Monkeyman Productions call for scripts

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Monkeyman Productions is now accepting submissions for our spring production, Bride of Simian Showcase! We are looking for plays that are no more than 15 minutes in length with a small cast / minimal tech. Your play may have had previous readings / productions.

In keeping with our change in title, we have a matching theme! We’re looking for light horror / monster plays, with a preference given to plays by female writers and / or featuring female leads.

Submit your script as a PDF or DOC file to showcase@monkeymanproductions.com. Submissions due by Friday the 13th, December 2013.
Plays will be selected by January 17th, 2014.

This Round’s on Us: Love and Civil Rights

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Submissions requested for Nylon Fusion Theatre Company's first quarterly short play festival for 2014, "This Round’s on Us: Love and Civil Rights." Plays should not be longer than 10 pages and/or minutes. Casts no larger than four and minimal props and costumes. Sorry, no musicals.

The premise is up to you, but all plays must be somewhat thematically linked to love, or the lack of it, and/or civil rights. Original and never been produced before works only.

Authors agree to permit Nylon Fusion to produce their submitted play if the company wishes to do so. The company is responsible for all aspects of production including selecting a director and casting. The author will retain full copyright and ownership of their play. Participation in the rehearsal process may be requested, therefore residence in the NYC metropolitan area is prefered but not will not be a factor in the selection process. Authors must be available via email/phone. Performances will be in NYC. No pay.

Please send a short cover letter with contact information and the full script with title and author’s name on each page in PDF to Kyle DeSpiegler at nylonsubmissions@gmail.com with SUBJECT LINE: This Round's On Us: Love and Civil Rights: [NAME OF PLAYWRIGHT.]

Deadline: December 26th, 2013

*Our festivals are each linked to a holiday- please note that we accept plays with similar themes as before: Valentine’s, April Fools, Independence and Halloween even though we have changed the name of the festivals. We look for plays approximately 10-minutes in length either directly or indirectly linked to each holiday or some related themes--respectively: love / hate / rights / justice, mischief / deceit / surprise / renewal / rebirth / spring time,  independence / dependence / patriotism / freedom / being trapped or imprisoned, and fear / disguises / All Saints / All Souls / Dia de los Muertos. While the writer should be concerned with the theme in their submissions, the categories are fairly broad and there is no need to be overt and obvious in working them into the script. We will select and arrange the plays so that they work best together. Please, don’t send us any 1-2 page plays or anything over 20 pages.


*Other DEADLINES for our Short Play Festival
This Round’s On Us: Spring Break! February 13th, 2014 (Previously named April Fools)
This Round’s On Us: Freedom is May 16th, 2014 (Previously named Independence)
This Round’s On Us: Dia De Los Muertos! August 21st, 2014 (Previously named Halloween!)

The Break-Away Project is accepting script submissions from American and Irish playwrights

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The Break-Away Project is accepting script submissions from American and Irish playwrights for a monthly series called 'The Break-Away Readings', in which we host showcases of new work and staged readings of plays by up-and-coming playwrights.

As part of our mission, we work towards creating links between Irish and American artists, regularly showcasing work by American artists here in Ireland and developing showcase opportunities for Irish artists in America.

Founded in January 2012, The Break-Away Project have established The Break-Away Readings series, monthly events comprising of staged readings, concerts and showcases of new material.

In April 2013, The Project will have it's first full production of American Joseph Zettelmaier's play It Came From Mars.

If you would like further information about The Break-Away Project, or would like to get involved contact Helena at: thebreakawayproject@gmail.com

The Players Theatre Short Play & Musical Festival/Sex

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This February, we are looking for 15 to 18 sexy, steamy plays for our annual Sex! Festival of short plays. All plays submitted must be inspired by or focused on Valentine’s Day and similar topics.

We are seeking plays that challenge the typical ideals of sex. Plays that focus on hot sweaty sex, lust, relationships, eroticism and more! We want plays that would be rated R…or dare we say NC-17?

So sharpen your pencils, charge your laptop or put a new ribbon in your type writer! Let’s start writing!

The Steve and Marie Sgouros Theatre offers a very intimate setting perfect for producing sensual feelings. You vote for your favorite play of the night and at the end of week, the winner will receive a cash prize based on audience votes.

Each week, a Best of the Festival winner will be selected by audience and judge’s votes.

 The winner will receive a cash prize of $100

DATES
February 6 - 23rd, 2014 (Thursday, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays)

Submission Deadline December 21, 2013 @ 5PM

Plays MUST be NO MORE than 15 minutes in length!

Submissions MUST be submitted both as digital and hard copy submissions.

Hard copy submissions must be Blind Copy

Plays WILL NOT be accepted without an application.

The Short Play Festival DOES NOT PRODUCE the plays accepted into the festival. SPF hosts the productions. The plays and playwrights accepted will be responsible for any additional costs.

How To Submit:

Complete the Application and attach it to your digital and hardcopy submissions.

 Get the application here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/183406682/SPF-Sex-2014-Application

- Email Submissions to  Admin@shortplaynyc.com

- Mail two (2) copies of your script (BLIND COPY ONLY) and application to:

The Short Play Festival
 The Players Theatre
 115 MacDougal Street
 New York, NY 10012

212-475-1449

Please feel free to contact us via email if you have any additional questions.
 Admin@shortplaynyc.com

Don’t forget to visit ShortPlayNYC.com form additional information!

Fishamble script guidelines

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At the heart of new writing in Irish theatre, Fishamble offers dramaturgical support and advice to new and developing playwrights. We welcome manuscript submissions of new, original dramatic work and appreciate the time, effort and the act of creation that goes into writing a play.

Guidelines for submitting a play

- Fishamble does not accept scripts by email. Please send script submissions in hard copy only.
- Fishamble is a new play company, therefore we will only consider plays that have not previously been produced
- Scripts should be bound – stapled/clipped – and all pages must be numbered
- Please include contact details on title page
- Scripts will be acknowledged, read and responded to within a 3 – 6 month period
- Fishamble does not offer a full play response service but if requested, will provide a brief set of comments on the work
- Fishamble encourages the submission of work which is of particular interest to Irish audiences
- Writers should limit themselves to sending Fishamble no more than one script in the calendar year
- Scripts will not be returned unless a SAE is enclosed

Please send scripts to

Gavin Kostick
Literary Officer
Fishamble: The New Play Company
Shamrock Chambers
1-2 Eustace Street
Dublin 2

For further queries on Fishamble’s dramaturgical support, please e-mail Gavin at gavin@fishamble.com or call 01 670 4018.

Athena Theatre play reading series is currently seeking play submissions

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The purpose of the Athena Theatre play reading series is to develop new works which explore a new voice, expresses storytelling in an unconventional way, challenges both the artists as well as the audience to think outside of the box. The play may explore views on religion, race, gender, politics, social change, hunger, blindness or disability of any kind.

Please note we are only considering full length, contemporary (present day) staged plays at this time with a cast of two – six characters (including at least two characters who are women 20-35 yrs old), unit set, genre/theme which is of the style of our past productions.

The play should be relevant to the current time (ideally set in NY). Please submit action driven plays which do not include overt exposition and audience address. From the play reading series, a play will be picked to develop into a staged reading in NYC. The staged readings will be performed on a quarterly basis. Please check back to view our staged reading schedule. When submitting please include all of the following:

• a brief cover letter stating how you think your play fits our mission statement as well as the how it relates to our past productions. 
• Subject line: [play title] play reading submission
• a one page summary
• character breakdown.
• first ten pages in PDF format.

Please submit all information at one time, if solicited. We will contact you within one month if we are interested in doing a play reading of your play. The play reading series was developed to explore original work.

E-mail to: Juliana Aiden (Literary Intern) OriginalPlay@athenatheatre.com
www.AthenaTheatre.com 

ATHE's Playwrights and Creative Teams Program (PACT) seeks new, previously unproduced short plays

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ATHE's Playwrights and Creative Teams Program (PACT) seeks new, previously unproduced short plays for its 25th annual New Play Development Workshop at the ATHE Conference held at the Fairmont Scottsdale, Arizona
Princess Hotel 
July 24 - 27, 2014.

We invite playwrights to submit plays ranging in length from 4-10 minutes (scripts over 10 pages long – not including cover page - will not be accepted); there is no restriction on subject matter, style, or intended audience.

 A jury of readers will select six to eight scripts. Each playwright will be assigned a director, dramaturg, scenographer, and a group of actors; these creative teams collaborate on the scripts throughout the conference in a developmental process (participants may attend the rest of the conference). The workshop culminates in a public, script-in-hand reading of the plays in a SHOWCASE OF SCRIPTS.

The New Play Development Workshop affords playwrights the opportunity to work on their scripts with artists experienced with original material from all over the country and to have their work presented at a major academic theatre conference. In past years, plays which have gone through this process have been published in a PACT Program anthology.  These plays achieve a high rate of success in securing subsequent productions and publication.


PLEASE READ SUBMISSION POLICY CAREFULLY AS INCOMPLETE/INCORRECT SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED:

Electronic script submissions, in standard Samuel French playwriting format - 12 point font, character name centered or 3.5 inches from left margin, 1” margin all around - should be emailed to:  charlene@charleneadonaghy.com

To be considered for the NPDW, scripts must be RECEIVED by 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time January 7 2014; late entries will not be read.

Scripts must be no more than ten pages long, not including your cover page.

Please remove all playwright identification from the script including name, mailing address and telephone/fax/e-mail

Do not send a synopsis or playwright resume

In the body of the email include:  Script Name, Playwright Name, Playwright Email, Playwright Telephone Number, Playwright Postal Address, any university or college affiliation (if applicable)

In the body of the email indicate that you are willing and able to attend ALL workshop sessions for your play at the time and city as noted above.  Please note there is no compensation for travel or accommodations.

Only one submission per playwright will be accepted.

Scripts will not be returned.

If your play is selected, you will be notified, via email, of the reader’s selection on/about  April 1.

For additional information, contact Charlene Donaghy charlene@charleneadonaghy.com

The Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival

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Caryl Crane Youth Theatre Presents
The Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival

Overview

Each year Caryl Crane Youth Theatre hosts a national playwriting festival, showcasing new plays for young adults and children. A national search is currently looking for the best and most promising unproduced theatrical works relevant to youth today. The  festival, held the first weekend of May each calendar year, consists of 3 staged readings of previously unseen theatrical works and will take place in the McBride Auditorium on the BGSU Firelands campus in Huron, OH. A winning work will be chosen through committee/audience/participant voting and the author(s) will receive a $500 cash prize as well as the option of a 3-week workshop of their production during the following CCYT season.

Submission Criteria

There is no submission fee for all plays received before January 1, 2014.

A $10 reader’s fee must be included with all works submitted after January 1st, 2014, for the CCYT Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival

Submission deadline for the 2014 Festival is February 15, 2014.

Scripts received after that date will be considered the following year. Three (3) finalists will be selected on March 28 of that year and their names will be posted to the CCYT website/Facebook page at that time.

Must be a full-length play/musical for children or young adults without a prior major U.S. production.
A brief synopsis must be sent together with a bound complete manuscript. Submission must include a contact phone number and e-mail address on the play’s synopsis page. No electronic submissions will be accepted.
The play must be at least 1 hour and no longer than 120 minutes.
The play must be appropriate for audiences of all ages.
Dramas, comedies and farces (with or without music) are all welcome.
Cast size limited to no less than 5 or more than 32.
The plays selected will be acted by our CCYT student actors, with a mix of regional artists where necessary. Plays that can be effectively cast within our market will be considered favorably.
Playwrights who are questioning whether or not their play is a good match for CCYT are strongly encouraged to contact Artistic Director Brian Marshall at mbrian@bgsu.edu before submitting.
All plays that are not selected for the festival will be recycled. Please do not include return postage.
All serious submissions will be read by at least three readers on the festival committee as well as the members of the CCYT Teen Board. Be advised that the following are not considered serious submissions:
Screenplays submitted as theatrical plays and first drafts
Plays with typos and spelling errors and plays not formatted to industry standards
Plays with excessive profanity or violence or are inappropriate for child audience members
For more information contact:
Brian Marshall, Artistic Director
mbrian@bgsu.edu, 419.372.0732

Plays should be submitted to:
Caryl Crane Youth Theatre
c/o CCYT New Play Festival
BGSU Firelands
One University Drive
Huron, OH 44839-9719

New York Public Library Digital Galleries

Ethel Barrymore in CAPTAIN JINKS

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Martha Swope photographs

Robinson Locke Collection, 1870 - 1920

"The Pageant of America" Collection - the American Stage

Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera, 1697 - 1930

George Balanchine Celebration

Billy Rose Theater Collection clipping file

Helen Armstead-Johnson theater photograph collection

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR the 2015 WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

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Women Playwrights International is now accepting submissions from playwrights who want their original work to be part of the next WPI conference. The conference will be held in July 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Women playwrights are requested to submit plays on the following themes:

• Beyond Words: Plays that script the physical, the visual, the digital or the aural - new texts for new mediums
• In Other Words: Plays that are multilingual, for multilingual audiences, or have been trans- lated into English from their original language
• Choice of Words: Scripts that have been de- veloped with actors, directors, co-writers or dramaturgs as part of a workshop or devised process
• Our Own Words: Plays written for the writer themselves to perform, plays exploring auto- biography or memoir

Eligibility

• Submission is open to professional, semi- professional or beginning women playwrights from any part of the world, of any age.
• The script can be unproduced or previously produced (please do not submit plays for which you do not own copyright).
• One acts as well as full length plays will be accepted. Musicals will be accepted within reason and selection will be resource dependent.

Guidelines

For the first round of submission, please submit the following via the online form:

• An 80 word synopsis of your play
• A 50 word motivation detailing how and why it fits one of the WPI 2015 themes
• A 50 word biography of the playwright - Your country of residence
• A brief production/development history of the submitted play (if applicable).

Please note

• Your synopsis must be in English, and your full script should be 75% English, or translated into English
• Your play must have a maximum of 8 characters
• Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2013 - Please only submit scripts which are already written, or will be completed by March 2014

The shortlist will be announced in April 2014. Selected applicants will be invited via email to submit the full script within 2 weeks.

The final line-up will be announced in July 2014.

Translation & selection

While we are seeking ways to offer translation services, we are currently unable to do so for the first submission round.

The mandate for the conference will be to select 20% South African playwrights, 20% playwrights from the rest of Africa, and 60% playwrights from the rest of the world.

To submit, please click on this link.

For quries or further info, please contact us at wpic2015@gmail.com.

Kind regards, Amy Jephta Karen Jeyens Zara Trafford, Fatima Dike
WPIC Host Committee

For more information about WPI, please visit our website www.wpinternational.net 

Read about the previous conference http://wpic.riksteatern.se

Last Call for Scripts for Dec. 21 - 22 Short Play Lab

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Dear Friend in the Theatre, We had a great time at the November Short Play Lab, but the December Lab is still short of submissions (Dec. 21 - 22). It's not too late to submit a short play. New participants are welcome! Whether you've thought about doing a short play in New York but have never tried, or if you're a regular at such events around town, please give a thought to producing a show in the upcoming Short Play Lab. The rules are easy-peasy: Deadline is Dec. 11. Notification will be soon after submission, depending on number of submissions. 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 in the daytime on Dec. 21.   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

NYCPlaywrights January 2014 Play of the Month

NYCPlaywrights is seeking one-page monologues for its January 2014 Play of the Month.

The theme: I want something from you.

The speaker and the addressee of the monologue can be any age, gender, ethnicity, etc. and the something that is wanted can be anything, but the monologue must express the theme of "I want something from you."

NOTE: The theme is I want something from YOU.  The theme is not "she wants something from me" or "he wants something from them" etc. The monologue must be addressed TO the entity from whom the monologue speaker wants something.

Monologues that don't meet the theme will be discarded.

The deadline is Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 11:59 PM EST.

We will select one monologue and video-record it, and the video will be posted (with author permission) to the NYCPlaywrights web site.

THE RULES - YOU MUST READ THEM BEFORE SUBMITTING A MONOLOGUE

• Send only one monologue per author to info@nycplaywrights.org. 
• The monologue can be no longer than 1 page. Yes, it's a challenge. Choose your words carefully. Edit and re-edit.
• The script must be submitted by the author of the script, no agents or others may submit. 
• The script submission should be sent by email, with the monologue itself as a file attached to the email. File format should be in either Microsoft Word (.doc) or pdf. Most preferable is .pdf (Portable Document Format) because it will retain your original script formatting. 
• Make sure you have your name and your email address on the script. 
• Monologues can be submitted by anybody, anywhere in the world, but must be primarily in English (a few non-English phrases are acceptable, but the phrases must include English translations in production notes or stage directions.) 
• There is no fee for submission. 
• The author of the selected monologue will be awarded $20. 
• The NYCPlaywrights selection decision is final and NYCPlaywrights reserves the right to select no monologues from those submitted. 
• A monologue that has had a production is acceptable, although we prefer a new monologue written for this project. 
• A monologue that has been published is not acceptable.
• All rights will remain with the playwright. 
• The selected monologue will be video-recorded and posted during January - February 2014.
• The video recording of the monologue will be posted to the NYCPlaywrights YouTube account and from there embedded into the NYCPlaywrights blog. The playwright will be asked to review the video recording and approve it before it is made public.

Any questions email info@nycplaywrights.org

For more information about the Play of the Month project check out this page:

http://nycp.blogspot.com/p/play-of-month.html 

Last call for HAMLET videos

As part of The New York Times’s deep dive into a Shakespeare-heavy theater season, they invited student actors to submit Instagram videos of their own 15-second scenes from “Hamlet.”

Deadline: December 1, 2013

Samples

The Theater Project Soliciting Short Plays for Competition

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The Theater Project of Maplewood, NJ, an award-winning, professional theater, is now soliciting short plays for “Fast Forward,” its first short play competition February 14-16, 2014. The contest is open to playwrights in the New Jersey-New York area.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: December 1, 2013

WHO WE ARE: The Theater Project, a professional theater company based in Maplewood, NJ, began in 1994 with the goal of bringing the best contemporary plays to our community.

HOW TO SUBMIT: Electronic submissions only. E-mail your short play to OneActFest@TheTheaterProject.org. Include in the Subject line: “Submission + The Title of Your Play.”

WHAT TO SUBMIT: Plays can be either dramas or comedies but must be no more than 15 minutes running time. This restriction is absolute and plays that exceed 15 minutes will not be considered. Sets, lighting and sound requirements must be simple. No elaborate props or effects. Plays invited to participate must be ready-to-perform and supply their own actors and directors. There is no charge to submit.

Those selected for participation will be charged a $200 fee to cover expenses (venue, stage manager, lighting/sound director)

WHAT WE SUPPLY: The Theater Project will supply the venue (The Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts in Maplewood, NJ), a stage manager and a lighting/sound director.

JUDGES:  Plays in the opening rounds (Feb. 14 and 15) advance to the finals (Feb. 16) by audience vote. A panel of judges will award the “Critics Choice” award and there will also be an “Audience Choice” award.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU: The Theater Project will publicize the festival and the “Critics Choice” winner will receive a $500 prize.

QUESTIONS?  Email OneActFest@TheTheaterProject.org

Sundog Theatre in NYC is seeking one-act plays for Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2014

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Scenes 2014 will consist of alternate endings where our audiences will choose how the voyage will conclude.

This is Sundog Theatre’s 12th annual presentation of original, short one-act plays about our favorite boats, the Staten Island Ferries.

Guidelines:
--Submit original plays not previously produced or published, with a signed note affirming that.
--Plays should be 10-25 minutes long and have their setting on the Staten Island Ferry.
--Right before the play ends, one of the actors in your scene will step out of character with a scripted (by you) explanation for the audience lasting no more than 40 seconds that briefly tells of two alternate endings--not revealing any surprises. The audience will then decide which direction the story will go – both endings will have been rehearsed by the actors.
--Plays should involve 2-3 characters and require no special set pieces other than benches or railings found on the Ferry, limited and easily accessible props, and no special sound or lighting requirements.
--Avoid overt and unnecessary sexual/violence situations and language since we cater to a broad audience.
--No musicals, long monologues, poetry, or verse since plays are memorized by actors in a short time.
--As in life, a little humor is good.

Remuneration: Six authors will receive $100 each and be produced in our series of eight March/April 2014 performances in Staten Island and Manhattan.

Submission:
--Please send two copies, bound or stapled, blind submission (removable cover page with title, author and contacts) to
Sundog Theatre,
“Scenes 2014”
PO Box 10183,
Staten Island, NY  10301.

--Submissions should include brief synopsis, play history, a 70-word bio and also resume of the author.

--Should be postmarked from now until no later than December 1, 2013.

--DO NOT submit plays electronically.

--Questions: ferry@sundogtheatre.org.  Susan Fenley, Producer

Notification: Playwrights of selected plays will be contacted directly and their names listed on Sundog’s website early 2014.

Live Girls! Theater seeks short plays

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We are currently seeking submissions of 10-minute plays written by women for our 15th annual festival of short plays, Quickies.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2013.

Email submissions only.

Please read the submission guidelines below carefully and follow the instructions!

MORE ABOUT QUICKIES 15:

Quickies is a Live Girls! trademark event and our longest running program. Our 15th installment of this short play event will include 7 short plays by women, as well as feature up and coming local directors and actors. This spring we will be working with the themes of ”Science” & “Magic.” Plays that fit with either or both of these themes in some way are highly encouraged, though not required. Quickies Volume 15 will be performed in association with Theater Off Jackson in April 2014.

New works are encouraged but submissions that have had previous productions outside of Seattle will still be accepted.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Please send all submissions to submissions@lgtheater.org
• Themes for Quickies 15th edition are “Science” & “Magic.” Plays that fit with either or both of these themes in some way are highly encouraged, though not required.
• Playwrights may submit up to 3 short plays total. They should be close to a 10-minute running time.
• In the body of your email please introduce yourself; we are always excited about meeting new playwrights! You should also include any previous production history for plays submitted. You may include a bio or resume if you like, but they are not required.
• Deadline for submissions is Dec 1, 2013. Submissions will receive a reply no later than January 10, 2014.
• Keep in mind we are a small theater taking the risk to produce new works, and we may not be able accommodate very large casts or long lists of tech requirements.
• Plays submitted should be sent as attachments; MS Word is preferable (More compatible with e-readers) but PDFs are also accepted.

The Thistle Dew Theatre & KTDT Drama-dy seeks plays for Stage and Radio

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Call for play submissions: monologues, short plays, one act or full- length plays for stage and radio.

Rules for engagement:

• Your play can be either a comedy or a drama.
• Your play calls for one (1) to six (6) characters.
• Your play exhibits freshness, sufficient conflict and engaging text.
• Your play is in simple standard format, 14pt. Times or Times Roman font.

Example: "Jane: (Interrupts.) I prefer my script writing format: KISS."

• Your complete play is in .doc format with numbered pages.
• Page One: Your Title, contact information and 200 word biography.
• Page Two: Your Character breakdown and 300 word synopsis.
• The subject line of your email submission to tddtheatre@aol.com reads TDDT

Play Submission .
There is no entry or submission fee.
There is no deadline for submissions: on-going.
Address your queries to Tom at tddtheatre@aol.com

SUPERHUMAN: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN SUPERHERO THEATER

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The Alley is now accepting script submissions for Superhuman: A Festival of New American Superhero Theater!

Plays can be of any type (drama, comedy, musical, tragical, historical, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral or X-Men Unlimited) so long as the subject matter is those with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal characters.

Plays can be any length, from one minute all the way up to full-length. There is no submission fee. Send submissions to todd@thealleytheater.org or mail to:

The Alley Theater
Attn: Superhuman: A Festival
1205 East Washington St, Suite 16
Louisville, KY

Digital submissions preferred. Submission deadline is midnight, November 30, 2013.

Any questions? Please send to todd@thealleytheater.org.

Wounded Cupid Short Play Fest

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Wounded Cupid Short Play Fest is now accepting submissions of short plays that deal with Valentine’s Day -- a day that makes people without partners want to fall in love – or kill themselves.  And people WITH partners?  Yeah, them, too.

Here are a few guidelines:

The deadline for submissions is December 8, 2013

We’re looking for offbeat. A surprise for one or more characters would be awesome. Fill us with wonder! Make us laugh! Short means anywhere from 3 to 20 minutes.
Monologues will be considered.

We are open to period pieces, zombies, sci-fi, ordinary folks, extraordinary creatures, city, country, people of all ages and backgrounds.

TIP:  The “F” word, “B” word etc. are not substitutes for genuinely humorous or emotional language.  Challenge yourself to write creatively without them.  Can’t wait to read these plays!

Send submissions to Sofia at unitystagecompany@gmail.com and please put the word “SUBMISSION” in the subject line. Your name and e-mail contact info MUST appear on title page of script as well as on letter of introduction.

Wounded Cupid Short Play Fest will have 6 performances in Western Queens. Venue TBD.  Here’s a link to a review of our Figgy Pudding Short Play Fest.

MADLAB THEATRE ROULETTE

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THEATRE ROULETTE is MadLab’s annual shorts festival.  In its first year, THEATRE ROULETTE began a tradition of an annual shorts festival that has lasted more than 10 years.  The first year was an “invitation-only” festival, from there expanded to taking local submissions to taking submission from across the United States to now, receiving almost 1000 scripts every year from every corner of the world.

To maximize your chance of selection, please read all the guidelines carefully before submitting.

All submissions should be send to andy@madlab.net

Please put “THEATRE ROULETTE SUBMISSION” in the subject line.  If you do not have email, please call 614.221.5418 to set up different arrangements.

Theatre Roulette is a juried festival.

Submissions must arrive no later than December 1st, 2013.

Submission will be chosen and applicants informed if his/her piece was chosen on January 2nd, 2014.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Scripts should be between 5-30 minutes in length.  Scripts of greater lengths will be considered, but due to time constraints, it is unlikely that unsolicited full-length plays will be selected for the festival, unless you are a Nobel or Pulitzer winning writer, in which case, your script will automatically be accepted for production as long as you waive your standard royalty, which would probably be more than the budget for the entire festival.  If you are not sure whether or not you have won a Nobel or Pulitzer Prize, please find out through the glory of the world wide web and let us know.

MadLab will also be accepting full collections of shorts.  This would be a group of plays that are meant to be performed together and would constitute a complete night of plays.

You may submit multiple scripts.

Script submissions WILL NOT be returned to the applicant; MadLab will destroy all evidence of your creative instincts upon a funeral pyre at an undisclosed location in order to protect both the innocent and the guilty.  Ashes will NOT be returned to you unless you purchase a commemorative urn from MadLab at the bargain basement price of $999.95.

Due to our environmentally conscious president, you must email your script to us.  If emailing is absolutely impossible for you, please call us at 614.221.5418 so we can make alternate arrangements.

Please send your script attached as a Microsoft Word document or PDF format.  Scripts should be emailed to andy@madlab.net.  Please put “THEATRE ROULETTE SUBMISSION”  in the subject line.  If “THEATRE ROULETTE SUBMISSION” is not in your subject line, your submission may not be received.  All submissions will receive a reply email to ensure that your submission was received.

For ROULETTE, MadLab pays $50 to each playwright.

If you’ve made it through all of this, congratulations.  At least you’ve got the potential patience to deal with the travails of theatrical production. If you have any questions, please email them to Managing Director Andy Batt at andy@madlab.net

Thanks for your interest.  Good luck with your submission, and regardless of the outcome here, be sure to keep writing and producing new works.