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A Central Virginia retreat

The Sweet Briar College campus is an ideal setting for a writer seeking an opportunity to focus on their craft. The campus’ beauty, facilities, and serenity are inspiring and create an extremely productive writing environment. Add to this a company of actors and you have the perfect location for a playwright’s intensive.

Endstation’s Playwrights Initiative brings three playwrights to the Sweet Briar College campus during Endstation’s Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival to write, workshop, and develop new plays. This program promotes the work of the next generation of playwright by providing a laboratory for young playwrights to write and rework their plays in a supportive atmosphere, and with access to other theatre artists.

Submissions
Endstation Theatre’s Playwrights Initiative asks that you not only send work best representative of your talents, voice, and aesthetic but work that is the most recent. We learn most from you as a candidate when we are reviewing work that is exciting you currently, moving your work in new directions, and could benefit most from the time spent at Sweet Briar. This work, alongside a concise background of your career and training, is all that is required to submit for the coming year.

Next submission period: November 1, 2012 – March 1, 2013.