Wisconsin Playwrights and Scripts
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Calls for Submissions
Call for submissions: Creative Alliance of Baraboo's MaCABre
Calling all writers, sometime writers, first time writers or maybe you just wrote a note once...MaCABre is a go! And with that we are seeking submissions! We are accepting script submissions from local authors for this Halloween based performance.
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Send scripts to cabmacabre@gmail.com.
Please submit your scripts by Aug. 21st
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Script Selection Criteria:
When considering submissions, our script selection committee will be looking for the following:
-Script submissions should be double spaced with a san serif font at least 12 point
-Scripts should be 10 minutes or less in length.
-Unpublished, original works
-Matching the selected theme of Halloween-related scenes
-Scenes can be funny, or may fall more under the thriller/horror category
-Scenes should not exceed an estimated PG-13 rating in terms of language, sexual content and/or violence
-Suitability for staging at multiple venues (small cast size of no more than 5 actors and not requiring much in terms of set or lighting)
-Not in conflict with a general spirit of human equality
Consent and Release
Authors of selected scripts will be asked to sign a consent and release form, giving CAB the right to stage the selected scene(s) without any royalties due. CAB will then have permission to produce your script(s) for this production only. Your scripts, whether selected or not, will remain your personal intellectual property.
Call for submissions: Forward Theater Company's 2023 Monologue Festival
WRITERS: ATTENTION, WRITERS! We are now accepting submissions for our next Monologue Festival, Out in This World, through October 1, 2022. We can't wait to see the journeys you'll take us on, both familiar and unexpected. Whether venturing to faraway places or making discoveries closer to home, we look forward to hearing the unique and diverse voices of playwrights from around the state, country, and world. For more information and guidelines, please visit the submissions page on our website: https://bit.ly/3ggUJ3d.
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Wisconsin-based Playwrights
Mike Birkley
Ludmilla Bollow
Steven Brown
Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn
Bob Curry
Danielle
Dresden
George Farah
Daniel Fouliard
- danieljonfouliard@gmail.com
- Wrote a play about Moo Cownty Wiscowsin — The Mun & Muv Tour. Wondering if any theater companies are actively reviewing scripts? It’s 90 minute cowmedy!
Jeffrey James
Ircink
Holly Walter
Kerby
Gary Kriesel
Jessica Lanius
Anthony Lamarr
Michael Lucchesi
- Email: lucckyschran@yahoo.com
- The Two Rivers -
a 90 minute, two act play with five characters,
Aaron 50-ish, Kyle 25-ish, A.J. 23-ish, Lilith 50-ish and Eden 18-ish. This is the Young family, and they could be any race or nationality.
The play, which takes place in a living room of a fixer-upper vacation home, deals with Kyle returning home (AWOL from the Marines)
to deal with what he views as “unfinished business." Challenging
themes are dealt with including incest, cutting, alcoholism, and homelessness.
Deb Meyer
Stephen F. Murray
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.
Mary K. Ryan
Wisconsin theatre director and playwright based in Milwaukee.
Script Resource Sites
Script publishers.
- Beat by Beat Press - A new publishing company
providing community theaters with new, high-quality
musicals for young performers.
- 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.
- Dramatists
Play Service, Inc. -
Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing
the work of new and established playwrights.
- Eldridge Plays & Musicals -
offers hundreds of full-length plays, one-acts, melodramas, holiday
and religious plays, children's theatre plays and musicals of all
kinds.
- HaveScripts.com -
Online publishing company with an emphasis on middle school and high
school plays for both the stage and the classroom. We have some competition
one-acts and many books and scripts ideal for readers theater in
the classroom.
- 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.
- New Theatre Publications -
a script publishing company that is owned and managed by writers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stageplays.com -
Virtually every play and musical currently published in the English
language.
- 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.
- YouthPLAYS - a publisher of hundreds of plays and musicals for young actors and audiences, with material suitable for teen and preteen performers, as well as community theatres, colleges and professional theatres for young audiences.
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