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LAST MINUTE: EATfest – Emerging
Artists Theatre Company’s Spring or Fall EATfest |
6/1 |
< 20 min. |
Emerging
Artists Theatre Attention:
Playwrights Manager 311 |
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Pay no
attention to dates on the website – really! (or the man behind the curtain!!)
… The deadline IS June 1. On the site it says mid-July, but when you contact
them, they tell you that it’s incorrect so HURRY
… They want plays 20 minutes or less … email them if you don’t believe me,
but a few of us have been through this already … if you have a play that
fits, send it. Please mark FEF on outside of submission envelope. |
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Appetite Theatre
Presents Bruschetta: An Evening Of New, Short Plays |
6/1 |
1-T |
Appetite
Theatre |
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Appetite
Theatre is currently seeking scripts for its third annual Bruschetta: An
Evening of New, Short Plays. Scripts no longer than 15 minutes of any genre
or style. Multiple submissions accepted, but please send each script in a
separate email. Send cover letter and script to: appetitetheatre@hotmail.com or
by snail mail |
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Broadway |
6/1 |
F |
The
Broadway Theater 340 East
Broadway |
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Separate
Adult and Youth categories. NO FEE. The
winning play will receive $1000. and we have the option of producing it for 5
weeks in our 2008 season. Interested parties need to go to the Broadway
Theater web site at http://www.broadwayvista.com,
click EVENTS for full details. |
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6/1 |
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Playwrights
Project |
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Must be
CA resident <18 yrs. old |
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Charles M. Getchell
Award - Southeastern Theatre Conference |
6/1 |
F |
Department
of Performing Arts |
864-656-5415 |
Students
and playwrights residing in or studying at an accredited college in the SETC
member region: FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV; NO
FEE; NoPP Application: http://www.setc.org/scholarship/newplay.asp |
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Chicano/ Latino Prize |
6/1 |
Novel |
Univ. of
California Irvine 322
Humanities Hall, Irvine, CA 92697 |
949-824-5443 |
Rotates
medium every four years, next playwright competition is 2010. This year it’s for
NOVEL only. Resident of US, NoPP, English OR Spanish |
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Christopher Brian Wolk
Award |
6/1 |
F |
Christopher
Brian Wolk Award |
212-868-2055 |
NO FEE;
Est. 2001. Named for Christopher Brian Wolk (1974-2000). Remuneration: $1,000,
reading. Style: comedy, drama. Production: cast limit 8. Author Must Be: US
resident/citizen. Material Must Be: unoptioned, unproduced in NYC.
Application. Best Material: full script, SASE. |
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Cincinatti Playhouse
Lazarus-Macy’s New Play Prize for Young Audiences |
6/1 |
1 (for school age) |
Box 6537 Cincinnati,
OH 45206 |
513-345-2242 |
NoPP, prize
is for outreach to schools. 50-55 min. long |
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manhattantheatre resource
estrogenius festival |
6/1 |
T-1 |
manhattantheatresource NY, NY
10011 |
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Estrogenius
2007, NO FEE, (men can apply too). Each qualifying
submission is thoroughly reviewed. Please do us the same courtesy by
thoroughly reviewing & following all submission guidelines. Thank you! In
lieu of a cover letter click on website link provided here to download an
estrogenius registration sheet -- |
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Met Life Nuestras Voces
Competition Repertorio Español |
6/1 |
F |
Allison
Astor-Vargas, Special Projects Manager |
212-225-9950 |
NO FEE, Plays
must be relevant to the Hispanic experience in the United States |
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Mount Baker Theatre
Playwright Contest, Washington |
6/1 |
F |
Amy
Martin Associate
Artistic Director |
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NO FEE;
comedic and romantic plays with one to three characters and minimal set/prop
requirements. I am particularly interested, but not limited to, plays that include
characters or discussions about famous figures, i.e. Mozart or Madonna, and
plays that are set in a foreign country. Highly experimental or controversial
plays will not be suitable. |
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New Professional
Theatre Festival |
6/1 |
F |
c/o Mr.
Mark D. Wood |
212-398-2666 |
Nationwide
call for minority playwrights |
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New Visions/New Voices
(NVNV) |
6/1 |
residency |
Kennedy
Center Education Dept. Box
101510 Arlington,
VA 22210 |
202-416-8830 |
NO FEE;
A producing theater submits a proposal including a director, a playwright,
and a work-in-progress for consideration. Biennial (even yrs) weeklong
residency in April to encourage & support creation of new plays and
musicals for young people & families. Consideration. Assistance: stipend,
travel. Frequency: biennial. Preference. Length: mid-length (60-90 min).
Subject: young audiences. |
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Shubert Fendrich
Memorial Playwriting Contest - Pioneer Drama Service |
6/1 |
?? |
Playwriting
Contest |
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Mission:
Encourage the development of quality theatrical material for educational and
community theatres. This is an ongoing contest, with one winner selected for
each calendar year. The winner from the previous calendar year will be
announced each year on June 1. http://www.pioneerdrama.com/playwrights/contest.asp Application: http://www.pioneerdrama.com/pdf/contest_application.pdf |
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6/1 |
Grant |
411 W.
4th Ave., #1-#, Anchorage, AK 99501 |
907-269-9941 |
Must be
resident of AK |
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American Scandinavian
Foundation Translation Prize |
6/1 |
ñ |
58 Park
Ave., NY 10016 |
212-879-9979 |
For
translation of Scandanavian written drama after 1800 |
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Butler Little Theatre
Playwrighting Competition: Christmas Carol Script |
6/1 |
themed |
Christmas
Carol Script Competition Butler,
PA 16001 |
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NO FEE; seeking
submissions of original adaptations of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas
Carol. The script selected will receive a full stage, eight performance run
as the holiday production in Butler Little Theatre's 2007-2008 season. |
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Speaking Ring Theatre
Annual One-Act Playwriting Festival: Vitality V |
6/1 |
1 <30 min. |
Speaking
Ring Theatre Company |
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2007 Theme:
Breaking Out: The moments when we shake free of our constraints and eclipse
the past. FEE $10. Please no Musicals – These
will not be considered. |
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Columbia Entertainment
Company Jackie White Memorial
National Children’s Playwriting Contest |
6/1 |
F-M-child-ñ-A |
309
Parkade Blvd. |
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FEE $20, need
speaking roles for at least 7 actors. Submit full script, typed and bound;
blind cover; application form and fee; synopsis; character and set breakdown;
bio; resume; SASE for return; SASP for acknowledgement. Looking for “family
friendly.” http://www.cectheatre.org |
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Ragdale Foundation
(Winter-Spring) |
6/1 |
Residency |
1260 N.
Green Bay Rd., Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
847-234-1063 |
$30
application fee |
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The Kentuck Ten-Minute
Festival |
6/1 |
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The
Kentuck Museum 503 Main
Avenue Northport,
Alabama 35476 205.758.1257 |
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UNVERIFIED The
Kentuck 10-Minute Festival. Our ten-minute play festival focuses on the works
of southern playwrights or plays with southern themes. This allows a
celebration and examination of the uniqueness of southern heritage. |
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Jungle Theatre Play
Reading Series |
6/1 |
Workshop |
2951 S.
Lyndale Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55408 |
612-278-0147 |
This has been postponed
– no date given as yet. |
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Headlands Center |
6/2 |
Residency |
944 Ft.
Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965 |
415-331-2787 |
Artist in
Residence Program selection is highly competitive. Applications are juried by
rotating outside panels of knowledgeable artists and arts professionals each
year. |
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Composer’s Stage
Project |
6/7 |
Composer Workshop |
Composer’s
Stage project c/o
Anddrew Levine 26
Powderhorn Dr. Ridgefield,
CT 06877 |
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A
weeklong master workshop in songwriting for the stage for emerging
composer/lyricists and composer/lyricist teams, 8/27-9/2. Workshop price:
$990. |
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Sands Theatre Center’s DeLand
Theatre Festival |
6/8 |
F-1 |
Sands
Theatre Center Attn:
Deland Theatre Festival producer 600 N
Woodland Boulevard DeLand,
FL 32720 |
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No
Musicals will be accepted for the full length Readings; authors submitting
One-Act (10-50) musicals must include an audio CD of the music. Cast
limit: 10; scripts will NOT be returned. All scripts not chosen for Festival
production will be recycled. FEE: $10/1-act $15/full-length by check made
payable to Sands Theater |
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Stellar Network Plays
in Progress |
6/8 |
F |
402 Main
Street, Suite 100-148 Metuchen,
NJ 08840 |
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FEE $15 member/$25 for non-member. No musicals or operas. |
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William Paterson
University |
6/14 |
F-1-M |
Ed Matthews, Coordinator H105 A, 300 Pompton Rd. |
973-720-2994 |
Must be
NJ resident; NO FEE; 3 finalists get honorarium/staged
reading. The Performing Arts Theatre Series of William Paterson University in
Wayne, NJ, annual NJ Playwrights Contest. One finalist will be selected to
receive a production as part of the university's spring 2008 season. |
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Stage This! E-Merging Writers and
Fn Productions |
6/15 |
T |
Fn
Productions/Stage This Too! 87 Crans
Mill Road Pine
Bush, NY 12566 |
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FEE $15
each play or $25 for two (limit of 2). PPOK, plays canNOT have been published
or be awaiting publication. All finalists (8-12) will be presented at a
staged reading and receive publication in Stage This, |
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Poetry Foundation’s
Verse Drama Prize 2007 Call for Entries |
6/15 |
Drama in verse |
The
Poetry Foundation |
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Like
other Pegasus Awards, the Verse Drama Prize seeks to bring renewed attention
to an underrecognized form. In this case, the Poetry Foundation also hopes to
encourage poets to work in a new genre and thereby bring fresh life into the
art as a whole. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/Verse_Drama_Prize.html |
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District of Columbia
Commission on the Arts & Humanities |
6/15 |
Grant |
410 8th
St., NW, Fl. 5, Washington, DC 20004 |
202-724-5613 |