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THE RUBY PRIZE 2014

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Southern Rep now Accepting Submissions for The 2014 Ruby Prize Southern Rep's national new play award for a woman playwright of color, The Ruby Prize, is a $10,000 award named in honor of Ruby Bridges.

THE RUBY PRIZE

Southern Rep is pleased to announce that it will accept submissions for The Ruby Prize, effective immediately. The $10,000 annual award is named in honor of Ruby Bridges, who showed incredible perseverance in the face of formidable obstacles. The Ruby Prize seeks to support women playwrights of color whose work changes the voice of American theatre in the face of calcified producing practices.

In partnership with Hedgebrook, winners will receive a tenday writer's residency in addition to a cash prize.

This program is a part of Southern Rep's ongoing effort to develop new American plays, support a diverse community of artists, and incite meaningful dialogue within the community.

THE PRIZE

• $10,000 prize
• An original, one of a kind Ruby Prize Award
• A development workshop during Southern Rep's New Play Bacchanal in January, 2014
• A sponsored trip to New York, including round-trip air and lodging accommodations, to continue
  development of the play and introduce the new work to a larger audience
• A ten-day writing residency at Hedgebrook. Located on beautiful Whidbey Island near Seattle, Hedgebrook offers one of the few residency programs in the world exclusively dedicated to supporting the creative process of women writers. Through innovative public programs, Hedgebrook enables women's work to enrich the global community by diversity: of culture nationality, voice, genre, generation, perspective, religious beliefs and political affiliations

Two finalists will be selected to have their new works read at the Southern Rep New Play Bacchanal in January 2014.

GUIDELINES

The contest will be open to US citizens who self-identify as women of color, and may be either emerging or established playwrights.

Southern Rep's in-house readers will review and evaluate scripts, selecting finalists that will be move into the next round of judging. The final panel consists of national and local theatre artists as well as Southern Rep's Artistic Director, Aimée Hayes. Plays must be full-length, and written by a single author. We will
not accept collaborative scripts, translations, musicals, one-acts, or any play previously submitted to Southern Rep's Ruby Prize.

Plays that have had a professional production, or have been written under a commission, are not eligible for submission. Plays that have received a development workshop, readings, or nonprofessional production are eligible. "Professional production" shall be defined as a production with paid actors and had an official press opening.

If selected as a Prize Winner or Finalist, playwright agrees that Southern Rep may include the play in an annual Ruby Prize publication. The publication will not require any exclusive rights for printing.

Only one submission per playwright is allowed.

The top prize includes round-trip airfare and lodging accommodations to New York city, and lodging accommodations at Hedgebrook (airfare to Hedgebrook not included). The finalists will receive round-trip air and lodging accommodations to attend the award ceremony, there is no other cash award associated
with the selection of finalists.

SUBMISSIONS

Each submission must include a synopsis, character breakdown, brief playwright bio, and history of the play's development if applicable.

Each submission must also include a title page containing the playwright's name, address, and contact information. This information may ONLY appear on the title page.

Plays must be submitted by email, as a single attached document, in PDF (preferred) or Word doc format
to TheRuby@SouthernRep.com..

Hard copies of scripts will not be accepted.

Materials must be received by October 15 for consideration for The 2014 Ruby Prize.

Due to anticipated number of submissions, we regret that individual feedback will not be available to submitting playwrights.

The 2013 Harvest Theatre Festival

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Variations Theatre Group, Inc (VTG) is proud to announce its 4th annual Harvest Theatre Festival at the Chain Theatre, Long Island City.

The festival will open on November 15th, 2013. The awards ceremony and final performances will be on November 24th, 2013.

Selected plays will be staged at the Chain over two weeks. Each play will have an opportunity to impress both audiences and a panel of judges with three showings. At Finals Night, awards will be given to the Best Play, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Ensemble.

Submissions: You may submit up to two plays/applications for the festival.

Submissions will only be accepted by email to harvest@variationstheatregroup.com  in PDF format. Please include a completed application form, a character breakdown of your play, and a copy of your piece. We will accept either PDF or word documents.

All submissions must be received by 5pm on Saturday, October 5th, 2013.

There is no submission fee.

You are expected to bring your own cast and director. A nonrefundable charge of $300.00 to be paid immediately upon acceptance, towards rental, advertisement, and publicity. VTG is a nonprofit theater committed to public service and its founders or management work as volunteers, without compensation, to promote American theatrical talent.  For more information please visit our website www.variationstheatregroup.com.

University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance 10-minute Play Festival

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The University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance is excited to announce a new 10-Minute Play Festival for spring of 2014.

We will begin accepting submissions for this festival on August 1, 2013;

 The submission period closes on October 15, 2013. 

12-14 selected 10-minute plays will receive productions as part of a multi-evening festival, produced in the newly upgraded José Quintero Theatre on the University of Houston campus. This festival is open to all applicants, amateur or professional.

Submission rules
Scripts will only be accepted during a submission window of August 1 through October 15, 2013. Scripts received outside this window will not be accepted.
The list of winning plays will be announced in early November.

• We will accept only one play per playwright.
• Scripts should fall in the range of 8-13 pages and run roughly ten minutes. (Page count does not include the title page.)
• Characters in submitted plays should fall between the ages of 16-30, or else there should be no specific restrictions on the ages of the characters.
• Previously produced plays are not eligible.
• Musicals and plays for children are discouraged.
• Submissions will be acknowledged via email, but we do not offer critiques.
• Please staple or paper-clip copies of the script. Do not use binders, covers, or folders of any kind.
• 12-14 winning plays will receive productions in the José Quintero Theatre at the University of Houston in spring of 2014. The festival will present an alternating bill of 6-7 plays per evening.
• Along with production of their plays, the winning playwrights will each receive an award certificate. There is no financial compensation for winning entries.

How to submit

We will only accept hard copies of plays via mail. Scripts will not be returned.

Please send two copies of your play in one envelope. One copy should include a cover page with all of the following
information:

• play title
• your name 
• your mailing address
• your phone number 
• your email address

In addition, include a second copy of the same play for the judges with no contact information – just the title and the play itself. Mail both copies in one envelope to:

University of Houston
School of Theatre & Dance
Dr. Robert Shimko
Ten-Minute Play Submission
133 CWM Center
Houston, TX 77204

Abingdon Theatre Company’s THE FITTING ROOM PLAYS

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Abingdon Theatre Company’s
THE FITTING ROOM PLAYS
Metropolitan area playwrights only

Dear Playwright,

You are invited to submit an original 10-minute play to Abingdon Theatre Company’s THE FITTING ROOM PLAYS Benefit Challenge Series. This effort engages artists who support a theatre dedicated to new plays.

Our Fitting Room Benefit Challenge Series asks you to unleash your creativity by writing a short play that takes place in a dressing room.  Be creative!  There is one stipulation: a character must be fundamentally transformed by the visit to this setting.

We strongly encourage original play submissions that are developed for this presentation.

Using your skills and imagination, write an original play that will be presented as a staged reading on the set of Abingdon’s next production, FIX ME, JESUS, by Helen Sneed and directed by Sam Pinkleton.

The Benefit Challenge Series seeks plays written in any style that reveal a fresh plot, sufficient conflict and a running time of 10 minutes, maximum.

Comedies will be given preference.

Plays are due at midnight on Wednesday, October 9, 2013.  

SERIES A performs on Tuesday, November 12 @ 6:30pm & 8:30pm, and SERIES B performs on Tuesday, November 19 @ 6:30pm & 8:30pm. Are you ready? Here are the guidelines. Please read carefully!

GENERAL GUIDELINES: 

1. Abingdon presents the play. We provide the actors, directors, stage manager, rehearsal space and the theatre (the 55-seat Dorothy Strelsin Theatre at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, 312 W. 36th Street, NYC).  There is no fee or cost to the playwright!
2. This is also a fundraiser to support Abingdon’s New Play Development Program. ALL participants are donating their time and talent, and HELPING TO RECRUIT AN AUDIENCE. Our goal is to fill every seat in the house!  The suggested audience donation is $10.
3. Each playwright and director will be able to attend the staged reading of their script in designated seating.
4. Every play gets two performances.

Please make sure you follow all submission requirements.

SCRIPT GUIDELINES:

1. Your play must adhere to the theme of transformation.
2. Your play must be set in a fitting room.  The set includes clothing racks and a tailor’s pedestal. 
3. Write for a cast of 2-3 actors (any age, race, ethnicity, or gender). 
4. We prefer scripts that can be staged without relying on stage directions.
5. Your script will be presented as a staged reading in accordance with AEA guidelines. Keep production values to a minimum. Specific costumes are at the discretion of the director and the willing cooperation of the actors. No hand props can be used.
6. Playwrights must be present from 6pm-10pm on the evening their script is performed.  Please specify your availability for SERIES A (11/12), and/or SERIES B (11/19). If you are available for either slot, let us know that, too!
7. We encourage you to attend rehearsals, if possible.  The rehearsal schedule will be determined later.
8. The deadline for script submission is midnight, October 9. Up to 12 scripts will be chosen.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

1. Plays should be in standard script format: 12 point font, 1” margins on all sides, and character names on a separate line. On your title page, please include your contact information (phone, email and address).  
2. Be sure to number all pages.
3. Submit one script only in MS-Word - preferred - or PDF format.
4. Scripts longer than 10 pages – title and character breakdown pages are not counted – will NOT be considered.  Regardless of the number of pages, the running time MUST be no more than 10 minutes!
5. Email your script to Bara Swain at Bswain@abingdontheatre.org 
6. Write in the subject line: FITTING ROOM SUBMISSION / Your Name
7. In the body of the email, send your complete contact information (name, phone, email address) and a one-line summary of your play as well as your availability (Series A and/or Series B).
8. You will be contacted regarding your script’s status in mid-October.

If you have any questions, contact Bara Swain or Kim T. Sharp, Co-Producers. For more information on Abingdon Theatre Company, visit our website at www.abingdontheatre.org. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Bara Swain
Bswain@abingdontheatre.org
Kim T. Sharp
Ksharp@abingdontheatre.org
Co-Producers
Abingdon’s Benefit Challenge Series

Hobo Junction Productions seeks 10-minute plays

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The Chicago-based theater company Hobo Junction Productions is hosting their sixth annual short play festival, HOBO ROBO 6: HOBOS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE (a distastefully-titled festival just in the time for the holidays). We are currently seeking new, original ten-minute comedic plays that focus on the themes, traditions, and festivities associated with everyone's favorite winter holiday. Whether it's a biting satire about the Black Friday shopping mayhem, a dark comedy about Santa's crumbling marriage, or a farcical take on the birth of Jesus, the play's main objective is this: it has to make us laugh!

There will be a total of eight plays selected by our festival directors that will be featured in a three-night event in December. Every night, audience members vote for their favorite play, and at festival's end, the winning playwright receives ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS! Holy Jeebus!

So send us your scripts! We want them smelling like pine trees by the time they land in our Inbox. (Electronic submissions only, please.  PDF format required.)

Submissions are due by October 12, 2013 at midnight. 

Selected plays will be announced no later than November 9th, 2013.

We encourage playwrights from all across the world to submit their work.  Past submissions have come from countries as far-reaching as France, Russia, and Czechoslovakia ... we hope we're spelling that right.

Please submit all materials to: Elizabeth Elston, Literary Manager at hobojunctionsubmissions@gmail.com.

BREAKDOWN:
* Scripts should be between 7 – 10 pages, not including the cover page and character list.
* The playwright's personal information should not appear anywhere on the script, including the cover pages; directors will be asked to read the scripts “blind.”
*  Each playwright can send up to two scripts. Sending more than two will immediately disqualify that particular writer.
*  The plays must be original, not yet produced, and fit the festival's themes of winter holidays and/or the festivities, traditions, and themes associated with them.
*  ENTRY FEE: Or should we say “ENTRY FREE”-- It costs nothing to submit!
*  CASH PRIZE: $100 to the playwright whose play receives the most audience votes!

Due to the high volume of submissions we receive each year, we will be unable to comment on individual scripts. Thank you, and we look forward to reading your work!

Find out more about us at www.hobojunctionproductions.com.

MAIL-ORDER DRAMATURGY PROGRAM

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A long-distance dramaturgy program for new plays in development. Works must be in the first draft stage or later. Each script will be paired with a professional dramaturge, who will work with the playwright via email and/or Skype through the completion of a further two drafts of their work.

All playwrights, regardless of experience or province/country of residence, are eligible to apply. Up to three scripts will be chosen for development in 2014.

Please note that She Said Yes! is a feminist theatre company, and as such we are interested in developing works that are written by, for or about women. While we do not stipulate that the playwright must be female, priority will be given to works which develop and enrich the canon of theatre for women.

Submission deadline is October 15th, 2013, at 5 pm. 
Submissions must be emailed by this date in order to be considered.

To apply, send a copy of your script in pdf or Word format, along with a cover letter stating your reasons for applying to the program and your history as a playwright to shesaidyestheatre@gmail.com.

Pending funding, we pay a modest honorarium to all participating playwrights and dramaturges.

The Mail-Order Dramaturgy program is an annual project of She Said Yes! Theatre Company.

For more information on She Said Yes! and its work, visit www.shesaidyestheatre.ca, or contact Sara Tilley, Artistic Director of She Said Yes!, at shesaidyestheatre@gmail.com.

NYCPlaywrights Discount Tickets: THE PREACHER AND THE SHRINK

By Merle Good 

Directed by Steven Yuhasz

The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row  - 410 West 42^nd Street (between 9^th & 10^th Aves)

A spirited young woman makes a sexual accusation which checkmates her father, a respected and popular pastor. They have been estranged for years by a deep grief. Will she follow through? Will he fight back? Even the psychiatrist who tries to help becomes conflicted when middle age romance develops. The Preacher and the Shrink unwraps these struggles with startling consequences.

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! NOVEMBER 2 – JANUARY 4 ONLY

Performance Schedule:*

Tuesdays 7pm | Wednesdays 8pm | Thursdays 8pm | Fridays 8pm |

Saturdays 2pm and 8pm | Sundays 3pm

 *Additional performances on Friday 11/29 at 2pm, Monday 12/23 at 8pm, Friday 12/27 at 2pm, Monday 12/30 at 8pm, Friday 1/3 at 2pm

*No performances on Tuesday 11/19, Thursday 11/28, Tuesday 12/24, Wednesday 12/25, Tuesday 12/31

SPECIAL OFFER!

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Box office hours: Noon - 8pm Daily

FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit www.ThePreacherandtheShrink.com 

** Ticket prices include $1.25 facility fee. Service fees apply to online/phone orders. Schedule is subject to change. All sales are final. 

Abstract Sentiment Theatre Co. is accepting 10 minute plays

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Abstract Sentiment Theatre Co. is accepting 10 minute plays for their monthly "Block and Talk" 10 minute staged reading series which will take place October 13th.

Your play will be rehearsed and performed with the same day.

If interested in submitting, please follow these guidelines:

• Your play must be no more than 10 minutes long
• Preferably comedic but will accept drama
• It must have a minimal set requirement
• No more than six characters.
• The plays must contain an age range of 20-40.
• All submissions must be submitted electronically.
• Please send a maximum of THREE ten-minute plays. 

Please send your submissions to v.king4@yahoo.com.

The subject of the email should read: PLAYWRIGHT-BLOCK/TALK

*Note: The deadline for submissions is October 8th. 

Diez Minutos seeks 10-minute plays

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Diez Minutos Productions is seeking 10-minute plays for its Second Annual Play Festival. This fully-staged festival will be in English, and will take place in mid-March of 2014 in the international arts center of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico — a World Heritage Site brimming with charm, history, and culture.

There is no fee for submitting.

Each playwright whose script is selected and performed will receive a $10 USD cash honorarium and two complimentary tickets to the production. One play will be selected as the Audience Favorite and its playwright shall receive an additional $25 USD cash award.  No other remuneration will be provided, and any playwright attending must do so at his or her own expense.

Submission Guidelines

Diez Minutos Productions may delete, without reading, any submission that does not comply with these rules.

Only one play may be submitted per entrant. Send us your best!

Only the first 100 plays entered will be considered.

The play may be a drama or comedy and must be on the theme of SEX, LIES & ALIBIS.

The play must be submitted by email, as an attached PDF file. No MS Word files or other formats will be accepted. The subject line of your email should include your name and the title of the play.

The submission shall include all contact information for the playwright, including name, address, telephone number and email address; the script must be in standard play format, with a title page, a character listing, the setting, props, and any technical requirements or other production considerations.  The file should be titled "Submission [Name Of Play].”

The play must be in English and no longer than 10 pages in standard format, with a calculated running time of no less than eight minutes and no more than twelve minutes.

Submission period opens on September 1, 2013.

Entries must be received prior to midnight U.S. Central Standard Time, October 31, 2013. 

No late submissions will be accepted because of transmission problems.

The play must be unpublished, but may have had previous productions. If the play has had previous productions, a production history must be included with the submission. The submitting playwright must own all rights to the play.

Selection of plays will be at the absolute discretion of the judges.

Selection of a play does not guarantee production. Producers may decline to produce a selected play because of casting, directing or any other consideration, in which case no payment will be due the playwright.

Selected entrants will receive a list of the festival scripts by email. Notification is expected to be made no later than January 15, 2014. Only playwrights whose plays were received in the first 100 submitted will be notified.

Scripts must relate to the theme but are not otherwise limited in subject matter or content. However, there must be no nudity, and suitability for performance before a general adult audience will be a factor in selection.

Plays are restricted to 5 or fewer characters. Small casts are preferable, as the stage size is modest, with minimal set, props, sound cues, and costuming. Our talent pool is composed mostly of actors over 40. This will be a factor in selection.

By making the submission the entering playwright grants the producers of Diez Minutos permission to perform the play a maximum of ten times during the Diez Minutos 2014 festival, and to make as many copies of the script as are necessary for production.  All other rights remain with the playwright.

Please address your submission to: diezminutosfestival@yahoo.com. Any inquiries should be sent to the same address.

0-60: Ten Minute Play Competition

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Open to any theme, style and approach, playwrights are invited to submit a maximum of one (1) script. Scripts should run no longer than ten minutes. Stapled copies are fine. Set and technical requirements should be minimal. Each script must include author-contact information on its cover page.

There is no fee to enter.

(NOTE: Anyone affiliated with Longwood University–students, former students, employees and their families–are ineligible for this competition.)

PRIZES INCLUDE:
All six winners  will receive a full production.

Winners will be notified by e-mail and then posted on brierycreek.wordpress.com on or before December 15, 2013. Plays will be produced in late April.

Please send plays (hard copies only) to the following address (Postmarked) between
September 15 and October 15:

0 to 60: Longwood Ten-Minute Play Festival
English Department
Longwood University
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909

If you have any questions please e-mail Semein Washington at semein.washington@live.longwood.edu

Playwrights First announces its 2013-2014 playwright competition.

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Playwrights First announces its 2013-2014 playwright competition.

We require that the one play submitted be by one author, original, full-length, unproduced prior to submission, and in English.

No adaptations, translations or musicals will be accepted.

Please submit a resume with your play.

No electronic submissions will be accepted.

Plays cannot be returned.

Submission period: August 1, 2013 - October 15, 2013

Notification of winner: June 2014

We offer to playwrights whose plays are selected:

$1,000 grant for a play of outstanding merit
Professional readings, when appropriate
Useful introductions to actors, literary managers, directors, etc.
Committee feedback if desired

Please mail your play and resume to the following address:
Playwrights First
c/o John E. Donnelly
250 E. 73rd St. #12G
New York, NY 10021

You may reach us at 212-410-9234 or emilyandren@earthlink.net.

WRAPPED UP: FESTIVAL OF YULETIDE PLAYS

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This December, Skylight (UK) will be celebrating the festive season with Wrapped Up, a festival of new writing performed throughout December at the Drayton Theatre.

We're looking for plays between 15 and 25 minutes in length that give a fresh perspective on the Yuletide countdown.  Submissions can be sent via the Contact page on our website here.

(No deadline provided.)

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati submission guidelines

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We accept script submissions from June to October only. You may submit a complete script or 10 sample pages. Please include a cover letter, complete character list and synopsis with your submission.

We look for: full-length plays only (no one-acts), adaptations and musicals; world and regional premieres; ensemble works; plays with music; multi-media works; and plays that address current social issues.

Please be aware that Ensemble Theatre’s stage is a full thrust with relatively no wing or fly space and limited backstage area; therefore, our space is not very conducive to plays that require significant scene changes or numerous settings and places that are not easily adaptable or implied.

Before submitting any material to Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, please read our mission statement and research our production history, which are located on our website. Considering the types of plays we have produced in the past, honestly assess whether or not your play would fit us.

Preferred maximum cast size: 8.
Response Time: 6-9 months.
Stage dimensions: 44’ x 46’.

Please email (preferred) script submissions to scripts@ensemblecincinnati.org.

If you do send a hard copy, you must include a SASE for our response and/or return of the material.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
Attn: Script Submissions
1127 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Theater Reviews Online

ROMEO AND JULIET

What happens when you pimp out the pop in a pop masterpiece? Does it cheapen the original work by association? An unfortunate aspect of the thirty or so modern-day screen adaptations of “Romeo and Juliet” is that they minimize the attention it takes to listen to the play; filmmakers tend to amp up the characters’ knowing youthfulness, while jettisoning much of the script’s literariness. Those film adaptations have made the play difficult for many people to sit through—you can’t fast-forward it, or leave it on pause—but it may be partly the fault of how the play itself is read. Looked at a certain way, “Romeo and Juliet” is a movie, or structured like one: in a series of relatively swift and visually sensational sequences, two bodies are joined together and torn apart by the exciting forces of desire, animosity, and love. Mark Van Doren, in his exceptional book about Shakespeare, writes that the poet’s eighth play is “a tragedy which is crowded with life. . . . But it is crowded at the same time with clevernesses, it keeps the odor of ink.” That ink is what the Australian director Baz Luhrmann tried to wipe away in his interesting, 1996 modernization of the tale, which dressed up the familiarities of the plot with opera-buffa staging, Bollywood jump cuts, and nervous, lovesick closeups. In short, Luhrmann used Shakespeare to serve his own style, which is fundamentally unliterary, despite all the talk...

- The New Yorker

Romeo wakes up one morning and spots the flecks of gray in his boyish mop, and it all comes rushing back. Rosaline — she turned him down cold last night. It shouldn’t hurt this much. He’s over 500 years old and part elf — still a young man! Forever a young man! But he’s just not feeling it — not today. What to do? Maybe he’ll buy a motorcycle! Fuck, yeah: Some kitsch-encrusted retro-Brando model. He’ll roar around the artfully distressed, urban-outfitted precincts of gentrified Verona, then maybe do a little free-climbing, have a few sojutinis with the boys (who aren’t really boys anymore, either). He’ll try to forget about the old gal. Maybe make some time with a younger one. A much younger one, preferably...

- Vulture

A sense of divine justice seizes us whenever two of the world’s prettiest people find each other. This was true when Taylor met Burton, when Brad met Angelina, when Paris met Helen, or even when Narcissus met his reflection. We just can’t help sighing over the glory of separate souls wrapped in the luxury of shared beauty. Then there’s that other part of us that thinks, both fearfully and hopefully, “It can’t last.” Such thoughts are inevitably stirred by David Leveaux’s lopsided production of “Romeo and Juliet,” which opened on Thursday night at the Richard Rodgers Theater, with the equally exquisite-looking Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in the title roles. When these doomed lovers first set eyes on each other, it’s so obvious that they’re a matched set — and that they know it — that the whole world seems to stand still in deference...

- New York Times

Princeton University presents: 2014-2015 HODDER FELLOWSHIP

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The Hodder Fellowship will be given to writers and non-literary artists of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have "much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts"; they are selected more "for promise than for performance." Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the "studious leisure" to undertake significant new work.

Hodder Fellows spend an academic year at Princeton, but no formal teaching is involved. A $75,000 stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply.

Applications must be submitted by October 1, 2013 through the Princeton Jobs website at http://jobs.princeton.edu, requisition # 1300448.

 Writers:
Submit a resume, a 3,000-word writing sample of recent work, and a project proposal of 500 to 750 words.


Performing and Visual Artists:
Submit a resume, a project proposal of 500 to 750 words, and examples of ten minutes of performance through link(s) to sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Flicker, etc. Visual artists should provide up to 20 still images saved as a PDF file and submit as part of their online application or supply a link to a website, YouTube, etc.

CAN AMERICA MAKE IT? 10-minute playwriting festival

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You are invited to submit an original 10-minute play to a Playwriting Festival for early November of 2013 to be held at Stony Point Center.

This festival, “Can America Make it?” will benefit the Community of Living Traditions, a multifaith residency program that practices hospitality, engages faith and cultivates nonviolence and justice. This will be an opportunity for unproduced writers to have their work presented. The challenge of the Festival is the necessity for social action to heal the problems in our society.

Be Creative! Consider all forms of what is wrong with society.

Using your skills and imagination, write an original play, drama or comedy that will be presented as staged productions. Our “Can America Make It?” festival calls for plays that deal with some aspect of nonviolent social action in response to injustice in a community and/or society.

We are seeking plays written in any style that reveal fresh plot, interesting character(s), sufficient conflict and a running time of 10 minutes maximum.

General Guidelines

• Play submissions (by internet only) are due by Midnight October 13th. 
• All US playwrights can participate and be considered but local playwrights are preferred (New York, Rockland County, Westchester and New Jersey)
• Up to 6 scripts will be chosen to be presented.
• Stony Point Productions offers rehearsal space at 17 Cricketown Road, Stony Point, New York 10980. Please be advised that all participants selected should rehearse at their own spaces in addition to the Stony Point Center. 
• Plays will be presented in the Stony Point Conference Center’s auditorium which seats 120 people.
• Playwrights will be responsible for finding their own directors and actors. Please don’t allow this to discourage you from submitting (if there are issues finding directors and actors, please contact Marie-Elena Ortiz.
• This is a fundraiser to assist the Stony Point Conference Center’s multifaith community dedicated to non-violence. All participants are donating their time and talent. Our goal is to fill every seat in the house! 
• The suggested donation to attend (this is not a submission fee) is $15.00.

Script Guidelines

• Your play must adhere to the theme of what is wrong with society?
• Write for a cast of 1-4 actors (the more diverse the better)
• Minimum props a table and 2 chairs if needed. 
• The play must be no longer than 10 minutes

How to Submit

Email your script to Marie-Elena Ortiz dramaturgycentral@gmail.com

Write in the subject line: your last name/societies hangups

In the body of the email send your complete contact information and a one line summary of your play.

You will be contacted regarding your script status in Mid October.

Play submissions (by internet only) are due by Midnight October 13th.

JEWISH WRITERS ROUNDTABLE

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Now accepting submissions for its Jewish humor and comedy program. The Jewish Writers Roundtable was founded at Valley Beth Shalom as a home for professional writers interested in developing drama and comedy with foundations in Jewish life. Participants who make up the Roundtable represent writers and producers of television, features, theater. novelists, poets, and documentarians.

Valley Beth Shalom is one of the leading Conservative synagogues in the United States. Under Rabbi Harold Schulweis and Rabbi Ed Feinstein it has instituted programs with worldwide outreach. They include Jewish World Watch, and The Institute for the Righteous.

Six Ten-minute comedies, sketches or monologues will be presented on December 14, 2013. Authors are encouraged to submit innovative, original, even outrageous Jewish-oriented work. The only caveat: no blue material. We’re looking for the best
and brightest. Plays, sketches and monologues that have been produced previously are acceptable. The six plays chosen will be announced in November 2013 and receive an honorarium of $50.

Guidelines:

Scripts must be original.
Adaptations must be public domain or if original material is written by another author, accompanied by a letter of permission to use copyrighted material.
The play, exclusive of title and cast pages, must be 10 pages or less, with a run time of 8 to 10 minutes maximum.
Cast limited to 4 characters.
All submissions must be in a standard professional play format.
Hard copy submissions only.

Send entries to: JWR, PO Box 55815, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413

Title page: Author's name, address, phone number, and email address.
Second page: Cast and description of characters and setting information.
Third page: first page of play. Include title and page numbers on every page.

Authors may submit only one script.

Submission letter must contain consent to permit JWR to produce the play as a reading if it is selected. Authors retain copyright and full ownership of plays. Plays will be performed by professional actors and directed by the author or may name a director. Authors shall indicate their option. Directors must cast their own plays. Directors and actors will be given honoraria.

Date of performance: December 14, 2013 at Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California 91403.

Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked on or before October 18, 2013.

IATI THEATRE seeks 10-minute performances for FAB festival

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IATI Theater is looking for 10 minute long theater, dance, music or multidisciplinary pieces for its Vanguardia Box, which will be featured at FAB's annual festival to take place on the 4th street arts block on Sepetember 28th, 1pm-5pm.

IATI theater seeks interesting and visually stimulating pieces that will be performed inside an 8'x8' wooden box. The more visually stimulating the better. All pieces must be around the 10 minute mark. Each group of artists will perform the piece twice from 1pm-5pm.

There is no payment involved but you get to perform your piece in the most vibrant theater block in Manhattan (this is the same block where LaMAma, NYTW and–of course–IATI are located). Also, you will be able to promote your show/company on a table that will be set up next to the box, as well as interact with the audience in between your performances.

Here's a link to the festival's page:
http://fabnyc.org/FAB_Festival.php 

If interested, please submit a project proposal, as well as any other materials you have of your show to:

haydn@iatitheater.org AND german@iatitheater.org

Primary Stages offers discounts for NYCPlaywrights

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NYCPlaywrights get a $100 discount on two upcoming writing classes at Primary Stages/ESPA: The First Draft with Josh Hecht and Comedy Writing with Kate Moira Ryan. Whether you want to start a new play from scratch or spice up a dramatic piece with comic relief, we have the instructors and guidance for you!

Click here for additional information: http://primarystages.org/writing. Use code NYCP when you register online to pay just $480 (that’s $100 off your tuition!) Need a payment plan? Just give us a call at 212-840-9705!

New Play-Reading Festival Submission

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This project is open to any unpublished and unproduced non-musical Theater for Young Audiences (TYA) scripts to be considered as one of four plays to be featured in the New Play-Reading Festival this coming season at The Growing Stage Theatre – The Children’s Theatre of New Jersey.

The New Play-Reading Festival is a wonderful opportunity for artists to have their unpublished works presented before an audience, in a play-reading scenario, by a cast consisting of both professional and amateur actors on two separate occasions during our 2013/2014 season.

The Growing Stage is committed to creating and presenting professional theatre for young people and their families and to provide them with the unique and affordable opportunity to share a fun, culturally significant moment in an intimate and special venue, The Historic Palace Theatre. Young people are also given the opportunity to grow as performers by working alongside professional actors as part of the theatre learning experience. Shows usually require a minimum of 4 characters/performers; there is no maximum, provided that if necessary, doubling is OK with the playwright.

The initial play readings will take place, one per day, November 7 through 10. After the reading of each play, there will be a dialogue among the audience, performers and playwright. The second set of readings will take place, again, one per day, March 6 through 9. After the play readings in March, one of the four scripts will then be selected to be presented as a fully mounted production in The Growing Stage’s 2014/2015 Main Stage season!!!

Please send script submissions for the New Play-Reading Festival and subsequently for the 2014/2015 Main Stage BY OCTOBER 1st 2013 to the company’s Production Manager and head of the festival, Steve Graham:  prdmgr@growingstage.com

Or to:

The Growing Stage Theatre
Attn: Steve Graham
P.O. Box 36
Netcong, NJ 07857

If your script submission is an adaptation, we do ask that you also please include proof that you have permission from the author to adapt their work.

QU: Queens University of Charlotte accepts script excerpts

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Our mission is to publish fiction, poetry, essays and script excerpts of outstanding quality. In keeping with the ethos of the Queens University MFA program, we will look for writing that is provocative, original and reflective of contemporary culture.

Since ours is a low-residency program, we will also include articles on subjects that are of interest to working writers. Tentatively titled "The Writing Life," this series could address the challenges almost all writers face in trying to balance their craft with everyday demands.

We are currently accepting submissions in:

• Fiction
• Essays
• Poetry
• Script Excerpts

Prose submissions (fiction, essays, script excerpts) should be a maximum of 4000 words. Poetry submissions may include up to 3 poems.

Piney Fork Press Theater One Act Play Festival seeks 10 minute plays & monologues

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Submissions are now being accepted for the Second Piney Fork Press Theater One Act Play Festival, to take place in January 2014 in New York City.

Seeking 10 minute plays (no more than 10 pp), preferably with no more than 5 characters. Also seeking monologues (no more than 4pp). Basic set requirements.

No more than 3 submissions per playwright. No profanity, as this is a family friendly festival! No submission fee.

Please include name, address, telephone number and email address.

Also seeking actors and directors.

Deadline: October 1st, 2013

Email:
submissions@pineyforkpress.com

Snail mail:
Piney Fork Press Theater Festival
22-73 43rd Street - JC
Astoria NY 11105

Lourdes University Drama Society 2013 One-Act Playwriting Competition

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NOTE: the five dollar entry fee is waived for those who send a copy of their current Dramatists Guild membership card.

Lourdes University Drama Society 2013 One-Act Playwriting Competition Rules
Cash awards of $250 for 1st place, $100 for 2nd place, and $50 for 3rd place will be presented. Winning plays will also be produced by the Lourdes University Drama Society.

To enter please send the following items to the address below:
1. Completed entry form
2. Bio of the playwright(s) – must be 100 words or less
3. Play synopsis including character descriptions
4. Five copies of the script
5. $5 entry fee or copy of current Dramatist Guild membership card
(checks should be made out to Lourdes University)

Mail to:
Keith Ramsdell
Lourdes University Drama Society
One-Act Playwriting Competition
6832 Convent Blvd
Sylvania, OH 43560

Competition Rules:
1. The competition is open to all playwrights 18 years of age and older. Only one play per playwright may be entered per year. Plays may be co-written by more than one playwright, but the names of all playwrights must appear on the entry form.
2. Entries must be one-act stage plays with performance times of 8 to 15 minutes. Full-length plays, musicals, children’s plays, film and TV scripts, and plays previously entered in this competition are ineligible.
3. Submissions are restricted to original dramatic works – no adaptations – that have not been previously published or produced outside of an academic environment.
4. While all reasonable care will be taken, Lourdes University Drama Society does not assume any responsibility for lost, misplaced or damaged scripts.
5. There are no restrictions on genre or theme.
6. Scripts will be judged on concept, dramatic action, characterization and dialogue. Preference
will be given to plays with 2 to 4 characters, limited staging requirements, and content/language sensitive to the traditions and values of Lourdes University. The decisions of the judges are final. No critiques will be given, and no scripts will be returned.
7. Lourdes University Drama Society will produce the winning plays royalty-free during its Festival of One Acts 2014. This includes the right to make rehearsal copies of the script, to use the title of the play and the author’s name in publicity and promotion, and to videotape the play for archival purposes. The playwright will receive a program and DVD from the production. All future production and publication rights remain the property of the playwright.
8. The deadline for entries is a postmark of October 1, 2013. Late scripts will not be accepted, and revisions cannot be made once a script has been submitted. Winners will be announced and notified on Sunday, December 8.

Formatting Instructions:

1. To ensure anonymity during the judging process, no personal information should appear anywhere on the submitted script. The entry form will contain this information.
2. All scripts should be printed on 8-1/2” x 11” white paper, typewritten on one side only and submitted in acceptable play manuscript format. Each copy should be bound with a staple. Pages must be numbered, and the name of the play should appear on each page.
3. The entry form, bio, synopsis and fee or copy of DG card should be clipped together. 4. Incorrectly formatted entries will be disregarded.

For more information see the Competition Rules Form here.

More Information:
Please contact Keith Ramsdell at 419-517-8881 or kramsdell@lourdes.edu with any questions. You may also visit us on the web at www.lourdes.edu/dramasociety

Seeking Three-Section Play for Production

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Three-D is seeking submissions from New York-based playwrights interested in workshopping a play (or developing a new one), culminating in a fully-realized production. We are particularly seeking plays that are ensemble-driven and open to interpretation.

Three-D is a group of artists interested in developing a new play through a workshop period with the playwright, followed by a fully staged production in the Spring or Summer of 2014 (dates TBD). The play must be divisible into three-sections (three acts, three scenes, or three groupings of scenes would all be fine) that are pretty equal in length and depth.

Playwrights whose plays are selected for further review will be asked to meet with Three-D artists to discuss the particulars of the project.

If you have a play that fits this criteria, please send us the play in its entirety. If it is not obvious where the sections fall (i.e. if it is not a three-act or three-scene play), please let us know how you envision it should be divided.

If you are interested in developing a play with Three-D that you have not yet written, please send an outline of your play idea and a writing sample of another play that you have completed—any length is fine.

Play submissions should be sent in PDF format. If you are submitting more than one play, please send each one in a separate email.

The subject line of your email should read as follows: PLAY NAME by YOUR NAME.

In the body of the email, please include a brief synopsis of the play (2-5 sentences) and a character breakdown (ex/ 3F, 2M).

Please send submissions to: projectthreeD@gmail.com

Submissions will be accepted until September 30, 2013.
Three-D encourages female playwrights to apply.

The City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting

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The City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting furthers the Company’s mission to identify, acknowledge and award excellence in dramatic writing. With the mission of developing and producing original short plays by established talents and promising new voices, City Theatre will select up to fifteen playwrights from among the hundreds who annually submit their ten-minute plays to the company for special recognition. The winning play will be produced in the annual Summer Shorts festival, for which the playwright will earn royalties and be invited to Miami for the festival. Transportation, hotel, the Weekend and a cash prize will be awarded up to a value of $2,000.00. Finalists will be considered for production in the Summer Shorts festival and other programming, and submitted to the Samuel French Off-Broadway Festival. The Summer Shorts Festival is produced annually in Miami during the month of June.

City Theatre Play Submissions Rules and Information;

City Theatre is looking for wonderful short plays (up to ten minutes) for Summer Shorts and other programming. Having produced hundreds of plays, we know what we want; scripts that are lively and timely, hilarious and thought-provoking, poignant and dangerous. We look for plays that span style and genre. We will consider bilingual scripts and ten-minute musicals. We have no restriction on the age range of the characters. In other words, for us to consider a script for production, we are seeking compelling plays that rise above the ordinary.

Please review the criteria thoroughly before sending your submission to City Theatre.

Plays will be accepted yearly from August 30th – September 30th. Scripts won’t be considered sooner or later!

• Playwrights can submit only one script – send us your best!

• No scripts will be returned – save postage. No SASE required.

• Each script must be no more than ten pages long. We start counting when the actual play begins.

• Remember to submit scripts with page numbers.

• Previously submitted plays, children’s shows, longer one-acts or full-length plays won’t be accepted or returned.

• City Theatre will consider previously produced works with a production history included with submission.

• Manuscripts must be typed and individually bound or stapled. Title page must include name, address, email address and phone number. We will accept electronic submissions provided all of the contact info and production history is included.

• The volume of scripts submitted prevents us from providing feedback or criticism.

• NOTE: City Theatre will only contact the playwrights with scripts the company considers for the National Award for Short Playwriting Contest, or to produce in its various programming. Those playwrights only will be contacted in February-March by e-mail or a phone call.

Deadline – Submission Postmark Every Year by September 30th.

Address Submissions to: Susan Westfall, Literary Director

City Theatre, 444 Brickell Ave., Suite 229, Miami, Fl 33131

Electronic submissions should be emailed to 10minuteplays@citytheatre.com

For questions email susan@citytheatre.com

INDEPENDENT ACTORS THEATRE OF COLUMBIA seeks plays by women

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Independent Actors Theatre of Columbia, MO, is seeking short plays (max. 10-12 minutes) by women playwrights for its sixth annual short Women's Play Festival – "the plays are short, not the women."

Plays will be staged and produced by local women theatre directors and stage managers in March 2014. Plays of all styles and genres are welcomed. Because the emphasis is on new plays, previously produced work may be considered but preference will be given to plays that have had staged readings and/or are unproduced. Plays that feature minimal/flexible set and small casts are preferred. Plays selected for the Festival will be licensed through the playwrights.

Submissions and queries for further information should be sent electronically to artistic director Emily Rollie (e.rollie@iatheatre.org) by 30 September 2013. 

Please limit submissions to 2 plays per playwright. For more information about Independent Actors Theatre or the short Women's Play Festival please visit www.iatheatre.org.

NYCPlaywrights October 2013 Play of the Month: YOU PUT A SPELL ON ME by Gabrielle Sinclair

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 NYCPlaywrights reviewed the monologues submitted for the October 2013 Play of the Month, which was a monologue challenge on the theme YOU PUT A SPELL ON ME. Out of 60 monologues submitted the review team selected the monologue by Gabrielle Sinclair. Congratulations Gabrielle.

Valerie David

Thanks to everybody who submitted work, and thanks to the review team for their excellent performances and feedback of the monologues: Starra Andrews, Bruce Barton, Renee Cole, Valerie David, Alice Anne English and Doug Rossi.

The monologue will be video-recorded and posted to the NYCPlaywrights web site soon.

Renee Cole

Bruce Barton

Alice Anne English

Starra Andrews

Scripts Wanted for Oct. 19 - 20 Short Play Lab

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Dear Friend in the Theatre,

We got so many responses for the September Short Play Lab, we already have some for the October Lab, but we need more. New participants are welcome! The rules are easy-peasy:

Deadline is Oct. 10. 

Notification will be immediately after submission, if not sooner. The sooner you get your script in, the more time you have to prepare. Get that script in pronto!

Plays should be 1 - 10 pp. in standard playscript format.* (The shorter the better; shorter plays get priority.) Include a title page, as the first page of the script, with your contact info (preferred means of contact is by email).  
Submit scripts in MS-Word.
You produce the play whether or not you live in New York.  The SPL provides the theatre (at the Roy Arias Studios, 300 West 43rd Street, NYC).  
Productions must be non-union: no showcases please! (And no Equity waivers, either.)
Keep production values to a minimum: costumes and hand props are okay. We provide rehearsal cubes, chairs, and a table. You can't leave your stuff in the theatre overnight.
We provide a board op, box office, and venue management.
There are no fees. The SPL keeps the door.
Tickets are $20. Each playwright and director gets to watch his/her show for free. There are no other comps.
There will be a tech rehearsal on the afternoon of Oct. 19.

Every play gets 2 performances, 1 on Sat. and 1 on Sun. Each play will be part of 1 of 2 programs: Program A or Program B, but not both. Program A takes place at 7 pm Sat. and 4 pm Sun. Program B takes place at 9 pm Sat. and 2 pm Sun.
We don't do staged readings. Be off-book, please! Plays not off-book during tech will be removed from the line-up.

THE MOST POPULAR PRODUCTION IN EACH PROGRAM RECEIVES A CASH PRIZE OF $75. Winners are determined by polling patrons at the box office.
*12 pt Times Roman; character names in the middle on their own line; line spaces between speeches and between speeches and stage directions; indented stage directions.  
The SPL is a lot of fun and a good way to see your work on its feet in a supportive environment. It's also a great way to see actors and directors at work, so you can recruit people for later productions.

To submit a script, send it as an attachment, in Word format, to john.chatterton@gmail.com. Any questions, don't hesitate to shoot me an E-mail!
Thanks,
John Chatterton
Executive producer, Short Play Lab

The Eighth Annual Six Women Playwriting Festival

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The Eighth Annual Six Women Playwriting Festival is now accepting submissions for their 2014 Festival themed: Up, Down and Sideways, Moving into new spaces. The festival will be held the weekends of: April 10th, April 17th, and April 24th in Colorado Springs, Co

Playwright entries must be unpublished works and not previously professionally produced. The festival is open to any women 16 years of age and up and is limited to one submission per playwright. Previously submitted plays from prior festivals will not be accepted and will not be returned or receive a response. The Six Women Playwriting Festival is unable to accept electronic submissions and entries postmarked after the September 30th, 2013 deadline will not be accepted or returned.

Playwrights must follow the “Up, Down and Sideways, Moving into new spaces” theme and all creative work submissions must be appropriate for the festivals community and theatre. The reading committee and producing theatre are seeking scripts with the potential for “dynamic staging of richly established characters in original dramatic and comedic relationships.  “Television sitcom situations” or “Talking heads” will not be accepted by the festival committee.

The mission of the Six Women Playwriting Festival is to create an artistic home for women playwrights, while nurturing a strong company of actors, directors, designers, technicians and administrators. The scope is to awaken new ideas, stimulate change and encourage dreams through new works and forms while enriching their community and the world through the art of theatre.

Please visit The Six Women Playwriting Festival website for additional information including submission rules, guidelines and awards.

Company: Six Women Playwriting Festival
Location: Colorado Springs, Co
Press Contact:Donna Guthrie
Email: DonnaG6113@aol.com

Website: www.sixwomenplayfestival.com

Tiny Theater seeks 10-minute theater pieces

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Tiny Theater returns in November, 2013!

Tiny Theater is a performance event that aims to include theater, dance, multi-media, puppetry, etc.

Works are no longer than 10 minutes and are presented festival style in a 6’ x 6’ x 6’ box constructed of PVC pipe—performers and scenic elements must not exist outside the box at any point during each piece.

The event was created originally by the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator.

Deadline for applications: September 29, 2013. 

To apply, please fill out the form and email any supporting materials to tiny@bricktheater.com.

Clubbed Thumb 2013 BIENNIAL COMMISSION

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For the fifth Biennial Commission we’d like you to consider Robert Altman’s movie Nashville.

No, we aren’t looking for a cast of thousands, a 2 1/2 hour opus, a dissection of country music or of red state culture. But we love the way Altman’s movies move from the ridiculous to the heart-breaking, we love the combo of the highly auteured and the DIY, the obliqueness,  the leitmotifs and the red herrings, the imperfection of the characters and of the movie itself, the excruciating humanity that is never ever mawkish, and the monumental and surprising accrual. So watch the amazing Nashville and if you like, other Altmans, and let ‘em inspire you in whatever way that happens for you.

Please explore the following possibilities:

• What if you created a cast with no dominant racial or cultural group, or/and in which more than one significant character was from a racial or cultural background different than your own?
• What if your play started just as something BIG has just ended OR the moment after someone has been terribly hurt?
• What if temperature is a factor?
• What if there is at least one scene where there is a difficulty with a light source?
• What if “close ups” are a factor in your play?  Yes, we are referring to cinematic-style close ups, but how might that translate in world of your play?
• BONUS (just for fun):  What is the theatrical equivalent of an Altman-style epic tracking shot?

Please submit the following (BLIND submission, see notes below):

• Completed info form (s)
• 10 exploratory pages from the proposed project (either contiguous or from different sections of your play – your choice)
• one page telling us about that project
• a completed play
• a resume

IMPORTANT NOTES

No names please, on 10 page samples or complete plays. The panel reads all submissions BLIND — the only place your name should appear is on the INFO FORM AND YOUR RESUME.

This year, in addition to submitting a letter of intent and ten pages and a resume, we are asking for writers to upload a completed play, along with a brief statement to help us understand its relationship to the proposed project, and recommending ten pages to look at for reference.  We are only requesting the completed script so that our committee members can get a greater sense of the writer’s voice, if they feel they need to.

The statement of intent should briefly map out the proposed piece and if need be, orient the reader to the excerpt’s relationship to the whole. You needn’t explain or repeat anything that your 10 page sample makes clear. Then give us an idea of where the piece is coming from and where you think you want to go with it.

One last thing: this is a commission for Clubbed Thumb. So scoot around our website take a look at our general submission policy and history for reference, if they are not familiar to you.

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DEADLINE: Sunday, September 22nd, 4:44 EST. The Autumnal Equinox, at least according to the internet.

The proposals will be read and adjudicated over the course of the fall, and the commission(s) awarded by Thanksgiving.

The $15,000 commission — which might be split between writers if the panel so elects — will be paid out in three installments every six months, with the first installment following the signing of a contract.  Send questions to info[at]clubbedthumb.org

Click HERE to fill out an application.

GENERAL SUBMISSION POLICY

Clubbed Thumb will accept submissions that fall within the following guidelines:

• Unproduced in New York City
• Running time: 90 min or under.
• Intermissionless
• Must feature substantial and challenging roles for both men and women
• At least a 3 character cast

Clubbed Thumb produces plays that are funny, strange, and provocative. Please check out our history area to get a feeling for our sensibility and a selected chronology.
Please do not send scripts that fall outside these guidelines.

For general submissions, please send scripts to:
Clubbed Thumb 195 Chrystie Street, #401A New York, NY 10002
Please do not bind scripts; pages should be loose or clipped with a binder clip.
Clubbed Thumb does read and respond to every play submitted. However, with a staff of two, this may take many months. Please be patient and do not follow up on the status of your submission. Please wait for a response to one play before sending another.

Scripts will not be returned. Sorry, electronic submissions are not accepted.

Autumn Plays

Autumn Crocus is a 1931 play by the British writer Dodie Smith. It was Smith's first play written under the pseudonym of C.L. Anthony. It follows a single schoolteacher who goes on holiday to the Tyrol and falls in love with the married owner of the hotel in which she is staying.

The Velocity of Autumn: In a simple Brooklyn brownstone, 79-year-old Alexandra lives a solitary existence with her fleeting memories and enough explosives to take down most of the block. At an impasse with her family over how she should spend her autumn years, Alexandra's long-absent son enters as a most unlikely mediator, to try and save his mother's life as much as his own. Funny and dangerous, aching and revelatory, this perceptive play reveals both the fragility and ferocity of life.

The Autumn Garden is a 1951 play by Lillian Hellman. The play is set in September, 1949 in a summer home in a resort on the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles from New Orleans. The play is a study of the defeats, disappointments and diminished expectations of people reaching middle age. For inspiration, Hellman drew on her memories of her time in her aunts' boardinghouse. Dashiell Hammett, who had been Hellman's lover for 20 years, helped her write the play and received 15 percent of the royalties. Of all Hellman's plays it was her favorite.

The Jonathan Larson Grants

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The Jonathan Larson Grants, established seventeen years ago with the resources of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation and gifts from the Larson Family to honor the memory of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize recipient Jonathan Larson, recognize and support emerging composers, lyricists and book writers. The grants will be celebrated at a reception featuring performances of the winning artists' work in the spring. Artists seeking a Jonathan Larson Grant must submit an online application, along with the required attachments, in order for the review committee to evaluate the artist's work.

The application deadline for the 2014 grants is September 30th, 2013. To be considered for this grant, applications must be submitted online no later than midnight on September 30th. If you are unable to access the internet to submit an online application, please contact the ATW offices by September 23rd to make arrangements to submit a paper application.

General Criteria
The Jonathan Larson Grants are intended to honor and recognize emerging musical theatre artists. Composers, lyricists, and librettists who work in musical theatre are the focus of the grants. ATW is committed to serving artists who are creating new, fully producible works for the theatre, and advancing the art form. The grants do not honor a specific piece or project.

Grant awards are based on merit, and are intended for those artists with a demonstrated commitment and dedication to a career in musical theatre. Further, the grants are not intended to be scholarships, and artists applying for grants should be working professionally in the field.

Applications are accepted in the following areas:
Individuals may apply as lyricists, composers, librettists, or any combination of the three.

Collaborative teams may apply together as composer, lyricist, and/or librettist, or any combination of the three. Collaborators who work together regularly are strongly encouraged to apply as a team. If your collaborative team has more than three individuals, please contact the ATW offices.

United States citizenship is not a requirement to receive the grant, but you must be eligible to work in the U.S. and reside/work here on at least a part-time basis and submitted work should be predominately in English.

Artists may apply only once per grant cycle. You may not apply as part of a team and as an individual applicant.
Prior Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients are not eligible.

(Applications that do not adhere to these general criteria will not be considered)

Required Materials - applications that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be considered.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Completed Application Forms, including:
General Information.

Artistic Statement - on the form provided, describe your achievements and goals for your career as a creative artist or collaborative team (one per application). Please do not make specific monetary requests as part of the application.

Creative Curriculum Vitae - productions/workshops/readings, educational history, and including list of awards (one for each applicant or each member of a team, please submit multiple CVs in one, combined .pdf or .doc file)

SAMPLES OF WORK
Comprehensive Work Sample List - a list of all the song and libretto selections with authorship information. Work samples are only required in accordance with your application focus. For instance, if you are applying as a composer only, please only submit music, and dramatic context for the song. Do not submit a book or lyrics for adjudication. The same would be true if you were applying as a lyricist or bookwriter, only submit samples for the area or areas for which you wish to be considered.

Once you have completed the Work Sample list, you will have the opportunity to upload your material.
Libretto - Please submit one-act only of a musical book (or if your work does not have a traditional act-break, an excerpt of 60 pages or less). .pdf format is preferred. You may start your libretto with a 1-page synopsis of the show in its entirety.

Audio Files/Song Selections - upload selected songs (accepted formats include MP3, MP4, WMA, WAV, ACC (M4A) and FLAC). Select individual tracks and pieces that reflect your best work.

Dramatic Context/Lyric Sheets - describe the dramatic context and provide the lyrics for each song selection.

Additionally, though not required, applicants may provide a letter of support/recommendation from theatre artists or educators.

About Selecting Work Samples:
Regardless, if you work creatively in all three disciplines (music, lyrics, and book) or you are applying as a collaborative team, you should submit combined work samples that represent the full range of your work. For example, Jonathan Larson might have submitted one application three song selections from Rent, two song selections from Tick, Tick... Boom!, and the book of Act II from Rent. Please do not submit a recording of an entire act or production. Select individual tracks and pieces that reflect your best work.

The Jonathan Larson Grants are intended to honor and recognize emerging musical theatre writers. We are aware that artists work in multiple disciplines; and while it is not necessary that you only work in musical theatre, selections of representative work submitted for the grant must be for musical theatre. Applications submitting oratorios, operas, symphonic scores, or film scores will not be considered.

Adapted Works: Should you choose to submit selections from work which is adapted from an existing work, you must provide proof of rights for that adaptation as part of your application.

Work samples are coded and will be reviewed blindly during the first round of review. No artistic adjudicators will see the names of the applicants during the initial round of assessment.

Discount tickets for NYCPlaywrights - NATURAL AFFECTION by William Inge

Because of Inge's prowess in the literary and dramatic world, we would like to invite NYCPlaywrights to a very special post-performance event: a talk-back with New York University writing professor and celebrated author, Christopher Bram (Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, as well as Father of Frankenstein, the novel that was made into the Academy-Award winning movie Gods and Monsters). The talk back will take place immediately after the 8pm performance on Friday, October 4.

NATURAL AFFECTION by William Inge
TACT/ The Actors Company Theatre

Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris & Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors

The first New York revival of a long-lost classic

Directed by Jenn Thompson

The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row  - 410 West 42^nd Street (between 9^th & 10^th Aves)

With Tobi Aremu, Alec Beard, Chris Bert, Eve Bianco, Kathryn Erbe, Victoria Mack and John Pankow

A startling love triangle, that tests the ties that bind. A troubled young man who, abandoned early in life by his single mother, returns from reform school to find her now living with a lover. As the tension between them mounts, their fight for forgiveness and connection gives way to desperation, setting this insecure family on a collision course of reckless, heartbreaking, and almost inevitable violence. 

“COMPANY OF THE YEAR” – The Wall Street Journal

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! NOW – OCTOBER 26 ONLY

Performance Schedule:*

Tuesdays 7:30pm | Wednesdays 7:30pm | Thursdays 7:30pm | Fridays 8pm |

Saturdays 2pm and 8pm | Sundays 2pm 

*Special matinee performance on Wednesday, October 23 at 2pm 

Talkbacks with the director & cast will take place after every Sunday matinee.

$32.75 Tickets (reg. $43.25) – Performances through September 25**

$44.75 Tickets (reg. $59.25) – Performances September 26 – October 26**

THREE EASY WAYS TO BUY:

ONLINE: Visit www.BroadwayOffers.com and use code TRNA1

PHONE: Call 212.947.8844 and mention code TRNA1

IN PERSON: Visit The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row box office – 410 West 42^nd Street (between 9^th & 10^th Aves)

Box office hours: Noon - 8pm Daily

FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit www.tactnyc.org

** Ticket prices include $1.25 facility fee. Service fees apply to online/phone orders. Schedule is subject to change. All sales are final. 

Call for submissions from Middle-Eastern Playwrights

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In each three-year cycle, Middle East America provides an American playwright of
Middle Eastern descent with:

• A $10,000 Fellowship
• Intensive developmental support from the Lark Play Development Center, Silk Road Rising Theatre Project and Golden Thread Productions over three years.
• Possible production at Golden Thread Productions and/or Silk Road Rising.

Applications will be accepted September 3 – November 1, 2013.
Winner will be announced in May 2014.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Application Form

• A completed play OR a proposed play idea including a full scene of approximately 20 pages of dialogue.  
• In addition, playwright must include an example of past work - One script (in pdf format)with name and play title on cover.  No co-written submissions, no musicals and no screenplays. 
• A theatrical resume or CV

Typed answers to the following questions (no more than one page each):

• If submitting a full length play for further development, how would a development process be of value to you? What aspect of the play would you want to develop and why?  (Please include a full synopsis of the play).
• If submitting a play proposal, what project would you want to write/develop and why? 
• *If you are proposing to adapt an existing work (novel, short story, poem, screenplay, etc.) into a stage play, you must explain why you wish to adapt the material and how you envision the piece being transformed from its current form to theatrical literature.  A very strong case must be made that articulates your artistic vision and process for this adaptation. You must include a copy of the complete source material (with the exception of a novel) as well.
• What inspires you to write plays? What are the successes and challenges that you have faced and how do you hope to address those in the future?
• Describe your relationship to your Middle Eastern heritage.
• Names of and contact information for up to three references.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION:

• Playwrights of a Middle Eastern background (West/Southwest Asian and North African) 
• Plays where the protagonist or central character is of a Middle Eastern background.
• Plays that deal with Middle Eastern or Middle Eastern American experiences, identity and/or themes.  
• Playwrights who create ambitious, fresh, playful, engaging, energizing, provocative, powerful and theatrical works.
• Plays that reveal unique and vital perspectives. 
• Playwrights with clear goals about their writing who are open and committed to a developmental process.

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2013.

Application form - in MS Word .doc format

Golden Thread seeks playwrights of Middle Eastern heritage

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Eligibility
Plays by playwrights of Middle Eastern heritage writing about any topic
Playwrights of all backgrounds writing about the Middle East
Plays must be written in English

Full-length Plays
Accepted year-round
Only playwrights under consideration for reading and/or production will be contacted

ReOrient Festival of Short Plays (produced triennially)
10-30 minutes
ReOrient Deadline: March 1, 2014

All submissions will be responded to within 12 -months

Thematic Areas of Interest

• Comedies of all sorts, particularly political satire
• Adaptations of classical texts and/or historical figures
• Exploration of Middle Eastern performance traditions
• Experiments with non-realistic forms

Submission Guidelines: Please email play, resume & cover letter to GTPSubmissions@gmail.com. Specify ReOrient Festival in the subject line, if applicable.

**WE NO LONGER ACCEPT HARD COPY SUBMISSIONS BY MAIL

18th Annual One Act Festival - Hot from the Oven: Smörgåsbord

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - 10 Minute Plays

The Fine Arts Association will once again showcase original, never been published 10-minute plays.  Those chosen will be fully produced as part of the 18th Annual One Act Festival — Hot from the Oven: Smörgåsbord in March/April 2014 at The Fine Arts Association.

Submissions of original ten-minute plays will be accepted beginning August 1, 2013.

Submission deadline is Tuesday, October 1, 2013.  

 NEW THIS YEAR:  No more than 3 submissions will be accepted per playwright. The number of plays to be produced will be at The Fine Arts Association’s discretion and will depend on the mix of qualified submissions.

Original plays accepted for the Festival will be announced between January 6-17, 2014. The plays selected will be given full production within the capabilities and budget of The Fine Arts Association.  There will be no monetary stipend for plays used in the Festival.

Festival Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be original, unpublished, and unproduced 10-minute plays at time of submission. Plays that have had staged readings will be accepted. Plays that have received full productions, either professional or amateur, previous to submission will not be accepted.  Legal clearance of materials not in the public domain is the full responsibility of the playwright.

Limit of THREE plays may submitted by each playwright.

Maximum Length: 10 pages not including title pages. Play should run in the 10 minute range.

Scripts may be comedy or drama.  Not open to musicals.

Set and technical requirements must be minimal.   Only standard furniture and minimal props will be available for the production.

Plays must be typed/word-processed with pages numbered and include a cover page with the following contact information: Your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and a brief biography.

All play submissions will be handled with care. However, The Fine Arts Association assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged scripts.

Mailing Guidelines:

Mail submission to:

Ann Hedger,
Ten Minute Plays,
The Fine Arts Association,
38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby, Ohio 44094.

Mailed submissions must be postmarked by October 1, 2013 to be considered for the Festival.

Mailed submissions must be securely bound with a cover page with full contact information (see above).

If you mail your script and would like it returned, include an S.A.S.E. with your submission.  If no S.A.S.E. is included, your script will be recycled.  The timeframe for return of scripts is at the convenience The Fine Arts Association.      

E-mail Guidelines:

Submissions may be e-mailed to ahedger@fineartsassociation.org and should include a separate page with full contact information (see above).

E-mail submissions must be received by The Fine Arts Association by Tuesday, October 1, 2013 to be considered.

Preferred document format:  Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or .PDF files.

Selection Information:

Selections will be made by The Fine Arts Association Performance Department and inclusion in the festival is solely at their discretion.

Time Frame:

Submissions accepted:  Beginning August 1, 2013
Submission deadline:  Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Notification:  Between January 6-17, 2014
Festival Dates:   March 28-April 12, 2014

Ann Hedger
Programming Coordinator
440-951-7500 x103
ahedger@fineartsassociation.org

The Fine Arts Association
Your Center for Arts Education
38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby, OH 44094
www.fineartsassociation.org