October 2007 Playwriting Opportunities
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NOTE: PPOK=previous productions okay; NoPP=No previous productions or publications, workshops usually OK

Actors' Theatre Ninth Annual Full-Length Play Contest 10/1 F     FEE: $15.00. Full-Length Play Contest, Actors' Theatre, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060
http://www.sccat.org/contests.htm
New Harmony Project 10/1 Residency Selection Committee The New Harmony Project P.O. Box 441062 Indianapolis, IN 46244-1062 317-464-1103 Each year a select community of writers, actors, dramaturgs and other media professionals gather in historic New Harmony, Indiana, to create new works for the stage and screen. Selected projects are given a series of rehearsals and readings, creating a process that affords the writer the rare opportunity to explore ideas without fear of failure.
All submissions must include a hard copy and an electronic version of the following: Resume, a proposal with history and synopsis of script and what you would wish to accomplish during the conference, one full copy of the script, and a 10 page section for the submission script. Submission for musicals must include 8 copies, in CD format, of musical selections from the submission.
jgrynheim@newharmonyproject.org
http://www.newharmonyproject.org
http://www.newharmonyproject.org/how_to_enter.html
New York Mills Arts Retreat 10/1 Retreat 24 N. Main Ave. New York Mills, MN 56567 218-385-3339 http://www.kulcher.org
nymills@uslink.net
Playwrights' Circle - Palm Springs International Playwriting Festival 10/1 1
Short plays
Playwrights’ Circle
457 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Suite C
Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 327-4877 http://www.playwrightscircle.com/submission.htm
Potluck Productions Kansas City Women’s Playwriting Festival 10/1 1-T-S Joyce Slater Potluck Productions 7338 Belleview Kansas City, MO 64114   PPOK. Open to all female playwrights writing in English; Special attention is given to emerging Kansas City area writers; NoPP
talk_to_us@kcpotluckproductions.com
http://www.kcpotluckproductions.com
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships 10/1 Fellow Harvard University Fellowships Office 34 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-1324 The deadline for individual applications in the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences is October 1, 2007. Proposal, proven achievement and promise – must work full-time on proposal work and live in Boston.
fellowships@radcliffe.edu
http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships
Rhode Island Arts Council 10/1 Grant 1 Capitol Hill, Fl. 3 Providence, RI 02408 401-222-3880 Must be resident of RI
http://www.risca.state.ri.us
info@risca.state.ri.us
South Carolina Arts Commission 10/1 Grant 1800 Gervais St. Columbia, SC 29201 803-734-8696 Must be resident of SC
http://www.state.sc.us/arts
Stanley Drama Award 10/1   Wagner College 1 Howard Ave., Staten Island, NY 10301   Fee $20.00, must not be currently optioned
http://www.wagner.edu/stanleydrama/
http://www.wagner.edu/stanleydrama/Stanley Drama Awards Application.doc
Theatre Building Chicago Presents Stages New Tuners Festival 10/1 M New Tuners Theatre, 1225 W Belmont Chicago, IL 60657 773-929-7367 x222 Fax: 773-327-1404 Deadline for Round One. A weekend festival of new musicals presented in various formats by Theatre Building Chicago is an opportunity for authors and composers to see and hear their work performed for an audience as well as for producers and directors to assess new musicals and musical theatre talent. The application must be accompanied by a recommendation from a theatre, workshop or other professional association; the authors must agree to attend Stages if their piece is selected; and the authors must agree to give program credit to Theatre Building Chicago, acknowledging festival participation for any future production
jsparks@theatrebuildingchicago.org
http://www.theatrebuildingchicago.org - Writers’ Workshop
http://theatrebuildingchicago.org/stages.php
Ucross Residency 10/1 Residency 30 Big Red Ln. Clearmont, WY 82835 307-737-2291 2 wk to 3 mo residencies, Fees: $20
ucross@wyoming.com
http://www.ucrossfoundation.org
Women Playwrights' Initiative (WPI) Short Play Competition 10/1 F Julia Gagne, Call for Scripts Manager 3006 Hartland Court Orlando, FL 32825 407-273-9723 NoPP
http://www.womenplaywrights.com/call-for-scripts.htm
Tallahassee Writers Association 10/1 1-T Ted Simmons, Playwriting Chair P. O. Box 3428 Tallahassee, FL 32315 850-894-6181 FEE $15. Cash awards, staged reading in Tallahassee, FL. PPOK.
treasurer@tallahasseewriters.net
www.tallahasseewriters.net
UMBC New Theatrical Works for Young Actresses 10/1 T 10-Minute Play Competition UMBC Department of Theatre 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250   As the cornerstone for our IN10 FESTIVAL, the UMBC Department of Theatre seeks 10-minute plays written for female characters age 16 to 30 that feature clearly defined roles for young women. We strongly encourage playwrights to create a wide variety of roles representing young women from all social classes, ethnic backgrounds and in all kinds of physical bodies. We are most interested in scripts that explore relationships between women through roles that are not widely available in contemporary play texts.
http://www.umbc.edu/theatre/In10.html
Venture Theatre Annual One-Act Play Festival 10/1   One-Act Submission Venture Theatre PO Box 112 Billings, MT 59103.   NoPP, <20 min., focus on plot action and relationship, and be economical in use of spectacle. For area writers to see their works produced, while including writer from outside the region to stir the creative pot. Three awards are given out annually. First is the Writer’s Voice Award, given to the most"well-written"script. This award carries a $300 cash prize. Second is the Venture Theatre Production Award, awarded to the director of the most well executed production. This award is dinner for two at a Montana Avenue restaurant. Third is the People’s Choice Award, given to the play deem most successful by the festival audience. This award is bragging rights for the year.
Lincoln Square Theatre’s Night Caps 2 10/1 T Lincoln Square Theatre
4754 N. Leavitt
Chicago, IL 60625
  NO FEE. 3-12min. plays; Theme: After 6pm (before dawn). Lincoln Square Theatre of Chicago is soliciting scripts for Night Caps 2 (NC2), a festival of new work to be held in the spring of 2008. 1-5 characters; black box. No plays for children, musicals or previously produced work (works that have had readings are okay).
lsac@comcast.net
Riverside CA 10-Minute festival 10/1 T Riverside Arts
Council c/o
3485 Mission Inn Ave., 3rd Floor, Riverside, CA 92501
  FEE $5.00. The Riverside Cultural Consortium is seeking 10-minute plays to be performed as part of Fanning the Creative Flame. Submit work that is suitable for all audiences. Include your full name, address, phone number and email address on the title page.
http://www.riversideartscouncil.org
Stories from Ground to Plate 10/1 1-T Lauren Shepard 919-801-2768 NO FEE. The Deeply Rooted: Stories from Ground to Plate festival is seeking short submissions. Short stories and monologues about peoples’ relationships with food on its journey from ground to plate. We will select four to five diverse pieces to be performed in the 35-seat back room of Uncommon Ground at 3800 N. Clark St. The performance will be structured such that the stories move from field to table, encouraging participants to examine the complexity of what goes into their meals.
deeplyrootedstories@gmail.com
Millay Colony for the Arts 10/1 (rec’d by) Residency Residency Director PO Box 3, 454 East Hill Road Austerlitz, NY 12017 518 392-3103 One month residency; Writer’s Retreat; see website for full details. FEE $30
apply@millaycolony.org
http://www.millaycolony.org
Queer Soup Theater's New Play Festival 10/1 (rec’d by) F-M Queer Soup Theater
ATTN: Festival Director
24 Hopkins Road
Arlington, MA 02476
(617) 824-4297 email: festival@queersoup.net
http://www.queersoup.net
http://www.queersoup.net/opportunities.html
Dixon Place 10/??
Fall
M Michelle Feldman, Festival Curator 258 Bowery Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10012 212-219-0736 NY metro artists,"not for Broadway,"the annual Dixon Place musical theater festival, offers shelter to new and developing works telling uncommon stories through lyric song in a way that is fresh and daring. Date is usually around this time
michelle@dixonplace.org
http://www.dixonplace.org
Playwrights’ Center / Guthrie Theater Two-Headed Challenge 10/??   The Playwrights' Center
2301 Franklin Avenue East
Minneapolis, MN 55406-1099
Download application
http://www.pwcenter.org/
http://www.guthrietheater.org/opportunities/for_playwrights/two_headed_challenge
First Flight 10/?? F Boomerang Theatre Co., Box 237166, Ansonia Sta., New York, NY 10023, Attn. Tim Erickson, Artistic Dir.   Reading series of new plays. NoPP; send synopsis, 10pg sample. Response: 1 month.
info@boomerangtheatre.org
http://www.boomerangtheatre.org/company/playwright.html
http://www.boomerangtheatre.org
Artspace's Summer Artist in Residence Program 10/2 Residency Lia Newman, Director of Exhibitions & Programs
Artspace: SAIR Program
201 E. Davie St.
Raleigh, NC 27601
(919) 821-2787, FAX: (919) 821-0383 Must be experienced in art instruction and must not be enrolled in an institutional program of study; FEE: $25
lnewman@artspacenc.org
http://www.artspacenc.org/sair_prospectus.html
NYFA Artists' Fellowships 10/3 Grant New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Avenue of the Americas
14th Floor, New York , NY 10013-1507
(212) 366-6900, ext- 217, FAX: (212) 366-1778 Artists living and working in the state of New York
nyfaaft@nyfa.org
http://www.nyfa.org
City of Los Angelese (COLA) Performing Arts Fellowships 10/3 Fellow Cultural Affairs Dept.
433 S. Spring St., Fl. 10
LA, CA 90013
213-476-8590 Must be resident of LA.
http://www.culturela.org
http://www.culturela.org/festivalsform.html
American Antiquarian Society 10/5 F Residency retreat Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowship
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA
508-755-5221 508-753-3311 (fax) The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library and learned society of American history and culture, is calling for applications for visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history. Successful applicants are those whose work is for the general public rather than for academic or educational audiences. The Society's goal in sponsoring this program is to multiply and improve the ways in which an understanding of history is communicated to the American people.
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/artistfellowship.htm
PlayPenn 10/8   PlayPenn
220 West Evergreen Avenue, D-2
Philadelphia, PA 19118
  Single submission from each playwright. Include ten bound pages of a play you feel will benefit from the process and resources offered by PlayPenn. NoPP. Cover letter containing information about the development of the play and where it is at this point in its development, synopsis, cast list, bio
http://www.playpenn.org/submission.html
Short & Sweet 10/14 T Short + Sweet, PO Box 462, Newtown NSW 2042 + 61 408 268 043 FEE$ - AUS$15
http://www.shortandsweet.org
abroun@bigpond.net.au
SohoThinkTank @ The Ohio Theatre 10/15 F SohoThinkTank
The Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster St.
NY, NY 10012
212-966-4844 6th Floor series provides a nurturing space for playwrights and directors to explore original dynamic new works in a short workshop process. Held once a month, groups are given 10 hours of rehearsal time in the space, a 7pm reading usually held on a Monday, and an opportunity to invite friends, peers, potential funders, producers, anyone they like for an evening of new theatre.>
Please submit one page detailing the information about the writer, director, contact info, name of project, description of the project, your month preference, where you are in your process and what you want to get out of being part of the Sixth Floor Series to
sixthfloorstt@aol.com.
Tallahassee Writers Association 10/15 F-1 Ted Simmons, treasurer
PO Box 3428
Tallahassee, FL 32315
850-894-6181 NoPP; FEE $15
treasurer@tallahasseewriters.net
http://www.tallahasseewriters.net
Acme Theater Productions New Works Winter Festival 10/15 T Tom Berry, Producer
61 Summer Street
Maynard, MA 01754
978-823-0003 PPOK
http://www.acmetheater.com/nwwf2008.asp
http://www.acmetheater.com
Playwrights First Award c/o The National Arts Club 10/15 F 15 Gramercy Park South NY, NY 10003 212-744-1312 1K for best; unproduced, script & resume, no return script. No translations, adaptations, musicals or co-authored
http://www.playwrightsfirst.com/submissions.html
http://www.playwrightsfirst.com/past.html
Scriptapalooza 10/15 Tv     Screenwriting competition offshoot called Scriptapalooza Television Writing Competition. FEE: $40
http://www.scriptapaloozatv.com/
Highwire Theatre 10/15 F Highwire Theatre c/o Julia Davis 2350 Broadway, # 515A New York, NY 10024   FEES $10 hard copy, $15 online. Workshop and a staged reading with professional actors and directors in Summer 2008. Winner will receive $300 and a full-mounted production as part of Highwire s season. NoPP, workshops OK, unpublished. Submit bound, application, fee; synopsis; character and set breakdown, bio, SASE for return if desired, SASP for acknowledgement.
Submissions@highwiretheatre.org
http://www.highwiretheatre.org/
Lousiana State University, Department of Theatre presents Outworks 2008 10/15 1-T John Fletcher, Ph.D.
Outworks Festival Curator
  Gay & Lesbian themeed … LSU Theatre Studio season, produced by the Louisiana State University Department of theatre, offers audiences an"edgier"theatrical experience. Providing a diverse and exciting schedule, the LSU Theatre Studio Season highlights the tremendous talents of the LSU graduate and undergraduate students (B.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D.) both on and behind the stage.Festival of LGBTQ themed one-act plays, must be LGBTQ themed, one-act plays, ranging from (10) ten to (20) twenty minutes in length. 2 scripts per playwright.
outworksfestival@gmail.com
Rasaka Theatre 10/15 1 - theme Rasaka Theatre   Rasaka Theatre Company seeks submissions for thinkTank project, presented in collaboration with Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at the Victory Gardens Greenhouse in March 2008. Series will focus on the tension between national security and individual liberties. Pieces should be 40 minutes or less in length. Based in Chicago and is the Midwest's first South Asian American ensemble.
lavina@lavinajadhwani.com
Texas Nonprofit Theatres Production of Original Plays – TNT POPS Playwriting Contest New Play Development: Playwriting Project 10/15/2007 F-1 TNT
1300 Gendy Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107-4036
  By the way, the YEAR at the top of this page is 2007!!! This contest is EVERY OTHER YEAR ... 2007/2009/2011 ... get it??? NO FEE. Selection process, then each play will be produced during season, either on a mainstage or in a second space, by a TNT member theatre company. In addition, each of five shows will be given a staged reading, probably in a shortened format, at the 2008 TNT Annual Conference. Email, send 1 Microsoft Word file or pdf file. Mailed, send 3 hard copies, unbound. 1 sumbission per playwright. Each playwright invited to the conference must be a registered guest of the conference. Please include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail on a separate sheet. Do NOT include your name on the cover sheet of the script.
http://www.texastheatres.org/
tnt@texastheatres.org
texastheatres@sbcglobal.net
Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow 10/15 fellowship Jane Tucker, Colony Coordinator
515 Spring Streeet
Eureka Springs, AR 72632
479-253-7444 A residential colony established in 2000, for writers in all genres including play and script writing. We provide uninterrupted time, creative environment, writing space, room and board for writers for 2 weeks to 3 months for a minimum donation of $35/day. Fellowships available in some genres. We are seeking fellowship sponsors for script/play/screen writers.
director@writerscolony.org
http://www.writerscolony.org
Lightning Strikes Theater Company 10/15 F-M-other Leo Jenicek
Associate Artistic Director
Lightning Strikes Theatre Co.
P.O. Box 7329
NY, NY 10116
  NoPP, send script with character breakdown. Looking for completed scripts to perform as staged readings. Can also be new musicals. Has piano, and would probably prefer to use company members in the roles whenever possible.
Chainsawboy63@aol.com
ShowOff! Ten Minute Play Competition- Camino Real Playhouse 10/15 T 31776 El Camino Real
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
  FEE $10.00
http://www.caminorealplayhouse.org
Jewish Ensemble Theatre Festival of New Plays 10/15 F 6600 W. Maple Road
W. Bloomfield, MI 48322
248-788-2900 Play reading and prize. Jewish themes.
http://www.jettheatre.org
Bloomington Playwrights Project – Sex/Death V Competition 10/17 T
1-7 min.
107 West 9th, Bloomington, IN 47404 812-334-1188 Plays should be 1-7 minutes long
bppwrite@newplays.org
http://www.bloomingtonplays.org/content/NewsRelease.aspx?nid=119
http://www.bloomingtonplays.org/default.aspx?hn=special/revashiner
Fulbright Program for US Students 10/19 Grant Institute of International Education
809 UN Plaza
NY, NY 10017
212-984-5330 http://www.iie.org/fulbright
http://us.fulbrightonline.org/thinking_enrolledatlarge.html#enrolled
Graduate studies.
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master Artists-In-Residence Program 10/19 Residency Atlantic Center for the Arts
1414 Art Center Avenue
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168
(800) 393-6975 Residency #127, February 18 - March 19, Rachel Harrison, sculptor; Augusta Read Thomas, composer; Chase Twichell, poet. Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers' studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines.
http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org
email: program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, National Playwrights Conference 10/15 F-1-ń-a Martin Kettling, Literary Manager
305 Great Neck Road
Waterford, CT 06385
860-443-5378 ext.227 FEES $35.00. The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center supports playwrights during the creation and development of new theater projects at the National Playwrights Conference each summer. The authors of selected works will be awarded a residency, rehearsal process, and a script-in-hand public reading during July and August of 2008. A stipend, room, board and transportation are provided for each writer selected.
Application: http://www.theoneill.org/prog/plays/playapp.htm
litoffice@theoneill.org
http://www.theoneill.org
Playwrights’ Center / Playlabs Festival 10/26
(rec’d by)
  The Playwrights' Center
2301 Franklin Avenue East
Minneapolis, MN 55406-1099
  Application must be RECEIVED by 10/26.
http://www.pwcenter.org/
http://www.pwcenter.org/PDF/PlayLabs2008_Application.pdf
Theatre Communications Group – International ITI Travel Grants (January-July) 10/26 Grant for travel 520 Eighth Ave., Fl. 24
NY 10018
212-609-5900 Supports cultural exchange and artistic partnerships between US professionals and counterparts in Russia and Eastern/Central Europe
http://www.tcg.org/grants/iti/iti_guidelines.cfm
http://www.tcg.org/pdfs/grants/tcg07_ititravel_app.pdf
Oberon Theatre Ensemble 10/27 1 <60min. Oberon Theatre Ensemble
545 8th Ave., Ste. 402
New York, NY 10018
  Oberon Theatre Ensemble is about to embark on it’s 11th season in NYC. An active player in New York’s independent theatre community. No musicals please, send scripts via email, an electronic version of the play, synopsis, set/prop breakdown, production history.
scripts@walterbrandes.com
http://www.oberontheatre.com
Darien Players Unplugged, Session #1
10/31
Development
NY
 
Session 1: November 18, 2007 at 2pm
Director: Joel Fenster
No Sets. No Props. No Costumes. Only Actors with Scripts. The goal is to both foster development of new works for the stage (both short form and full length). Writers will be able to submit one-acts or excerpts from longer works (no more than 20 pages). A program of no more than five submissions will be put together for each session. The program will be free for audiences (with a suggested donation for entry) and will run no more than two hours with an opportunity after each piece for interaction between the writer, the actors and the audiences. When it comes time for the staged readings, if the work is still an excerpt or in a rough form, we will set up the situation for the audience via an MC (the director).
To register: tdpunplugged@optonline.net
The Intentional Theatre 2008 Season Invitational
10/31
F
Waterford, CT
305-755-9401
Notes: Full length, minimal production qualities, cast 2-6. FEE $5. Cash awards, full staging in Waterford CT. PPOK. Full details at website.
onstage@intentionaltheatre.com
http://intentionaltheatre.com
Dayton Playhouse FutureFest 10/31 F-M-A Adam J. Leigh, Executive Director
1301 E. Siebenthaler Ave.
Dayton, OH 45414
937-424-8477
937-424-0062 (fax)
PPOK
http://www.daytonplayhouse.org/
http://www.daytonplayhouse.com/FutureFestSubGuides.html
Little Theatre of Alexandria One Act Competition 10/31 1 Chairman, One Act Play Reading Committee
The Little Theatre of Alexandria, 600 Wolfe Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-683-5778
703-683-5778
FEE$ - $20/play
http://www.thelittletheatre.com
http://www.thelittletheatre.com/oneact.htm
Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival 10/31   Matthew Cloran, Artistic Producing Director
OR Bill Esher, Managing Director ‘GLTF’
P.O. Box 1164
Philadelphia, PA 19105
  Submissions may include full length plays, musicals, one-acts, one-person shows, young audience plays, monologues and cabarets. Previously un-produced pieces are encouraged!
New website is coming soon … in hopes, before this deadline. Keep checking for it…
GLTFpa@aol.com
Marin Theatre Company – Sky Cooper Prize and David Calicchio Prize 10/31 F-M Maryanne Olson, Literary Manager
397 Miller Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
  NoPP; Sky Cooper Prize - for emerging and established playwrights (play submitted must have had no professional production) and David Calicchio Prize - for emerging playwrights only (no professional productions). Please Submit: synopsis, character and set requirements, bio; 10 page dialogue sample
skycooper@marintheatre.org
http://www.marintheatre.org
Bloomington Playwrights Project, Reva Shiner Full-Length Play Contest 10/31 F Pat Anderson, Literary Manager
107 W. 9th
Bloomington, IN 47404
812-334-1188 Winning submissions receive a full production of their works.
http://www.bloomingtonplays.org/default.aspx?hn=special/revashiner
bppwrite@newplays.org
http://www.newplays.org
Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award 10/31(rec’d by) F Playwriting Coordinator, Forest Roberts Theatre
Northern Michigan University,
1401 Presque Isle Avenue
Marquette, MI 49855-5364
  NoPP
http://www.nmu.edu/theatre/

** "TYPE" Guide
1=One act play
T=Ten-minute play
F=Full-length play
M=Musical
S=solo shows
ch=Children’s
cab=cabaret
rad=radio plays
ń=translation
A=adaptations
sc=Screenplay
tv=teleplay

October 2007


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