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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

THE WILLIAM INGE THEATER FESTIVAL CALL FOR ONE-ACT PLAYS

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The William Inge Theater Festival and Conference announces its first annual New Play Lab, offering playwrights the opportunity to interact with and have their work seen by professional writers, directors, and actors from around the country.

In addition, all playwrights will work directly with professionals in hands-on writing and industry workshops. Playwrights will also participate in panel discussions, writing workshops, enjoy lunchtime lectures, and attend evening performances with talkbacks by master playwrights and theater practitioners following.


Past honorees, panelists, and workshop leaders include John Guare, A.R. “Pete” Gurney, David Henry Hwang, Marsha Norman, Arthur Kopit, Terrence McNally, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Shirley Knight, Barbara Dana, and Marshall Mason, among many others.


THE CALL

The William Inge Theater Festival and Conference seeks submissions of new one-act plays by playwrights who wish to participate in our New Play Lab, April 20-23, 2016. In honor of our 35th year, 35 plays will be chosen for the play lab by a panel of “blind” readers.

This year the Play Lab seeks to explore variety in the one-act play format: from structure, style, and storytelling, to the very stories we tell and those who tell them, in honor of William Inge and his exploration of the one act in both style and form, in the latter years of his life.

The chosen scripts will be rehearsed by top regional directors and actors in advance of the Festival, and receive a public reading for Conference attendees and the public. A panel of select theater professionals will serve as respondents to the work, following the reading.

This is a juried symposium, and while we invite all playwrights to submit, the call for scripts is directed primarily at playwrights who are faculty members or graduate students and/or professionals in the field, who seek the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from their most accomplished peers. We strongly encourage submissions from traditionally underrepresented voices.


SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES


This year the New Play Lab will accept one-act scripts only.

Due to time constraints, we can only allocate 30 minutes reading time for each selected work.  Playwrights are encouraged to submit one-acts that can be presented within the time slot.

Playwrights may submit one script, and one script only.

Plays that have received an Equity production, plays for young audiences, and musicals cannot be submitted.


DEADLINES

Submissions must be received no later than midnight, February 4, 2016.

Notification to playwrights on the status of their play begins on February 5. All selections will be finalized by February 20; two months before the 35th Inge Festival commences.

Playwrights selected for Play Lab must be present for the public reading of their play at the Festival.

Playwrights must commit to the play lab within two weeks of notification, and submit a $75 non-refundable registration deposit to secure their selection at that time. Accepted playwrights must register and pay the remainder of their $175 registration balance by March 25, 2016.

Please Note: Play Lab fees include the entire four day Festival; all evening events, performances, master classes, lunchtime lectures, panels, workshops, the tribute, and the gala.



All participants assigned to a given project need to have the final script in hand prior to the start of the conference. 

SUBMISSIONS WILL BE CAPPED at 350 plays.

HOW DO I SUBMIT MY PLAY?

SUBMIT SCRIPT and your accompanying SEPARATE DOCUMENT as attachments to your email message to: playsubmissions@ingecenter.org Note: No hard copy submissions are permitted. All scripts must be submitted in PDF format; all other formats will be disqualified. Your title page may not have any identifying information -- no author name or address. A draft date and/or draft number is encouraged. Give your script file the name: 2016WITF + TITLE (i.e., 2016WITF Bus Stop.pdf)

IN A SEPARATE DOCUMENT, please write the title of the play, your name and contact information, include a concise bio, a short synopsis of the play, and a summary of how you think your play might benefit from a play lab reading and panel response. Please give this accompanying document the name: 2016LAB + TITLE (i.e. 2016LAB Bus Stop.doc). Note: this document must be in Word (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) format, to enable us to copy your bio and synopsis into our Play Lab program.


WHAT IS THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE?

The deadline is midnight, February 4, 2016. No submissions will be accepted after that date.


WHAT IS THE INGE FESTIVAL NEW PLAY LAB MISSION?
As hosts of playwrights in residence and their resulting developmental workshops for the past 15 years, we approach new play development with both rigor and sensitivity. We are seeking playwrights who are as passionate about this process as we are, who hope to further their work by a response from their peers.

WHAT SUPPORT DOES THE NEW PLAY LAB PROVIDE?
Playwrights are responsible for booking their own travel arrangements. Accommodations are not provided. The playwright may be asked to give a playwriting workshop to high school or college students during the festival, for an honorarium.

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THE PLAYWRIGHT? Playwrights will be asked to discuss the play with their creative team prior to the festival, as available. The playwright is required to be present for the reading of their play and participate in the response by the panel immediately following.

WHAT KINDS OF PLAYS CAN I SUBMIT? Plays must be one-acts. Musicals and plays for young audiences cannot be accepted this year. Submissions may have had a previous reading, workshop, or non-Equity production; as a rule, though, the play lab is intended to develop relatively new works.


QUESTIONS:

For any and all questions, please address your email to: info@ingecenter.org

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