Northwest Drama Conference/NPA playwriting contest

NWDC & NPA announce a new play competition for students of NWDC affiliated Colleges and Universities.

Unpublished short plays (ten minute or one act) written by students.

All plays will be read by the professional playwrights who are members of the Northwest Playwrights Alliance.

The winning play will be given a reading at the NWDC/KCACTF regional festival at the University of Idaho in February 2009 and one presented as a reading NPA at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle.

The play must connect to the theme: "The West" in the geography of the world, mind or spirit

NPA has the option to publish the winning play

A $100 prize plus $400 towards travel to Seattle WA, if the playwright can attend the reading, will be awarded the winning playwright.

Deadline for all play submissions is December 5.

Plays to be submitted to :

Northwest Drama Conference
NWDC/NPA Playwriting
Tammi Doyle
Bellevue Community College
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007

ACT ONE: SIX SUNDAYS at ACT

ACT ONE: Six Sundays
An Actors' Equity Association
Members' Project Code presentation

Four one-act plays by Seattle playwrights & DG Members

PC Panic (world premiere) by Charles Waxberg, directed by Paul O'Connell
Duty, Honor, Profit (world premiere) by Dave Tucker, directed by Charles Waxberg
Canyon's Edge (new revision) by Babs Lindsay. directed by Charles Waxberg
Ibsen's Note (world premiere) by Charles Waxberg, directed by Paul O'Connell

Sundays October 5-November 9, 2008 at 2:00 pm

ACT - A Contemporary Theatre
Buster's Special Event's Room
Kreielsheimer Place, 700 Union Street
Seattle, WA 98101

Admission Pay-what-you-can

Reservations 206-332-7908

Visit http://www.theatre912.com for added evening performances

Featuring
PC Panic
Aaron Heinzen, Laura Kenny*, Christine Mosere*, Thomas Ohrstrom

Duty, Honor, Profit
Kitty Barkley, Dan Borgen, Colleen Carey, Ryan Fields, Ray Irvin, Lee Morris, Michael Oaks

Canyon's Edge
Ruth McRee*, Kate Szyperski*, Steve Treacy*

Ibsen's Note
Terry Edward Moore*, Rachel Pate*, Macall Gordon

*member Actors' Equity Association

Live Girls! Submission Update

Shortly after the Dramatist magazine came out, a friendly playwright sent this email to Meghan Arnette of Live Girls!

Greetings, Live Girls!

Do you have any idea how many playwrights are gnashing our teeth
right now, having just read Dennis Schebetta's column devoted to you
in The Dramatist--and then having gone to your Web page and
discovered that the deadline for submitting scripts passed two weeks
ago?

Meghan knew she would get some interested female playwrights responding but due to the magazine's delay in shipping in some areas, it didn't leave a lot of time to check out their website and send some stuff in.

So Meghan wants everyone to know that she has extended the deadline to October 12th for Guild members who read about the company in the magazine.

If you haven't sent her a script (or heck, seen one of their shows), then I urge you do to so!

What are you waiting for?

Eclectic Theater Presents "THE LITTLE DEATH" by Guild member Rosemary Poole-Carter

The Little Death


Eclectic Theater Company will present the West Coast Premiere of Author/Playwright Rosemary Poole-Carter's The Little Death to kick off their 2008-2009 Season.

The Little Death is a dark Southern gothic drama set in 1880's New Orleans. Playing October 10-November 1 at Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10th Ave. Seattle at 7:30pm Thursday-Saturday and at 2pm on Sundays. There is a Saturday matinee on November 1 at 2pm. Directed by L. Nicol Cabe and featuring Lorrie Fargo, Rik Deskin, Jeremy Thompson and Chiara Motley.

For more info and for tickets go to www.eclectictheatercompany.org.

Rosemary Poole-Carter will be in town for the Opening Weekend and will be signing her latest novel, WOMEN OF MAGDELENE at Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry Street, Seattle,on Saturday, October 11 at Noon. Actor Rik Deskin will be along to present a dramatic reading from the novel. Later that day at 2pm, Mrs. Carter will be at Ballard Library, 5614 22th Avenue NW, Seattle to discuss her novel and present a scene from The Little Death with some of the cast. On Sunday, October 12, after the Sunday Matinee of The Little Death, ETC will present a post-show discussion with the playwright, director and cast.

Eclectic Theater Company was founded in 2000. Dedicated to presenting an eclectic mix of original, contemporary and classic works for the stage and independent screen, ETC strives to produce professional, high-quality theatre in Seattle and the region.