Deadline: April 30, 2024
Monetary award to playwright: $3000 for works with a running time of at least 40 minutes.
Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provide a meaningful challenge to the actors. This includes, but is not limited to, works using metre, verse, rhyming schemes, pidgins, creoles, and code-switching.
Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.
Conditions for Consideration
Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provide a meaningful challenge to the actors. This includes, but is not limited to, works using metre, verse, rhyming schemes, pidgins, creoles, and code-switching.
Plays must contain at least 60% heightened language.
Submissions may be translations or adaptations of works in the public domain.
Authors awarded a grant must be willing to participate in a brief rehearsal process culminating in a Zoom reading of their submitted work.
Submitted works cannot be currently attached to a theater or production company.
Submitted works cannot have had a prior development cycle outside of an educational program.
Submission deadline: April 30, 2024
Submission portfolio must include:
Our Google form found at https://www.synecdocheworks.org/announcing-fellowship/
The play in standard script format, uploaded via the Google form or emailed as an attachment to submissions@synecdocheworks.org
Optional: CV or resume
Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.
Please visit https://www.synecdocheworks.org/announcing-fellowship/ for more information.
Optional: CV or resume
Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.
Please visit https://www.synecdocheworks.org/announcing-fellowship/ for more information.