Deadline: November 15, 2020
Lakeshore Players Theatre is now accepting submission of 10-minute plays for its 2020-2021 season's contest. The ten winners of the contest will be performed for our 17th Annual Festival, in the spring of 2021. Play submissions will be accepted through November 15, 2020.
ALL PLAYWRIGHTS
Please read the following rules and requirements carefully. Plays not meeting the requirements will be disqualified:
•The play should be approximately ten-minutes in length.
•The play must have no more than five on-stage (speaking or 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 suggest 12-point, easy to
read fonts, such as Times New Roman or Arial)
•The play must be unpublished and unproduced at the time of submission to our contest. We DO
screen for this, so do not send us your play if it has been produced. Staged readings are not
counted as "produced." However, if you have had a staged reading of the play, please let us know
so that we do not accidentally disqualify it.
•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.
HIGH SCHOOL PLAYWRIGHTS
High school 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, the play will be produced with the other winners in our festival.
ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:
•The play should have simple technical requirements. There won't be much of 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.
NEW THIS YEAR! - SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED THROUGH OUR ON-LINE ENTRY FORM or By Email.
Your play must be submitted no later than November 15, 2020 to be eligible for consideration. Please submit all entries through the following form: LPT 17th Annual 10-MPF Entry Form. We would prefer you use this new convenient method of submission. If you are unable to make the on-line entry form work for you, we will also accept submission by way of email this year to 10mpf@lakeshoreplayers.org.
Only plays submitted as outlined below will be accepted: