Last Frontier Theatre Conference CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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The Last Frontier Theatre Conference has an earlier deadline for submission than in years past for the 2014 Play Lab: November 18, 2013. 

The 22nd annual Conference will take place June 8-14, 2014, in Valdez, Alaska.
Selected plays receive public readings, with both public and private feedback sessions led by theatre professionals. Authors must register for the Conference and be in attendance for their reading.

Accepted writers will also have an additional opportunity to present their work in the 10-Page Play Slam, the Monologue Workshop, and the late-night Fringe Festival.
Authors are asked to submit through the call for plays on the website, www.theatreconference.org using the on-line form on the Play Lab link. Guidelines:

• Plays must be received by November 18, 2013
• One submission per author.
• Submissions should run between 20 minutes and 2 hours.
• They can be of any genre except musical.    
• The play should not have received a professional production; readings and amateur productions are acceptable. Authors should be interested in developing

Plays presented at the Conference have gone on to productions throughout Alaska and the rest of the United States due to the exposure received there. Questions can be addressed to Conference Coordinator Dawson Moore at 907-834-1614 or dmoore@pwscc.edu.

Department of Theater Studies and Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta announce a new Fellowship in Playwriting.

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ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for 2-year fellowship: Fall 2014- Spring 2016
DEADLINES FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATION:
Prioritizing applications received by November 4, 2013.
No application materials accepted after December 2, 2013

The first Emory University Playwriting Fellow will be appointed to the Department of Theater Studies and the Program in Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta, commencing August 2014 and completing May 2016.

The annual teaching load of 3 courses will include a playwriting workshop, dramatic literature course (e.g. “Contemporary Drama”), and additional course suited to the fellow’s particular strengths and interests (e.g. “Screenwriting”, “Creating New Work”, “Advanced Playwriting”, “Studies in Genre”, etc.)

Playwriting Fellow will work with Theater Emory and its Playwriting Center, including the contribution of a new play to their biennial play festival, Brave New Works.

The salary is set at $38,000/yr plus health benefits and $3000 professional travel funds.
Required: MFA in Playwriting (by 9-1-14), with teaching experience and strong evidence of active playwriting career.  Desirable: record of production

Send dossier, including cover letter discussing teaching philosophy and plays you would work on during fellowship period, CV, two letters of recommendation, and a recent play manuscript to: lisa.paulsen@emory.edu with subject:  “Application: Emory Playwriting Fellowship” by December 2, 2013.  Priority given to applications received by Nov. 4, 2013.

NOTE:  Top candidates will be invited to Emory for a 2-4 day residency, interview, and play reading during Brave New Works (our new play festival) January 26-Feb 16, 2014.

If you need more information, please contact the Director of the Playwriting Center of Theater

Emory:  Lisa Paulsen.  lisa.paulsen@emory.edu

We actively seek applications from women and minority candidates. Emory University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employee

Chautauqua Theater Company 2014 New Play Workshop

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Chautauqua Theater Company is now accepting submissions for its summer 2014 New Play Workshop signature staged reading series.

Note we will be accepting new work from now until October 30, 2013.

CTC is the resident professional theater and Conservatory at the renowned Chautauqua Institution in western New York. Over the last ten years, our New Play Workshop(NPW) series has gained incredible momentum and developed into something truly unique. As one of our writers described it, the NPW is “ a guerrilla process involving top actors, designers, and directors for an audience that truly welcomes new theatre. CTC is not another music stand stop for plays in development – it's a genuine opportunity to see the play come to life in front of a paying audience.”

2014 Themes

At Chautauqua, each week is given a theme around which the Institution’s celebrated morning lecture series is oriented. We ask that submissions reflect in some way on any of the nine weekly themes of the summer-- from the intimate and personal to the global and political. The 2014 slated themes are:

• Roger Rosenblatt and Friends (Writers on Writing)
• Feeding a Hungry Planet
• The Ethics of Privacy
• Emerging Citizenship: The Egyptian Experience
• The American West
• Brazil: Rising Superpower
• A Week with Ken Burns: Historian, Documentarian and American Conscience
• Chautauqua’s Global Public Square
• Health Care: From Bench to Bedside

For more detailed explanations of these themes, and a list of the lecturers who will be speaking about them, visit: www.ciweb.org/education-lectures

Submission Guidelines

• In order to be considered for a workshop, submitted plays must:
• Be un-produced and unpublished as of yet, although plays slated for production in the coming year or previously workshopped by other companies are perfectly acceptable.
• Be full-length and complete. We are unable to accept submissions of sample pages.
• Require no more than eight actors, to be cast from a combination of guest artists and CTC’s Conservatory company of emerging talent from the nation’s top training programs.

Along with your script, please send a synopsis, a character or casting breakdown, and a brief bio or resume of the writer by October 30, 2013. Programming decisions will be made by February 1, 2014.

Materials may be submitted electronically to NPW@CTCompany.org. We are no longer accepting hard copy submissions.

Logistics

• We will produce two Signature Staged Readings as part of our New Play Workshop.
• Each play receives a six day workshop, three days for rehearsals and 3 days for performances and continued rehearsal and development.
• All plays will be performed in the 270 seat Bratton Theater
• Plays are cast from a combination of guest artists and CTC’s Conservatory company—a talented ensemble of 14 of the finest emerging actors in the country (ranging from 22 to 33 years old)
• Each play receives design and technical support from our scenery, costume, lighting, and sound departments-- led by our exceptional Conservatory Design Fellows.
• Playwrights will be hosted in residence for the entire week. Travel, housing, and an honorarium are provided.
• Dates have not yet been confirmed, but the first workshop will be produced in early to mid-July and the second in the first week of August 2014.

- See more here

New Orleans based Flambeaux Theatre Company is accepting script submissions for its Ten Minute Play series

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New Orleans based Flambeaux Theatre Company is accepting script submissions for its Ten Minute Play series to be staged in January 2014.

Submissions will be accepted through October 28th 2013.

Guidelines are as follows:

• Plays should be 8 -12 pages excluding title and cast pages with a run time of approximately 10 minutes
• Maximum of 6 actors
• All parts should be for actors over 18 years of age
• Unpublished, unproduced plays only please (Except staged readings)
• Minimal set requirements (No scene changes)
• Anything goes - show us what you've got

To submit email a PDF copy of your play to info@flambeauxtheatrecompany.com

• Plays must be in Play Format, double spaced, using Courier or Courier New (preferred) or an easy to read font such as Times New Roman
• Please include title page with play name and author contact information and a cast page
• Pages should be numbered starting with the first page of the actual script

Accepted playwrights are more than welcome to attend rehearsals/show

By submitting you grant us the right to stage your play, and videotape it at our discretion

Email info@flambeauxtheatrecompany.com with questions or for more information

GUNPLAY(S) COMPETITION

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As the nation continues to struggle over state and national gun legislation in the wake of tragedies at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the countless DAILY shootings across the nation, I believe it is time to call for playwrights to provide spaces for deeper reflection regarding gun violence in American life.

First Annual GunPlays(s) Competition 2013-2014

Guidelines for Plays:

Plays should fall into one of the following categories:

“Political”: Examinations of the politics of gun violence i.e. legislation (local/state/national), gun rights versus gun control, incidents of violence as space for national political debates, and other kinds of politics not mentioned here

“Global”: Examinations of gun violence as a result of war, immigration, detention, international trafficking, revolutions, terror, border crossings and other kinds of violence not mentioned here

“Communal”: Examination of gun violence in public spaces: streets, parks, campuses, workplaces, places of worship and other public spaces not mentioned here

“Domestic”: Examination of gun violence in domestic spaces: incidents of domestic violence, suicide, accidental shootings, shootings involving children, and other kinds of incidents not mentioned here

“Personal”: Examination of gun violence from the perspectives of victims, survivors, perpetrators, educators, activists, students, law enforcement, clergy, politicians, citizens, gun collectors/enthusiasts, parents, vendors/entrepreneurs, medical professionals, social workers, journalists or other roles not mentioned here

***It is understood that the play may engage more than one of these categories simultaneously, but for the purposes of judging, select the category into which you would direct your play.

Deadline For Play Submissions: November 1, 2013 Midnight.

Winners:
(1) $250.00 award for Full Length Play (1-1 ½ hours maximum)
(2) $100.00 award for Short Play (30 minutes maximum)
(4) 50.00 awards for 10-minute plays

Winning plays will be read at GunPlay(s) Reading in March 2014 at part of the first annual GunPlay(s) Festival in Champaign, Illinois.

***YOUTH ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE so feel free to share this information with young writers under 18 years of age.

***Place name, address, email and category of play on front page of play ONLY.
Then, please send plays in PDF form only via email to samaritanroad@gmail.com or via US mail to the following address:

Nicole D. Anderson Cobb, Ph.D.
Convening Playwright
1717 W. Kirby Avenue
Suite #371
Champaign, Illinois 61821

Writers Residencies at Omi International Arts Center

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The online period for 2014 residencies is now open.

Each applicant is required to provide 4 (four) separate items in total:

1. A cover letter, which provides the following details: country of birth, country of residency, the language in which you write, your preferred Writers Omi session (Spring or Fall or both), and your preferred dates. Additionally, please let us know how you heard about Writers Omi at Ledig House, why you want to come to Writers Omi and what you expect to get from the experience.

2. A brief (2 pages, maximum) statement about your work history, referencing publications, performances and writing credits. This can be submitted in CV format.


3. A writing sample, no more than 50 pages. (Please be sure to indicate if the writing is published or unpublished; if it is published please provide details.)


4. A one page description of the work to be undertaken while at Ledig House.



Your writing sample does NOT have to be an English translation; please submit your writing sample in your mother tongue. All other documentation must be submitted in English.



Your cover letter should be provided in the designated Cover Letter field. Items 2-4 should each be provided as separately uploaded files.

In addition to these requirements, every applicant must arrange to have a letter of recommendation submitted online separately. The letter can be provided by a fellow writer, teacher, editor, literary agent, or any informed individual who can speak to your character and work.



The individual submitting your letter of recommendation will need to establish a Submittable account in his or her own name. The referee must upload a letter using the "Letter of Reference" field. The letter should be sent as an uploaded text document.

Applicants please share the link below with your letter of reference writer so that he or she can submit their letter of reference via the Submittable system: https://ledighouse.submittable.com/submit/23759

The letter of recommendation should be uploaded directly by the individual who is submitting the recommendation and NOT by the applicant. Letters uploaded by the applicant will not be considered and the application will be categorized as incomplete.


To be considered for a 2014 residency, your application (including separate letter of recommendation) must be received electronically by the end of the day, October 20, 2013.



Notifications will be made no later than February 1, 2014.

We look forward to receiving your application.

FREE readings at Primary Stages

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Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer our PrimeTime Reading Series as a creative lab for emerging and established playwrights. Conveniently located in our in-house rehearsal studios, PrimeTime provides a home for writers to hear their new work read aloud. Friends of Primary Stages are invited to attend and be a part of a playwright’s creative process. Several plays have received productions at Primary Stages since participating in PrimeTime including, Michael Hollinger’s Opus, Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water and Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet.

Upcoming Readings:

• Friday, October 11th at 3pm

A View From A Death
by William McCauley
Featuring Marc Geller, Steven Hauck, Lucy McMichael, Jillie Simon

An eccentric psychic, a dubious guru, and a shifty niece plot to gain control of a dying man's will. With the help of a nefarious doctor and a blundering detective, all find themselves arrested, dead—or some combination of the two—in this scathing satirical comedy.

•  Friday, October 18th at 4pm  

Fever
by Theresa Rebeck
Featuring Michael Gotch, Suzy Hunt, Katie Kreisler, Kristine Nielsen

Readings are held at Primary Stages Studios,

307 West 38th Street, Suite 1510 (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

  For more information or to RSVP, call 212.840.9705 x206

or email readings@primarystages.org.

Sanctuary: Playwrights Theatre wants to read your work.

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Sanctuary: Playwrights Theatre hosts a playwrights lab every two weeks. We read 30 minutes from 3 different plays and have a brief discussion. Works read in lab may be selected to be read at a table read, staged reading, workshop or for production. We require the playwright be present at labs. As much as we welcome writers from out of the tri-state area, we do not provide a travel allowance.

For consideration, please email *all* of the following to sancplays@gmail.com:

* Your play in PDF format. We accept completed works, works in progress, full length and short plays and scenes

* A cover letter stating the current development history of this work and what your goals are for this play

* Your resume or CV

Guidelines:

Send the piece that pushes your theatrical vision to its furthest extent.
Be patient; we will get back to you as soon as we read your work!

History Theatre Submission Guidelines

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History Theatre does NOT consider unsolicited scripts.

History Theatre DOES accept a one-page treatment and 10-page dialogue sample for review either through an agent or with a letter of recommendation from an artistic director.

The treatment should include:

A brief synopsis of the plot line
Number of actors required
General description of the set
Any special production requirements
If the submission is a musical, a CD or tape can accompany the script.
If there is not an SASE for materials, it will be assumed that they may be recycled when we are finished with them.

Our strong emphasis is on historical plays — real stories about real people — and usually (though not always) in the Midwestern United States.

Please mail your submissions to:
History Theatre
Attn: New Work Development
30 East Tenth Street
Saint Paul, MN 55101
We will only contact you if we have questions or would like to see a full script.

- See more at: http://www.historytheatre.com/submitting-a-script#sthash.CkiVNgA7.dpuf

Circuit Theatre Company seeks playwrights under 35

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The Circuit Theatre Company seeks to provide development and production opportunities for new plays by young playwrights. Our company places an emphasis on innovative and theatrical work by the next generation of writers. Open to playwrights 35 and younger. No submission fee, but plays must be unpublished. 

Please send all submissions to circuitnewplaydev@gmail.com by October 15th.

Bellarmine seeks 10-minute plays about people in relationship with nature

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Bellarmine University Theatre Program proudly announces its Third Festival of New 10-Minute Plays

Professional, amateur, and student playwrights are welcome to submit one 10-minute play
Eight plays will be picked and produced in our 2013-2014 theatre season
Chosen plays will receive a $25 payment
Overall winner will received an additional $50 award
Audience choice will received $50 award
Production Dates: March 26, 27, 28 & 29, 2014

Requirements

• Only one play per playwright
• Plays should be no longer than 10 minutes in length when read or performed
• Plays should be typed and followed standard playwriting format
• Plays must be RECEIVED by October 31, 2013
• Plays need to be original works with no previous production history
• Playwright’s name should NOT be included anywhere in the script or it will be disqualified
• Title page should include ONLY the playwright’s name and title of the play
• On a separate cover page, please include playwright’s name, title of play, address, phone number, and email, (we will use email for communication)
• No musicals, adaptations, or children’s plays
• Pages must be numbered
• Plays must be on the theme of “PEOPLE IN RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE”. Funny, absurd, black comedies, dramas, whatever as long as our theme is present in the work
• Plays must use minimal or no set
• Plays may contain 1 to 4 characters
• Play must make use the following three things:

• A character must use the phrase “No one can survive. We all depend on it.”

• A character must make use of a shovel

• At some point, each character must refer to a plant that must be part of the set.

• There is no entry fee
• No email entries allowed.

To enter, please send your original 10-minute play to:
3RD 10-minute Play Festival
Attn: Carlos-Manuel Chavarría
Theatre Program Director
Bellarmine University
2001 Newburg Road
Louisville, KY 40205

AMERICAN HARMONY PRIZE

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Curtain Call is proud to announce the return of the American Harmony Prize, an annual award that celebrates diverse new works of musical theater. The goal of the American Harmony Prize is to showcase new musicals that explore our country’s many ethnic, religious and gender identifications The seventh annual American Harmony Prize will showcase a new musical that dramatizes an aspect of the experience of Hispanic Americans.

In addition to a cash award of $500, provided by the Stamford Gives Back Association, a 60-minute concert reading of highlights from the winning musical will be performed in Curtain Call’s Kweskin Theater on February 17, 2014 at 7:30 pm.
In order to qualify for consideration, a musical cannot have been professionally produced (Equity Dinner, LORT, Production, Special Production, SPT, Stock, etc. . .) or published. All other forms of developmental performance, including readings, concerts, workshops. festivals and non-professional productions, will not disqualify you – and are, in fact, encouraged!

Submissions will be accepted via mail from Monday, September 23, 2013 until Saturday, October 21, 2013.

Submissions postmarked after Saturday, October 18, 2012, will ineligible for consideration. We are not able to receive electronic submissions at this time.

Your submission should include:
1. A plot synopsis of 800 words or fewer (or roughly two pages).
2. 10 continuous pages of the libretto (with all dialogue, lyrics and stage directions included).
3. A cd that demonstrates as much of the musical’s score as has been recorded to date.
(It needn’t be of studio quality.)
4. One sample of the sheet music for a song from the show’s piano / vocal score.
5. A self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish to have your materials returned.
(If not, they will be recycled after the judging.)

Note: there is no submission / reading fee.

Submissions should be mailed to:

Curtain Call, Inc.
1349 Newfield Avenue
Stamford, CT 06905
Attn. American Harmony Prize

Short-listed applicants will be asked to submit additional materials after Friday, November 22, 2013. Additional materials postmarked after Saturday, November 30, 2013, will ineligible for final consideration. The winner of the 2012 American Harmony Prize will be announced mid-January, 2014, at www.CurtainCallinc.com.

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THE RUBY PRIZE 2014

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

THE RUBY PRIZE

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

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

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

THE PRIZE

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

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

GUIDELINES

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

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

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

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

Only one submission per playwright is allowed.

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

SUBMISSIONS

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

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

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

Hard copies of scripts will not be accepted.

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

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

The 2013 Harvest Theatre Festival

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no submission fee.

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

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

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

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

 The submission period closes on October 15, 2013. 

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

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

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

How to submit

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

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

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

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

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

Abingdon Theatre Company’s THE FITTING ROOM PLAYS

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

Dear Playwright,

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

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

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

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

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

Comedies will be given preference.

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

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

GENERAL GUIDELINES: 

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

Please make sure you follow all submission requirements.

SCRIPT GUIDELINES:

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

HOW TO SUBMIT:

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

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

Sincerely,

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

Hobo Junction Productions seeks 10-minute plays

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

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

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

Submissions are due by October 12, 2013 at midnight. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAIL-ORDER DRAMATURGY PROGRAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NYCPlaywrights Discount Tickets: THE PREACHER AND THE SHRINK

By Merle Good 

Directed by Steven Yuhasz

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

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

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! NOVEMBER 2 – JANUARY 4 ONLY

Performance Schedule:*

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

Saturdays 2pm and 8pm | Sundays 3pm

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

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

SPECIAL OFFER!

$44.75 Tickets (reg. $73.75) **

THREE EASY WAYS TO BUY:

ONLINE: Visit www.BroadwayOffers.com and use code TRGEN813 

PHONE: Call 212.947.8844 and mention code TRGEN813 

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

Box office hours: Noon - 8pm Daily

FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit www.ThePreacherandtheShrink.com 

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