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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Mercury Players Theatre Company is announcing its biannual Playwright Competition!
Pass the Word!
15 for 15
A Play Competition
Mercury Rising
Performances: April 16 – May 1, 2010
Calling All Playwrights!
Mercury Players is now accepting play submissions for our 3rd
biannual new play competition! This is your opportunity to have your Funniest
Piece Produced by Madison’s Hottest Theater Company. We’re
selecting 8 writers for 15 Minutes of Fame in our 15th Season! 8 Winning scripts will receive full production!
Rules:
1. Playwrights must be current residents of our randomly determined
Midwest region, including: WI, MN, IA, MO, IL, IN, MI, OH
(Congratulations qualifying states!)
2. Write and Submit a brilliant 15-minute Comedy.
3. Include a cover page with your name, contact information and the title
of your play.
4. Send your hilarity to: P.O. Box 3113, Madison, WI 53705.
Or email Submissions to: merc_rising_15@yahoo.com.
Electronic copies should be sent in Microsoft Word or PDF. No Materials will
be returned.
5. You may submit up to 2 scripts for NO FEE! Each script after that will
cost $5 for consideration! Please include a check or money order made out to:
Mercury Players Theatre
6. All submissions must be postmarked on or before: September 1, 2009. Late
entries will NOT be accepted!
Winners will be notified by December 1, 2009.
NativeAliens Theatre Collective
NativeAliens Theatre Collective of New York City is soliciting
plays for its 10th Annual Short Stories playwrights’ festival. A
celebration of the playwright, Short Stories 10, will be a collection of
short plays from the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender perspective that
will be produced together for a week’s run in late June 2009. Playwrights
interested in having their plays produced as part of this festival should
e-mail their plays, as attachments, to natc.shortstories@gmail.com and
include their name, address, phone number and e-mail. Plays should be a
maximum performance time of 10 minutes, typed double-spaced in 10 pt. or
larger font. Include a brief synopsis, no more than 2 sentences long. Playwrights’ names
should appear ONLY on cover page. Deadline for submission is March 21, 2009.
For more information about NativeAliens Theatre Collective, visit our website
at www.NativeAliens.org.
Wisconsin-based
Playwrights
Mike Birkley
Ludmilla Bollow
Steven Brown
Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn
Jodi Cohen
Bob Curry
Danielle
Dresden
George Farah
Holly Walter
Kerby
Gary Kriesel
Jessica Lanius
Anthony Lamarr
Rick Ponzio
Playwrights Ink
Playwrights
Ink is a non-profit
association of theater artists dedicated to the development of
playwrights and their work. Our members include area playwrights,
actors, directors, and theater enthusiasts.
Playwrights From
Elsewhere
Hristo Boytchev
Deborah Johnson - DJWorks Music
ONE LITTLE KISS is a story about romance, lust, committment
and love. Each of the main characters discover more of
who they are through humor, drama and the circumstances of life. The twenty-four
songs guide
the story along, yet many of them can stand alone. ONE LITTLE KISS
is entertaining, yet through-provoking; fun, yet serious. The answer to
the question "what
is love" is not easy, but we may come closer in ONE LITTLE KISS.
24 songs, 27 transitions, full script in 2 acts, piano/vocal score and
rhythm
charts. Orchestrated Instrumental tracks are available for all the songs
and transitions. ONE LITTLE KISS can be performed with a cast as small
as 12 or up to 30 or more with extra chorus members. This musical is
geared
towards
Community Theatre or College Theatre.
Dean Kaner
Wolf Larsen
Adventurer, Cutting Edge Playwright, Novelist, & Poet.
Jim Lassiter
The Tavern & The Storyteller - a 2
act musical comedy, now available for your production. Currently royalty
free until the end of 2007.
Script, songs, info, pics, video clips & full video production
from its debut perfomance on the website.
Quick detail: 2 acts, 10 songs, 10M/5F minimum (other parts can be doubled),
2.5 hours long, no set changes.
Emmett Loverde
A collection of one-act and
full-length comedies available for reading online. Children's
plays, adult-oriented plays, even Christmas- and religious-themed
pieces. Over twenty productions worldwide and counting.
Yair Packer
Judith PriorAustralian playwright, specialising in Dinner Theatre,
theatre restaurant and pantomime scripts.
Paisley Productions
The Paisley Sisters'
Christmas Special, now available for production, is a loving
sendup of those delightful Christmas TV specials of the 1960s.
The show, in the spirit of the Broadway smash hit Hairspray, is about a fictitious sister act and their first live
television special. It contains 20 original songs, a hilarious
script (including mock television commercials), plus
great Sixties costumes and wigs!
Steve A. Rowell
Colorado Tolston
Original plays
by Minnesota playwright Colorado Tolston in genres such as mystery, fantasy
and religious. Colorado has been produced around the
world in such places as Kenya, Great Britain, Australia and the United States.
Full scripts are available for download.
Script Sites
- Broadway
Play Publishing - BPP specializes in full-length,
contemporary, American plays. BPP also publishes
dramatic adaptations of classic plays and literature, and a few period
pieces.
- Children's
Theatre Plays.com -
Stageplays for children, young audiences and families. Theatre
producers, directors, drama coaches and teachers will find
scripts for productions of every size, scope and
budget.
- Classic Acts - A collection of plays for children 10-14. The plays
are adaptations of classical literature or best lived children's stories,
such as Midsummer Night's Dream, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Romeo and
Juliet, Frankenstein, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Quixote and
more. Creative, fun and a great way to interest children in classic
theatre and literature. Low prices. No fees. Downloadable!
- Classics
On Stage! - A
collection of professionally proven, audience tested children's
theatre plays by double Shubert Fellowship award winning
playwright, Michele L Vacca. Inspired by the classics of world
literature, the scripts are excellent for university, school,
professional and community productions.
- The
Dramatic Exchange
- Dramatists
Play Service, Inc. -
Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing
the work of new and established playwrights.
- Heuer
Publishing -
One of the oldest publishers serving the education and
community theater markets.
- Insight for Playwrights -
a monthly marketing newsletter that provides dramatic writers with
up-to-date submission information.
- Musicline
Publications - Has
available musicals, pantomimes and Christmas shows for all
ages.
- Original
Works - Original Works Publishing is a Los Angeles based play
publisher dedicated entirely to bold and original work. Our goal
is to bring the new breed of theatre to the forefront.
- Plays
For Stage - entertaining, family-friendly
play scripts for schools, community theaters, melodrama houses, churches,
and other groups to perform for reasonable prices.
- Samuel
French, Inc. - Samuel
French's Catalogue lists not only plays but monologues,
audition material, classroom guides, classic works and
the latest plays from the professional theater.
- StoryFoundry.com -
The StoryFoundry is a place
for playwrights to list their works and start a community.
Companies looking for new works to perform will find
a large collection of plays of all lengths, with contact
information for the playwrights. All services are free.
- TheaterWords -
offers royalty free plays and scenes for students and
educators. There are also several pieces for all-women
casts.
- Venice
Mootney Scripts -
scripts, rights and background for previous Venice Mootney
productions.