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Friday, April 28, 2006

Greg in "Nice is for Dogs"

Actor member Greg Bodine performs in Nice is For Dogs at
This Living Image Arts (LIA). The production runs from May 11th to May 28th (Tue.-Sat. at 8pm, Sunday Matinee at 3pm) at the Linhart Theatre, located at 440 Lafayette Street (Astor Place, across from The Public). For tickets, contact TheaterMania at 212-352-3101 or online at www.TheaterMania.com. Tickets are $18.

Guggenheim in Chicago

Member Ruth Tyndall Baker's short play Guggenhein will be performed at Lincoln Square Theatre in Chicago during June as a part of an eveing of originals shorts called "Night Caps". She's also having a reading in June of her play Papillon, which won Best Drama at the Indiana Theatre Association state conference.

Thursday, April 27, 2006

New member

Welcome new actor member Starra Andrews.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Howling Moon seeks 10-minute plays

Howling Moon Cab Company, producer of "The Park Plays", "Brooklyn Plays", "Hamptons Plays" and "Intimates" one act festivals, is seeking ten minute plays for a festival to take place in late June. We are looking for plays about accidental meetings, whether between strangers or people who are already acquainted but did not expect to run into one another during the action of the play. Please email scripts in MS Word or text format to Jonathan Wallace at jw@bway.net.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Duet in the Raw

Writer member Paul Man Kane, who recently had a triple by-pass surgery (!) recently learned that his play Duet in the Park, which had a reading at NYCPlaywrights, has won first prize in the Theatre in the Raw 2005 Biennial Play Writing Contest. Check out the Theatre in the Raw web site for more information. Congratulations Paul.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Firehouse Theatre Project

The Firehouse Theatre Project will begin taking submissions for its 2007 5th Annual Festival of New American Plays on January 1, 2006.

Festival Guidelines:

Full length scripts only.
Plays must not have been previously produced. Readings are acceptable if no admission was charged and actors read from the script.
Submissions should be made in standard manuscript form. This means no discs, no e-mails. All author information must be on a title page separate from the body of the manuscript and no reference to the author is permitted in the body of the script.
Scripts must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a theater company or individual familiar with your work.Letters of recommendation must be received with the script, not under separate cover.
Entries must be postmarked no later that July 31, 2006.
(Note new deadline for this year's contest)
Due to volume of mail, manuscripts cannot be returned.

Send submissions to:
Firehouse Theatre Project
5th Festival of New American Plays
1609 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220
Two winners receive staged readings and prizes of $1,000 and $500.
Winners will be announced January 1, 2007.

Web site: http://www.firehousetheatre.org/contest.htm

Willows Theatre Company - new guidelines

Script Submission
Please note - our submission guidelines have changed as of April, 2006. Please read our new guidelines before submitting a script. Thank you!

Thank you for your interest in the Willows Theatre Company. We are committed to live theatre as an art form and to the development of new works. We have largely a suburban audience whose sensibilities and tastes have been developed over a number of years of continued attendance. The audience is loyal, faithful and trusting in our sense of adventure and good taste.

Typically, The Willows Theatre Company produces at least one world premiere (or second production) in each season. Likewise, we produce many West Coast or Northern California premieres. We produce exclusively from contemporary American Theatre but will consider certain stylized plays and musicals which have a contemporary edge to them.

How to submit your work:

The Willows Theatre Company is accepting submissions of comedies ONLY. We are not looking for dramas or musicals at this time. We do not produce one-acts at any time.

Please submit a brief synopsis, character breakdown, and playwright resume. Please include a SASE for return of materials and our response.

Please allow six months for a reply

Please do not send a full script unless invited to do so

Please do not email your submission or email the office for information on the status of your submission

Our cast sizes vary but we are not daunted by large casts. If you look at our production history, we typically will have 15 or more in each production.

We compensate all of our performers and operate under a LORT-LOA contract with AEA. We are members of TCG, the Institute for Outdoor Drama, Theatre Bay Area, and the National Alliance of Musical Theatre.

Please click here to see the list of past productions at the Willows. This should give you the best idea of what we produce. However, the NEXT great play may be yours, so please follow our guidelines and best of luck in your pursuits!

Send scripts to:
Script Submission
Willows Theatre Company
1425 Gasoline Alley
Concord, CA 94520

web site: Willows Theatre Company

New member

Welcome new writer/actor member Michael Jalbert

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Plays for Portland workshop series

Portland Theater Works (Portland, OR) is accepting submissions of new plays for their workshop series and reading series. A 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization which is dedicated exclusively to developing new work for the theatre. Portland Theatre Works produces workshops of new plays, giving the playwright the opportunity to work with a director, a group of actors, and others (depending on the needs of the play). Each workshop culminates with presentations for the public followed by a facilitated feedback session with the audience. Thier FreshWorks program produces a series of monthly readings of new plays in front of an audience. Feedback after readings is optional, depending on the needs and desires of the playwright. For more information about Portland Theatre Works, go to www.ptwks.org and review submissions guidelines at www.ptwks.org/submissions.shtml Feel free to contact info@ptwks.org They can't pay transportation, but if you can find your way to Oregon, they'll welcome you.

Bloody Unicorn seeks one act/ten minute 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

Plays about Appalachian themes....

Plays about or by Appalachian Mountain area residents only. Mountain Playwrights Festival seeks ONLY Appalachian Mountain Region residents (all of Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia OR the plays must be thematically connected to or set in the region. Honorarium. No adaptations of films or TV shows. No one-act plays. No translations. No plays produced before 9/30/06. Musical? Send score and CD. Children's plays encouraged. Send resume, cover letter, and a short summary of the submitted script and copy of script WITHOUT playwright's name. Must be unbound or it's bound to be returned. SASE for return. Deadline: 4/21. Send to: Parkway Playhouse, Mountain Playwrights Festival, PO Box 1432, Burnsville, NC 28714

One act plays for Boulder Acting Group

NEW! A CALL FROM COLORADO…
Act on this one-act play submission request. Group producing new works is having another new summer play festival of one-acts. Staged readings and full productions. Minimal set requirements. No entry fee. Deadline: 6/1. Send scripts to: Andrea Harbeck, The Boulder Acting Group, 908 Parkview St., Louisville, CO 80027.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Karen and Charles in THE NARCISSIST

Actor members Charles Major and Karen Sweeney will perform in Peter Gunter's play THE NARCISSIST as part of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway one-act play festival. The festival will take place at the Chernuchin Theater at the American Theater of Actors (314 W. 54th Street) at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 31.

Monday, April 10, 2006

Fred Ebb Award

Fred Ebb Award recognizes excellence in musical theatre songwriting by a lyricist, composer, or songwriting team that has not yet achieved significant commercial success, includes a $50,000 award

Applications will be accepted from June 1-30, 2006.

More information: http://www.fredebbfoundation.org/

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Kind words from a member...

Writer member Greg Strong is leaving us and heading for the English Dept. of the Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, but he had some kind words to say about NYCPlaywrights that I thought I'd share with everybody:

Once again, thanks for letting me into NYPC. It's been a great six months and I'm sorry to leave... there's almost nothing like NYPC anywhere where playwrights can hear their work read by skilled actors. There's no waiting period, no insiders' list, either, as there is in so many places and you can work on a piece over time, something which is often missing from summer and month-long programs eleswhere...

So, you've put together a great enterprise and are certainly doing yeoman's service to play development.

Thanks Greg

-- Nancy

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab

The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab was founded in 1998 to explore and develop the work of an emerging generation of theater artists, and to foster new collaborations between writers and directors in the beginning stages of the creative process.
Writers and directors must apply separately. At the start of the cycle, each writer invited to join the Lab is matched with a director.

Writers interested in participating in the Lab's 2006/2007 cycle are asked to apply with a project proposal. Ideally, this is a project you feel will benefit from both group input and close work with a director. The proposed project must be a play in the earliest stages of development, one you have recently begun or would like to begin work on in the coming months. Please go into detail, and include the existing pages if applicable. Note, however, that complete or near-complete drafts of plays will not be considered for this program.

In selecting members for the 2006/2007 Lab, Soho Rep has a policy of favoring new applicants and forging new artistic collaborations. While we value some degree of continuity, we wish to place emphasis on providing this opportunity for new members, and expanding the circle of artists who might profit from this program.

Please note that the deadline for submissions to the 2006/2007 Writer/Director Lab is May 19, 2006.
Download applications at http://sohorep.org/writer_director_lab/index.html

More Information
Contact:
Jason Grote or Sarah Benson,
Writer/Director Lab Co-Chairs 05/06
at writerdirector@sohorep.org

PlayFest seeks new full-length plays

PlayFest is seeking new full-length plays based on or inspired by works of classic literature or historic events. We prefer plays that require six actors or less, and have a particular interest in one-person shows. However, even in the case of one person shows, we are not looking for history lectures, or museum piece adaptations that are faithful to a fault, but rather dynamic new theatrical versions of classic stories that speak to the contemporary mindset. Also seeking plays that have appeal to Hispanic audiences but still fall within the guidelines listed above. We are also seeking Musical adaptations. We will be a little less strict about the cast size, but are only interested in musicals based on or inspired by works of classic literature or historic events.

In order to qualify for PlayFest a play must:
1. NOT have received more than two professional AEA productions 2. NOT have received a Broadway or Off-Broadway production 3. NOT have received Orlando production in current form 4. NOT be published for general distribution

Each year we select around ten new plays to be presented as readings. Two or three of those plays may go on to be developed in workshops during the Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays (February 23 to March 4, 2007). Playwrights of workshop plays will receive a stipend, travel and housing expenses. Many workshop plays go on to be fully produced as part of a subsequent Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival season.

Submissions should include a bio/resume, a one page synopsis, five pages of sample dialogue, a character breakdown, and an email address. Please do not send full scripts.

Mail submissions to:
PlayFest, Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival
812 East Rollins St. Suite 100
Orlando, FL 32803

Submission deadline for the 2006/2007 season is June 1, 2006. Playwrights will be notified via email no later than August 1, 2006 as to whether or not they are to send the full script.

DO NOT SEND SCRIPTS UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO!

Monday, April 03, 2006

Rockland wants one-act plays

The Rockland Theater Group will produce up to 100 one act plays a year in our playwright workshops and our play festivals. We are always accepting one act plays. Please mail plays to:
Rockland Productions
attn: David
15484 Moorpark st.#14
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Plays for publisher

Original Works Publishing - Dedicated to publishing and producing the best and boldest playwrights in the world, is currently accepting submissions.

We are looking for bold, original, award winning plays in all categories (Full length, one act, and ten minute.)

Ten minute plays well be included in our email a ten minute program.

Original Works Publishing is one of the most selective publishers in the industry. Please visit the website for submission instructions.

www.originalworksonline.com

Feel free to email our staff if you have questions. info@originalworksonline.com

New plays wanted

Seeking New/relatively Unknown Playwrights' work for possible production at an Off Broadway Theatre.
Looking for new full-length plays, to be workshopped and possibly produced. Taking submissions for English language plays only. The location of the playwright is immaterial, and transportation costs to theatre for workshopping and/or opening of show will be under discussion after the play is chosen for production. Deadline for submissions is postmarked June 1st, 2006. Only accepting plays that have never been produced professionally in the NYC area.

Please email a cover letter with a short synopsis of your play (no more than 1 page in length) and a copy of the play to:

aliceacris@aol.com

or send a hardcopy of play with cover letter to:

Attn: New Play submissions c/o
Cristina Alicea, associate literary director
321 West 42nd Street, #5B
NY, NY 10036