Deadline: February 28, 2025 at noon
This series is a professional but community-based project, with affordable tickets and the shows will be performed in locations where "theatre typically isn't" such as coffee shops, hotels, bed and breakfasts, bars/breweries, shops, restaurants, cafes, and more! Past Anaconda locations include: the Hickory House Inn, Coffee Corral, the Washoe Theatre lobby, the gallery space at the Copper Museum and Art Center, the Bighorn Wine and Bottle Shop, Sweet Pea Bridal, Gunslinger Gulch, Copperhead Lodge and Forgotten Times Barbershop, all in Anaconda, MT!
We aim at actually or thematically fitting all the plays into the locations they are playing!
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for NEW plays that have never had a fully staged production, but they can have had table reads or staged readings. The plays will hopefully, but don't necessarily have to, fit into our locations listed here:
1) Chamber of Commerce/Discover Anaconda (to perform May, June or July 2025 in Anaconda, MT)
2) Anaconda Yoga (to perform August, September or October 2025 in Anaconda, MT)
3) Pinter’s Portal Hostel (to perform November, December 2025 or January 2026 in Anaconda, MT)
4) The Revolver (to perform February, March or April 2026 in Anaconda, MT)
And NEW to the Community Reading Series...
5) CRS 'In Your Town': RED LODGE at the Black Canyon Bistro (to perform Jan. or Feb. 2026 in Red Lodge, MT)
WHO CAN SUBMIT**
To submit to the series, you must be a writer in the United States with a new play ready for the workshop phase.
ABOUT YOUR PIECE
- Plays that are between 20 mins and 90 mins in length
(NOTE: this can also be reading a part, select scenes, or an Act of a Full Length; vignettes that are part of a larger piece if the play is over 90 mins.)
- Plays must only engage 1 to 4 actors plus an actor to read stage directors (doubling of characters is encouraged!!)
Note: We often get asked why we put a number on this.
We want to engage as many spaces as possible, and larger casts make that impossible!
- Actors can be anywhere from ages 7 and up - but we will not accept any full youth shows or children's theatre pieces
(but use of a young artist in a piece or TYA pieces encouraged!)
- Plays that are looking for feedback to get to the next step in their theatrical journey - AET collects feedback and you will receive that feedback in 1 to 2 weeks post performance.
WHAT WE OFFER
$100 for the rights for one performance plus a $25 travel/food stipend if you choose to come to the performance, if you are local. During the process, you have the opportunity to be as hands on as you wish to be, as we rehearse digitally! Also, feedback from your performance to use for future drafts.
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW
Selections made by: March 21, 2025 at the latest - you will have 1 week to make a decision
Have questions? Shoot an email to jackie@anacondaensembletheatre.com!
- Actors can be anywhere from ages 7 and up - but we will not accept any full youth shows or children's theatre pieces
(but use of a young artist in a piece or TYA pieces encouraged!)
- Plays that are looking for feedback to get to the next step in their theatrical journey - AET collects feedback and you will receive that feedback in 1 to 2 weeks post performance.
WHAT WE OFFER
$100 for the rights for one performance plus a $25 travel/food stipend if you choose to come to the performance, if you are local. During the process, you have the opportunity to be as hands on as you wish to be, as we rehearse digitally! Also, feedback from your performance to use for future drafts.
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW
Selections made by: March 21, 2025 at the latest - you will have 1 week to make a decision
Have questions? Shoot an email to jackie@anacondaensembletheatre.com!