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Monday, January 30, 2006

Short Attention Span plays wanted by Atlantis Playmakers

Postmark/email Deadline: March 15 for production in the following SAS PlayFEST

NEW: 2006 SAS PlayFEST is for monologues ONLY - 3 page limit ~ One submission per playwright per year will be accepted

NEW: Set pieces limited to one chair, either standard wooden or standard metal folding chair

Submissions MUST be unproduced, staged readings are OK. Selected workds MUST have their world premiere at the SAS PlayFEST.

Any number of entries may be selected for production in the Short Attention Span PlayFEST, held in Billerica MA during the summer (historically in June).

All production rights for the plays revert to the playwright after the Festival, Atlantis Playmakers merely has the right to produce the premiere.

Entries must be typed, and include a cover page with the playwright's name, address, phone, and e-mail.

BY MAIL: KDB; Atlantis Playmakers, c/o 4611 Monroe Street, Hollywood, FL 33021. Due to the large number of entries received each year, we cannot offer individual critiques. Unused scripts will be recycled.

BY EMAIL: Word format ONLY to kdb@AtlantisPlaymakers.com

More info: http://www.atlantisplaymakers.com/pages/409813/index.htm

Kitchen Dog seeks new play submissions

New Works Festival: new play submission

Kitchen Dog Theater accepts original scripts between September 1 and March 1 annually for acceptance into our annual New Works Festival, held each summer. Past mainstage selections include: Permanent Collection by Thomas Gibbons (2004), Hazard County by Allison Moore (2005), ¡Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds by Elaine Romero (2003), Barbette by Bill Lengfelder and David Goodwin (2002), Eighteen by Allison Moore (2001), Fugitive Pieces (a Play with Songs) by Caridad Svich (2000) and Isaac by David Schulner (1999).

Each year, Kitchen Dog Theater selects one original script to receive:
A fully staged production (as part of our regular season – a five-week run)
Paid travel to Dallas, TX (if necessary) to work with the Director, Cast and Crew
Royalty stipend (amount TBD)

Seven other original scripts will be selected for staged readings as part of the Festival (travel not included).

Prospective scripts must meet the following guidelines:
Full-length plays only (preferably one hour or longer)
Submitted scripts must be type-written
Have between one and five actors (character doubling acceptable)
There are no restrictions on play content.

If you would like your script returned, please include a SASE (with appropriate postage). Non-produced, non-returned scripts will be recycled. If you send more than one script, please mail each one separately.

Please send your script with cover letter to:
Attn: Tina Parker, Co-artistic Director
Kitchen Dog Theater
3120 McKinney Avenue, Ste. 100
Dallas, TX 75204.

DO NOT EMAIL SCRIPTS. ONLY COMPLETE SCRIPTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Postmark deadline for 2006 New Works Festival: March 15, 2006

More info: http://www.kitchendogtheater.org/about-script.html

Marist College seeks scripts

Marist College Council on Theatre Arts is accepting unpublished, preferrably unproduced new scripts for its 2006-07 season. Show is at the end of Nov.

Criteria:
-2-8 characters.
-no musicals
-within reasonable driving distance of Poughkeepsie.

All submissions must be postmarked by 2/25.

Marist College Council on Theatre Arts
3399 North Road, MSC 12200
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387
Contact Colleen McAllister

Gimme a play with Hair

The Regroup Theatre is accepting 10-minute, 2-character plays for their New Works Play Festival 4/25 -5/7. Theme: Hair, but the theme of hair is very broad. Looking for innovative work that stretches beyond the obvious. Feel free to explore a content that will challenge yourself as well as The Regroup Theatre on the idea of hair, the importance of hair, cultural views, societal traditions, pop media, etc, etc. There are an abundance of areas to explore within the theme of hair. We want to read it! There is a two step process on handling submissions. Round 1- Plays of great interest will be selected for a Public Reading Series. Round 2- After the initial reading series we will choose six plays to continue to workshop for presentation at the New Works Play Festival.
Deadline: 2/1. Those selected for the festival will receive a writer’s compensation. Please forward two hardcopies to: c/o Nancy Medina/Patricia Runcie, 350 West 43rd St, New York, NY 10036

Italian plays wanted

Skilled writers of one-acts Italian-themed for summer outdoor festival. Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a traditional Italian Street fair, 7/20-24 in Verplanck, NY. (Northern Westchester, south of Peekskill). The entertainment committee is looking for one act plays and skits of an Italian nature that can be performed in the street, will have strolling accordion or violin players, a singing troupe, a DJ and a band that can play Italian music. E-mail Kacey Morabito at EllaBelaBerto@aol.com

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Exit, Pursued by a Lawyer

An article about member Nancy McClernan's case vs. director Edward Einhorn is in the New York Times. The article is Exit, Pursued by a Lawyer

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Bruce Barton in Paradise

Bruce Barton will appear in PARADISE, a production by Blue Coyote, throughout February at Access Theatre, 380 Broadway. Bruce recently performed in Blue Coyote's successful BUSTED JESUS COMIX.

Friday, January 27, 2006

Vlad Maicovski in EATFest

Member Vlad Maicovski's play BLACKOUT will be in SERIES A (Tue & Fri at 7 pm, Sat at 5 pm) of EATFest, held at Theatre on 5, 311 W. 43rd St, 5th Floor. The festival runs from March 7-26.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Public Theater's Public Talks

The next installment of Public Theater’s Public Talks, a year-long, city-wide series of cross-disciplinary dialogues and debates with Public Theater actors, writers, and directors, exploring different dimensions of the theater's history, is coming up on February 2, 2006. This session features several formidable playwrights who currently work with The Public and who have also contributed to its dynamic history and reputation. The event is free to students and we were hoping you could pass on the information to any theatre and/or playwriting students in your program that might have an interest in attending the event.

The Public TALKS:
Writers and The Public

February 2, 2006 at 7:00pm

Two generations of Public Theater writers gather for a discussion about writing for The Public.

Participants include:
John Guare
Suzan Lori-Parks
Diana Son
…among others

Moderated by Oskar Eustis

Tickets: $10 general, Free to students– Please bring your id!

For tickets:
Email: boxoffice@newschool.edu
By phone: (212) 229-5488
In person: at the New School Box Office, 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday-Thursday 1-8 p.m., Friday 1-7 p.m.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 212.229.5353

Email: specialprograms@newschool.edu.

Sponsored by The Public Theater's 50th Anniversary Celebration, the New School Graduate Writing Program and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.

Event Location:
Tishman Auditorium, The New School University: 66 West 12th Street, NYC

More info at The Public's web site.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Jane Chambers Award

The Women and Theatre Program of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education with Scott Family Chair in Drama, University of Texas at Austin Hampshire College in Amherst, MA Northwestern University Division of Theatre, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University

announce the JANE CHAMBERS PLAYWRITING AWARD

We seek plays and performance texts created by women which reflect a feminist perspective and contain significant opportunities for women performers. We encourage submissions by and about women from a diversity of positions in respect to race, class, sexual preference, physical ability, age, and geographical region. We strongly encourage experimentation with the dramatic form. Scripts may be produced or unproduced. There is no limitation on length, style, or subject. Playwrights may be from any country.

This is an annual award, given in the memory of the late, lesbian playwright Jane Chambers who became a major feminist voice in American theatre through her plays "A Late Snow," "Last Summer at Bluefish Cove," "My Blue Heaven," "Kudzu," and "The Quintessential Image".

The award consists of $1000, free registration to attend the conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in late July, hotel and travel costs, and a rehearsed reading of the winning piece at the ATHE conference. The winner should be available to attend the conference. Undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled (through May 2004) who submit plays will be entered into the student category of the competition; the prize is $250 award and a reading at the Women and Theatre pre-conference in late July (no travel and hotel fees are included). In addition, the award recognizes a first runner-up, finalists, and honorable mention winners.

Only one entry per playwright annually. Submissions must include two copies of the play (typed or printed), application form, resume, and synopsis. A SASPC may be included for acknowledgement of the script's arrival is desired. A letter of endorsement from a theatre professional may be included, from someone familiar with the work which will only be used for publicity purposes. No translations. Scripts will not be returned, but recycled.

Submissions must be postmarked by February 15. The winner and finalist will be notified after June 15. To obtain an application form, contact the Awards Administrator by e-mail or by letter (include a SASE) only. Our application form is available online.

JANE CHAMBERS AWARD
c/o Gretchen E. Smith
Division of Theatre, Meadows School of the Arts
P.O. Box 750356
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275-0356
gesmith@mail.smu.edu

More info: http://www.wright.edu/academics/theatre/chambers_announce.html

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Kaufman & Hart Prize for New American Comedy

Named for George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, the prize was created to acknowledge & encourage new stage comedies. Consideration. Remuneration: $10,000 1st; $1,000 finalists (2), reading. Frequency: biennial. Preference. Length: full-length (over 90 min). Style: comedy. Subject: all subjects. Production: cast limit 12. Author Must Be: resident of US. Material Must Be: unoptioned, unpublished, unproduced. Procedure. Best Way: professional recommendation. Best Material: sample. Best Time: Oct-Jan. Deadline: 2/1/06.

Kaufman & Hart Prize for New American Comedy Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Box 110, Little Rock, AR 72203
Attn: Brad Mooy, Literary Mgr.
Tel: 501-378-0445 x211
Email: bmooy@therep.org
Web: www.therep.org

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Bloody Unicorn wants short plays

The Bloody Unicorn Theater Company in Tucson, Arizona is seeking original one-act and ten minute plays (anything less than 60 minutes in length) for their third annual Queer Women's Shorts Contest. Submitted plays can be on any subject, but should feature lesbian, bi, trans, or queer women as central characters. Winning plays will receive a cash prize and a production in their 2006-2007 season. Playwrights may submit no more than two plays. Plays can have been previously produced, but should not be published. Deadline: 4/30. Plays can be submitted electronically to bloodyunicorntheater@yahoo.com. Or mail your scripts and a SASE (if you wish your scripts returned) to: Ry Herman, Artistic Director, Bloody Unicorn Theater Company, 514 N. 2nd Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705. For questions, e-mail: bloodyunicorntheater@yahoo.com

10 minute plays wanted

The Regroup Theatre is accepting 10-minute, 2-character plays for their New Works Play Festival 4/25 -5/7. Theme: Hair, but the theme of hair is very broad. Looking for innovative work that stretches beyond the obvious. Feel free to explore a content that will challenge yourself as well as The Regroup Theatre on the idea of hair, the importance of hair, cultural views, societal traditions, pop media, etc, etc. There are an abundance of areas to explore within the theme of hair. We want to read it! There is a two step process on handling submissions. Round 1- Plays of great interest will be selected for a Public Reading Series. Round 2- After the initial reading series we will choose six plays to continue to workshop for presentation at the New Works Play Festival. Deadline: 2/1. Those selected for the festival will receive a writer’s compensation. Please forward two hardcopies to: c/o Nancy Medina/Patricia Runcie, 350 West 43rd St, New York, NY 10036

RAW DEAL FOR MUSICAL WRITERS.

Raw Impressions Music Theatre seeks submissions. 2006 Marathon, three back-to-back Music Theatre events in NYC. In each event, 8 writers are paired with 8 composers they've never met, and they write and rehearse a 10-minute musical in 10 days with the guidance of 2 directors and 2 music directors. In all, 24 new pieces will be created and performed by 30 different actors over the course of 27 days. (Artists selected to participate will do so in only 1 event.) Open to all forms and styles. For more information on how to apply to participate read below and go to our website http://www.rawimpressions.org and click “participate.” Deadline 1/25.

Plum Productions seek scripts

Plum Productions (Artistic Director Michelle Bossy) is looking for new, original play submissions for their upcoming season. We are a new theatre company dedicated to highly theatrical, innovative and fresh work, without the pits. Please send script submissions to: Plum Productions c/o Michelle Bossy, 43-27 37th Street #4R, Asoria, NY 11101.

Deadline is Feb. 10th. Submissions must be postmarked by this date. If you wish to have your play returned to you, please send a self addressed stamped envelope for your play. Please include all of your personal contact information. Note: we are looking for theatrical scripts.

You can check us out online at www.plumproductions.com. Please, no calls or e-mails. No pay.

Plum Productions
c/o Michelle Bossy
34-27 37th Street #4R
Astoria, NY 11101

First Chance Fest

SUBMIT YOUR ORIGINAL SCRIPTS

The Chance Theater is dedicated to the development of imaginative new works that challenge and enlighten our audiences and our artists. The First Chance Fest provides an incredible opportunity to selected playwrights to have unpublished new plays produced in a festival format, allowing for audience and artist feedback of each new work.

On the FIRST CHANCE FEST:
“The Chance has earned a solid reputation for innovative material, and chose through hundreds of submissions to select eight pieces. The performances on Sundays at 5 pm are followed by a talk-back session with director and actors, including light refreshments.” — Anne-Margret Bellavoine, Northern Lights, September 15, 2003

The Chance encourages challenging, hard-hitting, innovative comedies and dramas with one set, minimal production needs, and a maximum cast of eight. Please follow these guidelines when submitting scripts:

1. Plays are not to exceed 110 pages. One act plays are especially encouraged. All entries must be typed, in 10 point font, and formatted to single spacing within lines and 1.5 spacing between characters' lines.

2. The playwrights' name, address, telephone number, FAX number, e-mail and the play's title should only appear on the first page. On the second page only the play's title should appear. Please include a short synopsis after the title page. All of the following pages should be numbered.

3. All scripts must be securely bound and covered.

4. Submissions can be sent to:

The Chance Theater
P.O. Box 3309
Orange, CA 92857
Attn: Jocelyn A. Brown

5. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2006 (postmarked) for First Chance Fest 2006. Selected playwrights will be notified once the selection process has been completed.

6. Submissions will be handled with care. However, The Chance Theater assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged scripts.

7. No scripts will be returned. If you wish to receive confirmation that we received your script, please include a self-addressed stamped postcard with your submission.

8. There is no pay for scripts that are selected for production.

Thank you for your submission. Questions can be sent to Jocelyn A. Brown, jocelyn@chancetheater.com

http://www.chancetheater.com/contribute.htm

Backdoor Theatre's 21st Annual New Play Project

Backdoor Theatre’s New Play project, established in 1985, exists to cultivate playwrights and to showcase new theatre. In a workshop environment, selected plays are mounted with full production value and receive at least six performances in Backdoor’s 170 seat Mainstage theatre. Submitted plays are processed through a play-reading panel, and selection is made in collaboration with the theatre’s professional staff. The selected play is cast from the community theatre talent pool and rehearses for five weeks. Each selected script is considered a “work in progress” and every practical effort is made to achieve a collaborative state among cast, crew, director, producer and playwright.

Objectives of the Project

The intentions of the New Play Project are to encourage playwrights and to nurture fresh new theatre; to offer our audience an exciting, never-before-seen theatre experience; and to provide to our local artists a chance to expand their talents through new viewpoints and fresh ideas.

Submission Requirements

A. The script should be standard size, typed and securely bound.
B. A brief synopsis of the play.
C. A one page resume of the playwright.
D. SASE for script. (If you want it returned.)
E. SAS postcard for receipt acknowledgment.

Plays must be full-length. One-act plays or collections are not eligible. Musicals and Children’s plays are not eligible. Scripts having received a professional production are not eligible. Scripts having received a workshop, staged reading, or non-professional production are eligible.

The selected play will receive a $500.00 honorarium.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRY: March 15th, 2006

http://www.backdoortheatre.org/newplay.htm

Monday, January 16, 2006

January Fundraiser

Thanks to everybody who participated as an actor, writer, director, or assistant director in the NYCPlaywrights January Fundraiser. Donations to the fundraiser will help us defray the costs of renting meeting space, so we can keep writer memberships at an affordable rate of $55 for six months.

Thanks also to everybody who came out in the rain on Saturday and/or the bitter cold on Sunday to attend the readings and make donations. We couldn't do it without you.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Dark and disturbing tales wanted

Darknight Theatrical Productions in Chicago, IL is in the midst of their playwriting contest, Darknight Gallery 3.
They are seeking scripts which tell dark and disturbing tales of evil with thought-provoking themes. Good dialogue that gets to the point and tells a complete story in 45 minutes or less (max 30 pages). Strong characters, socially conscious themes and dramatic tension that intertwines with suspense. Please visit their site for further details.
http://www.dtpsite.org

Friday, January 13, 2006

Thanks to Al Lefcowitz

Thanks to member Al Lefcowitz for his generous donation to NYCPlaywrights.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

10-minute play contest

Playwriting Competition to Collect Original Short Plays for 10-Minute Play Festival
Heartland Theatre Company is seeking eight short original plays to be considered for production In June of 2006 for an annual play festival. Last year’s plays all took place in an attic. This year, the plays will all take place in "20 Years". The competition is open to all playwrights wishing to participate, from which eight plays will be selected and performed.

Learn more about the Heartland Theatre Company's Performance Space.

Guidelines -

Stick with the theme: 20 Years
One submission per author
Please use no more than four characters, and no fewer than 2.
No ten-minute monologues, please.
Characters should stay within the 18-70 age range.
Title page must include name, address, phone number and e-mail of author
No plays previously submitted to Heartland Theatre Company, no children's plays, no musicals, no previous staged productions
Plays will be videotaped for archival purposes
No contracts beyond the guidelines mentioned here
One submission per author
All applicants must send a signed copy of the Entry Form to Heartland Theatre Company
Available in PDF (online fill-in) or MSWord format.
dNo scripts will be returned
Keep it TEN MINUTES long (approx. ten pages) and in English.
Keep in mind the physical space at Heartland.
Remember something has to happen in those ten minutes.
MAKE IT GOOD!
You may email your script in MS Word, "pdf" or "rtf" format to boxoffice@heartlandtheatre.org or mail 5 hard copies to

Heartland Theatre Company
P. O. Box 1833
Bloomington, IL 61702
(Attention: Play Fest 2006)
We'll also need a brief summary or "blurb" of your play to help our readers as well as smooth the way for auditions and advertising if your play is produced. Please include this summary -- one paragraph, no more than 50 words -- after your cover page but before your script.

Deadline for entries February 1, 2006. Winners will be posted on the Heartland website by April 15, 2006.
More information at http://www.heartlandtheatre.org/tenminute.html
For more information call Heartland's Box Office at 309/452-8709 or boxoffice@heartlandtheatre.org

Description of Heartland Theatre Company's Performance Space
Our intimate theatre is vital and immediate to all 67 spectators. We've effective sound resources, and adequate lighting. There is no off-stage wing space, and we find the most successful staging is designed to accommodate a three-quarter house. We do use four entrances in our presentations, two upstage openings, and two vomitoria that come from both sides of the center section of the audience. There is not a working fly gallery in our theatre, and the audience is terraced upwards so they are looking down on our presentations. Ten-minute plays are performed in groups of four plays before intermission with a separate curtain call for those involved in those plays, and four plays following intermission. Ideally we'd find elements of all four plays at work on the stage from the beginning of the performance and move effortlessly from one play to the next with a minimum of re-arranging of properties and furniture. In an ideal world all necessary scene changes would transpire only during intermission. Exceptions to this are sure to arise, but by keeping your imagined floor plan simple you are giving us a deserving advantage.

New Jewish plays wanted

BIMA-NY (NY's newest Jewish Theatre Company) is currently considering new Jewish plays that have not yet had a public reading in NYC for our monthly reading series.

We are also interested in fresh material that may be used for our upcoming Purim Shpiel, and finally, a piece about "growth" that may be included as part of our TuB'shvat seder.

BIMA-NY's goal is to entertain, educate and inspire audiences by producing Jewish stories by Jewish playwrights, presenting all Jewish people in an honest and truthful way.

If you have a piece to offer us for consideration, please send it to:

BIMA-NY
c/o Nicole Raphael, Co-artistic Director
POB 889
NYC 10024

www.bima-ny.org

Comedy Playwriting Contest

Comedy Playwriting Contest

So encouraged by the outstanding response to the contest, The Gristmill Productions Board of Directors has voted to make the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest an annual event! The next submission deadline has been moved up to February 28th, 2006 with the award presented in September 2006.

The prize for the winning play is $3,000 and a public reading of the play before the end of 2006 at The Mountain Playhouse. In addition, Gristmill Productions will consider presenting a live stage production of the play during 2006 or 2007.

The rules for the contest are as follows:

- No re-submissions of plays previously submitted unless revised 70% or more.
- Must be a World Premiere
- Cannot be produced before 2007
- MUST have EIGHT actors or less
- Must be a comedy

To submit your entry, please download the Playwriting Contest Agreement, print and sign it, then mail your play with the agreement to 7690 Somerset Pike, P.O. Box 205, Jennerstown, PA 15547.

If you wish to have your script returned after the contest is over, you must enclose a self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage to cover the return.

For more information http://www.mountainplayhouse.com/playhouse/contest.html

Thursday, January 05, 2006

WANTED: FULL LENGTH SCRIPTS

7th ANNUAL METLIFE NUESTRAS VOCES
NATIONAL PLAYWRITING COMPETITION 2006

Postmarked Deadline for entry is Thursday, June 1, 2006.

Repertorio Español is looking for plays that are relevant and unique to the Hispanic experience in the United States.

• Top ten finalists will receive a staged reading at Repertorio.
• Top Five will receive cash awards.
• Winning Play will be produced at Repertorio Español.

For Guidelines and Application contact Allison at a.astorvargas@repertorio.org.

PREVIOUS WINNERS:

2005 TBA
2004 Los Escondidos by Silvia González Powell Butte, Oregon
2003 Marido Encadenado (Chained Dog) by Rob Santana Jersey City, NJ
& Mommas Boyz by Cándido Tirado Brooklyn, New York
2002 Quemar las naves by Miguel Falquez –Certain w/ Francisco Alvarez Koki Queens, NY

2001 Búfalo Herido By Jorge Celaya NY, NY
2000 Vieques By Jorge González NY, NY (Puerto Rico)

For play descriptions of all our winners and finalists, check-out our website at www.repertorio.org.

Monday, January 02, 2006

Bay Area Playwrights Festival/Bay Area Shorts Submission info

Starting September 15, 2006 Playwrights Foundation is accepting submissions for the 30th anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival, summer 2007. The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is open to all American playwrights writing in English, including students enrolled in a BFA or MFA playwriting program. In a strictly juried selection process 5-6 plays are chosen to appear at the festival.

Playwrights chosen for the festival are given 2 weeks of rehearsal (with a professional dramaturge, director, visual artist and actors) and 2 rehearsed readings separated by 5-6 days for rewrites during the 2-week festival in July and August at a San Francisco theater. The last two festivals were held at the Magic Theatre.

A pre-festival weekend retreat in July brings together artistic teams consisting of playwrights, directors, dramaturges, and visual artists. Brainstorming and feedback from other festival participants occur during the retreat. It is mandatory for playwrights to be in residence for the entire retreat and festival period.

Local and national producers are invited to the festival to see the staged readings and meet the playwrights.

Special attention is given to Bay Area writers and emerging writers.

Financial arrangement: small stipend, travel, housing.

Application procedure: please mail your play with resume and cover letter. Be sure to include your current e-mail address, as all further festival communication will be conducted electronically. Enrolled BFA and MFA students may also submit a letter of recommendation.

Guidelines: send one unproduced original full-length play. Only one submission per playwright, please. Plays shorter than 50 and longer than 150 pages are not considered standard full-length and will be disqualified. Play that has previously received a public reading (script in hand) is considered unproduced. Play that has previously received professional production, whether on Broadway, or in a small, off-off company is considered produced and does not qualify.

Please note: Only snail mail submissions are accepted. Electronic submissions are not allowed. Scripts will not be returned. Please do not send notification postcards, as we will alert you electronically after December 15, 2006 that we have received your submission. Please make sure all documents are securely bound.

Deadline: Postmarked by November 30 (priority deadline) December 15 (absolute deadline), 2006. If more than 500 scripts are received by November 30, absolute deadline will not be honored. 500 will be a cut-off number for plays received between November 30 and December 15. It is in your best interest to send your submissions early.

Mailing Address: Please send submissions to:
BAPF 30
Playwrights Foundation
131 ~ 10th St, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103

Award notification: Early May, 2007

Dates: pre-festival weekend retreat mid to late July, Festival last week of July-first week of August.

Questions: By email only to literary@playwrightsfoundation.org

How to apply to BASH! (Bay Area Shorts):

Starting September 15, 2005 Playwrights Foundation is accepting submissions for Bay Area SHorts (BASH!). As a special event of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, four local writers are invited to present 20 minutes of unproduced material in staged reading format.

Each piece will have 3 hours of rehearsal with actors and director and be presented as part of a joint program at the Festival.

Submissions must be postmarked by February 15th, 2006 and will be evaluated by our Selection Committee. Final selections will be made at the end of May. Writers will receive a small stipend and a festival pass.

Guidelines: 20-minute plays only – whether as short plays or excerpts from longer plays. ONLY ONE SUBMISSION PER PLAYWRIGHT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Submissions shorter than 14 and longer than 30 pages are not considered 20-minute plays and will be disqualified. If submitting an excerpt from a longer play, please, indicate clearly which section is your actual submission.

Send submissions to:
BASH! 2006
Playwrights Foundation
131 ~ 10th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

More info at Playwrights Foundation web site

Warehouse Theatre International Playwriting Festival 2006

Submission Guidelines

1 The IPF is open to any author regardless of nationality, but all plays should be in English.

2 Plays must be full length and previously unproduced, estimated playing time, not less than 90 minutes and not more than 120 minutes.

(Just over a minute a page is a rough guide, when scripts are typed as per rule 3 below.)

3 Scripts must be clearly typed on bond paper, double-spaced with wide margins, pages must be numbered and the text securely bound.

Plays must be submitted using a pseudonym to ensure impartiality and the author’s real name removed from allpages of the script. Whilst all reasonable care will be taken, the IPF does not accept responsibility for loss of, or damage to, submitted scripts.

4 Authors must guarantee that they have sole rights to all matter contained within the play. Any play accepted for production elsewhere before the judges’ decision is announced will be disqualified.

5 The Warehouse Theatre Company reserves the right to buy the exclusive option to produce any play entered subject to contract.

6 Authors of the short-listed entries should make all reasonable efforts to attend a Press Call in late October 2006 and to be available to attend rehearsals and readings in November as required.

7 The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence concerning the results can be
entered into.

More information

Southern Writers' Project script submission policy

The Southern Writers' Project of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival accepts original scripts and adaptations, not professionally produced, that meet one or more of the following criteria:

You are a Southern Writer.

Your script is set in the South, or deals specifically with Southern issues, characters, or themes.

Your script deals with African - American themes or characters.

Submissions that meet these criteria are considered for the Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays, an annual weekend of readings of new work. These plays are then considered for production in subsequent ASF seasons.

If your play is an adaptation, please secure the permission to the underlying rights prior to submission. Full length plays only, please. Submissions are limited to one play per author per season. Musicals and theatre for young audiences should send a letter of inquiry first. Due to the large volume of submissions, please allow up to six months for response. If you wish your materials returned to you, please include an appropriate SASE.

Thank you,

Nancy Rominger
Artistic Associate
Director, New Play Development
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
One Festival Drive
Montgomery, Alabama 36117

More information

New South Play Festival Script Submission Policy

NEW SOUTH FESTIVAL MISSION: The New South for the New Century Festival is dedicated to producing and developing work that gives voice to issues facing the contemporary South.

The festival's mission is to produce and/or workshop new material that addresses issues facing the contemporary South.

The submission guidelines are as follows:

If you have one full-length play you would like to submit for consideration, please send it to us at our mailing address.

If you have more than one full-length piece you would like considered, please send us samples of all the work you would like considered, as well as a SAS envelope or postcard so that we can let you know which, if any, plays we would like to see in their entirety.

Also, it is VERY important that you mark all materials being submitted for the festival as "NEW SOUTH SUBMISSION". Write this phrase in an obvious way on the front of the envelope, somewhere on the cover letter, and somewhere on the title page of the script or sample. (It's important to note that we do not accept submissions via e-mail) We will reply to you as soon as possible regarding your submission.

Expect at least a 6-month response period.

Our mailing address is:
Horizon Theatre Company
PO Box 5376
Atlanta, GA 31107

Horizon Theatre Company web site

Guthrie Theater Submission Policy

Script Submission Policy

Traditionally a company dedicated to classic works of dramatic literature, the Guthrie Theater has recently launched a new play program. The Literary Department accepts new play submissions only from literary agents and does not accept unsolicited plays or request plays based upon reading synopses. The Guthrie Theater commissions, develops and produces new work, and is interested in new full-length plays, as well as adaptations and translations of classical plays. Response time varies from 3 to 6 months. Literary agents should address scripts to:
Amy Wegener, Literary Manager
Guthrie Theater
725 Vineland Place
Minneapolis, MN 55403

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