Cork Arts Theatre: View from a Lamppost seeks 10-minute plays

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Deadline: March 31, 2024

Cork, Ireland

We are now looking for submissions for our ‘Views from…’ short play event. The theme this year is ‘Views from a Lamp Post’, and the deadline for entries is Sunday 31st March 2024.

The setting is a simple one – a bench in a park overlooked by a tall lamp post. What stories has this lamp post been a witness to? What funny, tragic, heart-warming or hair-raising conversations has it overheard? Who are the characters who have sat under its light for a short while?

We are looking for 10 minute plays that are character driven and are complete stories in their own right. All entrants should bear the following in mind… the setting should be integral to the plot. Preference will be given to plays that achieve this.

It’s a challenge, we know, but one designed to inspire rather than discourage.

As always, in our short play events, please follow these few guidelines:Plays should be no more than 10 minutes in duration. Other than that, we are open to plays of all genres – comedy, tragedy, farce, fantasy, horror, period pieces, etc.

As per previous years, all submissions will be read by our panel of readers, a shortlist compiled, and 10 of those plays selected by our directors. Those 10 plays will then be staged during our performance week which will take place from May 28th to June 1st, 2024.

The 10 minute maximum duration is important, so, if you’re unsure of how long your play runs, the easiest way to gauge it is to do a live reading. This is always a useful exercise as it can also bring to light any issues with dialogue or plot. A rough guide is 7 or 8 pages of double-spaced dialogue.

Plays must be submitted by Sunday 31st March 2024 and should be sent as a Word document or PDF to: theatre@corkartstheatre.com with the subject line Views from a Lamp Post Submission 2024. Please do not submit plays to any other Cork Arts Theatre email address.

Note: We can only accept one play from each author.

Please note too that the ‘Views from…’ series is a fund-raising event for the Cork Arts Theatre and, as such, we are not in a position to pay royalties should your play be chosen for performance.

If you have any other questions please email: theatre@corkartstheatre.com

We look forward to receiving your entries in due course. Happy writing!

The Apron Strings Project 2024 seeks monologues and short scenes

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Deadline: April 1, 2024

Send to greymatters.productions@gmail.com

Greymatters Productions Announces NYC production of
The Apron Strings Project 2024
“The Ties that Bind”

We are looking for monologues, poems, raps, spoken word, personal essays, very short scenes and songs

Dream. Imagine. Create. Reminisce. Remember. Reflect. Write.

Aprons are a metaphor for a relationship, whether it be in service, care-taking, or creation. They symbolize both work and protection.

View selections from historian Diane Schwindt’s collection of over 600 aprons (below.) Let them inspire you to tell a story about yourself or your people.

We have all worn aprons of different kinds, both real and metaphoric. We have prepared food, honed stone, cared for others, carried nails, baked pastries. We have labored and we have crafted. We have done this for payment and for love. We want to explore the commonalities of our experiences and celebrate what binds us.

We will select the “best of the best” to weave together into a 90 minute theatrical presentation, performed by professional actors in a NYC theater, that will capture the richness and diversity of our experiences, tied together by apron strings. An opportunity to have your unique voice heard.

Please send submissions of monologues, poems, raps, spoken word, personal essays, very short scenes and/or songs (4 minutes or less in length) that reflect the spirit of the poem below, inspired by the gallery of aprons that follow.

Submission deadline: April 1, 2024

send to greymatters.productions@gmail.com

The MAC Theater Playwrights Incubator

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Deadline: March 31, 2024

Marion Massachusetts

SUBMISSION FORM - check the box on the page

The MAC Theater Playwrights Incubator is a program for first-time playwrights to see their work realized on the stage.

Finding theaters to produce new or unpublished plays can be an obstacle for any new playwright. The MAC Theater Playwrights Incubator is a structured program that aims to discover and support, through workshop and production, new stage plays by first time, unpublished regional playwrights.

These plays are small cast shows with one to six characters. Selected playwrights will work with two mentors who are experienced theater artists to fine-tune their plays over the course of several months and prepare the script for production.

After regular writing evaluations and the script is ready, the mentors will work with the MAC to find a director and assist her or him in casting the show with appropriate actors. One or more readings with a select focus group audience will include a feedback-response process, and the end result is a completed script, ready for debut performance for a live audience on stage at the Marion Art Center.

Any new writer who has not yet been published or had a play produced is invited to submit her or his script or outline for consideration. There is no cost to participate in this program. Selected applicants are required to sign an agreement with the MAC Theater, outlining expectations and a commitment to the program. Playwrights must be available to meet on site with mentors, for readings and all aspects of the production process including auditions, rehearsals, tech work and performances.

The selected playwright for the 2024-2025 program will be announced by early May. Please send any questions to mtpi@marionartcenter.org.

Applications are due by March 31, 2024.

Appalachian Center for the Arts commission for Vitality Touring Theatre Company

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Deadline: March 25, 2024

The Appalachian Center for the Arts is looking for playwrights to create new plays for our Vitality Touring Theatre Company, which brings shows related to health and wellness to elementary schools through colleges/universities in Kentucky and nearby states.

We're looking to commission playwrights for the following topics and age groups:

1) Opioid addiction - high schools (9-12)
2) Smoking/vaping - middle/high schools (6-12)
3) Self-confidence - elementary schools (K-5)

Shows should be approx. 30 min. for elementary schools and 60 min. for middle/high schools. We'll consider musicals as long as we're able to use recorded tracks; let us know if you're submitting as a musical writer/writing team.

We're also open to pre-existing shows for young audiences that fit with the theme of health and wellness.

Shows should require a maximum of four performers.

We're looking at a writer's fee of $1,000-$2,000/script for commissions (depending on length), and paying royalties for existing scripts.

Our goal is to have scripts available for performance during the Spring 2025 semester if at all possible.

2 ways to submit:

1) Email tours@theapparts.org with a resume/C.V. and a minimum 10-page writing sample. (Feel free to send an entire play.) State in your email which topic(s) you're interested in. We'll follow up with our shortlist of writers by the end of the month to ask for brief pitches of how you would proceed with a story. (If you have a TYA play in progress on one of these topics, feel free to add any materials related to that play. We're happy to sign any paperwork you provide stating that those materials belong to you and will not be used in the development of another play.)

2) Submit any pre-existing TYA plays on these topics (or other health and wellness topics) to tours@theapparts.org, along with your royalty rate for performances. Please send demo tracks for a musical.

No restrictions of any sort on eligibility. If you have a connection to Kentucky/Appalachia, please let us know in your submission email.

Learn more about our current Vitality touring season at https://theapparts.org/vitality-theatre-touring-company.

Please contact Br. Christian Matson, Ph.D., Tour Coordinator, at tours@theapparts.org or (646) 724-1635 with any questions.

Stonecoast Review seeks work for issue #21 - Summer 2024 - Ethical Storytelling

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Deadline: April 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM

SUBMIT VIA SUBMITTABLE

Dramatic Works. Limit submissions to 12 or fewer pages. One submission per author, per submission cycle. We accept dialogue-driven plays, scripts, and experimental styles, including but not limited to one-minute plays, 10-minute plays, screenplays, and monologues. We are especially interested in pieces that demonstrate a commitment to questioning the “truths” we take for granted, pushing the boundaries of the status quo, and upholding the dignity of writer and audience in craft.

Please read our mission statement and the information below before submitting.

Submission GuidelinesSend submissions via Submittable only.

Please include a short cover letter and bio (50- and 100-word max. respectively).

We accept one prose submission, one poetry submission (of up to three poems), or five pieces of visual art per author, per submission cycle. Submissions that do not abide by these rules will not be considered for publication. 

Your work must be previously unpublished. (Stonecoast alumni may submit already published work for consideration as reprints.)

We encourage simultaneous submissions. However, please withdraw your submission immediately if it’s accepted elsewhere. If you submit multiple poems and one is accepted at another publication, please attach a note on Submittable identifying which poem is no longer available.

Please adhere to standard manuscript format: double spaced, 12 pt., Times New Roman font. Poetry may be single spaced. (If you tell us that diverging from these rules is integral to your piece, we will consider it.)

While we love to represent stories with raw, emotional truth, we ask that you refrain from submitting pieces featuring excessive sex, violence, assaults, or suicide. 

We will reject pieces determined to be written by the use of AI software

Kingdom Theatre seeks 10-minute & full-length plays for Playwrights Festival

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Deadline: June 15, 2024

Now accepting submissions for our second annual Playwrights Festival, after having our successful first Playwrights Festival, November last year, we return with the second annual Playwrights Festival. 

Celebrating innovative, Cutting Edge, inspirational writers. This year's Festival will convene November 1st to the 3rd 2024. Seeking dramas, comedies, and musicals, 10 minute pieces and full lengths. 

We are seeking new works that have never been produced before. No fee to submit, if we select your work there is a $150 registration fee for all writers. 

We provide the venue, promotion, professional production staff, we also cast each actor, as well as select each Director. 

Submit today at, kingdommtc@gmail.com

AET Reading Series Play Submission

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Deadline: April 5, 2024

SUBMISSION FORM

Anconda Montana

This will be an ongoing series, where 4 new play readings will be performed during a season. This series will start in Spring/Summer 2024 and go through the third season at AET**

**You can submit multiple pieces for multiple locations, but please submit them all on separate forms**


ABOUT THE COMMUNITY READING SERIES

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!

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 location or categories listed here:

1) Sweet Pea Bridal (to perform June, July or August 2024): the location is a locally owned Bridal/Wedding Dress shop. Possible themes/types of theatre: Weddings, Brides, Eloping, Family Ties, Plays about Dreams, Plays about the Future, Plays that take place in retail shops or dress shops.

2) Gunslinger Gulch (to perform September or October 2024): this location is an 1880's Old Western Ghost Town, Gunslinger Gulch Guest Ranch. Possible theme/types of theatre: Western, Horror Theatre, Ghost stories, Murder mystery, Montana ranch life, things that scare us, etc.

3) Copperhead Lodge (to perform November 2024, December 2024 or January 2025). A piece we are workshopping has already taken this slot, so we will not be taking new plays for this location at this time.

4) Forgotten Times Barbershop (to perform February, March or April 2025): This location is a locally owned Barbershop. Possible theme/types of theatre: Barbershop, Haircuts, Forgotten Times, Community Spaces, Looking at the Past, etc.


ABOUT YOUR PIECE

- Plays that are between 20 mins and 1 hour in length ( this can also be reading a part, select scenes, or an Act of a Full Length; vignettes that are part of a larger piece)

- Plays must only engage 1 to 4 actors plus an actor to read stage directors (doubling of characters is encouraged!!)

- Actors can be anywhere from ages 10 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 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 $50 travel/food stipend if you choose to come to the performance. During the process, you have the opportunity to be as hands on as you wish to be! Also, feedback from your performance to use for future drafts.

WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW
Application Deadline: April 5, 2024

Selections made by: May 1st, 2024 - you will have 2 weeks to make a decision.

To apply: Fill out the application form! 

**You can submit multiple pieces for multiple locations, but please submit them all on separate forms**


** We will be taking actor/director submissions as soon as plays are selected**

Prototype Festival seeks contemporary, multi-disciplinary opera-theatre and music-theatre work

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Deadline: March 31, 2024

SUBMISSION FORM VIA GOOGLE DOCS

Submission Guidelines:

-All submissions must be original compositions.

-The music in your digital piece must be primarily opera-theatre, multidisciplinary or new VOCAL music. Digital pieces with solely instrumental music will not be considered.

-Interactive, participatory videos are welcome

-Works-in-progress will be considered if they are close to completion.

If you have any questions about the festival or how to submit, please email info@prototypefestival.org.

PROTOTYPE: OPERA l THEATRE l NOW is a co-production of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, two trailblazers in the creation and presentation of contemporary, multi-disciplinary opera-theatre and music-theatre works. The pioneering festival is the only one of its kind in New York City and is a model now emulated around the country – producing and presenting a wide spectrum of works, from intimate black-box experiences to larger chamber opera productions, valuing artistic, curatorial, and producorial risk-taking. PROTOTYPE is committed to surprising our audiences and confounding their expectations through content, form, and relevance. The festival gives voice to a diverse group of composers, librettists, performers and musicians across all genres, backgrounds, and cultures. In providing a recurring showcase of visionary opera-theatre and music-theatre pieces, the touring life of the work extends around the world. The festival also presents groundbreaking new works by international artists and has become a global reference of artistic excellence in the field of opera and music-theatre.

Since 2020, PROTOTYPE has programmed opera and experimental vocal music made for digital platforms, allowing people from all over the world to participate in the festival by streaming digital offerings at no cost.

Past PROTOTYPE digital offers have included “Modulation” featuring various artists commissioned by PROTOTYPE, “The Murder of Halit Yozagt,” by Ben Frost and Petter Ekmann; “The Planet – A Lament,” by Garin Nugroho and Septina Rosalina Layan, “Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists,” by Valgeir Sigurðsson, A. Rawlings, and Sara Marti and “UNDINE” by Stefanie Janssen, Michaël Brijs, Sjaron Minailo and Richard Van Kruysdijk.

PROTOTYPE invites you to submit work via this form. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2024. Applicants will be notified of selection by mid June.

NY THEATER FESTIVAL SPRING/SUMMER and FALL/WINTER 2024

NY THEATER FESTIVAL

SPRING/SUMMER and FALL/WINTER 2024

25TH CONTINUOUS SEASON

 

THE NEW YORK THEATER FESTIVAL COMPETITION 

for PLAYS and MUSICALS

 TOTAL PRIZES $8,000 • FIRST PRIZE $3,500 • FULL LENGTHS • ONE ACTS • SHORTS • SOLOS

Producing your play or musical is the best way to review and develop your work.

 

TESTIMONIALS

https://newyorktheaterfestival.com/testimonials/

 

ALL PRODUCTIONS CAN OBTAIN A VIDEO RECORDING OF THEIR SHOWS

 

 

WE MAKE A VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PRODUCTION AVAILABLE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS – WE USE FOUR CAMERAS SO PARTICIPANTS HAVE FOUR CAMERAS ANGLES WITH WHICH TO EDIT INTO A COHESIVE CUT.

 

THE FESTIVAL OFFERS RAW FOOTAGE FROM 4 CAMERAS OR CAN SIMPLY DELIVER THE RAW FOOTAGE FROM THE CENTRAL CAMERA’S WIDE ANGLE WHICH CAN FUNCTION AS A RECORDING WITHOUT ANY EDITING REQUIRED.

 

PARTICIPANTS CAN USE THE RECORDING OF THEIR SHOWS AS AN ASSET FOR FUTURE MARKETING AND TO PROVIDE REEL MATERIAL FOR FUTURE INDUSTRY MANAGERS 

 

FURTHERMORE, FILMING THE SHOW MEANS THAT FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAN PURCHASE TICKETS TO ATTEND OVER ZOOM - SPECIFICALLY THOSE WHO CAN'T TRAVEL TO SEE THE PERFORMANCES. THIS MAKES IT AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY OR THE WORLD

 

When you stage your work, you discover ways to enhance and improve your presentation and story.

This is a unique opportunity to invite people from the industry to see your production! People are more likely to go see a show than to read an unsolicited script - some industry people receive on average thousands of submissions per month. They understand that the journey for a show to be successful often goes through several productions and this is your chance to show that you can start that process! 

Our dedicated team is here to help you get your work out. We are with you from the moment you begin tech rehearsals, all the way through to your closing performance.

You will never be left alone during the process. We will help you choose from the 85 set/furniture pieces we offer to dress your stage for your run, and we will give you a complete crash course on how to use the audio/light/video system in just 3 minutes, which are intentionally designed to be very user friendly. 

 

After we show you how to use the tools we provide and how to best utilize the space, The Festival’s team will provide prime responses to every inquiry, as well as a telephone # you can call anytime during relevant hours throughout the run of your show

 

In 12 years and 22 seasons we have successfully hosted 1,400 plays and 300 musicals, as well as rewarding over 300 participating artists cash prizes.

 

Yours could be the next production onstage!

 

AMERICA'S LARGEST AND MOST PRESTIGIOUS PLAYWRIGHT-MUSICAL FESTIVAL-COMPETITION

 

To submit to the Festival, go to:

https://NewYorkTheaterFestival.com/ 

Send your submissions now – we only accept submissions from playwrights who lives within 30 miles of Manhattan.

 

TEATRI RIFLESSI INTERNATIONAL SHORT PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2024

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Deadline: March 24, 2024, midnight, Central European Standard Time

Catania, Italy

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At its 9th edition, Teatri Riflessi is a festival consisting of several actions aiming at promoting the performing arts. At its heart is a short performance competition focused on live works no longer than 15 minutes and without distinction of genre. Since its first edition in 2009, the festival has been promoting and encouraging a discussion on dramaturgy and contemporary art languages connecting the stage to the representation of the territory and the territory to the contemporary scene.

The theme ‘Contemporary Visions’ wants to promote a discussion on how contemporary art languages have changed to look at the future, sometimes interacting with the digital medium and unconventional spaces, sometimes exploring the creative potential of new performative dimensions hinged on the intersubjectivity of the aesthetic experience and co-creation with the beholder. The aim is to display to a wide audience works that—aware of the techniques and innovations that marked the evolution of the performing arts—can rewrite themselves as current and original, leveraging the challenge represented by the short format to avoid being vacuous virtuosity or the anticipation of still unfinished work.

DOWNLOAD THE CALL (EN)

SCARICA IL BANDO (IT)

THE COMPETITION

No more than 12 short performances will be selected through the international call. Selected semifinalists are performing on Thursday, the 18th, and Friday, the 19th of July in Zafferana Etnea (Sicily, Italy).

All selected semifinalists receive a cachet of €500 and a travel reimbursement.

The Boards of experts from the performing arts industry (Technical, Critics’ and Special Awards) will evaluate the semifinalists, proclaiming the finalists who are performing again on Saturday, 20 July. The Boards consist of theatre and festival directors and operators, critics, and performing arts scholars.

In addition to the prizes of the competition, the members of Teatri Riflessi’s network can appoint special awards: hosting a play within their theatres or festivals, offering artist residencies, or tutoring opportunities.

Published on the 8th of January, the call closes on the 24th of March 2024.


SHORT PERFORMANCE

Teatri Riflessi wants to enhance the short performance format per se: not as a reduction of a longer work nor as a starting point for a full-evening adaptation. The strength of the format lies in the artistic immediacy and urgency it conveys.

The framework of the competition connects, in a way, the ancient Greek theatre—devised as an outdoor competition for a vast audience—to the most provocative tendencies in happenings and performance art, which leverage the innate desire of the beholder to participate.

MIDNIGHT (ITALIAN TIME)
24 MARCH

LIST OF SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

7 APRIL

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION

H. 12:30 P.M.
10 APRIL

REPECHAGE

11-12 APRIL

FINAL LIST OF SEMIFINALISTS

13 APRIL

THE AWARDS


Best Short Performance – Teatri Riflessi 9 | € 1,200
determined by the final ranking that adds together the weighted score given by the Technical, Critics’ and Special Awards Boards (40%), the Jury of the Final (40%), and the Youth Jury (20%).


Best Dramaturgy – Teatri Riflessi 9 | € 400
collectively determined by the Technical Board.


Best Direction – Teatri Riflessi 9 | € 400
collectively determined by the Technical Board.


Best Performer – Teatri Riflessi 9 | € 400
collectively determined by the Technical Board.


Critic’s Award – Teatri Riflessi 9 | € 400
collectively determined by the Critics’ Board.


‘Valentina Nicosia’ Fund | additional budget of € 600
awarded to one or more short performances based on the collective decision of the Technical and Critics’ Boards.


Special Mention of the Youth Jury – Teatri Riflessi 9
awarded by the Youth Jury to one of the semifinalists.


Special Mention of the Audience – Teatri Riflessi 9
determined by the audience during the final.


Special Mention of the Companies – Teatri Riflessi 9
determined by all competing companies.

FAQ


Will there be a cachet?
Each selected short performance will receive a cachet of €500.00 + 10% VAT and a potential additional reimbursement of up to €250.00 (depending on the funds available, the origin, and the number of participants involved). The majority of prizes are monetary. The cachet, reimbursement, and potential prizes will be transferred after the festival if participants comply with all the articles and deadlines in the call.

Do I have to pay to submit my proposal?
No. Only if selected, you will need to send a deposit in April that will be refunded after the festival.


What if my piece is longer than 15 minutes?
Your piece should not exceed 15 minutes. However, as the work is performed live, a certain flexibility is allowed, but it will not be possible to stay on stage longer than 20 minutes (within that time lapse the performance must be presented, prepared, set up, performed, removed, and people eventually thanked).


Where do I find the digital form?
The link is in the call, see Art. 5. Please, read the call in all its parts before submitting the form.

What shall I upload where a dramaturgy/script is asked?
If the piece does not have a script, upload a text detailing the dramaturgical research behind the work.

I don’t have a video recording of the play. Do I need one?
We need a recording of the entire performance to assess your application. Excerpts or trailers are not sufficient, and in case you send a read-through try to be as specific and detailed as possible in writing your director’s notes.


My work contains spoken parts in a foreign language. Can I still apply?
Yes. If needed, you can perform at Teatri Riflessi using overtitles.


Can I submit more than one performance?
Yes, fill out a form for each performance. You can submit diverse works devised for different locations of the festival (the stage within the outdoor theatre, the central square, or an unconventional space in the public park). If you think your work can be performed in more than one location, tick all three and explain how you need to adapt it in the director’s notes.

What if I change something in the work I perform at the festival, compared to the materials I submitted?
No major changes are allowed. Only if previously communicated and authorised, minor changes will be tolerated.

Who will evaluate the competing performances?
Artistic directors of Italian theatres and festivals, critics and journalists from all over Italy, and performing arts scholars. Many are members of the Teatri Riflessi Network or the Anticorpi XL Network. The complete list will be published in May 2024.

Can I skip the rehearsals?
No, rehearsals are essential. The days of rehearsals will be communicated in April.

When do I need to be in Zafferana?
As you will be rehearsing either on the 16th or on the 17th of July, you need to be in Zafferana from the day we schedule your rehearsals until Sunday, 21 July, at 1:00 p.m. (the final networking event with the national operators takes place on Sunday morning).


Will I have spare time?
Yes, rehearsals take place in the afternoon, so do all other activities. The only event in the morning is the final networking roundtable on Sunday 21 July.


For inquiries WRITE to
teatri.riflessi.festival@gmail.com


or CALL us
+39 345 3148306

SPF Short Play Festival ~ 13th Annual Short Play Festival NYC

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Deadline: March 25, 2024

SUBMIT VIA SUBMITTABLE

Remember: it’s all about New York City!

Submissions close March 25, 2024

Plays run one weekend out of three, Thurs – Sat 7pm, Sunday 3pm.

Dates: June 6 – 23, 2024

Plays must have a running time of 15 minutes or less (which roughly translates to 15 pages) to qualify for the weekly contest. Each week a winner – selected by audience vote – receives the honor of “Best of the Week” and $100 prize.

The shows are produced entirely by the playwright and their team, are non union, and are presented at the Steve & Marie Sgouros Black Box Theatre – located on the 3rd floor of the historic Players Theatre in the heart of Greenwich Village – NYC. There is one-time $50 tech fee for any play that is chosen and decides to participate. There is NO submission fee.

Please DO NOT submit plays that are for Boo or LUV. They will be rejected automatically–remember, this is for SPF, so we are looking for anything to do with NYC!

Please also check out this page for details that will improve your play’s chance on getting selected. You can also find our handbook Click here: SPF TIPS

HILLSDALE COUNTY'S COMMUNITY THEATRE ​​CALL FOR 'PLAYS-IN-DEVELOPMENT' SCRIPTS

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Deadline: March 22, 2024 at 5PM EDT

The Sauk, Hillsdale County's Community Theatre, located in Jonesville, Michigan is seeking entries to consider for our tenth annual Plays-In-Development in 2024. We are seeking unproduced plays. These can be any style (comedy, drama, young audience and/or musical) and any length (one-act or full-length). It is understood (and expected) that changes will be made to the script between initial submission and performance.

The selected plays will first go through notes with the artistic director. A show-specific director will then be assigned. The director will work with the playwright prior to an audition draft being submitted. Auditions will take place in mid-August with two weeks of rehearsals prior to public readings. It is expected that the selected playwrights will be involved in the process and be in attendance for final rehearsals and the public reading in Jonesville, MI.

Playwrights are encouraged to make changes to their scripts throughout the process (often handing in new drafts on a weekly or even daily basis). The public staged readings will take place on September 13 and 14, 2024. Playwrights will be on site the week leading up to the readings. A royalty is provided to the selected playwrights and The Sauk will provide travel and lodging.

The goal of Plays-in-Development is to help playwrights improve plays that have yet to be produced. By working with a director and actors, the playwright can learn vital information about their work. After the public readings, playwrights are able to participate in a talkback with the audience. We want playwrights to leave the experience with positive and constructive feedback to improve their plays.

Please e-mail a draft copy of the script, a one paragraph plot description and playwright's contact information to Executive Director Trinity Bird at saukpid@gmail.com. 

Playwrights may submit no more than two scripts. We are NOT looking for scripts intended to be performed online. Scripts with strong roles for teens are encouraged! 

The play selection committee will review all submissions and select the scripts to be part of the process. The selected plays will be announced on or before May 1, 2024.

Go Try Play Write March 2024

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Deadline: March 31, 2024

We're proud to announce a new monthly playwriting contest in collaboration with Bamboo Ridge Press. Every month, Kumu Kahua's artistic director Harry Wong III will select a writing prompt on the first day of that month. We're looking for 5-page monologues or 10-page scenes based on that prompt; the due date for submissions are always the last day of the month. All entries must be written in traditional play format; instructions on this format can be found here (https://www.dramatistsguild.com/script-formats), courtesy of the Dramatists Guild.

There will be one winner each month. Scripts will be submitted to the judges anonymously. Winners will receive $100 and a subscription to Bamboo Ridge Press. Woo!

The prompt for March 2024 is:

A "shave and haircut" prompt. Write a ten (10) page maximum scene about an argument resulting from a visit to the barber/hairdresser. The conflict can be before, during, or after the cut. The conflict could be between the person getting the haircut and the person performing the cut; two people cutting their hair, or two stylists.

Best of luck!

Edmonds Driftwood Players 13th Annual Festival of Shorts

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Deadline: March 17, 2024 11:59 PM PST

Edmonds Driftwood Players is a volunteer-based nonprofit community theatre based in Edmonds, WA that has been entertaining and educating the community since 1958, making EDP one of the oldest continually operating community theaters in Washington State.

We are pleased to announce our theme and call for submissions for our 13th Annual Festival of Shorts. Our annual playwriting festival provides an opportunity for playwrights to have their works brought to life on stage, as well as gain recognition and potential awards. Some past winners have later been developed into full-length award-winning plays!

The Festival this year will be presented in five performances June 27-30, 2024, featuring eight shorts finalists. The theme for 2024 is “Silver Linings: A consoling or hopeful prospect.” We would love to see both comedic and dramatic stories with uplifting endings.

The finalists are selected from submissions from around the globe. Our volunteer readers and judges are local Seattle-area theatre lovers and playwrights. To keep the process as fair as possible, our readers are given blind copies of script submissions for judging.

After the closing performance, we will announce the winners for:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Judges’ Awards
Overall Audience Favorite

How to Submit Your Short

• To enter your short play in the festival, please follow the instructions below.Submit an original script for a short play based on the following guidelines:Run time between 10 and 12 minutes
• Minimum 2 characters – maximum 5 characters
• Can be staged with minimal sets, props, and costumes.
• Limited foul language
• Be sure to incorporate the theme of “Silver Linings” into your story
• To be eligible for consideration, the play cannot have been previously produced beyond a staged or feedback reading
• Submit your play by 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, March 17, 2024 to Shorts@EdmondsDriftwoodPlayers.org. Submit two separate documents:A single cover page with the title of your play and your full name, address, email address and phone number.
• The original short submission (Standard Stage Play Format. For an example, please click HERE) with the script and title of the play ONLY. No identifying information about the playwright is to appear in this “blind” copy. All plays which fail to submit a blind copy of their play will be disqualified. The blind copy of the script preserves anonymity in our reader selections to keep the process as fair for playwrights as possible.

2024 Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship

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Deadline: March 16, 2024 3:00 AM

APPLICATION VIA SUBMITTABLE

The Conference offers a limited number of fellowships on a competitive basis. Fellowships cover tuition, room, and board. Fellows are responsible for their own travel costs. 

Fellowship applicants for playwriting must have had a professional production at an off-off Broadway or equivalent regional theater. Fellowship applicants should submit a full-length play or the equivalent in length of a collection of shorter works, all of which have seen production. 

If you would like to be considered for a scholarship or contributor position should you not receive a fellowship, you must submit a separate scholarship application or contributor application in addition to the fellowship application. Writers can only attend the Conference on a fellowship once in any particular genre.

Philadelphia Women’s Theatre 10th Annual Festival

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Deadline: March 11, 2024

SUBMISSION FORM

The Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival is now seeking playwright submissions for our 10th Annual Festival! This milestone year is a celebration of where we’ve been, where we are going, and the multiplicity of stories, voices, and experiences that make up womanhood.

PWTF fosters and encourages women in the performing arts by offering unique opportunities for exposure, professional, artistic and personal development and a platform for performance. ​PWTF is a women's theatre festival committed to diversity, equity and inclusion by embracing all people and viewpoints. We embrace intersectionality and serve people of all colors and backgrounds, inclusive of our BIPOC, non-binary, and trans community members.

In years past, we’ve focused on specific themes, from motherhood to hometown heroes and- mental health. This year, as we enter our second decade of existence, we aim to simply CELEBRATE.

This year we are seeking submissions in two categories:

1) Full length plays

2) Monologues or shorter one person shows

These will be presented as staged readings during our August 2024 Festival. “Staged reading” means minimal (if any) blocking and no tech. While finished pieces are preferred, we will accept a sample of a work in progress.

If you are submitting a monologue or one person show, please be sure to indicate in the application if you will be performing the work yourself, or if actors and a director are needed.

Submissions are due March 11th, 2024.

All selected playwrights receive a stipend.

The festival will take place August 7th-18th, 2024.

​PWTF is a women's theatre festival committed to diversity, equity and inclusion by embracing all people and viewpoints. We embrace intersectionality and serve people of all colors and backgrounds, inclusive of our BIPOC, non-binary, and trans community members. PWTF does not discriminate based on age, race, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religion, or ability. Through staffing, casting, and programming that reflects the diverse makeup of our community and our world, we are dedicated to creating accessible theatre for the Greater Philadelphia Region and its theatre artists. Our story is to #ChangeTheStory.

Significant preference will be given to playwrights located within 60 miles of Center City Philadelphia.

If you have any questions about the play submission process or our season, please reach out to Glynnis at glynnis@phillywomenstheatrefest.org.

CREATIVE CAPITAL AWARD 25

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Deadline: April 4, 2024 4PM ET

For our 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms.

Applications open on March 4, 2024, and the deadline for submitting is April 4, 2024 at 4PM ET. A link to the application portal will be added to this page on March 4, 2024 at 10AM ET.

The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.

Grants are awarded via a democratic, national, open call, external review process. Our goal is to fund individual artists creating conceptually, aesthetically, and formally challenging, risk-taking, and never-before-seen projects.

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Read the Creative Capital Application Handbook here.

Grant Application Details

Creative Capital is committed to groundbreaking ideas that challenge what art can be. As Creative Capital Awardees have demonstrated, socially impactful ideas are embedded in a myriad of artistic forms and practices. We invite artists to propose experimental, original, bold projects in the visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms which push boundaries formally and/or thematically.

We invite artists to select a primary discipline for their proposals based on which experts are most suited and qualified to review the project proposal, with the understanding that radical art is often by nature interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, or antidisciplinary. By choosing to apply within a certain disciplinary category, we are asking you to choose how you want to frame the discussion around your work and to indicate which experts are most qualified to evaluate your project proposal.

2025: 50 Grants Visual Arts: including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, multimedia, installation, video art, performance art, new genres, craft, and socially engaged, and/or sustainable visual art-based practices
Performing Arts: including dance, theater (new theatrical work, playwriting), jazz, music, opera, singing, and socially engaged and/or sustainable performing arts-based practices
Film/Moving Image: including experimental film, short film, animation, documentary film, narrative film, and socially engaged and/or sustainable film/moving image-based practices
Technology: including augmented reality/virtual reality, bio art, data visualization, hardware, software, digital media, internet art, and socially engaged and/or sustainable technology-based practices
Literature: including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and socially engaged and/or sustainable literature-based practices


Application Cycle

ROUND I: Tell us your idea. Letter of Inquiry (LOI)

Along with your project title, one line project description (25 words max), project description (250 words max), resume (1 page max), and artist website (if applicable), please answer the following questions:How does your project take an original and imaginative approach to content and form? Please be as specific as possible. (150 words)

Please place your work in context so we may better evaluate it. What are the main influences upon your work as an artist? How does your past work inform your current project? Please use concrete examples, which may include other artists’ work, art movements, cultural heritage, science, philosophy, research/work from outside the arts field, etc. (150 words)

What kind of impact—artistic, intellectual, communal, civic, social, political, environmental, etc.—do you hope your project will have? What strategies will you employ to achieve the desired impact? (100 words)

Who are the specific audiences/communities that you hope to engage through this project? Please think beyond the broader art community where possible. How are you hoping to reach them? (100 words)

How might your proposed project act as a catalyst for your artistic and professional growth? In what ways is it a pivotal moment in your practice? (100 words)

In addition to funding, Creative Capital also provides scaffolding and support services for awardees (such as expert consultations, gatherings, alumni network, workshops). How would our non-monetary services help you to realize your goals for this project and/or your long-term artistic and professional growth? (100 words)

ROUND II: Project DetailsProject itemized budget (1 page)
Project timeline (1 page)
Work samples (see application handbook for guidelines)

ROUND III: Final Panel ReviewSubmit proof of eligibility.
Confirm collaborators (if applicable)
Project updates (optional, 100 words max)

Full application guidelines are outlined in the Application Handbook.

All applications are reviewed by external reviewers who are scholars, curators, artists, past awardees, and experts in the field. The final recommendations for the awards are reviewed and then ratified by our Board. Awardees are announced in January 2025. Under no circumstances will the reasons for the rejection of an application be provided.

Any awarded projects which are directly related to any of the 17 UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals will have the opportunity to have the “Way” or the icon of that UN Sustainable Development goal attached to their project on the Creative Capital website in effort to advance the global dialogue around these critical issues impacting the future of our communities, our planet, and beyond. In keeping with the spirit of the 17 UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, we too have an expansive definition of “sustainability” that goes far beyond climate change and the environmental challenges we face—including: good health and wellbeing, affordable and clean energy, reduced inequalities, life on land, and peace, justice, and strong institutions.

2025 Creative Capital Grant Timeline

These dates may change.March 4 to April 4, 2024: Letter of Inquiries (LOI) accepted
April 4, 2024 4:00 PM Eastern Time / New York Time: LOI deadline
June 2024: Notification of advancement to Round II
September 2024: Notification of advancement to Final Panel Review
January 2025: Public announcement of 2025 Creative Capital Awards

Artist Eligibility

• US citizen, permanent legal resident, or O-1 visa holder
• At least 25 years old
• Working artist(s) with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice
• Applicant may not be enrolled in a degree-granting program
• May not apply to the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant program in the same year
• May not have previously received a Creative Capital Award
• May not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year

Projects that are not eligible

Projects whose main purpose is promotional
Project is to fund ongoing operations of existing business
Curation or documentation of existing work
Projects that will be completed before January, 2025.

Fresh Binder's Spring Cohort Writer's Group for Trans & Non-binary Playwrights

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Deadline: March 20, 2024

SUBMISSION FORM

During the Spring Writer's Cohort, we hope to provide a safe space for transgender and non-binary playwrights in NYC to workshop new full-length works. Whether you're workshopping a previously produced work or starting from square one, we want to support and help you build your story. Each week, Monday nights from 6pm-9pm, selected writers will meet and will be given the opportunity to workshop their pieces and support their fellow cohort members* works. This can mean your new pages being read allowed by fellow writers, brainstorming sessions from previous pages, or any other way we would best assist you in the writing process. There is no fee to apply. Writers will be selected and notified in early April. If you have any questions, please email freshbinderproductions@qmail.com

To clarify, we are only looking for transgender and non-binary writers located in NYC!

Instagram: @freshbinderproductions

Coachella Review open for submissions

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Deadline: March 9, 2024 3AM

We welcome dramatic writing for both stage and screen. We’re interested in scripts 10 to 12 pages in length but welcome and encourage shorter pieces, such as monologues of up to 1,500 words. Screenplays should follow American Standard format. Stage plays may be in American Standard or any other format that serves the story.

We will also consider scripts (including excerpts) for produced short films not yet widely available (showings at festivals are fine, but the film should not be made publicly available on the internet until the week of the journal issue’s publication).

For editorial purposes, we prefer work submitted as Word or Final Draft documents. We do not accept PDF files.

Please do not include any photography, illustrations, or other attachments that will not be included in the final published work. If your work does include such additions, you must provide copyright information and permissions in your cover letter.

In addition to your submission, please include the following information in your cover letter: the title of your entry, its genre and word count, and your email address (we will use it if we don't hear from you through Submittable).

Multiple submissions for the same genre in the same reading period are not accepted, but simultaneous submissions to other journals are accepted. If you would like to submit to multiple genres (e.g. a piece of fiction and three poems), please contact us directly to alert us of such a submission. We will only publish one submission per author per issue.

We do not accept work currently published on the internet, including on social media and in podcasts.

The School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University New Work Development Artist Residency

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Deadline: March 8, 2024

The School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University is excited to announce its inaugural New Work Development Artist Residency program. The school is committed to inspiring our campus and community by incubating new works of art in an environment of creative reciprocity between scholars and artists that crosses, blurs and erases disciplinary lines.

The school was founded by three intrinsically interdisciplinary units: Dance Science (combining dance and the biological and health sciences), Visualization (uniting the fine and visual arts with computer science) and Performance Studies (a conjunction of music and theatre drawing on anthropology and related humanities fields). The New Work Development Artist Residency is designed to take advantage of these existing areas of strength, and the school’s emerging areas of new research (including music performance, music technology, devised theatre, graphic design, photo and video, painting and illustration, sculpture, choreography, virtual production, games, animation, visual computing and materials-based research). Artists in residence are invited to take advantage of the varieties of expertise and resources available in the school as they develop a new work or body of works.

While this is a development residency, artists in residence will be expected to integrate their work into the life of the school, providing opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to take part in their creative process and engaging with faculty and the wider campus community throughout the residency period. This program is designed to be mutually beneficial to the artist in residence and our students, providing the latter a high-impact educational opportunity to be present at and contribute to the creative work of the former.
Benefits

The school will provide the selected artist in residence with:

• $10,000 stipend for living expenses and project materials.
• On-campus lodging (two bedroom/one bath apartment) for the duration of the residency.
• Shared office space and access to school facilities, including rehearsal and performance spaces, recording studios, visual art studios and technology resources.
• Undergraduate and/or graduate student assistance.
• Visa support for international artists.

Expectations

Our New Work Development Artist Residency provides artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, to explore and reflect, conduct research and network with artists and scholars, and develop a new work or body of works. The duration of the award is 15 weeks, September through November, and the selected artist is expected to be physically present in College Station for at least nine of those 15 weeks.

As a Tier 1 research institution, Texas A&M is committed to forging new paths in creative research, and the work of the artist in residence should reflect a compelling portfolio of arts research. The artist in residence will be expected to spend the bulk of the residency (30 hours or more per week) developing a new work or body of works. In addition, the artist in residence will be immersed in the life of the school and will develop opportunities for students and faculty to engage with their creative practice. Such engagement could include:Open studios and open rehearsals.
Class visits, artist talks and workshops.
Collaborations with faculty and students.
Other forms of curricular and co-curricular integration.

The artist in residence will report to James R. Ball III, associate dean for industry and community engagement, and they will attend regular Artist and Scholar in Residence Committee meetings and all-school meetings (each once per month). Social engagements with the campus community may also take place.

At the end of the program, the artist in residence will publicly present what they have accomplished during the residency. Future exhibitions and presentations of the work should also indicate that it was developed in residence at the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University.

Application Requirements

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact potential collaborators at the school before applying. Applications must include the following:

Letter of Intent (maximum 1,500 words) to include:Brief artist statement.Description of your work, medium and discipline.Outline of the work you intend to pursue during your residency.Plans for engaging with students and faculty at the school.How the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University will be important to your work.
Current CV.
Draft budget.
Draft timeline.
A portfolio of past work appropriate to your discipline (as media attachments or links).
URL of artist website.
Three references (contact info only; references will be solicited for finalists only).

Applications should be submitted as a single PDF to stasha@tamu.edu.

Selection Criteria

Applications to the New Work Development Artist Residency will be evaluated according to the following criteria:Quality of past creative research.
Alignment with interdisciplinary strengths of the school.
Potential to provide high-impact educational experiences to students.
Potential to produce outstanding new creative work.

Timeline

Fall 2024 ResidencyCall for applications open: Jan. 16, 2024.
Applications due: March 15, 2024.
Notification of applicants: April 1, 2024.
Final acceptance due: April 15, 2024.
Residency: Sept. 1-Nov. 30, 2024.

StageWorks One Act Jamboree 2024

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Deadline: March 8, 2024

Fee waived for members of Dramatist Guild. As Dramatists no longer sends out membership cards, please include letter from the guild certifying active membership when submitting your play.

Submit Your Play

Show Dates: July 26th, 27th, 28th 2024

Writers must submit their one-act plays (with a running time of 20 minutes or less)

Alternatively, you may submit your play via our website here. Click "Submit Your Play" (above) to send your manuscript via Google Form. Then, click "Pay Reading Fee" button above to pay your reading fee (online payment convenience fees apply). Manuscripts will NOT be considered until the reading fee has been submitted.

Between 6 and 10 winners will receive the prize of a staged production of his or her play at the StageWorks One Act Jamboree, which will be held during the Summer of 2024 at StageWorks Studio 237.

The production will have auditioned actors, directors chosen by committee, producers, stage managers, ushers, ticket takers, and tech crew.

Writers are encouraged to submit their one-act plays (with a running time of 20 minutes or less) by Friday, March 8, 2024. Entries will be judged on plot, character development, dialogue and overall quality by a committee of three to five. Directors will be chosen by the committee.

Between 6 and 10 winners will receive the prize of a staged production of his or her play at the StageWorks One Act Jamboree, which will be held during the summer of 2024 at StageWorks Studio 237.

Plays will be judged on the following criteria:

Plot
Character Development
Dialogue
Overall writing quality

Playwrights are limited to three (3) submissions.

How to Submit:

Please read and follow our submission guidelines. Submissions that are incomplete or do not follow these guidelines will be disqualified. To enter your play, you must submit the following:

(1) Three (3) hard copies of your play (or Google Form submission in advance for electronic submissions/Paypal payment).

Plays should run 20 minutes or less and be written in the proper playwriting format (when in the proper format, running time is approximately one minute per page):

A list of characters with a brief physical description of each should also be included.
Plays should contain 12 or fewer actors.
One person plays are accepted.
No musicals, unless you are providing accompaniment.
Plays should have simple staging and technical needs.

(2) A cover letter with the following information:

The name of your play
Your name full address, full contact information (including your e-mail and phone number)
A brief synopsis of your play (for publicity purposes if your play is selected)
A brief biography

(3) A check in the amount of $20 (US dollars) for each play submitted, made payable to:

StageWorks Theatre Group, INC. *Fee waived for members of Dramatist Guild (must include copy of front and back of current card with submission)

Please write "One-Act Jamboree" in the check's memo line.

The submission package must be sent to:

StageWorks Theatre Group, INC
237 Hamburg Turnpike
Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442
Attn: One-Act Jamboree

Prizes:

At the conclusion of the jamboree, one winner will receive a $250 cash prize based on audience vote.

The Jim Henson Foundation grants for contemporary puppet theater

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Deadline: March 4, 2024

LETTER OF INTENT PDF SUBMISSION LINK:  https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/HensonFoundation 

The Jim Henson Foundation awards grants each year for the creation of innovative new works of contemporary puppet theater. Our definition of a puppet is an object that is given the appearance of life through direct or indirect manipulation by the human hand. The Foundation’s Board of Directors judges applications based on the excellence of the puppetry including puppet design, manipulation and theatrical execution.

There are three Artist Grants available: Workshop Grants ($3,000), Production Grants ($7,000), and Family Grants ($4,000). All Artist Grants are to be used towards puppetry. This includes the building and performing of the puppets and the integration of the puppets in the piece.

If you would like to be considered for a grant, the first step is to submit a letter of intent on or before March 4, 2024.

The letter of intent is a PDF comprised of two pages, a 1 page letter and a 1 page visual. 

 The Letter must include: Your complete contact information, including mailing address, phone number, email and website address

The category of grant you intend to apply for – Production, Workshop or Family.

A clear description of the planned project, including the dramatic arc of the piece, the types of puppets that will be used, the lead puppeteer, the lead puppet designer and builder, and your timeline for the work including any upcoming workshops, residencies, or performances.

The letter must be accompanied by a one-page visual.This can be photographs of the puppet(s), a working sketch or illustration of the puppet(s), or a combination of images that show the puppetry in the proposed project.
Do not include images of other artists you are inspired by who are not attached to the project. If these kinds of inspirational images are included, your application will be disqualified.
Puppetry is a visual medium, the one-page visual you submit is essential to the letter of intent phase of the process.
All images must be original work and have the artist/source identified.

Do NOT submit a cover letter or any other additional materials. Letters of intent are accepted only via online submission.

You will receive an email of receipt from our office within 3 business days of submission. If you do not receive an email, please contact us.

Approximately half of the applicants submitting letters of intent will be asked to submit full proposals. Letters of intent will be reviewed at the Spring board meeting, and applicants will be notified of the board’s decision by June 3, 2024.

4th Annual TYA Play Fest

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Deadline: March 15, 2024

In this fourth season of our 2024 TYA Playwrights Festival, ThinkTank Theatre seeks to provide a platform for forward-thinking, diverse voices for Young Adult and Family Audiences.

Submission Guidelines:

- Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 15, 2024.
- Deadline for New Dramatists, Agent and PW Center Submissions: April 15th (If submitting past March 15, 2023, please email tyaplayfest@thinktanktya.org to submit).
- Please submit your play via this Google form to be considered for our 2024 Play Festival by March 15, 2024. 

- We will not be using the tagging on NPX as in the past, it has recommended TYA works that haven't aligned with the needs of our festival. We recognize the additional step required here to submit and appreciated you taking the time to share your work with us as a potential component of our TYA PlayFest.

- For Round One, please select a scene or up to 20 pages from the play that you feel best showcases your piece. If you submit your full play, we will only read the first 20-pages. 
- Please also submit a description of the full-length play.
- Plays should have had no prior Florida Professional Productions.
(If the play has had a workshop production, please include this information on your form, as well as information about the company, # of performances, and contact information, if applicable.)
- Playwrights moved into Round Two for TYA Festival Showcase will be contacted around April 5th to submit the full-length draft of their play. All Playwrights will be contacted by July 15th, regarding their submission

Genres: adaptation, adventure, biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, mystery/thriller, parody/spoof, period, science fiction, tragedy, young audiences

Length: 60-90 minutes, 90 minutes to two hours

Cast Size: 1–8, if your cast has more than 8 characters, please include a doubling list

Age Appropriateness: ages 14-17, ages 18 and up

Unproduced Work Only?: Can not have been produced in Florida

Playwright Location: United States and Canada

Plays selected for our TYA Festival Showcase receive rehearsal with a professional cast and director, providing an opportunity for the playwright to collaborate with other professionals during the development process. The plays are presented semi-staged, script-in-hand for audiences, providing the playwright further opportunity to develop the work, in the presence of our Tampa Bay community. The date for the TYA Festival Showcase is currently set for August 22-26, 2024. Plays selected for the TYA Festival Showcase are under consideration for full production in a subsequent season with ThinkTank Theatre.

Our Play Festival Audience: At ThinkTank, we make it our mission to produce inspirational, captivating, and forward-thinking professional theater for Young Adults and Family Audiences. ThinkTank believes young people and family audience material should reflect the world our young people currently experience and, as such, we do not shy away from mature topics, subject matter, and language. Please feel free to submit plays that might fit this genre.

Play Content: Plays with diverse casting, special-needs individuals, and characters of a younger experience (to be played by actors aged 14-18) will be given special consideration. We are not currently accepting submissions of musicals at the festival this year.

Jewish Playwrights Lab: Sponsored by our generous host, the Jewish Community Center on the Cohn Campus, there is also a Jewish Playwright Lab category this year for a play that focuses on a clear Jewish theme, content, characters, and/or is focused on current events in the lives of the Jewish community, its people and society.

Selected Playwrights: Playwrights selected for the workshop process will also receive a $500 honorarium for their play submission, generously gifted to the 2024 ThinkTank TYA Playwrights Festival by the Gobioff Foundation, the Florida Division of Arts and Culture, and The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners. Our hosts, the Tampa JCCs & Federation, are sponsoring Jewish Playwright Lab Category for our 2024 TYA PlayFest.

This festival is made possible in part by the generous support from the Gobioff Foundation, Florida Division of Arts and Culture, Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, and our host at the JCC Cohn Campus. Our TYA Playwrights Festival is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working forum for progressive and forward-thinking TYA productions for today’s theaters. Our goal with this program is to select two to four new plays for a collaborative workshop process, with local Tampa Bay Theatre professionals – directors, stage managers, actors and designers, in addition to members of our Young Artists’ Ensemble (YAE) - the Young Artists’ Ensemble Apprentice Company (an auditioned group of high school students from around the Tampa Bay area, who work alongside our professional in an educational apprenticeship program). We are planning for a brief rehearsal period of 3 or 4 rehearsals, allowing time for playwrights to hear and adapt their work within the rehearsal process. The festival will culminate in a presentation of these works for the general public as part of the TYA Festival Showcase, giving ThinkTank and Tampa Bay audiences larger exposure to new works, as well as offering the playwrights an opportunity to get feedback from the audience during the development process.

Questions? Email our Festival Director Sadie Lockhart at TYAPlayFest@ThinkTankTYA.org

NY THEATER FESTIVAL SPRING/SUMMER and FALL/WINTER 2024

NY THEATER FESTIVAL

SPRING/SUMMER and FALL/WINTER 2024

25TH CONTINUOUS SEASON

 

THE NEW YORK THEATER FESTIVAL COMPETITION 

for PLAYS and MUSICALS

 TOTAL PRIZES $8,000 • FIRST PRIZE $3,500 • FULL LENGTHS • ONE ACTS • SHORTS • SOLOS

Producing your play or musical is the best way to review and develop your work.

 

TESTIMONIALS

https://newyorktheaterfestival.com/testimonials/

 

ALL PRODUCTIONS CAN OBTAIN A VIDEO RECORDING OF THEIR SHOWS

 

 

WE MAKE A VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PRODUCTION AVAILABLE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS – WE USE FOUR CAMERAS SO PARTICIPANTS HAVE FOUR CAMERAS ANGLES WITH WHICH TO EDIT INTO A COHESIVE CUT.

 

THE FESTIVAL OFFERS RAW FOOTAGE FROM 4 CAMERAS OR CAN SIMPLY DELIVER THE RAW FOOTAGE FROM THE CENTRAL CAMERA’S WIDE ANGLE WHICH CAN FUNCTION AS A RECORDING WITHOUT ANY EDITING REQUIRED.

 

PARTICIPANTS CAN USE THE RECORDING OF THEIR SHOWS AS AN ASSET FOR FUTURE MARKETING AND TO PROVIDE REEL MATERIAL FOR FUTURE INDUSTRY MANAGERS 

 

FURTHERMORE, FILMING THE SHOW MEANS THAT FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAN PURCHASE TICKETS TO ATTEND OVER ZOOM - SPECIFICALLY THOSE WHO CAN'T TRAVEL TO SEE THE PERFORMANCES. THIS MAKES IT AVAILABLE TO ANYONE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY OR THE WORLD

 

When you stage your work, you discover ways to enhance and improve your presentation and story.

This is a unique opportunity to invite people from the industry to see your production! People are more likely to go see a show than to read an unsolicited script - some industry people receive on average thousands of submissions per month. They understand that the journey for a show to be successful often goes through several productions and this is your chance to show that you can start that process! 

Our dedicated team is here to help you get your work out. We are with you from the moment you begin tech rehearsals, all the way through to your closing performance.

You will never be left alone during the process. We will help you choose from the 85 set/furniture pieces we offer to dress your stage for your run, and we will give you a complete crash course on how to use the audio/light/video system in just 3 minutes, which are intentionally designed to be very user friendly. 

 

After we show you how to use the tools we provide and how to best utilize the space, The Festival’s team will provide prime responses to every inquiry, as well as a telephone # you can call anytime during relevant hours throughout the run of your show

 

In 12 years and 22 seasons we have successfully hosted 1,400 plays and 300 musicals, as well as rewarding over 300 participating artists cash prizes.

 

Yours could be the next production onstage!

 

AMERICA'S LARGEST AND MOST PRESTIGIOUS PLAYWRIGHT-MUSICAL FESTIVAL-COMPETITION

 

To submit to the Festival, go to:

https://NewYorkTheaterFestival.com/ 

Send your submissions now – we only accept submissions from playwrights who lives within 30 miles of Manhattan.

 

NYCPlaywrights Zoomers March membership

NYCPlaywrights Zoomers meets each Monday at 7PM on Zoom to read plays (with 4 professional actors) and to discuss the work and if the playwright wishes, offer feedback.

Memberships are available for March. The next meeting is March 4.

MORE INFO HERE

You can sit in on a Monday Zoomers meeting for free - email nancy@nycplaywrights.org to sign up or for more information.

Bechdel Project's Room of One's Own (ROO) Residency

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Deadline: March 15, 2024

Bechdel Project, a Greenpoint non-profit dedicated to elevating feminist voices in theater and film, is thrilled to announce the opening of its Room of One's Own (ROO) Residency for 2024. 

This one-year residency empowers feminist writers of all intersections to develop bold, innovative work for the stage or screen that amplifies untold stories of women. Inspired by Virginia Woolf's seminal work, "A Room of One's Own," the ROO provides a space and comprehensive support for a chosen writer to delve into their artistic vision.

The 2024/25 residency offers:

Financial Support: $5,000 in artist funds to fuel the creative process.

A 3 Week Residency Option from September 1st - 22nd at Bechdel Project HQ (Includes housing & unlimited studio time)

An Artistic Home: Access to the Bechdel Project's vibrant spaces in Brooklyn and Germany for writing, workshops, and readings.

Curated Mentorship: Tailored guidance from the Bechdel Project team, including dramaturgy, producing, and logistical support.

Community Connection: Opportunities to engage with a network of feminist artists and creators.

Public Platform: A culminating public reading of the developed work at Bechdel Project.

We are particularly seeking applications from global-majority writers whose work:

Centers on women (living or historical), highlighting untold, underrepresented, narratives and perspectives.

Challenges existing power structures and gender norms.

Embraces diverse viewpoints and intersections of identity within feminism.

Pushes the boundaries of form and genre in theatrical and screen storytelling.

Applications March 15th. For more information about the ROO Residency and the application process, please visit our website at https://www.bechdelproject.org/home/development/roo.

Join us in celebrating Women's History Month by amplifying the voices of tomorrow's feminist storytellers!