September 2008 Playwriting Opportunities
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Address | Phone | Notes/Email/Website NOTE: PPOK=previous productions okay; NoPP=No previous productions or publications, workshops usually OK |
| hotINK 2009 | Melissa Parrish, Literary Manager for hotINK 2009 Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway New York, NY 10003 |
Send play with blind cover, resume, synopsis, breakdown. To submit digitally, send all materials in PDF format http://www.hotink.org/ hotink2009@gmail.com | |||
| Kimmel Harding Nelson Center | Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts 801 3rd Corso Nebraska City, NE 68410 |
FEE: $25. The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts offers up to fifty juried residencies per year to visual artists, writers, composers, interdisciplinary artists, and arts and arts education scholars. The Center does not discriminate on the basis of disability, sex, race, religion or national origin. A number of "transitional" residencies are reserved for recent masters degree program graduates. These applicants in transition are reviewed as a separate peer group for these awards. Residencies are available for two, four, six or eight weeks stays. Each resident receives a $100 per week stipend, free housing and a studio. Check or money order to "Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts." For residencies to take place during Session 1 (January - June), the application deadline is the previous September 1. For residencies to take place during Session 2 (July - December), the application deadline is the previous March 1. http://www.khncenterforthearts.org/ | |||
| Mississippi Theatre Association | Kris Lee, Competition Chair Stephen Cunetto 1297 Bardwell Road Starkville, MS, 39759 |
MUST live in or be from the state of Mississippi. $500 cash prize; a fully staged reading; festival registration is waived; free room and board for the night of performance at annual festival; Q&A talkback with audience, cast, director, final judge, and playwright. Cast limit=6. FEE $10. http://www.mta-online.org | |||
| On Broadway Thespians, Inc. | Leatha Gonzalez, President 845 S. Broadway #107 Coos Bay, OR 97420 |
Accepts all, but specially seeking mystery dinner theater/audience participation productions. Query w/ synopsis & sample, email OK. http://www.onbroadwaytheater.com/page16.html obthespian@yahoo.com | |||
| Panndora Productions | Sonja Berggren, Producer P.O. Box 30733 Long Beach, CA 90853 |
Preference is given to plays with small casts (less than five actors) and simple sets. NoPP. Please Submit: Full script, typed and securely bound; Brief synopsis of play; Character breakdown and set requirements; Short bio; SASE for return if desired; SASP for acknowledgement if desired. Four new full-length plays will be selected to be read and directed by experienced stage actors and directors before live audiences. Playwrights will receive feedback from audience members, cast, directors, and reviewers. Selected authors will receive a nominal stipend. This year's festival will be held at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro, on the weekend of November 22-23, 2008. Two plays will be read on Saturday afternoon and two on Sunday. http://www.panndoraproductions.com sonjaseaver@att.net | |||
| Santa Fe Performing Arts Competition | Santa Fe Performing Arts PO Box 22372 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 |
Santa Fe Performing Arts Playwright's Competition was developed to support American Playwrights. The competition is not merely a competition of words, but a venue for recognition and a demonstration of appreciation - truly a celebration of the writer's contribution. SFPA and many other theatre companies around the country with similar programs, support playwrights and ensure the future of American Theatre. Without the writers, the actors would have nothing to say. Submissions are limited to unproduced new American plays and must be postmarked by the first of September of each year. Send play synopsis and character break-down. Full scripts upon request only. http://www.sfperformingarts.org/adult_resident_company.html office@sfperformingarts.org | |||
| the bang and the clatter theatre company | Cliff Hershman, Playwright-In-Residence 224 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44114 |
NO FEE. Staged reading during three-day festival. Submit bound script, synopsis, SASE if desired, SASP if desired. Previous workshop or reading okay. Our first new works festival, The Legendary, will be held October 17th, 18th and 19th and will center around our production of Militant Language, a play about the Iraqi war, which will be performed on October 18th simultaneously with over fifteen other American theatres. We will be holding staged readings of new ten-minute plays, one-acts and full-length plays throughout the three day festival at our new black box theatre on Euclid Avenue, Cleveland's main street, in the heart of downtown. http://www.bnctheatre.com chershman@sbcglobal.net | |||
| Jewish Ensemble Theatre | Artistic Director 6600 West Maple Road West Bloomfield, MI 48322 |
I believe this to be a rolling deadline. NO FEE; must be in English; cast limit=8; PPOK; plays must have something to do with their mission statement, which is: "To produce theatre on the highest possible professional level; to explore issues of humanity and community from a Jewish perspective; to provide a platform for new voices; and serve as a bridge for understanding to the larger community." http://www.jettheatre.org | |||
| Minnesota Center for Book Arts presents: Book Arts Mentorships (for MN Artists) | Minnesota Center for Book Arts 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN 55415 # |
Grants for artists of any discipline: a series of six mentorship + project grant opportunities. We are opening up the spots to six different artistic disciplines, and are trying to get as wide a spectrum of candidates as possible. We look forward to many quality applicants, and would love to have some playwrights and performance artists in the mix to truly shake up the notion of what "the book" can be and how its content can be expressed. It's a great opportunity, $1500 to support a project plus a huge amount of free education and workshops. There's no fee for application, and we do not limit participation for consideration on any basis other than the eligibility guidelines set in place by the grant itself (emerging artists only, must be MN resident, etc.). http://www.mnbookarts.org/artistsprograms/mentorship.html mcba@mnbookarts.org | |||
| Brave New Roles | England | http://www.sphinxtheatre.co.uk info@sphinxtheatre.co.uk | |||
| New Jersey Dramatists | Peter Ernst, Artistic Director PO Box 286 Hoboken, NJ 07030 |
Short plays/monologues sought for Living in an age of perpetual war to be performed script-in-hand at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, NJ. Send bound script, resume, SASE if desired. http://www.njdramatists.org njdramatists@hotmail.com | |||
| Harvest Theatre of Toledo | Harvest Theatre One Page Play Festival P.O. Box 140323 Toledo, OH 43614-0323 |
Last year’s deadline … check first before sending. Harvest Theatre of Toledo is seeking original play submissions for its One Page International Play Festival (Holiday Edition) to be performed as part of their regular season in rotating repertory with Penny Penniworth, latter part of December, 2007. One page in length, double-spaced, on any topic having to do with the December/January holiday season (i.e. Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwaanza, New Year, Solstice, etc.). Scripts will NOT be returned; maximum 4 characters per play; monologues accepted but not preferred. Submit as many plays as you like. Accepting original holiday songs as well for production in One Page Play Fest. Songs may be longer than one page! A small honorarium will be awarded to plays and songs we choose to be performed as part of our production. http://www.harvesttheatre.com info@harvesttheatre.com | |||
| Valencia Community College / Valencia Character Company | Melissa Tchen, Marketing and Media Relations Valencia Community College |
Playwrights must reside IN FLORIDA. The Valencia Community College theater program is accepting plays for its annual Florida Playwrights competition, which has been held every year since 1991. The winning play will be staged in April 2009, as part of Valencia’s regular subscription series. Send the first 15 pages of no more than two never-before-produced manuscripts. Electronic submissions are requested. They may be sent to Valencia’s artistic director, Julia Gagne (see below). Scripts must be original, previously unproduced, full-length plays. (Scripts that have received staged readings may be submitted.) Collaborations are eligible, but children’s plays, musicals and adaptations are not. A panel of readers will evaluate the submitted excerpts and ask select writers to submit their full manuscripts. From those, one play will be chosen to be developed and workshopped with the playwright’s participation. The playwright will receive a stipend to cover travel and other expenses related to the production. The administrator of the competition plans to announce the winning play around December 1, 2008. The workshop process will begin in January 2009. jgagne@valenciacc.edu | |||
| Playwrights Center/Jerome Fellowship | (rec’d by) |
2301 Franklin Ave., E. Minneapolis, MN 55406 Attn: Carlo Cuesta, Executive Director |
http://www.pwcenter.org http://www.pwcenter.org/fellows_jerome.php info@pwcenter.org | ||
| Guggenheim Foundation | 90 Park Ave., NY, NY 10016 |
For research or creation http://www.gf.org | |||
| Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences | Box 339 Rabun Gap, GA 30568 |
Application FEES$ http://www.hambidge.org center@hambidge.org | |||
| Jentel Artist Residency Program | Jentel Artist Residency Program 130 Lower Piney Creek Road Banner, WY 82832 |
FEE $20. The Jentel Artist Residency Program offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development. Your writing sample should be representative of the genre in which you plan to work while in residence. Application: http://www.jentelarts.org/sitepages/application.htm http://www.jentelarts.org jentel@jentelarts.org | |||
| Kleban Award | The Kleban Foundation, Inc. c/o New Dramatists, 424 West 44th Street NY, NY 10036 |
Lyricist and librettist must be produced or a professional workshop member. http://www.newdramatists.org/kleban_award.htm newdramatists@newdramatists.org | |||
| Virginia Center | 154 SanAngelo Dr., Amherst, VA 24521 | FEES $25 (plus add’l costs per day for stay) http://www.vcca.com vcca@vcca.com | |||
| Live Girls! Theater | Live Girls! Theater 2220 NW Market St Seattle, WA 98107 |
Must be written by women. Seeking plays for 2009 season. Please note that we only produce two full-length scripts a year and make an effort to prioritize local playwrights, so opportunities for full production are limited. Submit script, bio via email. Up to 3 plays in PDF or Word format. http://www.livegirlstheater.org submissions@livegirlstheater.org | |||
| Summer Play Festival | SPF Submissions (Musical Theatre) P.O. Box 778 New York, New York 10108 |
This is the BEGINNING date for submissions to SPF … I know this is odd, but submit NOW. If you want to get in, rumor has it, get your poop in early. Get cracking. Hop to it. http://www.spfnyc.com/submissions/guidelines/ | |||
| Image Theater presents Naughty Readings Image Theater | Image Theater Lowell, Massachusetts |
Seeking short (ten minutes or shorter) plays and original songs for our popular Naughty Readings to be held at The Old Court Tavern in November. This will be our fourth year with this terrific "adult only" evening of silly, sexy, and naughty short plays. Plays and songs can be as crazy as you like, but "tastefully naughty" is our aim here. With past hits like the song "I Wanna Go All The Way" and the play "Big Eddie" you get the idea of the evening... You can send your plays by attachment (WORD compatible, please) to Joe Bisantz Jbisantz@comcast.net | |||
| Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival | Alumnae Theatre Company 70 Berkeley Street Toronto, Ontario • M5A 2W6 |
From 5-45 minutes in length. The New Ideas Festival is a juried, three-week festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre, with a new program of plays each week, and a staged reading on Saturdays at noon. It runs from March 11-28, 2009. contactus@alumnaetheatre.com | |||
| New Dramatists Residencies (NY) | (rec’d by) |
Director of Artistic Development, New Dramatists, 424 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 | New Dramatists gives writers space and time to develop their craft and accepts writers for free seven-year residencies. Includes access to the full range of services, including writer-driven new play development workshops, international theatre exchanges, free copying, free theatre tickets, writing space, retreats, temporary lodging, and numerous opportunities and community activities. Open to playwrights living in NYC and the surrounding tristate area. Include 1) 4 manuscripts: two copies of two full-length plays, bound. No blind covers; 2) A completed application form together with a current resume or bio; 3) Statement of interest. No scripts returned. http://www.newdramatists.org/ndhome.htm http://www.newdramatists.org | ||
| Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation | Nancy Diekmann, Executive Director PO Box 672, Prince St Station New York, NY 10012 |
212-253-7604 (fax) |
Still Awaiting This Year’s Guidelines!! Musical theatre/composers, lyricists, bookwriters. jlpaf@jlpaf.org http://www.jlpaf.org http://www.jlpaf.org/apply.html | ||
| Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | Attn: Emily Kilgore, Founder & Co-President 3239 Avalon Pl. Houston, TX 77019 |
Plays accepted only from specified theaters in US, UK and Ireland – these theatres are listed on their website: http://www.blackburnprize.org | |||
| HARC Foundation | The HARC Foundation P.O. Box 11596 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 |
The HARC Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) publicly supported non-profit corporation, is seeking Stage Play Script entries from Emerging American Playwrights. The playwright of the winning entry will receive a 2008 HARC Award of $2,500.00 and a public presentation or reading of the play, as possible. To be eligible for award consideration, all entries must fulfill the following HARC Awards Entry Requirements: 1) Include a correctly completed Official Application and Entry Form. 2) Follow entry specifications, formats and materials appropriate to the art discipline. 3) Comply with all competition rules. 4) Adhere to mailing instructions and deadlines for postmarks and receipt of entry. HARC Awards Entry Specifications for Stage Play Script Entries: Please send a double-spaced typewritten, presentation cover bound copy of Stage Play Script not to exceed ninety (90) minutes duration with maximum six (6) Players in maximum three (3) Acts. Mark title page with title and running time only. Your name should not appear on the play. Include separate cover sheet with your name, address, email, telephone, title of work and running time. Please review the HARC Awards Official Rules before entering your play in the 2008 HARC Awards Playwright competition. http://www.harcfoundation.org | |||
| Hedgebrook Writers-In-Residence Program | Hedgebrook Writers-In-Residence Program 2197 Millman Road Langley, WA 98260 |
FEE$ - $15 Form: http://www.hedgebrook.org/application.php http://www.hedgebrook.org info@hedgebrook.org | |||
| New York Public Library's Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center For Scholars And Writers | The New York Public Library The ACLS 633 Third Avenue, 8th Floor NY, NY 10017-6795 |
Letters of recommendation must be rec’d by this date as well. Open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the NYPL Humanities and Social Sciences Library, including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/fellowship.html http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/csw2009-10application.pdf | |||
| Theatre Three | Jeffrey Sanzel, Artistic Director PO Box 512/412 Main Street Port Jefferson, NY 11777 |
NO FEE. NoPP. Cast limit=8We provide a $75 stipend for the playwright as well as four complimentary tickets. With the playwright's permission, a performance will be taped and the playwright will be provided with a DVD. Submit bound script, synopsis, requirements, bio & resume. http://www.theatrethree.com | |||
| Baltimore Playwrights Festival | 251 S. Ann Street Baltimore, MD 21231 |
Plays chosen by 1 of 7 companies for a 3-wk production in summer. Must be current or former resident of Maryland. http://www.baltimoreplaywrightsfestival.org | |||
| Long Beach Playhouse | Jo Black-Jacob, New Works Festival Director 5021 E. Anaheim Street Long Beach, CA 90804 |
FEES $10. Rolling deadline for the following Spring’s Festival. For staged reading, $100, and DVD of reading. PPOK. Submit bound script, fee, application, synopsis, character/set requirements, bio, scripts will NOT be returned. The NEW WORKS FESTIVAL is part of the Long Beach Playhouse's ongoing commitment to help established and emerging playwrights develop new work. It also opens up the possibility for the playhouse to discover original plays that may be suitable for a full World Premiere Production in our Mainstage or Studio Theatre http://www.lbph.com | |||
| Northern Kentucky University Presents The YES Festival (Year End Series) | 2008 |
Sandra Forman Y.E.S. Festival Project Director Northern Kentucky University Department of Theatre FA 228 Nunn Drive Highland Heights, KY 41099 |
The event is biennial, deadline takes place in EVEN numbered years. http://www.nku.edu/~theatre/yesfestivalrules.htm forman@nku.edu | ||
| Endtimes Productions, NYC, "Naked Holidays" | Endtimes Productions Gene Frankel Theatre 24 Bond Street New York, NY 10012 |
Endtimes Productions, is now seeking submissions for its 2nd Annual presentation of "Naked Holidays NYC", a collection of off-beat, unconventional, comic plays, songs, and monologues, dealing with the dark underbelly of the holiday season. Last year's offerings included a portrayal of Santa's workshop as a fascist state, a white trash holiday pageant, in Whoosville, a chorus line of grim reapers, in g-strings, and a Patti Smithesque number sung by Santa's youngest daughter. Think more well-conceived "sketch comedy", than "one-act". Plays should be no more than 30 pages. Deadline for submissions is 9/30/08. Submissions can be made electronically or by snailmail. endtimesscripts@gmail.com | |||
| Maltz Jupiter Theatre | Emerging Artist Series c/o Maltz Jupiter Theatre 1001 E Indiantown Road Jupiter, FL 33477 |
Maltz Jupiter Theatre proudly announces it has received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fund Grant. This prestigious grant was awarded to the Theatre for development of four new musicals. The series begins with the solicitations of new works by artists from around the country. Those works will then be reviewed by leading theatre professionals. Four new unpublished works will be selected for a series of staged readings that will take place during our 2008/2009 season on stage at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Maltz Jupiter Theatre will host a one week writer’s workshop for the creative team chosen from among the year’s readings. Submit cover letter including contact information, a demo CD with samples of songs from the show, short synopsis of the piece including song titles from submitted CD. Playwright's THEATRE resume. Signed letter from the author(s) and underlying rights representative stating that the rights to the piece have been fully secured,) in the case where the musical is based on copyrighted material), or is within the public domain. | |||
| MacDowell Colony | rec’d by |
The Admissions Coordinator The MacDowell Colony 100 High Street Peterborough, NH 03458 |
FEE$ - application fee applies http://www.macdowellcolony.org/apply.html |
** "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
ñ=translation
A=adaptations
sc=Screenplay
tv=teleplay
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