10th Annual Ten-Minute Playwriting Contest

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Lakeshore Players Theatre is accepting submissions for 10-minute plays.

Winning plays will be produced at our Annual Festival in June 2014.

Play submissions will be accepted through November 15, 2013.

HIGH SCHOOL PLAYWRIGHTS

High school-aged playwrights are encouraged to enter. Plays must include a letter from a teacher or school administrator, written on school letterhead, verifying that the play was written during high school, in addition to the guidelines below. If the committee chooses to name a high school entry as a winner for the 10th annual contest, the winning play will be produced with our other winners in our festival in June 2014.

ALL PLAYWRIGHTS
Please read the following rules and requirements carefully.
Plays not meeting the requirements will be disqualified.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

• The play should be approximately ten-minutes in length.
• The play must have no more than five on-stage (speaking and non-speaking) characters.
• You may submit only one play, so send us your best! Please do not make more than one submission.
• The play should be in a "play format" making it easy for the readers. (We like 12-point, easy to read fonts, such as Times New Roman or Ariel)
• The play must be unpublished and unproduced at the time of submission to our contest. We do screen for this, so don't send us your play if it has been produced. (Staged readings are not counted as "produced.")
• Submitting your play to our contest grants Lakeshore Players the right to produce your play in our annual festival and photograph and/or videotape it for archival purposes, if it is chosen as a winner.

ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES

• The play should have simple technical requirements. There won't be a set — a few furniture pieces and a few props only — we only have about one minute in between plays to change scenes.
• As a community theatre, we want to appeal to the largest possible audience, therefore plays with excessive offensive language are less likely to be selected - please keep that in consideration.
• Two ways to submit: Email or Mail.
• Your play must be received no later than November 15, 2013 to be eligible.

Only plays submitted exactly as outlined below will be accepted.

EMAIL TWO PDFs
VERY IMPORTANT – Email submission rules below MUST be followed, or your submission will be disqualified.

1. Send one copy of the play with ALL contact information on the title page:
• play title
• your name
• your mailing address
• your phone number
• your email address
2. Send ANOTHER copy of play for the judges with NO contact information on the title page: just the title of the play.
3. Email Instructions
• Subject line: Include the title of your play, for example: 10 Min Contest: MY GREAT PLAY
• Include your complete contact information in the body of the email.
• Tell us where you heard about the contest.
• Please include the title of your play in the file name. For example:
  My Great Play-Blind.pdf
  My Great Play.pdf
4. Email plays to: office@lakeshoreplayers.com

MAIL TWO COPIES
Don't know how to PDF? No problem.

1. Send one copy of the play with ALL contact information:
• play title
• your name
• your mailing address
• your phone number
• your email address
2. Include ANOTHER copy of play for the judges with NO contact information - just the title and the play.
3. Mail to:
   Lakeshore Players 10-Minute Play Committee
   4820 Stewart Ave.
   White Bear Lake, MN 55110
4. Plays will not be returned to you.
5. If you would like confirmation that we have received your script, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard with your script.

WINNERS
Plays chosen for production in our festival will receive $10 per Lakeshore performance of the play, and a copy of the program from the festival within 60 days of the festival weekend. Production photos will be uploaded to PhotoBucket and available for viewing, sharing, and downloading.

Any questions? E-mail: office@lakeshoreplayers.com