Y.E.S. Festival 2020 seeks plays

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Deadline: June 1, 2020

Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts is calling for submissions for the 20th anniversary of our award-winning Year End Series Festival of New Plays - THE Y.E.S. FESTIVAL, running April 8-18, 2021.

Submissions will be accepted from Jan. 15 until June 1, 2020.

Two plays will be selected for performance in the festival.

The selected playwrights will each receive a cash prize of $400 and an expense-paid (travel and accommodations) visit to NKU to see their plays in production. Selected plays will receive a full production.

WHAT TO SUBMIT

• Full-length plays and musicals are eligible. The author must fully own all rights.
• No children’s theatre, one-acts, or reader’s theatre pieces will be considered.
• Adaptations will only be considered if the adapted work is in the public domain.
• Submissions may not have had a previous professional or university production.
• In deciding what to submit, a writer should know the festival will be cast with undergraduate student actors. Submissions with larger casts are looked upon favorably in the selection process.
• Scripts must be standard sized and legibly typed. Standard Dramatists Guild format is preferred.
• Submissions (ONE per playwright) should include a one-page synopsis and a cast list with brief character descriptions.
• For musicals, please also include libretto, a list of characters with vocal ranges, demo CD and samples of the score.

TO SUBMIT

Use the online form or print out and mail an entry form.

For additional information please contact:

Michael King, Co-Project Director
mking@nku.edu • (859) 572-5647

Corrie Danieley, Co-Project Director
danieleyc1@nku.edu • (859) 572-5451