Submissions Begin: Thursday, September, 1, 2011
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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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. Playwrights will also participate in daily panel discussions and have tickets to evening performances with master playwrights and theatre practitioners. Past panelists, workshop leaders, and respondents include: Edward Albee, Doug Wright, Emily Mann, Mac Wellman, Arthur Kopit, Marshall Mason, Mark Lamos, Theresa Rebeck, Constance Congdon, Erik Ehn, Will Eno, Lee Blessing and David Lindsay-Abaire among others.
Plays submitted will be considered for the following categories:
The MainStage Series
Five plays will be chosen for the MainStage Series and recognized with the Holland New Voices Award. For the playwright, this includes a $500 honorarium, travel, room and board, Conference registration, and will receive preferential admittance to all special workshop sessions and Conference events. MainStage playwrights will also receive a rehearsal period working on the script with local and national directors and actors, and near the end of the week, a staged reading of the script for all the Conference attendees. A panel of top theater professionals will serve as respondents to the work.
Daily PlayLabs
Thirty plays will be chosen for the 2012 PlayLabs. For the playwright, this includes room and board, Conference registration, and will receive preferential admittance to all special workshop sessions and Conference events. These scripts will be rehearsed by 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 MainStage and PlayLab readings must be available to attend the entire conference.
Submission Guidelines:
- The GPTC will accept both full length and one act scripts; however, 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 one script.
- Plays that have received an Equity production, plays for young audiences and musicals will not be accepted.
- Notification to playwrights on the status of their plays will begin on Jan. 15. All selections will be finalized by March 15.
Submission Inclusions:
Please submit the following documents in .doc or .pdf formats ONLY.
- Your PLAY with no personal identifying information in the document. Plays will be forwarded to readers without identifying information to allow for the “blind” reading process.
- A TITLE PAGE listing your contact information including: name, address, phone number and email address.
- A CHARACTER LIST with descriptions and notations as to whether characters may be doubled up or must be of a certain ethnicity for reading during the Conference.
- A 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.
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