NYCPlaywrights

thoughts on the Master Class

2010-02-07T23:38:00.005-05:00

Marguerite Louise Scott, who attended the Gretchen Cryer Master Class at Cherry Lane kindly shared her thoughts on the experience:

Much gratitude to the Cherry Lane Theatre and Gretchen Cryer for a fabulous Master Playwrighting Class! As a playwright who has just recently relocated back here to NYC after eleven years in Portland, Oregon it was greatly comforting and inspiring to be in a room with fellow writers and hear each others work we all wrote on the spot. I came into the evening feeling like a stranger in a new land, and left knowing something intimate and intriguing about each and every one present. What a gift.

The focus of Solo Writing and Performance was particularly inspiring for me, as I have written and performed a show in the past, but didn't think I had another one in me. I left the evening with the seeds of a new show I am now working on!

Thank you Gretchen and NYC Playwrights and the Cherry Lane Theatre for making my landing back here in the city such a fruitful one.

Marguerite's blog

Insight Out Theatre Collective is seeking submissions

2010-02-07T11:24:00.000-05:00

Submission Guidelines
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Insight Out Theatre Collective is seeking submissions for its upcoming seasons.

* The mission of Insight Out is to give a voice to unheard stories.
* Insight Out Theatre Collective is passionately devoted to celebrating cultural awakening.
* We are dedicated to honoring the integrity of theatrical traditions, while encouraging innovative technique.
* Our mission is to explore contrast and harmony through theatre, music and dance.
* Please explore this website for more information about the company and details about our current and past work.

Send a detailed synopsis of your play, a 5-10 page excerpt from the piece, and any relevant production history including dates, places, and development. Please allow 3-6 months for review of your work. Submissions will not be returned.

Mail to:
Insight Out Theatre Collective
Attn: Literary Manager
812 SW Washington, Suite 1050
Portland, OR 97205

FUSION Theatre Company Announces Fifth Annual Short Works Festival

2010-02-05T11:02:00.002-05:00

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NOTE: submission is free if you send hard-copy scripts via snailmail. There is a submission fee if you send electronic submissions via email - $5 for up to 2 submissions.

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Seven fully-produced world premieres.
Seven different directors.
A professional ensemble cast.
One winning playwright who will receive transport and lodging to Albuquerque for the festival.

GUIDELINES FOR PLAY SUBMISSION

* The plays should be inspired by the theme: “Hidden Agendas”
* Scripts may be a maximum of 10 pages.
* Each playwright may submit up to two scripts.
* Do NOT include the phrase “Hidden Agendas” in the text of the play.
* We are looking to mount premiere productions of submitted plays. If the play has previously received a fully-mounted production, please do NOT submit. Plays that have been given public readings are allowable.
* Longer one-act or full-length plays will not be accepted for consideration.
* Each manuscript must include an additional title page with name, address, phone number and e-mail address.

* The easiest and our preferred method of receiving scripts is via e-submission. There is a nominal cost of $5 to offset printing and distribution costs to do so. You may submit up to two scripts with this fee.

* To begin, click on the "Add to Cart" button below, which will place the required $5 fee in your Shopping Cart;
* Then, after you pay via credit card or PayPal, the displayed receipt will include a WWW address that allows you to upload your script. The receipt will also be Emailed to you automatically. Copy and paste this address into your web browser for a page that will permit you to upload your script(s).
* If this is your first time visiting our ticketing site, you'll be asked to create a simple account that protects your transaction and allows us to contact you if something goes awry. All patron and artist information, including email addresses, are kept strictly confidential: FUSION never shares any information with any other organizations.

You may also mail your submissions to:

FUSION Theatre Company
Attn: The Seven Submissions
700 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

There is no submission fee with this option.

* POSTMARKED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: FRIDAY, APRIL 16th, 2010.
* E-Submissions will be accepted until midnight on that date.
* Entries will be acknowledged by e-mail once they have been received. Due to the volume of scripts we are unable to offer criticism or return any submissions.
* Finalists will be announced on Friday, April 23rd. The winning seven will be announced on Friday, May 7th.

Questions: use our contact form, attn: The Seven.

McClernan's Sodom & Gomorrah

2010-02-05T10:43:00.004-05:00

Writer member N.G. McClernan's short play SODOM AND GOMORRAH: THE ONE MAN SHOW will be performed as part of the Where Eagles Dare Playlab, February 26 & 27 2010 @Studio Blackbird 347 W. 36th St., 13th Floor NY NY (right where NYCPlaywrights meets each week) Actor members Carl Maguire, Carolyn Paine and Doug Rossi perform along with Alice Anne English. More information @mergatroyd.org

SkyPilot Theatre Company seeks submissions

2010-02-04T21:03:00.000-05:00

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SkyPilot Theatre Company is focused exclusively on bringing compelling, challenging and humorous new works of stage art to the Los Angeles region. SkyPilot will seek to establish relationships with provocative writers from the Los Angeles area and beyond to ensure that its local audience experiences a fresh, never before seen production each and every time.

We encourage all playwrights who would like to work with us as we head in this new direction to contact our Literary Manager Philipe Simon at psimon620@yahoo.com and send him your work. The only stipulation is that it has never been produced in Los Angeles. World Premieres are especially favored.

EndTimes Productions call for submissions

2010-02-04T20:20:00.002-05:00

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Award-winning company EndTimes Productions is now seeking submissions for
its 4th annual one-act festival, "Vignettes for the Apocalypse". The
festival focuses on pieces with horror, sci-fi, political, or dystopian
themes. Many past pieces have been published on the basis of their
inclusion in the festival, and last year's production of "The Godling" went
on to win Best Director and Best Ensemble at the 2009 San Francisco Fringe
Festival. Submissions should not exceed a 50 minutes run time. Enter plays
at submissions@endtimesproductions.org. Deadline for submissions is
February 15, 2010.

Kids with Guns seeks plays

2010-02-04T00:33:00.002-05:00

Kids with Guns, a NYC-based theater company is presently seeking submissions of new plays for the 2011 season.

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Special consideration will be given to emerging playwrights that live and work (or aspire to live and work) in New York City.

What to submit:

* Brief synopsis of your new, unproduced, full-length play
* Character breakdown
* Clarification of any technical or production requirements
* 20 pages from your script
* Script page count
* Playwright contact info (name, telephone, mailing address, email address)
* Playwright bio or resume

Send all materials (PDF, DOC, or RTF formats only) to submissions [at] kidswithguns.com

Due date: Sunday, February 28, 2010

We encourage questions. Email us at submissions [at] kidswithguns.com

Master Class with Gretchen Cryer

2010-02-01T13:46:00.004-05:00

Thanks to the generosity of Cherry Lane Theatre, several members of NYCPlaywrights have received complimentary passes to particpate in Gretchen Cryer's Master Class tonight.

Read more about Cherry Lane and its programs here.

CALL FOR PLAYS - 2010 Centenary Stage Company Women Playwrights Series (WPS)

2010-01-31T13:53:00.002-05:00

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The Centenary Stage Company, an Equity theatre in residence on the campus of Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ is accepting submissions for the 2010 Women Playwrights Series (WPS) and the 2010 Susan Glaspell Contest.

The WPS is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working forum for the unique and underserved voice of women writing for the theatre today. Each season 3-4 new plays are selected for a collaborative workshop process, with a professional director and actors, which takes place over a period of a approximately 1 week, allowing time for the playwright to hear and adapt their work with other professionals. At the end of the rehearsal, a staged reading of the play is presented at CSC (50 miles w. of NYC) for our regional audiences, giving CSC audiences larger exposure to new work, as well as offering the playwright an opportunity to get feedback from the audience during the development process.
Playwrights selected for the workshop process will receive a $200 honorarium. Additional funds for travel and housing are available for one playwright each season.

The 2010 WPS will celebrate new plays and playwrights in a week-long festival, featuring a series of readings, seminars, workshop presentations and playwrighting classes.

Send to:

Attn: Catherine Rust, Prog. Dir
Centenary Stage Co. WPS
400 Jefferson St.
Hackettstown, NJ 07840

The 2010 SUSAN GLASPELL CONTEST: One play from the WPS Festival will be selected by a panel of judges to be featured in a subsequent CSC main-stage season as a full production, with an additional award of $1500 to the playwright.

Guidelines for WPS Susan Glaspell Contest: Submit Full-length play, previously unproduced.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2010

Project 2
Deadline: Mar 1, 2010

This season the WPS Festival will feature the 2nd annual "THE MASTODON CHALLENGE" contest, for short plays having anything to do with the subject of mastodons. The challenge is inspired by The Harvard Mastodon (now in the Harvard Museum), which was discovered and excavated from the great swamplands just north of Hackettstown, in the shadow of the Delaware Water Gap. The real-life history of the event includes a discovery of historical significance, subsequent financial hardship and finally, murder. The Terminal Moraine of the last ice age ends just a few miles from the site near Stephens State Park in Hackettstown.

Three submissions from the Harvard Mastodon "Challenge" will be read during the WPS festival week, April 20 - 25, and one will be selected for further development. The winner of the short play contest will receive an honorarium of $150, plus further development by the Centenary Stage Company.

Guidelines for Harvard Mastodon "Challenge": One-act or 'short' play having anything to do with the subject "Mastodon".
Deadline: Mar 1, 2010
CSC is an SPT Equity Company located
50 miles west of NYC in Hackettstown, NJ

Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights seeks submissions

2010-01-31T13:51:00.001-05:00

Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights
A unique annual festival showcasing original works by Appalachian playwrights

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Play Submission Guidelines:

Plays must be written by an Appalachian playwright (currently living in the Appalachian Mountains which, for our purposes, run from New York State to Alabama)
OR the plays must contain Appalachian settings and themes.

Full-length plays are preferred. Please submit the full script and an SASE if you wish your play returned. No E-mail submissions, please. The writers of the selected plays will be provided with housing and transportation in order to attend the reading of their play.

The playwrights of the six selected plays will each receive $250 plus transportation and housing for two nights (the day before and the day of the reading).

The winner of the Festival will receive $500 and a possible mini-production the following year.

Second place will receive $250 and a possible mini-production the following year.

Plays must be received by March 31, 2010. Plays may be sent to address below.

For more information contact:
Nicholas Piper
Director, Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights
P.O. Box 867
Abingdon, VA 24212
276.619.3316
apfestival@bartertheatre.com

Fingland: COME LIVE WITH ME

2010-01-28T20:15:00.001-05:00

Writer member Andrew Fingland's play COME LIVE WITH ME will be performed at Polaris North on Friday, Jan 29th at 7 pm. @ 245 W. 29th St, 4th floor.

Rubicon Theatre Project

2010-01-28T13:16:00.000-05:00

Kassi Festival

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It's happening again! Our 3rd annual short play festival, Kassi Fest. Last year was such a hit we can't stop now.

But we need YOU!

Playwrights: Here's how it works. We've chosen a list of words and phrases to be used as inspiration: gnomes, Muppets, panic attacks, renter's insurance, "Doll Man", drinking 40s, chicken dumpling soup, cross country skiing, sunburn, Circus World, Stevens Point/WI, meatloaf, ping pong table.
Take any (or all of) the words to create a short play no longer that 10 pages. Then email it, with a short blurb about yourself, to playwright@rubicontheatreproject.org.

Play submission cut-off is February 15th.

Actors: We're going to need you, too. Please submit a resume and headshot to actors@rubicontheatreproject.org.

Directors: If you're interested in directing a piece in the festival, please sned us a short blurb about yourself and a resume to directors@rubicontheatreproject.org.

Thanks to all of those who have made Kassi

Aspiring Playwrights Contest

2010-01-28T13:14:00.002-05:00

Aspiring Playwrights Contest
Sponsored by East Valley Children’s Theatre

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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, 2010. (Must include a cover sheet with name, address, phone number and age.)
All Plays must be suitable for children to perform for children.
All 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 have not been previously performed.
Musicals must include a copy of the music in some form either written 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 (at) evct.org

For more information or questions call EVCT at 480-756-3828 or email Info@evct.org.

Seeking Original Plays

2010-01-28T11:44:00.001-05:00

Seeking Original Plays
No longer than 10 min
Open Genre
characters between 2-6 roles in each play
Plays will be performed at Shetler Theater Feb 27th
Director is Joanna Tomasz

jo.tomasz (at) gmail.com

This is brought to you by Urnetworkalliance

DEADLINE IS JAN 30

Einhorn: A YEAR OF HER LIFE

2010-01-24T18:49:00.001-05:00

Horse Trade Theatre Group will be reading an excerpt of writer-member Aliza Einhorn's A YEAR OF HER LIFE in The Red Room, as part of their new play reading series, and featuring their acting ensemble, The Drafts. Two other playwrights on the bill, free admission, tentative date July 18. More info: www.horsetrade.info

Rising Sun Performance Company Open Call for One Act Play Submissions

2010-01-24T00:49:00.003-05:00

RSP is seeking Original Unpublished One Act plays for its Annual Series.

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Submission Deadline: January 30th 2010

Plays will be vetted by RSP Ensemble, and the top 15-25 plays will receive a staged reading for the public in spring, from the reading series, audience & ensemble favorites will be given a fully produced run in the summer of 2010.

Seeking Contemporary themed, Ensemble driven works; all genres and subjects considered.

Cast Age range should be Mid-Twenties to Late 30s.

Cast size should be no larger than 5 people.

Running time should be 10 to 20 Minutes.

Plays should be no more than 30 pages in length.

Unit/Basic Set with uncomplicated production values.
(Keep in mind plays will run in rep)

Submission Guideline; Please include the following:
Cover Letter, including your contact information
Play Synopsis
Cast breakdown
Script in word or PDF format
List of previous productions/publishing (do not include readings)
Any other pertinent information

Please be aware that no financial payment is available at this time. Writers retain full rights and credit for all work produced. Rising Sun also conducts workshop and table readings as a tool for writers to hear their work out loud and continue their artistic journey. Also accepting applications for resident & guest writers, as well as teaching artists.

Please resubmit even if you have submitted in the past.
Work will not be returned, please do not send original copies
Electronic Submissions are preferred. No Phone Calls Please

For more information on the company visit www.risingsunnyc.com
To Submit your work : Submissions@risingsunnyc.com

Or mail to
Rising Sun Performance Company
C/O Horse Trade Theater Group
Attn: Akia Squitieri
85 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Quinn does Shakespeare

2010-01-23T19:06:00.002-05:00

Actor member Quinn Warren will perform as Buckingham in the Alliance Repertory Theatre Company's production of Richard III March 5 - 27 2010.

See their web site for more details.

The Thistle Dew Theatre welcomes new plays for production in our intimate theatre

2010-01-20T15:51:00.001-05:00

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The Thistle Dew Theatre welcomes new plays for production in our intimate theatre. Our New Playwrights' Program is not a competition, festival, workshop or staged reading program. We consider plays that writers feel are ready for production, not development.
We have an in-house Playwright’s Workshop, which considers only local playwright’s (Sacramento, CA) work for development.
We are interested in personal issue-oriented full-length plays (a comedic approach is fine); 1 to 5 characters; with no double casting; no produced or published plays; and no musicals at this time.
There is no submission fee.
Playwrights will be compensated if play is produced.

Your submitted play, if mailed via USPS to
Thistle Dew Theatre,
1901 P Street,
Sacramento, CA 95811
Should include:
1. Script bound with one staple only at bottom left,
2. A character list and character description,
3. 350 Word critical synopsis,
4. 100 Word Raison Pour Écriture,
5. Your resume, including contact information,
6. Typewritten in proper manuscript form with pages numbered and your name in the header or footer of each page, and
7. An SASE if you want your manuscript returned.

If emailed to thistledewplaywrights@yahoo.com as an attachment, your script should include:
1. A character list and character description,
2. 350 Word critical synopsis,
3. 100 Word Raison Pour Écriture,
4. Your resume, including contact information,
5. Typewritten in proper manuscript form with pages numbered and your name in the header or footer of each page.

Call for Submissions to the 9th Annual 10 by 10 in the Triangle

2010-01-20T15:49:00.001-05:00

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January 7 - February 14, 2010.

Call for Submissions to 10 by 10 in the Triangle, an international festival of new, ten-minute plays. 10 Plays, 10 Actors, 10 Minutes, ONLY 10 Bucks! A panel of judges will select ten plays to showcase in The ArtsCenter mainstage theatre July 8-25, 2010.

The Submissions: Please email new, 10-minute plays with minimal set requirements to theatre@artscenterlive.org. We do not accept monologues but do accept musical submissions, provided that they require little or no accompaniment. 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 of the email is the title of the submitted play followed by "Contact Info." (For example: For the play "Poker Face," the email subject line would read "Poker Face Contact Info.") The body of the email contains only the title page of the play with playwright contact information. Please use the full title of the play as we often receive plays with similar titles.

Email 2: The subject line of the email and name of the attached file are the title of the play. (For example: For the play "Poker Face," the email subject line would read "Poker Face" and the attached file title would read "Poker Face.") This file contains cast, set requirements, and script. NO CONTACT INFORMATION PLEASE. If you are submitting 2 scripts, please send 4 separate emails. Please do not zip the files.

Submission Deadline: February 14, 2010. We will notify finalists by email and post those titles on our website. We are sorry we cannot respond to each individual playwright.

The Award: Playwrights receive an award of $100. Playwrights who attend our playwright gala on July 10 will also receive a $100 travel stipend.

The Space: Our main stage is a 300-seat theatre with basic lighting and sound capabilities.

The Producer: ArtsCenter Stage will provide directors, actors, designers, and technical staff for the festival. The directors will contact the playwrights at the beginning of the rehearsal process. For more about The ArtsCenter, visit www.artscenterlive.org.

The Dates: Festival dates are July 8-25, 2010.

Playwright Gala: July 10, 2010. Playwrights are invited to a Post-Show Discussion/Reception as well as an overnight stay at a local hotel or bed and breakfast on Saturday, July 10, 2010.

The Production: Featuring an ensemble of 5 men and 5 women, all ten plays run every night on a unit set with flexible set pieces.

Nudity required - no pay

2010-01-20T00:04:00.003-05:00

An excellent web site for actors is Nudity Required, No Pay which documents the many and varied ways that actors in the NYC area are exploited. Here's an example of a project recently featured on the blog:

DAY 2
Feature Film
NON-UNION
NO PAY

Producer: Laura XXXXX
Director: Andrew XXXXX
Casting Director:Laura XXXXX
Interview: late January
Shoot/Start Date: February 15
Location: New York

SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY TEL: 732-XXX-XXXX

THERE IS NUDITY IN THIS PROJECT.

[ LAURA ]
Lead - Female, 20s - plagued by voices in her head, one of very few survivors of the apocalypse. She is hunted by the giant robots and must find a way to stop the invasion. Nudity, one back-lit love scene.

[ DR. MASCHWITZ ]
Female, 40s-60s - Laura's psychiatrist, secretly trying to protect Laura from the robots.

[ NEIL ]
Male, 30s-40s - a crazy drunk, former Special Forces op. Knows way more about the invasion than he should.

Gabby says: ...Thanks to Anonymous for tipping us off to this masterpiece where our heroine, poor, haunted, schitzo Laura, will probably be forced to make back-lit naked "love" to Neil the crazy drunk. It is very fortunate, however, that her psychiatrist is one of the "very few survivors" of the apocalypse. I mean - what are the odds?

It is because of shameless exploiters such as this that actors unions are so important.

We are back

2010-01-19T15:39:00.001-05:00

NYCPlaywrights returns after its holiday hiatus with the first meeting of the new year tonight, Tuesday, January 19. 2010. 7PM - 10PM. There are five readings scheduled for this evening.

Philadelphia Theatre Workshop's Playshop Festival call for submissions

2010-01-18T19:38:00.001-05:00

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Our Annual PlayShop Festival occurs in February/March each year. During this unique and intensive program, playwrights work collaboratively with a director, dramaturg, designers, actors, and audiences over a five-week period to fully develop scripts into plays ready for world premiere productions.

Submisions are now being accepted for our 2011 festival. We seek new, previously unproduced scripts from playwrights in the greater Philadelphia area. Philadelphia Theatre Workshop looks to the PlayShop Festival to choose productions for our mainstage season. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2010. Here are the details:

Philadelphia Theatre Workshop presents world premieres of high quality scripts that reflect diverse, contemporary, human stories. Our plays are chosen because they present characters, situations, and perpectives not seen on other area stages. We are looking for unproduced, full-length, contemporary plays that require simple sets and costumes, with small casts and low technical requirements. For the festival, we are specifically seeking plays that are IN PROGRESS and would benefit from the five-week developmental process. Four plays will be chosen for the festival.

The PlayShop Festival offers playwrights:
* 3 staged reading performances
* 5-week workshop process working with actors, designers, dramturg, and director, with time between performances to revise, rehearse, and try new material based on audience reaction. NOTE: playwrights are required to be in residence throughout the full five weeks and are expected to attend all rehearsals -- at their own expense (no stipends are available).
* consideration for full production in our 2011-2012 season
* no fee for submissions

Submission requirements:
(Please read carefully. Submisions that do not comply with the guidelines wil be disqualifed)
* playwright must live in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware
* submit ONE DOCUMENT either in Word or Rich Text format which must include:
- Title page with playwright's name, address, email, phone numbers. This is the ONLY place where the playwright's name may appear
- Play synopsis and character breakdown
- Full manuscript with the play title only as header/footer. The playwright's name MAY NOT appear on any page of the full manuscript
* manuscripts in process are welcome, send your submission in its current stage of development
* deadline is April 30, 2010
* submit via email only to ptwplayshop@gmail.com with "PlayShop Festival Submission" in the subject line

Questions? Call Artistic Director Bill Felty @ 215-300-9460

Madcap submission process

2010-01-18T19:32:00.002-05:00

This is Madcap's general submission policy:

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Play Submissions:

We are interested in reading plays of any length to consider for future productions.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

LENGTH OF PLAY: Any length.

SUBJECT MATTER: Completely Open.
Both comedies and dramas will be considered. We do prefer plays that haven't been staged before. If you would like to submit a play that has been produced, please include a production history with your script.

SEND TO:
E-mail entries (MS Word or PDF files preferred) to: scripts@madcapplayers.com

If you are unable to submit electronically, mail to
Madcap Players
405 6th Street NE
Washington, DC 20002

Include a self addressed stamped envelope if you would like the script(s) returned to you.

And Toto too seeks plays from women

2010-01-14T22:20:00.001-05:00

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And Toto too Theatre Company promotes women in the arts, with a focus on producing new works by women playwrights. Our goal is to become an incubator for these works, spearheading their production at venues nationally and internationally.
Requirements:

* Women Playwrights only
* Never Produced in Colorado
* Full Length: any genre except musicals and children's
* 6 characters or less
* Minimal set requirements

Submit:

* Synopsis of play
* Character outline
* First 10 pages only - manuscript format
* Playwright bio and production history of script

Submissions can be sent in electronic format only (PDF preferred) to submissions@andtototoo.org. (Need a PDF converter?)

Any scripts sent by mail will not be accepted; all communication regarding scripts will be done electronically.

Please note that due to the high volume of scripts received, a response to your script could take up to a year, and that we are unable to offer feedback. Submission of script, whether solicited or not, does not in any shape or form constitute an agreement to produce.

Scripts not following the above guidelines will not be considered. Please, no phone calls. Any further questions, feel free to contact us at info@andtototoo.org.

Aliza's FIRE

2010-01-14T22:04:00.000-05:00

Writer-member Aliza Einhorn's short play FIRE was selected to be part of Madlab Theatre's 11th Annual Theatre Roulette, May 2010.
More info: www.madlab.net