Northwest Drama Conference/Northwest Playwrights Alliance
New play competition
Deadline for Submissions: November 20, 2009 (Postmarked)
Unpublished full length plays written by students.
Theme: (Interpreted any way you see fit)
“The West” in the geography of the world, mind or spirit
Submit two copies of your play each with a separate title page containing your name, school, address, and phone number.
Be sure that your name does not appear anywhere on the copy of the play itself.
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 Nevada in February 2010
and a reading by NPA at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle.
NPA has the option to publish the winning play
Award:
$100 award
Up to $400 toward travel to Seattle WA, if the playwright can attend the reading.
Plays to be submitted to:
Tammi Doyle
NWDC/NPA Playwriting Competition
Theatre Arts Department
Bellevue College
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007
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Showing posts with label new play development. Show all posts
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sunday, June 8, 2008
NPA Reading Monday June 9th
This Monday night please join me in Tacoma for a reading of my newest full-length play THE ALBATROSS, presented by the Northwest Playwrights Alliance. It will be directed by Darian Lindle and features the acting talent of Erin Kraft, Chris Bell and Malcolm Womack.
Plus, there is wine for a small suggested donation and a cheerful discussion of the play afterwards.
http://www.northwestplaywrights.org/upcomingevents.html
WHEN? 7 pm
WHERE? Theater on the Square rehearsal hall, Broadway Center for the Performing Arts.
905 BROADWAY
TACOMA, WA 98402
What is this new play THE ALBATROSS?
Here’s the synopsis:
David is an award-winning poet and teacher at a small private university. He has a great academic job and a golfing buddy in his colleague Mark, a recent divorcee. But underneath his polished lectures about “life as an artist”, he hides a secret pain, the suicide of his wife five years ago, a pain which is numbed through alcohol. He is violently shaken out of this numbness by Sofia, one of his eccentric students. A reactionary response to one of her poems begins a chain of events that will eventually cause David to drown under the watery weight of the past. He becomes a mentor to Sofia, recognizing her amazing talent yet also wary of it. There’s something else about her that he won’t talk about it, can’t talk about, and it’s this denial that will eventually cause his downfall.
In short:
It’s the anti-Oleanna.
Hope to see some of you there!
Plus, there is wine for a small suggested donation and a cheerful discussion of the play afterwards.
http://www.northwestplaywrights.org/upcomingevents.html
WHEN? 7 pm
WHERE? Theater on the Square rehearsal hall, Broadway Center for the Performing Arts.
905 BROADWAY
TACOMA, WA 98402
What is this new play THE ALBATROSS?
Here’s the synopsis:
David is an award-winning poet and teacher at a small private university. He has a great academic job and a golfing buddy in his colleague Mark, a recent divorcee. But underneath his polished lectures about “life as an artist”, he hides a secret pain, the suicide of his wife five years ago, a pain which is numbed through alcohol. He is violently shaken out of this numbness by Sofia, one of his eccentric students. A reactionary response to one of her poems begins a chain of events that will eventually cause David to drown under the watery weight of the past. He becomes a mentor to Sofia, recognizing her amazing talent yet also wary of it. There’s something else about her that he won’t talk about it, can’t talk about, and it’s this denial that will eventually cause his downfall.
In short:
It’s the anti-Oleanna.
Hope to see some of you there!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
NEA and New Play Development
So this is really interesting and I was completely unaware of it and found out about through the TPS online message board.
The NEA New Play Development Program (NPDP) is a new leadership initiative created by the National Endowment for the Arts and managed by Arena Stage. The program will support the process and production of new American plays. This is the first round of the new program, through which a total of seven projects will be selected, developed, and documented over the course of the next two and half years. The Program is open to nonprofit, professional theaters or a consortium of theaters who apply in collaboration with a playwright. The Program Director is David Dower, Associate Artistic Director at Arena Stage. The Program Coordinator is Arena Stage’s Vijay Mathew. You can reach them at npdpinfo@arenastage.org, or by calling 202.554.9066 x1215.
In June of 2007 the National Endowment for the Arts issued a request for proposals looking for a “Cooperator” for a new Leadership Initiative for New Play Development. The goal of the New Play Development Program is:
"To advance the American nonprofit theater’s ability to provide meaningful support for new work. This program will provide support to theater institutions for the development of new plays of substantial merit. …This initiative will also identify, organize, and disseminate widely in the theater field information on effective collaborative models for the sustained development of outstanding new American plays."
Arena Stage was selected to partner with the NEA on the New Play Development Project as a result of a national competition.
In this establishing language of the NPDP, you can see that there are three primary areas of focus for this program:
Providing financial support for the playwrights and institutions developing outstanding new American plays;
Advancing the field’s ability to provide meaningful support of the development process for new work, and;
Disseminating information on effective models for developing outstanding new American plays.
The selection process for the seven plays supported in this round will be highly competitive and the successful applicants will be those that most directly address the Review Criteria which grow out of these goals.
For questions or more information, e-mail npdpinfo@arenastage.org.
You can read more about it on the blog.
The NEA New Play Development Program (NPDP) is a new leadership initiative created by the National Endowment for the Arts and managed by Arena Stage. The program will support the process and production of new American plays. This is the first round of the new program, through which a total of seven projects will be selected, developed, and documented over the course of the next two and half years. The Program is open to nonprofit, professional theaters or a consortium of theaters who apply in collaboration with a playwright. The Program Director is David Dower, Associate Artistic Director at Arena Stage. The Program Coordinator is Arena Stage’s Vijay Mathew. You can reach them at npdpinfo@arenastage.org, or by calling 202.554.9066 x1215.
In June of 2007 the National Endowment for the Arts issued a request for proposals looking for a “Cooperator” for a new Leadership Initiative for New Play Development. The goal of the New Play Development Program is:
"To advance the American nonprofit theater’s ability to provide meaningful support for new work. This program will provide support to theater institutions for the development of new plays of substantial merit. …This initiative will also identify, organize, and disseminate widely in the theater field information on effective collaborative models for the sustained development of outstanding new American plays."
Arena Stage was selected to partner with the NEA on the New Play Development Project as a result of a national competition.
In this establishing language of the NPDP, you can see that there are three primary areas of focus for this program:
Providing financial support for the playwrights and institutions developing outstanding new American plays;
Advancing the field’s ability to provide meaningful support of the development process for new work, and;
Disseminating information on effective models for developing outstanding new American plays.
The selection process for the seven plays supported in this round will be highly competitive and the successful applicants will be those that most directly address the Review Criteria which grow out of these goals.
For questions or more information, e-mail npdpinfo@arenastage.org.
You can read more about it on the blog.
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