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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 |
T |
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 |
Resident
of DC |
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Montana Artists
Residency for the Writer’s Residency – Helena Festival of the Book |
6/15 |
Residency |
Box 8 Basin, MT
59361 Attn: Joy
Lewis, Coord. |
406-225-3500 |
Rent is
$350+/mo., assistance limited For
November residency |
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L. Arnold Weissberger Award |
6/15 |
F |
Box 428
Williamstown, MA 01267 |
413-458-3200 |
By
Invitation/Nomination Only http://www.wtfestival.org/training/playwright_weissberger.php |
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The HotCity Theatre
Greenhouse Series |
6/22 |
F |
The
HotCity Theatre Greenhouse Series 3547
Olive Street |
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Greenhouse
Series is looking for new plays to include in our 2007 New Play Festival.
Looking for plays no shorter between 70 and 120 min, and especially plays
that “push the envelope” in terms of content, structure, or theme. Include a
cover letter, resume, your contact info, approximate running time, and cast
breakdown. Scripts will not be returned. |
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OxDocs Institute
Festival of New Work |
6/23 |
NON-Fiction |
Dr.
Kerric Harvey, OxDocs, 2020
Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., #119, Washington,
D.C. 20006 |
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NO FEE
(fee waived for this year); NON-fiction. OxDocs Institute Festival of New Work
scriptwriting contest for stage and screen. Open to new, emerging, or
non-professional playwrights and screenwriters whose non-fiction work
explores issues related to conflict within or between communities. Special
prize for scripts focusing on Irish or Celtic topics. Guidelines
and rules: http://www.oxdocs.eu/Festival.php |
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Writer Residency at
U.S. Custom House |
6/27 5:00 pm rec’d by |
residency |
Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council |
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A
partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) – Open Call
for Writers. The Council is excited to announce the 2007-2008 Writer
Residency at U.S. Custom House. A partnership with the U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA). While in residence, writers will be exposed to the vast
and rich history of the surrounding neighborhood, architecture, and artwork,
as well as, the Custom House itself. Note: Due to the high security in the
building, the studio workspace is NOT open to the public or to visitors of
writers while in residence. Applications will be accepted starting Thursday,
May 2, 2007. Read about what this year’s writers residency offers and the
selection process: http://lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/writer/download/writersopencall.pdf Online
form http://lmcc.net/applications/2007.2writers/startapp.html |
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Fred Ebb Award |
6/29 |
Composer or lyricist |
Fred Ebb
Award Roundabout
Theatre 231 West
39th Street, Suite 1200 New York,
New York 10018 |
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Applicant
must be a composer/lyricist or composer/lyricist team wishing to create works
for the musical theatre and meet other guidelines, see website for details.
Only musical theatre work will be considered. Applications will be accepted
from June 1-29, 2007. The winner will be selected in November 2007. |
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6/29 |
F-1 |
Los Angeles, CA 90039 |
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FEE $20 – late entry is 7/13, but is $30.
Grand prize winner will receive Write Brother’s full software suite
and the Atwater Playhouse professional theatre company
will perform the winning play for a full six week run starting 45-90 minutes;
either long one-act or full-length play under 90
min. The world should be based in reality. No avant-garde material please. Simple sets and lighting with a minimum
amount of scene changes. Contemporary
material is preferred. Each actor can
play one role only so please limit the size of the cast. Actors/Characters do not break the 4th wall
(speak directly to the audience) and no large sections of uninterrupted
exposition by any one character http://www.atwaterplayhouse.com/fly.aspx?layout=playwritefestival |
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6/29 |
Grant |
193 State
St., 25 State House Sta., Augusta, ME 04333 |
207-287-2724 |
Must be
resident of Maine |
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The Firehouse Theatre Project
2008 Sixth Annual Festival of New American Plays! |
6/30 |
F |
Firehouse
Theatre Project 6th
Festival of New American Plays 1609 W.
Broad St. Richmond,
VA 23220 |
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The
Firehouse Theatre Festival of New American Plays; NO
FEE; NoPP; scripts must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation
from a theater company or individual familiar with your work. Manuscripts
cannot be returned. http://www.firehousetheatre.org/community/playwriting-contest/ |
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North Park Playwright
Festival |
6/30 |
15 min. or less |
North
Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe 2031 El
Cajon Blvd., San
Diego, CA 92104 Attn
Summer Golden, Artistic Director |
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NO FEE. Limit
1 script per playwright. Planning on four weekends of new short plays.
Looking for: Short new plays (no more that 15 minutes, less is fine) that are
easily staged and have casts with no more than four people. Our theater is
very small and we normally use a minimal set concept in this festival. We
have to be able to change sets in just a few minutes as we do six plays each
evening of the festival. We don’t have space for large casts. Work will be
chosen by the directors we have in the festival. It is not a “contest” and we
are not really judging plays in the formal sense. Any subject matter is OK.
We don’t mind controversial issues, etc. Send via
snail mail. |
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Pan Theater Ten Minute Play
Festival |
6/30 |
T-1 |
Pan
Theater Play Festival 287 17th
Street, #220 Oakland, CA 94612 |
415-261-1641 |
Waiving all submission fees for 2007. This deadline is for Halloween
1-acts and Christmas short plays. |
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PlayFest, Orlando |
6/30 |
F-M-S |
The
Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays |
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The
Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays. Seeking new full-length plays based on
or inspired by works of classic literature or historic events. We prefer
plays that require six actors or less, and have a particular interest in
one-person shows. Submissions should include a bio/resume, a one page
synopsis, five pages of sample dialogue, a character breakdown, and an email
address. Please do not send full scripts. Send to Patrick Flick, Director of
New Play Development. |
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Warehouse Theatre
Company’s International Playwriting Festival |
6/30 |
F |
United
Kingdom |
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Held in
two parts: The first is the competition with entries accepted from all over
the world and judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practitioners… The
second is the festival itself which showcases the selected plays from the
competition. This takes place in November. |
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Firefly Productions The Nancy Weil New Play
Search 2006 |
6/30 |
F-1-T |
NWNPS c/o
Firefly Productions Inc. 123 S. Main St. Cambridge VT 05444 |
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FEE $10
(for up to 3 plays); NoPP |
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eclectic theatre
company |
6/30 |
One min. |
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This
little theatre company focuses on new plays, by area
playwrights. But for the second year is producing a benefit to raise
money for Cancer research. Last year the money went to The Susan G.
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Philanthropic Trust. This year, The
local chapter of the American Cancer Society will benefit from our work and
your talents! The theme is "Overcoming Adversity" in some way
or another! Sixty plays will be chosen as part of
this incredible benefit called "Got A
Minute?" There is no renumeration, but you do receive program
credits and the satisfaction that your work is being produced by caring
folks who treat their work very seriously for a great cause! email plays
or questions to Jeffery: eclectic_tc@comcast.net |
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