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Semicolon Theatre Company seeks playwrights 21 or under

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Semicolon Theatre Company is looking for plays.

Here are our guidelines:

- You (the writer) must be 21 or under
- must involve at least one character under the age of 21, or a subject pertaining to those under 21

- 6 character limit

- 25 to 70 pages

Project Y Theatre Company: Project Y Playwrights Group

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Project Y Theatre Company (www.projectytheatre.org), which most recently produced the world premiere of A User’s Guide to Hell, Featuring Bernard Madoff by Lee Blessing, is currently accepting applications for the Project Y Playwrights Group.

Starting in January 2014, a selected group of emerging and professional playwrights will meet twice a month to share and discuss work and develop their plays with peer support.  The Playwrights Group will serve as an artistic community, a sounding board for ideas, and a way to build lasting relationships with playwrights and other Project Y artists.  Playwrights will also be considered for Project Y readings and
productions, and will collaborate on ten-minute play festivals and other projects.

To apply for the Playwrights Group, please send:

1. One full-length play (send us your best, most representative work – produced or unproduced).
2. A professional resume.

Playwrights must be based in or around NYC (or be willing to travel there twice a month for meetings), and must be willing to commit to meeting for a period of one year.

To apply, send your play and a resume to literary manager Lia Romeo at liaromeo@yahoo.com (or contact her with any questions).
Please use “Application for Project Y Playwrights Group” in the subject heading of your email.
 Application deadline: December 15.  Selected playwrights will be notified in January.

Eden Prairie Players is accepting submissions

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Eden Prairie Players is accepting submissions of unpublished one act plays for its 2014 Collection of One Acts to be produced in the fall of 2014.

Please read the submission guidelines, then go to the One Acts Submission Form.

Submission Guidelines

1. This year we are allowing only one submission per playwright.

2. Unpublished one-act plays: dramas, comedies, etc. (previously-produced or stage readings OK)

3. Length 45 minutes or under (we typically select most in the 10-30 minute range)

4. Submit play as a single computer file (PDF strongly preferred) – hard copies NOT accepted

5. Submit through the online submission form.

a. Playwright contact information - name, email, address, phone.
b. Name of play.
c. Approximate duration.
d. List of characters / descriptions: age, gender, race, etc. (please list allowable deviations)
e. Short synopsis of the play, including a description of recommended set pieces and props

6. After form is submitted, you will receive an email from ep.players.lists@gmail.com with instructions for submitting the file as an email attachment. If you do not see this in your inbox shortly after submitting, you should check your Junk Mail folder. If you use a whitelist tool to prevent spam, please add this address to your whitelist. We cannot guarantee that we will follow up on bounced emails. 

7. Plays will be reviewed on a first come-first served basis, and we reserve the right to limit consideration to an arbitrary number of plays.

Compensation

• Selected plays will be paid a royalty of $15 per performance (we usually have 5-7 performances).
• No compensation for selection process: By submitting your play(s) for consideration, you give Eden Prairie Players permission to make copies as needed for the selection process. You also give permission for your play to be performed without payment at unrehearsed table readings as part of the selection process.

To begin the submission process, go to the One Acts Submission Form.

FAQs

The Pulp Stage submission guidelines

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Do you have an action, fantasy or suspense script that needs nothing-- no costumes, sets or blocking-- to make sense? Do you have a script where a read-aloud of just the dialogue could transform any playing space into a chamber of Story Delight? Show us what you've got!

The Pocket Pulp project is a "shortcut cooking" method for producing quality theatre. Chosen submissions are loaded onto ipads, rehearsed  with fine actors for a couple of hours, then taken to bars & living rooms. No stage directions are read out loud. The actors "enter" by standing and "exit" by sitting. It's a pure Reading; something akin to campfire storytelling-- through theatrical dialogue.

Chosen authors receive $5.00 for each performance of works under 20 minutes and $10.00 for each performance of works 20 minutes or more. Pieces are frequently used for more than one performance. Pocket Pulp also gives authors an excellent marketing angle for their pieces: A play that needs little to no budget to mount and has been proven (through our performances) able to carry an evening.

RULES

• The piece could be described as an action, fantasy or suspense piece.     
• Though not necessarily limited to 4 characters, the piece requires no more than 4 actors.
• Contains little to no physical actions OR it has tastefully-placed interludes of narration to cover those actions.     
• The changes in setting and circumstance are very easy to track just through the dialogue. 
• Establishes high stakes from the get-go or an atmosphere of danger/outrageousness from the get-go.
• While it doesn't have to be a comedy, humor does tend to be a good check-in with the audience's focus.
• Extra points for scripts with more roles for women!

If you don't have anything that fits the above, feel free to refer friends to us and send suggestions of existing published works.

You can send word docs or pdfs to artistic director Matt Haynes at  pulpstagematt@gmail.com

If you do not receive a response within 30 days of your submission, please contact Matt and you will have an update within the week.

Hip Hop Theater Creator Awards - college students

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To contribute to the Kennedy Center celebration ONE MIC: HIP HOP CULTURE WORLDWIDE, KCACTF will present the Hip Hop Theater Creator Awards as part of this year’s Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program.

 The awards celebrate new theatrical works that engage hip-hop as an ever-evolving attitude of contemporary resistance and self-definition; creating events for the theatre that tell contemporary stories through the use of one or more of the four original elements of hip-hop culture: B-Girl/B-Boying, graffiti, MC-ing, DJ-ing, and potentially utilizing spoken word, beat-boxing and dance. These awards will recognize single Creator/playwrights/authors, author/performers or collaborative teams.

Danny Hoch, founder of the New York Hip-Hop Theater Festival says "Hip-hop theatre must fit into the realm of theatrical performance, and it must be by, about and for the hip-hop generation, participants in hip-hop culture, or both.”
 “Hip Hop Theater addresses ethnicity, class, culture, gender, sexuality and generation- it is a theatre of issues that confronts not just young people but the whole world.”
Daniel Banks, from Say Word!:Voices from Hip Hop Theater, University of Michigan Press

Selections from up to five works will be showcased [in concert reading format] at the Kennedy Center in early April 2014. This showcase will be a Millennium Stage presentation, simulcast on the web and archived on the Kennedy Center website. The authors or creative teams will be brought to Washington DC, expenses paid, for the showcase. Where appropriate and necessary, professional performers will be engaged for the presentation.

One Creator/Author or team will receive an award of $1000, a residency at the KCACTF National Festival, and a professional development residency to be mutually determined.

A second place award of $500 will be presented.

The selection panel will consist of members of the KCACTF National Playwriting Program and contributing artists of the Kennedy Center ONE MIC Festival. Selection will be based on the reading, review and consideration of the full package of materials sent to the Kennedy Center for consideration.

 Eligibility

• Author/Creator will be a student [undergraduate or graduate], currently enrolled in a college or university in the US.
• If a collaboration, at least 50% of the team will be current students.
• The work’s length can be from ten-minutes to a full-length work
• Works currently in development will be eligible for award consideration.
•  Materials to be received for consideration
• Creator(s) name(s) and creative responsibility on the project
• Contact information (cell number and email address) for each
• College or University affiliation of the author/creator and collaborative teammates (if applicable)
• A logline or synopsis of the project (roughly 100 words)
• A brief letter detailing the development, performance and/or production history of the work
• A manuscript of the text/script of the project in PDF format

Additionally, If applicable:

• a score for the project in PDF format
• any available recording of the project or score either in CD, via web-link , or MP3 recordings (or variants.)
• any available video of the project via Youtube or Vimeo  (or variants)

Entry deadline
December 15, 2013

QUESTIONS?
Gregg Henry
ghenry@kennedy-center.org

Brown Box Theatre Project submission guidelines

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Brown Box Theatre Project accepts submissions from performers, directors, playwrights, and designers. In order for submissions to be reviewed, Brown Box must receive a completed Submissions Packet as well as any other materials requested in the submissions guidelines.

All completed documentation should be sent to submissions@brownboxtheatre.org.

Frequency Theatre audio plays

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Frequency Theatre puts new, engaging stories at the heart of our work. We want new plays by writers of all ages and levels of experience. We are looking for a refreshing voice, with a play delivered with verve and/ or wit. Plays that we’ll take notice of will utilise the medium, focussing on building atmosphere through the relationship of dialogue, sound effects and silence.

Plays should be 10 to 15 minutes long, as a guide this is between 1800 - 2700 words. Only plays around this length will be considered.

1. All plays should be in English.
2. Plays should ideally be written using the standard BBC Radio Format. For guidance this can be found at BBC Writersroom.
3. Plays should be submitted in Word formats only.
4. Only plays written for radio will be considered. Screenplays or play texts will be rejected.
5. Plays should be complete, self contained works.
6. Plays can be written by more than one writer.
7. Previously submitted plays will not be considered, only new drafts that we request will be read.
8. We are unable to enter into feedback with unsuccessful writers.
9. Copies will only be available following the broadcast.
10. All successful writers will be notified in advance of broadcast.
11. Writers retain copyright in respect of their script. Frequency Theatre retains ownership of copyright for all recorded works produced under the name Frequency Theatre Podcast. All recorded works may be edited for any reason including broadcast or promotional purposes.

If you have a script you would like to send to us, please email it to Rich Chilver at literary@frequencytheatre.co.uk

We look forward to reading your work

THE RONALD DUNCAN PLAYWRITING COMPETITION 2013

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The Certainty of Chance Theatre Company in association with the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation are delighted to present the Ronald Duncan Prize 2013.

The Ronald Duncan playwriting competition is for new and up and coming writers. For the last two years the competition has been run by Encore drama and has produced two fantastic shows "Joe's War" and "Rasputin's Mother".

The theme of this year's contest is protest. The writer Ronald Duncan was a pacifist and advocate of peaceful protest which included successfully facing a Conscientious Objection tribunal in 1944. To celebrate his commitment to this cause, this year's Ronald Duncan prize will showcase the best new play that tackles the subject of protest. This could be a peaceful protest, a violent protest or set against the backdrop of a historical protest, the choice is entirely up to you. What we want to hear is an original and interesting voice from a new or up and coming playwright.

THE COMPETITION

Certainty of Chance Productions, in association with The Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation presents the 2013 Ronald Duncan Playwriting Competition.

The Ronald Duncan Playwriting Competition is an annual event that gives new writers a chance to have their work produced. This year, the theme of the contest is “Protest” and the prize will go to the best small cast script that the panel feel addresses this topic.

Completed entries should be emailed to Certaintyofchance@live.co.uk.

The closing date for entries is November 30th 2013.

Good luck.

Terms and Conditions

• The scripts should feature “Protest” in some way. This can be thematic, a plot element or a character attribute.
• All plays should be full length scripts of a minimum of an hour in length (approx. 60 pages)
• Plays should be written for no more than four actors. There may be more than four characters but actors will be playing multiple roles.
• Entries should contain the following

• A 3-4 page extract of your script

• A full synopsis of the play

• Character breakdowns

• A short biography of yourself (max. 200 words)

• All entries must be double spaced.
• A maximum of three entries may be submitted by a single writer.
• Entries must be submitted to Certaintyofchance@live.co.uk

The closing date for submissions is November 30th 2013. No entries will be accepted after that time.

WAITING FOR GODOT 1961

The Only Certainty Is That He Won’t Show Up

The Right Way to Say ‘Godot’

Maybe Godot never appears because everyone is mispronouncing his name.

More than 60 years after the debut of “Waiting for Godot,” Beckett’s absurdist drama about two vagabonds anticipating a mysterious savior, there is much disagreement among directors, actors, critics and scholars on how the name of that elusive title figure should be spoken.

“GOD-oh,” with the accent on the first syllable, is how “it should be pronounced,” said Sean Mathias, the British director of the latest a Broadway revival of “Waiting for Godot,” opening later this month at the Cort Theater.

“It has to be, really,” he said. “There’s no other way to do it.”

But the theater critic John Lahr said that rendering “is too obvious” for the playwright Samuel Beckett, with its suggestion of the Almighty.

“Beckett is more elusive and poetic, and he wouldn’t hit it on the head like that,” said Mr. Lahr, a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, who instead advocates for “god-OH,” with the accent on the second syllable.

More at the NYTimes.

PlayLab - Accepting New Members

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PlayLab (Beverly Hills, CA) is our Professional playwright’s lab and a key player in our mission to nurture and promote new works for the theatre that speak to today's audience.

Led by award winning playwright and screenwriter, Shem Bitterman,  PLAYlab meets every two weeks on Sunday for three hours. Membership is for two-years and by invitation with participants focuing on creating a brand new work from scratch each year. The year culminates in LAb Works, a festival of selected new works performed by professional actors and directors.

 Application period for 2014-15 is now open.

PROGRAM INFO:

• Writers pitch initial project ideas to the group, brainstorming and working out the kinks before writing their new play
• Membership is limited to a handful of invited members
• PlayLab meets for nine three-hour working sessions from December through May. Writers are required to attend at least seven of the nine scheduled sessions, which take place every two weeks on Sundays from 7pm to 10pm.
• PlayLab hosts full readings of each of the completed plays. All members are encouraged to attend and support their fellow writers at these readings.
• PlayLab culminates in an eight-week-long festival of workshop productions and readings of the year's completed plays. The festival, known as LAb WORKS, takes place at the Skylight Theatre from October to December
• Guest participants: On given nights professional directors, guest writers or actors drop in to discuss the plays in progress, or aspects of their craft 
• Access (put your scenes on their feet): 
•  - To the Skylight Theatre Company stages for rehearsal.
•  - To a wide casting network of Skylight Theatre Company artists, as well as actors and directors from the Beverly Hills Playhouse professional acting school 
• PlayLab Alumni remain part of the STC's artist community; connected with PlayLab and our Play Reading Program, and with continuing access to STC's stages and personnel.

Submissions are accepted from October 1 through December 1, 2013 

How to apply:

Submit a ten-page sample of your work plus
Your resume
To: playlab@skylighttheatrecompany.com

Orange Tea Theatre Company Call for new play submissions 2013

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Orange Tea Theatre Company is an exciting new English language theatre company based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  We are appealing for new plays from developing playwrights to be performed in 2014.

We are particularly interested in hearing from female playwrights and/or reading plays with strong female parts at this time.

Please read our guidelines carefully before submission.

Guidelines:

1. The plays should have between 2-6 actors (doubling possible), to be performed by actors ranging mid 20’s-mid 30’s.  Please visit our Ensemble page at www.orangeteatheatre.com/ensemble to get an idea of casting. 
2. Plays must be completed, full length, and run between 60-90 minutes.
3. We favour contemporary plays in a modern day settings and encourage the use of unusual or creative performance settings (as opposed to conventional stage settings).
4. Keep in mind that our demographic has a young, urban, and international outlook.  Audiences are a mix of Dutch natives and expats.
5. Please send your play with a 150 word breakdown of the content to submissions@orangeteatheatre.com no later than 1 December 2013.  

We acknowledge receipt of all plays and we will make further contact with those whose work we’re interested in taking further.  All plays will be considered for our popular play reading evenings.

Any/all payment is worked out on a project by project basis and is subject to funding.
More information about our company may be found at www.orangeteatheatre.com.

2014 Women Playwrights Series (WPS) and Susan Glaspell Contest

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Deadline for Dramatists Guild  Members – Jan 10, 2014

The Centenary Stage Company, an Equity theatre in residence on the campus of Centenary College in  Hackettstown, NJ is accepting submissions for the 2014 Women Playwrights Series (WPS)  and Susan Glaspell Contest.

Now in its 22th year, the WPS is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working forum for the unique and underserved voice of women writing for the theatre today.  Each season 3 new plays are selected for a collaborative workshop process, with a professional director and actors, which takes place in a brief rehearsal period, over a period of a approximately 1 week, allowing time for the playwright to hear and adapt their work with other professionals. The process culminates in a presentation of the work for the public as part of the Series giving CSC audiences larger exposure to new work, as well as offering the playwright an opportunity to get feedback from the audience during the development process.

Playwrights selected for the workshop process will receive a $200 honorarium. Additional funds for travel and housing are available for one playwright each season.

THE  2014 SUSAN GLASPELL CONTEST:  One play from the WPS Festival will be selected by a panel of judges as the winner, to be featured in a subsequent CSC main-stage season as a full production, with an additional award of $1500 to the playwright.

Guidelines for WPS Susan Glaspell Contest:
Submit Full-length play, with no prior AEA production. 

(If play has had one production, please include information in  your cover letter about the company, # of performances, and contract, if applicable)


Send Submissions to:      
Catherine Rust, Program Dir
Centenary Stage Co. WPS
400 Jefferson St.
Hackettstown, NJ 07840

CALL FOR SHORT PLAYS

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The literary journal Poems & Plays is currently seeking short plays (up to 15 pages) for possible inclusion in its spring/summer 2014 issue.

Plays may be in any style, produced or unproduced, but should not have been previously published.

Please submit, via e-mail attachment, no later than November 30, 2013, to the editor Gaylord Brewer at: gbrewer@mtsu.edu

Thespian Production is seeking one-act plays for its 2014 "Theater Madness" season

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Thespian Production is seeking one-act plays for its 2014 "Theater Madness" season.  Plays should be between 10-15 minutes in length, have no more than four characters, and can be of any genre.  We love producing new and unpublished works but do accept works already produced. Multiple submissions are accepted. Plays should have simple set requirements. Since we are a community theater, plays with excessive vulgar language are less likely to be accepted.

Please include synopsis and contact information.

Plays will be accepted through January 31, 2014. 

Submit plays to submissions@thespianproduction.com.

The Long Island City One Act Festival: Vol 2 is now accepting submissions for its new festival in January 2014

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The LIC One Act Festival: Vol 2 is a competition style one-act play festival held at The Secret Theatre. Prizes will be offered in the following categories: Best Play ($100), Best Director ($100), Best Actor ($50), and Best Actress ($50). In addition to cash prizes, those plays in the final round will be offered a chance to be non-exclusively published in The Secret Theatre’s Second Anthology of Short Plays.

Plays advance to the final rounds through secret audience votes. Final voting will be done by a panel of judges. Winners will be announced and awarded on the last night of the festival during the closing night party hosted by The Secret Theatre.

Scripts are due by 25 November at 5 PM.

Scripts may be sent to submissions@secrettheatre.com in PDF format ONLY.

Please indicate if you have a director in mind for your work.

Plays for the festival will be chosen by 6 December.



One Acts:

• Will each be guaranteed 4 performances
• Can be on any theme and in any style
• Can use 6 actors or less
• Must be under 15 minutes
• Will receive free rehearsal space at the theatre’s discretion
• Cannot bring in a set (a standard setting including 4 chairs, one table and 2 rehearsal cubes will be provided)
• Cannot store props or costumes at the theatre

There will be an open call for auditions on 14 December from 10 AM - 2 PM.

Performances:
Thursday 16 January 8PM
Friday 17 January 8PM
Saturday 18 January 2PM
Saturday 18 January 8PM
Sunday 19 January 2PM
Sunday 19 January 8PM

Thursday 23 January 8,PM
Friday 24 January 8PM
Saturday 25 January 2PM
Saturday 25 January 8PM
Sunday 26 January 2PM
Sunday 26 January 8PM

Thursday 30 January 8PM Semi-finals
Friday 31 January 8PM Semi-finals
Saturday 1 February 8PM Final round

Directors:
There is an open call for directors who will be paired with plays at the discretion of the producers. However if the playwright has a director they would like to recommend for their piece, it will be taken into consideration. Directors are responsible for casting. In addition to the open call, the Secret Theatre will provide limited free space for director’s individual auditions. Directors, please email your CV to submissions@secrettheatre.com for consideration.



www.secrettheatre.com

The Secret Theatre

4402 23rd St

LIC/Court Square

718 392 0722

Theatre InspiraTO's Playwriting Contest

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The InspiraTO Theatre Festival, now entering its 9th season, has produced 134 ten-minute plays to date. Each season over 100  theatre artists participate in Canada's largest ten-minute play festival. Be part of it all. See your story come to life.

InspiraTO's Ten-Minute Playwriting Contest is open to everyone without age or geographic restriction. You can only submit one play.  There are no submission fees.

Deadline to submit a play:  Dec. 18, 2013 (midnight E.S.T.)

Submission guidelines:

1. The creative challenge: The staging of the play must involve two or more dimensions* i.e. fantasy & reality; fiction & history; past & present; living & dead; different psychological states (character & alter ego); spiritual & physical world;  reality & dream world; deaf & hearing; human & abstract; stage & breaking the fourth wall, etc.

*A dimension is anything occurring in the same time and space.

Please note: The actors in the script cannot just mention a different dimension - this needs to be shown on stage.  For example, a play where a character just talks about a ghost would not qualify: a ghost, would at some point, need to appear on stage, for the submission to qualify.

2. The play must be a ten-minute play. You must submit online (see instructions below):

Fill out the submission form completely and submit your play to (click on the link): http://inspiratofestival.ca/write-a-play2.php  

Attach your script in a WORD document or in a PDF file.  Hit "submit". The WORD document must be compatible with Window XP. (Note: Vista & Mac formats are not compatible).

The cover page should have the title of the play, the playwright's name and the list of characters. The pages should be numbered. The format should be easy to read.

We accept previously produced plays.  The playwright must own the rights to the play up to the end of June 2014 (i.e. the script cannot be owned by a publisher).  Any style is acceptable except musicals. We are particularly interested in scripts that aren't afraid to make bold choices: quality writing backed by imaginative staging.

Only those playwrights whose plays have been selected will be notified by January 21, 2014.   The plays will be selected by a committee from the Toronto theatre community.
If selected, your play will be performed in Toronto, Canada from May 29 - June 7, 2014.  Between eleven to eighteen  ten-minute plays will be selected and performed. 1st Prize: $500 CDN.

Should your play be selected for inclusion in the festival, you are giving the non-exclusive right to Theatre InspiraTO to produce and perform the play in the 9th Annual InspiraTO Festival in Toronto (Canada's largest ten-minute play festival), in the May/June 2014.  The InspiraTO Festival will find the cast, crew and market your play. Authors retain copyright and full ownership of their plays.

The submission must be a play. A ten-minute play is distinct from a sketch, or a skit; it is a compact play, with a beginning, middle and an end. You need a character facing obstacles in pursuit of some specific goal. You need rising action, conflict, and a climactic moment. Your play must tell a complete story.

The submission must be 10 minutes.  Generally speaking scripts (including the stage directions, character names and dialogue) that are over 1,900 words are more than ten minutes long on stage.  This does not mean that all plays under 1,900 words are under ten minutes.  So be wise - use Word Count.  It also helps to read the play out loud and time it (keeping in mind all the pauses).  You don't want your hard work rejected because it was too long.

Get inspired. See your story come to life! Submit by Dec. 18, 2013.

Shakespeare in the 'Burg seeks one-act plays

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Shakespeare in the ‘Burg is pleased to announce our inaugural one-act playwriting competition, in conjunction with our Shakespeare in the ‘Burg theater festival scheduled for April 4-6, 2014, in Middleburg, VA.

There are two categories of plays that will be judged:
Plays written by students ages 12-17, and
Plays written by adults, ages 18 and over.

Please note that you can write in any style you choose; this is not a “Shakespeare” writing competition, so plays in any genre are welcome.

There is no monetary prize for the competition, but the winning plays will receive a public reading with an audience. The winning plays will be performed the weekend of April 4-6, 2014 at a venue in Middleburg, VA.

Scripts must be original and have not been performed in a professional staging. Musicals, monologues, adaptations, film scripts and television scripts are not eligible. Scripts may be performed in a workshop environment or have development readings, but may not have had a publicly staged, professional performance.

The goal should be to produce a small to medium-sized cast, one-set show with running times of no less than 25 minutes and no more than one hour.

No more than one script can be submitted from a playwright. Give us your best work.

All scripts must be typewritten. If sending a hard copy, please number the pages and use paper clips or staples to ensure your pages stay together.

Send a duplicate copy, not your original. Send hard copies to:

Genie Ford
36523 Mountville Road, Middleburg VA 20117.

OR
You may also email your script to: Genie Ford, and in fact, we prefer emails. In the subject line, please write: Shakespeare in the ‘Burg One-Act Play

SCRIPTS SHOULD INCLUDE:
Name, address and telephone number of the author, along with the title of the play on a separate page. On all subsequent pages, only the title of the play should appear at the top of each numbered page. This will be a blind competition. Judges will not know the names of the authors while judging the plays.

Cast of characters with descriptions and a brief synopsis should be included as part of the play.

Scripts should be formatted in keeping with traditional playwriting manuscripts. Since these are one-act plays without scene changes, it is not as critical to include scene headings. However, feel free to include stage directions and an “at rise” description (what will happen as the lights come up or the curtain rises). Please put all stage directions in parentheses.

Use 8-1/2 x11 paper if submitting a hard copy. Please number all pages in the upper right hand corner. Please include the title of the play in a header on every page. Margins should be one-inch, right and left, top and bottom. Please use ALL CAPS to identify the character speaking. If a character’s speaking lines go over a page break, identify the character speaking with a second character tag on the new page—e.g., JOHN (cont’d).

Double space after stage directions or dialogue and before a character tag. If formatting becomes confusing or difficult, then choose a format and stick to it. Consistency in formatting is the most important thing.

Scripts will be judged on concept, dramatic action, characterization and dialogue. All production and publication rights remain the property of the playwright.

The decision of the judges is final. While we do not assume responsibility for the loss, damage or return of scripts, all reasonable care will be taken. If you want your script back, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope and we will make every effort to return it to you.

WHERE TO SEND YOUR SCRIPT
Send a duplicate copy, not your original. Send hard copies to:

Genie Ford
36523 Mountville Road, Middleburg VA 20117.

OR
You may also email your script to: Genie Ford, and in fact, we prefer emails. In the subject line, please write: Shakespeare in the ‘Burg One-Act Play

WHEN TO SEND YOUR SCRIPT!
We will accept scripts starting: May 1, 2013.The deadline for entries is a postmark or email by: January 15, 2014.

Far Off Places seeks drama

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Submissions are now open for Volume II, Issue I of Far Off Places, with the theme Sartorial. Is your protagonist a Dedicated Follower of Fashion, or did (s)he inherit a grandmother’s brown suede gloves with a tale to tell? Whatever stories are whispered within your wardrobe, we want to read them!

What?
If you have a piece of writing that is simply stellar but that doesn’t quite fit in the following guidelines, do get in touch. Rules, after all, were made to be broken.

We’re happy to publish short writing in a variety of forms, including poetry, flash fiction, and short-form prose and drama. Poetry should be no more than 40 lines. We accept prose and drama of up to 3000 words. You’re welcome to submit up to three poems or one piece of prose or drama.

Do have a read of one of our earlier issues to see what kind of thing we’re looking for!

A plea: try not to title your work with the theme of the issue - naming it something else will make it stand out!

How?
Send pieces to submissions@faroffplaces.org as a Microsoft Word or plain text-document, or in the body of a sanely-formatted email.

When?
The deadline for submissions is midnight on New Year’s Eve.

The nitty gritty
All written submissions may be subject to a (short! friendly!) editorial process.

Authors will keep the copyright of their work, but we may use accepted for promotion of Far Off Places. (We will try to let you know when this is the case though!) We’ll happily accept submissions which have been previously self-published, e.g. on your own website or blog.

We’ll make acceptance decisions and get back to you within six weeks of our submission deadline. We consider and give feedback on all submissions, so if you haven’t heard from us by then give us a shout. We welcome simultaneous submissions but would appreciate a heads-up so we can prioritise your piece (within reason!).

We’re currently unable to pay for published work but will happily treat you to a beverage of your choice next time we see you. All published writers will also receive a complimentary digital copy of the magazine. If you have any questions, world-shattering revelations or bad jokes you’d like to share, feel free to write to us. Or write us anyway; we’re pretty social folk.