Gay4Detroit Festival seeks one-act plays

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Deadline: July 31, 2020

The Ringwald Theatre is sounding a call for new, original one-act plays to be performed at their annual Gay4Detroit Festival (previously the GPS Festival) in September 2020. The Detroit-area’s only LGBTQ+ short play festival is striving to provide early-career writers the opportunity to see their work produced, giving them what is oft-needed exposure.

The plays submitted should have a performance time of 30 minutes or less and deal directly with issues or characters that are identified as LGBTQ+, or contain a queer sensibility. 

In addition, this year the scripts must exclusively be one- or two-person shows that deal specifically with the quarantine and/or the pandemic.
From those performed, an audience poll will be conducted to select one winning script, actor, actress, and director.

• All submissions must be submitted electronically to: submissions@theringwald.com
• The submitted script must be the script proposed for presentation, with no major alterations necessary.
• Please provide an approximate running time and a one sentence synopsis in the body of the email.
• Only one entry per playwright will be accepted.
• Neither fax nor paper submissions will be accepted.
• Submission materials will not be returned.
• Previously submitted scripts will not be eligible.
• The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2020.
• The final line-up will be announced August 17, 2020.