Flower City Theatre Co.
Rochester, New York
Flower City Theatre Co. seeks short plays (5-8 min, standard format) for
winter production.. No fee. Previous production
fine. Irreverent, staid, edgy, solemn - we'll read
it all. No sketches please. Small honorarium for
playwrights. May submit up to 2 scripts.
email submissions to: flowercitytheatre@yahoo.com
Submission deadline: October 31, 2008.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium
Earth Matters On Stage:
>
>
> Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium
>
>
> May 21~ 31, 2009 ~ University of Oregon
>
>
> CALL FOR SCRIPTS
>
> First place Award: $2,000 and workshop production
> Second place Award: $500 and workshop production
> Honorable mentions: public staged reading
>
> The mission of this Festival is to call forth and
> foster new dramatic works that respond to the
> ecological crisis, and that explore new
> possibilities of being in relationship with the
> more-than-human world. The Festival is ten days of
> readings, workshop performance/s, and discussions of
> the scripts that are finalists in the Playwrights'
> Contest. Some readings and workshops will be
> followed by facilitated talk-backs with the
> playwrights. In addition, a symposium of speakers,
> panels and discussions will advance scholarship in
> the area of arts and ecology, and help foster
> development of new works.
>
> Play Contest: At the core of the Festival is a
> playwright's competition carrying a cash award and
> workshop production. The Guidelines attached
> describe the kinds of new plays that may be
> submitted. Plays will be accepted from February
> through October 2008. The winning plays will be
> chosen by a panel of distinguished theatre artists
> from the USA andCanada, including:
>
>
> * Martha Lavey, Artistic Director, Steppenwolf
> Theatre Co., Chicago
> * Timothy Bond, Artistic Dir. Syracuse Stage; former
> Assoc. Artistic Dir. Oregon Shakespeare; faculty
> Syracuse University, NY.
> * Olga Sanchez, Artistic Director, Teatro Milagro,
> Portland
> * Diane Glancy, Playwright, Native Voices Award,
> faculty Macallister College
> * Jose Cruz González, Playwright, Cornerstone
> Theatre; founder Hispanic Playwrights Project;
> faculty Cal State LA
> * David Diamond, Headlines Theater Co, Vancouver BC
> * Marie Clements, playwright, founder Urban Ink, BC
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Guidelines for Playwrights
>
>
> What kind of theatre comes to mind when you read the
> term "ecodrama"? Political plays that advocate for
> environmentalism, or educational theatre about
> recycling? While these examples would fit, please
> let your imagination soar beyond them.
>
> Ecodrama stages the reciprocal connection between
> humans and the more-than-human world. It
> encompasses not only works that take environmental
> issues as their topic, hoping to raise consciousness
> or press for change, but also work that explores the
> relation of a "sense of place" to identity and
> community.
>
> Help us create an inclusive ecodrama that
> illuminates the complex connection between people
> and place, an ecodrama that makes us all more aware
> of our ecological identities as a people and
> communities; ecodrama that brings focus to an
> ecological concerns of a particular place, or that
> takes writer and audience to a deeper exploration of
> issue that may not be easily resolved.
>
> While many plays might be open to an ecological
> interpretation, others might be called "ecodrama,"
> Examples are diverse in form and topic: Ibsen's An
> Enemy of the People, in which the town's waters have
> become polluted and a lone whistle blower clashes
> with powerful vested interests; Schenkkan's The
> Kentucky Cycle, the epic tale of a land and its
> people - Indigenous, European, African - over seven
> generations; August Wilson's Two Trains Running that
> bears witness to the loss of inner city
> sustainability; Moraga's Heroes and Saints, about
> the embodied impact of industrial agriculture; Marie
> Clements' Burning Vision, which documents the impact
> of Canadian uranium mining on first nations
> communities and land; Giljour's Alligator Tales, a
> one-woman play by a Louisiana Cajun native about her
> relationship to her neighbors, the weather, the oil
> rigs off the coast and the alligators on her porch;
> Norman's Secret Garden that consoles a child's
> grief; Albee's The Goat, or who is Sylvia, that
> confounds human species taboos; or Murray Schaffer's
> Patria Project, in which the landscape becomes a
> player.
>
> When we leave the theater are things around us more
> alive, do we listen better, have a deeper or more
> complex sense of our own ecological identity?
>
>
>
> We need your voice, so does the theatre, so does our
> world. Imagine! Write! Submit!
>
> The Ecodrama Festival encourages submissions of
> full-length plays (30min. minimum, no max.) in
> English that do one or more of the following:
>
>
> * Put an ecological issue or environmental
> event/crisis at the center of the dramatic action or
> theme of the play.
> * Explore issues of environmental justice.
> * Interpret "community" to include our ecological
> community, and/or give voice or "character" to the
> land, or elements of the land.
> * Theatrically explore the connection between people
> and place, human and non-human, and/or between
> culture and nature.
> * Grow out of the playwright's personal relationship
> to the land and the ecology of a specific place.
> * Theatrically examine the reciprocal relationship
> between human, animal and plant communities.
> * Offer an imagined world where the characters'
> society is one that is more in harmony with
> principles
>
>
> Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium
>
>
> May 21~ 31, 2009 ~ University of Oregon
>
>
> CALL FOR SCRIPTS
>
> First place Award: $2,000 and workshop production
> Second place Award: $500 and workshop production
> Honorable mentions: public staged reading
>
> The mission of this Festival is to call forth and
> foster new dramatic works that respond to the
> ecological crisis, and that explore new
> possibilities of being in relationship with the
> more-than-human world. The Festival is ten days of
> readings, workshop performance/s, and discussions of
> the scripts that are finalists in the Playwrights'
> Contest. Some readings and workshops will be
> followed by facilitated talk-backs with the
> playwrights. In addition, a symposium of speakers,
> panels and discussions will advance scholarship in
> the area of arts and ecology, and help foster
> development of new works.
>
> Play Contest: At the core of the Festival is a
> playwright's competition carrying a cash award and
> workshop production. The Guidelines attached
> describe the kinds of new plays that may be
> submitted. Plays will be accepted from February
> through October 2008. The winning plays will be
> chosen by a panel of distinguished theatre artists
> from the USA andCanada, including:
>
>
> * Martha Lavey, Artistic Director, Steppenwolf
> Theatre Co., Chicago
> * Timothy Bond, Artistic Dir. Syracuse Stage; former
> Assoc. Artistic Dir. Oregon Shakespeare; faculty
> Syracuse University, NY.
> * Olga Sanchez, Artistic Director, Teatro Milagro,
> Portland
> * Diane Glancy, Playwright, Native Voices Award,
> faculty Macallister College
> * Jose Cruz González, Playwright, Cornerstone
> Theatre; founder Hispanic Playwrights Project;
> faculty Cal State LA
> * David Diamond, Headlines Theater Co, Vancouver BC
> * Marie Clements, playwright, founder Urban Ink, BC
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Guidelines for Playwrights
>
>
> What kind of theatre comes to mind when you read the
> term "ecodrama"? Political plays that advocate for
> environmentalism, or educational theatre about
> recycling? While these examples would fit, please
> let your imagination soar beyond them.
>
> Ecodrama stages the reciprocal connection between
> humans and the more-than-human world. It
> encompasses not only works that take environmental
> issues as their topic, hoping to raise consciousness
> or press for change, but also work that explores the
> relation of a "sense of place" to identity and
> community.
>
> Help us create an inclusive ecodrama that
> illuminates the complex connection between people
> and place, an ecodrama that makes us all more aware
> of our ecological identities as a people and
> communities; ecodrama that brings focus to an
> ecological concerns of a particular place, or that
> takes writer and audience to a deeper exploration of
> issue that may not be easily resolved.
>
> While many plays might be open to an ecological
> interpretation, others might be called "ecodrama,"
> Examples are diverse in form and topic: Ibsen's An
> Enemy of the People, in which the town's waters have
> become polluted and a lone whistle blower clashes
> with powerful vested interests; Schenkkan's The
> Kentucky Cycle, the epic tale of a land and its
> people - Indigenous, European, African - over seven
> generations; August Wilson's Two Trains Running that
> bears witness to the loss of inner city
> sustainability; Moraga's Heroes and Saints, about
> the embodied impact of industrial agriculture; Marie
> Clements' Burning Vision, which documents the impact
> of Canadian uranium mining on first nations
> communities and land; Giljour's Alligator Tales, a
> one-woman play by a Louisiana Cajun native about her
> relationship to her neighbors, the weather, the oil
> rigs off the coast and the alligators on her porch;
> Norman's Secret Garden that consoles a child's
> grief; Albee's The Goat, or who is Sylvia, that
> confounds human species taboos; or Murray Schaffer's
> Patria Project, in which the landscape becomes a
> player.
>
> When we leave the theater are things around us more
> alive, do we listen better, have a deeper or more
> complex sense of our own ecological identity?
>
>
>
> We need your voice, so does the theatre, so does our
> world. Imagine! Write! Submit!
>
> The Ecodrama Festival encourages submissions of
> full-length plays (30min. minimum, no max.) in
> English that do one or more of the following:
>
>
> * Put an ecological issue or environmental
> event/crisis at the center of the dramatic action or
> theme of the play.
> * Explore issues of environmental justice.
> * Interpret "community" to include our ecological
> community, and/or give voice or "character" to the
> land, or elements of the land.
> * Theatrically explore the connection between people
> and place, human and non-human, and/or between
> culture and nature.
> * Grow out of the playwright's personal relationship
> to the land and the ecology of a specific place.
> * Theatrically examine the reciprocal relationship
> between human, animal and plant communities.
> * Offer an imagined world where the characters'
> society is one that is more in harmony with
> principles
Friday, August 8, 2008
Live Girls! Theater in Seattle looking for plays by women
Live Girls! theater in Seattle Washington is seeking plays by women for our 2009 season.
All submissions must be submitted by Sept 15th, 2008 to be considered for 2009.
WE ARE SEEKING:
* 10-minute plays for our annual festival of shorts, Quickies (Plays submitted for Quickies may have had previous productions but new works are encouraged).
* Un-produced plays seeking development for The Bakery Plays submitted for the The Bakery series will receive a public reading. We are interested in both one-act and full-length plays and will accept proposals for plays currently in development.
* Additionally, if you are submitting one of the above and you also have a full-length, completed script that you would like us to consider for full production, you may send a short synopsis for our perusal. If it seems like it might fit our season, will request the full script. 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.
THE FINE PRINT!
* Please send all submissions to submissions@livegirlstheater.org
* In the body of your email please introduce yourself! We are always excited about meeting new playwrights! You may also include: your bio as a playwright or resume, and any previous production history for plays submitted
* Playwrights may submit up to 3 plays total, or 2 plays and one synopsis
* Plays submitted should be sent as attachments in MS Word or PDF format
* Keep in mind we are a small theater taking the risk to produce new works; and probably can't accommodate large casts or long lists of tech requirements.
* If you are submitting a proposal for The Bakery, please include another writing sample of your work along with your proposal.
* All submissions will receive a reply within 3 months of the date submitted
Looking forward to reading your work!
For more info, contact: Joy Brooke Fairfield, Literary Manager
All submissions must be submitted by Sept 15th, 2008 to be considered for 2009.
WE ARE SEEKING:
* 10-minute plays for our annual festival of shorts, Quickies (Plays submitted for Quickies may have had previous productions but new works are encouraged).
* Un-produced plays seeking development for The Bakery Plays submitted for the The Bakery series will receive a public reading. We are interested in both one-act and full-length plays and will accept proposals for plays currently in development.
* Additionally, if you are submitting one of the above and you also have a full-length, completed script that you would like us to consider for full production, you may send a short synopsis for our perusal. If it seems like it might fit our season, will request the full script. 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.
THE FINE PRINT!
* Please send all submissions to submissions@livegirlstheater.org
* In the body of your email please introduce yourself! We are always excited about meeting new playwrights! You may also include: your bio as a playwright or resume, and any previous production history for plays submitted
* Playwrights may submit up to 3 plays total, or 2 plays and one synopsis
* Plays submitted should be sent as attachments in MS Word or PDF format
* Keep in mind we are a small theater taking the risk to produce new works; and probably can't accommodate large casts or long lists of tech requirements.
* If you are submitting a proposal for The Bakery, please include another writing sample of your work along with your proposal.
* All submissions will receive a reply within 3 months of the date submitted
Looking forward to reading your work!
For more info, contact: Joy Brooke Fairfield, Literary Manager
NPA Reading Monday August 11
Northwest Playwrights Alliance
& the Broadway Center present readings of
Last Call - by Lia Romeo - dir. by Brian Tyrrell
Three Kings - by James Venhaus - dir. by Tim Hoban
The Tale of Johnny Elgam vs. the Newport Kid, by Aaron Shay, dir. by Dayo Anderson
Matchmaker - by Cathy Sampson, dir. by Mike Tilton
Lefty by Bryan Willis - dir. by Kenta Toyomura
Monday August 11 @ 7 p.m. - Broadway Center Rehearsal Studio - 915 Broadway - Tacoma
FREE ADMISSION
******************************************************************************************
NPA is moving to Seattle Rep Sept. 8.
The NPA reading series will move to Seattle Rep next month, Sept. 8, in the Poncho Theater. Look for upcoming readings of new plays by
Y York - Steven Dietz - Ki Gottberg - Elizabeth Heffron - S.P. Miskowski - Elena Hartwell - Sol Olmstead - Beth Peterson - Dan Erickson - Lou Clark - Bryan Willis - Dano Madden - C. Rosalind Bell - Randall Colburn - Schatzie Schaeffers - Sean Walbeck - Aaron Shay - Jody Peterson - Lenore Bensinger - Scot Augustson - poems by Graham Isaac and Arlitia Jones.
& the Broadway Center present readings of
Last Call - by Lia Romeo - dir. by Brian Tyrrell
Three Kings - by James Venhaus - dir. by Tim Hoban
The Tale of Johnny Elgam vs. the Newport Kid, by Aaron Shay, dir. by Dayo Anderson
Matchmaker - by Cathy Sampson, dir. by Mike Tilton
Lefty by Bryan Willis - dir. by Kenta Toyomura
Monday August 11 @ 7 p.m. - Broadway Center Rehearsal Studio - 915 Broadway - Tacoma
FREE ADMISSION
******************************************************************************************
NPA is moving to Seattle Rep Sept. 8.
The NPA reading series will move to Seattle Rep next month, Sept. 8, in the Poncho Theater. Look for upcoming readings of new plays by
Y York - Steven Dietz - Ki Gottberg - Elizabeth Heffron - S.P. Miskowski - Elena Hartwell - Sol Olmstead - Beth Peterson - Dan Erickson - Lou Clark - Bryan Willis - Dano Madden - C. Rosalind Bell - Randall Colburn - Schatzie Schaeffers - Sean Walbeck - Aaron Shay - Jody Peterson - Lenore Bensinger - Scot Augustson - poems by Graham Isaac and Arlitia Jones.
Dog Days of Summer
Hello all,
It's been awhile seen I've posted on this site, so am going to update a few things...
Hope everyone is having a great summer!
It's been awhile seen I've posted on this site, so am going to update a few things...
Hope everyone is having a great summer!
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.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
