges will select the top 5 entries and the winner of the Grand Prize Award ($500). Audience members will select their favorite 10 Minute Play for an award of $50.
September 2012 – The Grand Prize winning play and selected others will be performed at the Durango Arts Center as part of the Durango Showcase of the Arts.
Contest Guidelines and Rules
Only original plays, never before produced, are eligible.
Each play should require 2-4 characters and minimal props and costumes.
The play, exclusive of title and cast pages, may be no more than ten pages.
Script submissions should include the following:
- An Optional cover letter
- TWO COPIES OF THE PLAY
- $10 entry fee – check addressed to Durango Arts Center
- The Title Page should include the author’s name, address, phone number, and email address. (This is the ONLY place the author’s name should appear.)
- Page 2 should list the cast of characters and a description of the setting.
- Page 3 will be the first page of the script. The other pages of the play follow.
- The play’s title and page numbers MUST be included on every page.
- Staple or paper-clip the play. Do NOT use binders or folders of any kind.
Judging Process
- A panel will judge the plays blindly.
- Ten finalists will be chosen. Only the finalists will be notified of judging results.
- Five winners will be chosen from the finalists. The Grand Prize Winner will receive the Grand Prize, $500, and a production of the winning script.
Authors may submit multiple plays, but each play must include a separate entry fee.
Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked on or before February 18,2012. No exceptions.
Entry fee: $10 check addressed to Durango Arts Center. The fee MUST accompany each entry.
Send your submission to:
10 Minute Play Contest
Durango Arts Center
802 East Second Avenue
Durango, CO 81301
For more information, email TenMinutePlayDirector@gmail.com
The 2012 Hamilton Fringe Festival
New Play Contest Entry Form
http://www.hamiltonfringe.ca/play-writing-competition
How To Enter:
1. Read the Rules & Regulations on the back of this page.
2. Fill out and sign The New Play Contest entry form.
3. Mail in or drop off the completed entry form, a hard copy of the script, as well as a disc
with a PDF version and the entry fee starting on Wednesday December 1st 2011.
Deadline for entries is February 25, 2012 at 5:00pm or when 30 entries have been
received. E-mail submissions will not be accepted.
4. The entry fee is $30.00 and can be paid in cash or cheque payable to The Hamilton
Festival Theatre company. (A $20 fee will be levied if a cheque is returned to us NSF.
Until paid, the application will be deemed ineligible.)
5. Each play must have a title page bearing only the play title. The Fringe will assign the
play a letter or symbol, which will keep the names of the playwrights anonymous.
Rules & Regulations:
1. Open to all playwrights/writers.
2. Only one entry per playwright is permitted.
3. All entries must be original, unproduced plays/musicals.
(Plays that have been workshopped are eligible.)
4. Plays must be submitted in English.
5. First time stage adaptations of other work from another medium are not eligible.
6. The playwright may have received funding to create or workshop this play.
7. All plays must have a performance time of 90 minutes or less. There is no page limit but
the play must fit within The Fringe’s 90-minute running time policy.
8. Scripts must be type written or word processed, printed on one side of 8 ½” x 11” paper.
Please include a title page without the playwright’s name.
9. Pages must be numbered and scripts should be loose or paper clipped (not stapled or
bound).
10. Scripts entered will not be mailed back to playwrights after the contest.
11. Playwrights who enter The Fringe New Play Contest may also enter The Fringe Lottery.
If the winning playwright of the contest has entered The Fringe Lottery, his/her
application will be removed from the lottery and the application fee will be refunded.
12. The winner must use their Fringe slot to produce the play that was submitted to the
contest.
13. Any current members of the Board of Directors of the Hamilton Festival Theatre
Company (aka The Hamilton Fringe Festival) are not eligible to participate in this
contest.
14. Please mark the outside of the envelope clearly with “New Play Contest” submission.
Prizes & Notification:
1. A panel of jurors will judge the plays and all entries will be anonymous.
2. First place prize will be a spot in the 2012 Hamilton Fringe Festival, for the winning play,
plus $300.00 in Canadian Funds. The performance slot has no cash value and can’t be
sold or transferred to another party. The winning playwright will have to fill out and sign
an Indoor Application Form and abide by all of the policies of The Hamilton Fringe
Festival.
3. Second place and Third place prizes will be 2012 Festival “binge” pass.
4. The winning plays will be announced on April 15, 2012.
Hamilton Fringe Festival, 279 King Street East, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 1B9 info@hamiltonfringe.ca
Red Bull Theater’s Short New Plays Festival-2nd Annual Short New Play Festival – Open Submissions
New plays! Heightened language! Epic circumstances! 10 minutes long!
The Deal
After the success of last season’s inaugural Festival, Red Bull Theater’s Short New Plays Festival returns in 2012. Six short plays will be selected from an open-submission process and presented in staged readings with two short plays by commissioned writers (John Guare and one other TBA). Plays will be selected based on relevance to Red Bull Theater’s mission, incorporation of stated theme and excellence of the work. Directors for the plays are Ken Rus Schmoll and Anne Kaufmann.
The Drill
Write a short play of no more than 10 minutes in length that contains heightened language, verse, classical themes, or is an adaptation of a great classic story. This year, each play must respond to the following word:
REVOLUTION
Take a look through http://www.redbulltheater.com/History to see the kind of work we have done. Respond to a play we’ve produced, or choose a classic of your own. Adapt one, Riff on a character, Create a whole new Jacobean-like world – you choose!
The Rules
• Each playwright may submit ONE SCRIPT only.
• Each play may be no more than TEN PAGES in font no smaller than 11pt.
• We ONLY accept electronic submissions in PDF form. Do not mail printed scripts.
• Include writer contact information on the title page.
• Plays should be self-contained with a beginning, middle and end.
• Excerpts of full-length works are ineligible.
The Timeline Email scripts to submissions@redbulltheater.com by the deadline of February 28th, 2012.
Submissions will only be accepted electronically in PDF format.
Selected plays will be announced by April 30th, 2012.
New Play Festival is June 18th, 2012.
*Due to the volume of scripts, we are unable to comment on submissions.
Apply online at: http://www.redbulltheater.com/Collaborate
Questions? Contact Wendy Anderson, Director of Artistic and Strategic Development at wendy@redbulltheater.com. Thank you!
The Rep’s 2010 Ten Minute Play Competition
“An Evening to Hang Your Hat On”
Ten minute plays are being solicited by the Rochester Rep for performances scheduled in July 2010.
A reading panel comprised of The Rep’s Board of Directors, Staff and Advisory Members (excluding the Board’s Artistic Liaison) will select eight plays to be produced from submissions received. “An Evening to Hang Your Hat On” is a continuing project following “Glass Half Full” (2008), “Reflections in a Mirror” (2006), “Treasures From The Trunk” (2003) and the first “An Evening to Hang Your Hat On” (2002). These productions have had one central goal: To support new and emerging playwrights as they experiment with an emerging and more accessible, but highly challenging, art form. We wish to showcase the considerable talents of new playwrights, provide a venue for their scripts, and provide director(s) and actors with the opportunity to work with a “work-in-progress.” It is The Rep’s intent to sponsor an evening of ten minute plays as a summer production, opening July 16, 2010, and running Thursdays – Saturdays, July 16-17, 22-24, and July 29-31, 2010. The Rep will arrange for directors, cast and technical crew for all plays chosen for production.
The theme for the evening of plays should incorporate The Rep’s coat rack.
Requirements:
1.The playwright should take for inspiration incorporation of the free-standing coat rack in the action of the play. The playwright must also consider the space available on The Rep’s stage. All other props and set pieces must be minimal in demand (benches, stools, tables, etc. For example, four cubes might be arranged as a sofa).
2.All scripts must be at least 10 minutes in length, not to exceed 15 minutes. Estimate that one page of dialogue equals approximately a minute of stage time.
3.Plays may be any genre from farce to tragedy, excluding musicals.
4.Scripts must be the original, previously non-produced work of the playwright, and not a translation or adaptation.
5.Number of characters in a script should not exceed four (as the same actors may well perform throughout the evening).
6.The play should adapt well to a bare stage, with a minimum of props, set pieces, costume demands, and no special effects, lighting, or scenic demands.
7.Selected plays will be directed by director(s) chosen by the Rep’s Artistic Liaison and all casting of actors will be managed by the Rep..
8.Because of the interest and enthusiasm shown in past competitions, a playwright may submit only one script for consideration.
Submission:
1. The deadline for submission of scripts is Saturday, February 13, 2010. Early submission is strongly suggested.
2. The Title Page should include the play’s title, playwright’s name, e-mail, postal address and telephone number. Please do not put your name elsewhere on the manuscript. The Title Page should not be attached to the rest of the script.
3. Scripts should be typed or printed in 12-point Times font on 8.5”x11” standard white paper, one side only and should be stapled or bound. The title of the script should appear on each page of the script along with page numbering.
4. Scripts will not be returned to the playwright. If you wish acknowledgement of receipt of your script, please include a self-addressed stamped postcard with your script submission.
5. Submission of scripts implies permission to produce said scripts royalty-free.
- 6. Submit scripts and questions to:
Rochester Repertory Theatre
103 7th St., NE
Rochester, MN 55906
Scripts may also be emailed to boxoffice@rochesterrep.org
The Rep Board readers will evaluate scripts on personal appeal, suitability to site, perspective on the theme, directorial and acting challenges, and audience appeal. Each script will receive at least three readings; readers will be encouraged to make written comments to each playwright. Winning playwrights will be notified by April 30, 2010 at the opening of “1776”, as well as by letter/email.
The Rochester Repertory Theatre Company
103 Seventh Street NE
Rochester, Minnesota 55906
Telephone 507.289.1REP
Avatar Repertory Theater (A.R.T.)
presents A VIRTUAL SHORT PLAY BUFFET, inviting writers to submit original short plays (3-10 minute plays or excerpts from larger pieces that stand on their own) to be produced on the virtual platform of Second Life® (www.secondlife.com). Of the 24 plays selected for readings at A.R.T. Plays Around on Friday nights at 5 pm April-May 2011, five will receive a full production in July 2011. Playwrights do not have to be residents of Second Life® but are encouraged to explore this unique venue for live theater.
If you are unfamiliar or new to Second Life®, email virtualshortplaybuffet@gmail.com and request a Tech Sheet. Join the Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php….
In an email include your name title of your play, number of characters and technical requests. Remove your name from the script and attach to the email and send to virtualshortplaybuffet@gmail.com.. DEADLINE IS MARCH 10, 2011.
A.R.T. was founded in 2008 by Sodovan Torok and Ada Radius and now consists of 21 actors, directors, playwrights and designers, most of whom have extensive real life experience. Actors use Second Life Voice to accompany avatars of all shapes and sizes. Sets, costumes, scripted objects and props, animations and avatar designs are created by company members. The options for creativity allow for innovation beyond the possibilities in real life. Some presentations have streamed on the internet and machinimas (cinema + machine) are in the works. The trailer for A.R.T.’s production of Oedipus Rex can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnW2…
The Arts & Letters Prizes
competition offers publication and a $1000 (US) prize for winners in: Fiction (Short Story), Poetry, Drama (One-Act Play), and Creative Nonfiction (Essay). A $15 submission fee (or $17 for online submissions), payable in US dollars, includes a one-year subscription to Arts & Letters. Please make checks or money orders payable to “GCSU” (note “Arts & Letters” in the memo section). All submissions will be considered for publication. (International authors: Please see below for our new policy concerning international submissions.)
Submission Deadline: Submissions should be postmarked February 1 to March 15. We also accept online submissions during the same time period.
For all submissions: Submit only original, unpublished work in English. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately that the work has been accepted elsewhere. Authors may submit more than one manuscript; however, each submission should include the required entry fee of $15 (or $17 for online submissions), which provides for a one-year subscription, entitling you to the print edition of our special spring issue (featuring all the contest winners) as well as our new ePublication, Arts & Letters PRIME, which appears in the fall and, with new material, again later in the year.
Include a cover sheet with your name, address (where you want your subscription/s to be sent), phone/email contact information, and the title of your work. For those submitting more than one manuscript, you may designate a gift subscription to be sent (please provide name and address where you want the subscription sent). Send a no. 10 self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish to receive an announcement of winners (usually in late June/early July). No manuscripts can be returned.
The author’s name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript, only in the cover letter (for creative nonfiction, if relevant to this policy, please avoid using your full name in the manuscript).
For fiction and creative nonfiction: Submit one story or essay, typed, double-spaced, no more than 25 pages long.
For poetry: Submit up to eight PAGES of poetry, typed, single-spaced, one poem (or part of a poem) per page.
For one-act plays: Submit one work, typed in standard format.
For all submissions: Please mail your submission unfolded and unstapled in a large-size manila envelope and write “Fiction,” “Poetry,” “Nonfiction” or “Drama” on the outside.
For online submissions only: Please make sure to include your address (for where you want your subscription to be sent) when prompted. Please also remember not to include your name anywhere on your document, though you will need your name and contact information on the cover sheet.
Send to:
Arts & Letters Prizes
Campus Box 89
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Special Information for International Authors Please submit online if possible at http://al.gcsu.edu/prizes.php If submitting by post, please add $10 to the reading fee (for a total of $25) to cover the high cost of international postage for delivery of the spring print issue. Your entry fee also entitles you to our ePublication, Arts & Letters PRIME, which appears in the fall and, with new material, again later in the year.
However, if an international author is able to use a US mailing address (or wishes to have a gift subscription mailed to a friend in the US), please tell us so in a cover letter, provide us the appropriate US mailing address, and include the usual $15 reading fee for hard-copy submissions.
Also: International authors do not need to send a SASE or International Postal coupons for notification of winners. If the author will provide an e-mail, we will send the results (usually late June/early July) via e-mail (this information will also be listed on our web site).
Please note: Unless costs are reasonable, we can only provide domestic (US) airfare for our winners to travel to our campus for special prize programs; travel costs will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Publication and prize money, of course, remains the same.
City Theatre of Independence-Playwrights Festival 2012
Fourth Annual Playwrights Festival – Performances July 12, 13, 14, 2012 at 8PM and July 15 at 2PM in the Powerhouse Theatre located in the Roger T. Sermon Community Center, 201 N. Dodgion, Independence
City Theatre is currently accepting submission of short plays not previously produced for our Fourth Annual Playwrights Festival. Requirements for this season are;
* 10 to 15 minutes in length
* never previously produced
* content pertinent to adolescents, i.e. self-esteem, bullying, peer pressure (not limited to these subjects but to the adolescent age group)
* received no later than March 1, 2012. Send your submission to our VP Of Funding
Playwrights of all ages are encouraged to submit.
Playwrights Festival Auditions – Saturday April 28, 2012 from noon to 4PM in the North Room of the Roger T. Sermon Community Center.
Auditions will be for all plays and directors at the same time. Since there will be a variety of roles no character descriptions are available at this time.
Log onto http://citytheatreofindependence.org/?page_id=320
EVCT Aspiring Playwrights Contest Aspiring Playwrights Contest
Sponsored by East Valley Children’s Theatre
East Valley Children’s Theatre is searching for aspiring playwrights to become a part of the theatre’s future seasons of performances. Contest rules and prizes are listed below.
• All Plays must be submitted to EVCT no later than March 15, 2012. Must include a cover sheet with name, address, phone number, email address.)
• Plays must be suitable for children to perform for children. (Small casts are not as likely to be chosen for performance.)
• Plays must be one hour to one hour and a half in length. (Shorter plays may be submitted but they will not be considered for production by the theatre as one of its season’s productions.)
• Plays and Musicals must not have been previously performed. They must be original and unpublished.
• Musicals must include a copy of the music in some form, either manuscript or recorded.
• Cash prizes will be given for the first, second and third place entries.
• The first place entry will not only receive a cash prize but also will be produced by East Valley Children’s Theatre in its upcoming season, if it meets all the criteria for performance.
Send entries to:
East Valley Children’s Theatre
P.O. Box 20514
Mesa, AZ 85277-0514
Or email them to: Karen@evct.org
For more information or questions call EVCT at 480-756-3828.
EVCT is currently accepting scripts for its 2012 Aspiring Playwriting Contest. Entries are due March 15, 2012.
The Eclectic Company Theatre
is proud to present its Ninth Annual HURRICANE SEASON, a new works festival and playwrights competition. HURRICANE SEASON will blow through Los Angeles July 13th through August 5th, 2012. Each of the first three weekends of HURRICANE SEASON will feature a new program of one-act plays that have never been produced before. The audience favorite of each weekend will be invited back for a finals weekend of three more performances. The plays will be selected by the members of the Eclectic Company Theatre’s reading committee, with monetary prizes given to the top three best-written plays as selected by an independent jury.
Submissions:
In order to save trees and save time, The Eclectic requests that ALL submissions are sent in electronically ONLY! Please email the following to ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com:
1. A cover letter that includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail, method of payment and source (how you first came to hear about this contest/festival). Please make sure your name and the name of your script is in the body of your email.
2. ONE PDF of the script WITHOUT the name of the author anywhere in the document. This is important to ensure our reading committee has no knowledge of who wrote the script.
DEADLINE: All submission and payments must be received by March 18, 2012.
Payment:
Please note: Early entry fee is $10 – script and payment must be received by February 19, 2012.
Regular entry fee is $15 – script and payment must be received by March 18, 2012.
You have TWO options for payment processing:
1. Send the processing fee via PayPal to ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com.
2. Send a check via snail mail to the following address. Please make all checks out to Eclectic Company Theatre.
HURRICANE SEASON 2012
C/O THE ECLECTIC COMPANY THEATRE
5312 LAUREL CANYON BLVD
VALLEY VILLAGE, CA 91607
IMPORTANT: Submission Criteria
1. Scripts must be previously un-published.
2. Scripts must not have been previously produced in California. Prior productions in other states or countries is acceptable. Produced is defined as any production, reading, or staging for a paying audience.
3. The running time of the script should be 15-40 minutes. This is approximately 10-35 pages.
4. One-person shows will not be considered.
5. Submissions must be in English.
6. Production requirements in the script (i.e., size of set, special effects, etc.) must be able to be adapted to fit into a black-box theatre using minimal set pieces, props, and costumes. We reserve the right to reject any script we believe cannot be produced in our facility.
7. Make sure your name and/or personal information is removed from the PDF submitted to ensure unbiased review.
8. We encourage you NOT to submit the same script to Hurricane Season two years in a row unless you have made significant changes. While this may not hurt the chances of your script being chosen, we like to see new and varied work each year. Different scripts will help us get better acquainted with your voice as a writer.
Important Fine Print (Please Read!)
The Eclectic Company Theatre’s Hurricane Season Playwriting Competition is a part of the Hurricane Season New Play Festival. You are submitting to our Festival. Contestants are competing to win cash prizes for the top three best-written plays, as well as non-cash audience favorite awards. The competition is open to anyone but submissions must comply with submission criteria.
Authors must guarantee that they have sole rights to all matter contained within the script.
By submitting a script for consideration to the competition, the playwright agrees that The Eclectic Company Theatre may produce the script during the Hurricane Season Festival and has control over the artistic choices of this particular production. The Eclectic Company Theatre agrees to produce the script, if chosen, to the best of its ability.
Furthermore, the playwright agrees to waive any royalty for the production of the script in the festival.
The committee’s decision is final and no correspondence concerning the results can be entered into.
Play Selection Process
The Play Selection Committee will be made up of members of the Eclectic Company Theatre.
ONLY the producers of Hurricane Season will know the identity of the playwrights. The producers will not be a part of the reading committee.
At least two different members of the Play Selection Committee will read each script.
The Play Selection Committee will select the 9 scripts to be produced in the festival.
The Producers of Hurricane Season will notify playwrights of their status in a timely manner.
The 9 selected scripts will be sent to a committee of 3-5 Judges. These Judges will be active Directors, Producers, Educators, and Playwrights in the theatre profession. None of the Judges will be members of the Eclectic Company Theatre or have any other involvement in the Festival, including submitting scripts of their own.
The Judges will select a First, Second, and Third place winner, which will be announced during the award ceremony on August 5th, 2012.
All nine scripts sent to the judges, including the three winners, will be performed for one guaranteed weekend consisting of three performances and be eligible for audience favorite awards. The script that receives the Audience Favorite Best Overall Production Award from each weekend will be rewarded with an additional three performances during the final weekend of the festival. (See Schedule below)
Cash Prizes
First Prize: $150
Second Prize: $100
Third Prize: $50
Production (Non Cash) Prizes
Audience Awards for Best Actor & Actress
Audience Awards for Best Playwriting
Audience Awards for Best Overall Production & Direction
Festival Schedule
Block A: July 13-15, 2012
Block B: July 20-22, 2012
Block C: July 27-29, 2012
Finalist Weekend (Winners of Best Overall Production from Block A, B, C): August 3-5, 2012
Please email us at ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Lost Theatre Company One Act Festival
If, having read through all the information, including the rules & regulations, you would like to apply to perform in the Festival then complete the on-line application form and submit it along with a copy of the script. Alternatively there are downloadable forms. Fill these in and post it to the following address*:
One Act Festival Co-ordinator
LOST Theatre Company
208 Wandsworth Road
London
SW8 2JU
Any queries please call the Co-ordinator on 0207 622 9208 or email losttheatre@yahoo.co.uk *Please note – LOST Theatre cannot return scripts. Also, we require the actual script that you are proposing – another example of your work will not suffice.
To apply, Log onto: http://www.losttheatre.co.uk/festivals/oneactfestival/oneactfestival
MOMENTS OF PLAY 2012 – 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Salem Theatre Company
Salem Theatre Company is now accepting 10-Minute Play submissions in preparation for their 6th Annual MOMENTS OF PLAY scheduled for July 11- 15, 2012.
- Plays must be received by midnight on Saturday, March 31, 2012.
- All plays must be submitted electronically in pdf. format to mop@salemtheatre.com.
- Plays received via POST OFFICE will be unable to be considered and will not be returned.
- Playwrights may submit up to two plays. If more than two are sent then none will be considered.
- Plays must be no more than 10 minutes in length and have no more than four characters.
- Playwrights whose pieces are chosen will be notified via email no later than April 30th. Selections will also be posted on the STC website by the same date.
- STC is looking for pieces that are culturally diverse, original, fun and relevant.
- Submit full script with name and contact info to mop@salemtheatre.com.
- Playwrights whose plays are chosen for production will receive a $10 royalty for each of the five performances given ($50 total).
A Playwrights Panel will be held at 7:30 on Saturday, July 10. Past panels have included Lydia Diamond, Richard Dresser, Melinda Lopez, Ronan Noone & Kate Snodgrass. Panelists attend the 5PM performance and give feedback to participating playwrights during the panel discussion.
Woodward/Newman Drama Award
The BPP has begun accepting submissions for the 2012-13 Woodward/Newman Drama Award. Submissions are due by March 1, 2012. The top 10 finalists will be announced at the end of May with the winner announced in June 2012.
The Woodward/Newman Drama Award is an exclusive honor offered by Bloomington Playwrights Project, sponsored by the Newman’s Own Foundation, remembering the many great dramas Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman performed in together. It presents the best unpublished full-length drama of the year with a prize of $3,000, a full production as part of the BPP’s 2012-13 Mainstage season and travel expenses up to $300.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
(subject to change):
1. “Full-length” plays will have a complete running time of between 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) to 2 hours 15 minutes (135 minutes).
2. Plays submitted must be unpublished at the time of submission. Plays that have received developmental readings, workshop productions, or productions at small theatre companies are acceptable. No scripts with previous productions at major regional theaters will be accepted. Once entered, subsequent activity does not change the acceptability of the script.
3. Each submission must include a synopsis (1 page or less) including the cast size. A separate page should include a brief bio of the playwright, and production/development history if applicable.
4. Each submission must include a cover letter with contact information and a $10.00 reader fee. Agent submissions require no fee. The fee will be waived for Dramatist Guild members with an enclosed photocopy of a membership card. The BPP only accepts U.S. checks or money orders (Make check payable to “BPP”). No international checks or money orders will be accepted. If submitting internationally or if you want to avoid paying by check, pay online with your credit card here:
Make sure to note with your submission that you have paid the reader fee online.
5. It is preferable for musicals to include a demo CD. The complete score is not necessary but may be included. All plays are read by BPP’s literary personnel led by and including the Literary Manager and Artistic Director.
6. We do not accept email submissions. Scripts will not be returned.
7. The BPP reserves the right not to name a winner and/or name a winner but not commit to a reading or production. These instances are rare but can and do occur.
8. Send to:
Woodward/Newman Drama Award
Bloomington Playwrights Project
107 W. 9th Street
Bloomington, IN 47404
9. Scripts must be postmarked by March 1, 2012, and received no later than March 10, 2012. We are not responsible for postal delays, and recommend you not choose to send Media Mail unless you are submitting several weeks in advance.
10. For further information, write BPP, Attn: Literary Manager, 107 W. 9th Street, Bloomington, IN 47404. For faster replies, please email us at literarymanager@newplays.org.
