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Call Overview | Categories | Submission Guidelines | Deadlines
Submissions for the 2009 Conference are due by 5 p.m. (CST) Friday, November 21, 2008.
The Great Plains Theatre Conference offers playwrights the opportunity to interact with, and have their work seen by top writers, directors, and actors from around the country. In addition, playwrights will be able to work directly with these professionals in hands on writing and industry workshops. Past panelists, workshop leaders, and respondents include: Edward Albee, Tony Kushner, Doug Wright, Emily Mann, Mac Wellman, Arthur Kopit, Marshall Mason, Mark Lamos and Will Eno among others.
Five plays will be chosen for the Main Stage Series. For the playwright, this includes a $250 travel stipend, room and board, waived conference registration fee, and a rehearsal period working on the script with top local and national directors and actors. At the end of the week there will be a staged reading of the script for all the conference attendees and the public. A panel of top theater professionals will serve as respondents to the work.
One of the five plays chosen for the Main Stage series will receive the Main Stage Award, which carries an honorarium of $1000.00.
Seventy-five plays will be chosen for the 2009 play labs by a panel of ´blind´ readers. These scripts will be rehearsed by top local and national directors and actors, and receive a staged reading for conference attendees and the public. A panel of select theater professionals will serve as respondents to the work.
Playwrights whose scripts are chosen for the play labs must register, pay full registration, attend the conference and receive preferential admittance to all special workshop sessions and events.
The GPTC will accept both full length and one act scripts, but the majority of slots will be given to scripts that have a running time of 90 minutes or less.
Playwrights may submit a maximum of two scripts. Plays that have received an Equity production, plays for young audiences and musicals will not be accepted.
Play with no personal identifying information sent as a Word document or PDF.
Detachable title page with name, address, phone number and email.
Cast list with character descriptions and notations as to whether characters may be doubled up or must be of a certain ethnicity for reading during the Conference.
Play synopsis of 150 words or less to be used as an introduction during the blind read process, for publicity purposes and for use in the Conference program if selected.
Estimated run time of the play.
Personal biography of 150 words or less to be used for publicity purposes and for use in the Conference program if selected.
Reproducible personal photograph (jpeg or PDF of 350 dpi or more) to be used for publicity purposes and for use in the Conference program if selected.
Plays must be submitted electronically. They can be uploaded
File: or emailed as a Microsoft Word document or PDF to: theatreconference@mccneb.edu. Please type play submission in the subject line.
All submission pieces (play, title page, cast list, synopsis, run time, personal biography and personal photograph, estimated run time) must be submitted at the same time.
You will receive a follow-up email regarding the receipt of your play submission.
Submissions must be received by November 21 , 2008.