Opportunities: Staged readings

FACT, NYC, "Words & Wine" reading series, short plays or scenes from plays

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:00:18 GMT

F.A.C.T. New York City Seeks Original Plays for Our 2010 Season

F.A.C.T. (Friends Always Creating Theatre) New York City

Seeks Original Plays for Our 2010 Season

A newly formed Non-profit Membership Theatre Company, F.A.C.T. seeks original scripts for several projects thorughout the 2010 season. The company premiered...

Middlesex New Play Series, NJ Deadline 1/31/10 Noo Fee

feeds@yuku.com (aross) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:28:08 GMT

Middlesex County College Performing Arts Department presents its annual spring New Playwright's Festival. The festival will select three finalists from submitted plays that meet the criteria...

Ashland New Plays Festival, OR, deadline 1/15, $15 fee

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:49:01 GMT

Ashland New Plays Festival is now accepting scripts for our flagship festival - an international playwright competition that culminates in the reading of four new plays culled from hundreds of submissions. The event is slated for October 20 to 24, 2010.
http://www.ashlandnewplays.org/

Script...

Play With a Play, NJ, ongoing, no fee

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:17:57 GMT
Seeking play submissions for participation in NJ play-reading program "Play With a Play"

Boz and the Bard Productions, Inc, (Hackensack ,NJ) offers local area playwrights a chance to hear their scripts read aloud by providing the space, the audience and the readers. Playwrights with a completed draft of a one or two act play, developed to the point where a reading would facilitate the continued development, are invited to submit their works for consideration. Audience...

Southern Writers' Project, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, ongoing, no fee

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:35:58 GMT

SWP Submission Policy

The Southern Writers' Project of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival accepts original scripts and adaptations, not professionally produced, that meet one or more of the following criteria:

1. You are a Southern Writer.

2. Your script is set in the South, or deals specifically with Southern issues, characters, or themes.

3. Your script deals with African - American themes or characters.
...

Pandora Festival, AZ, women playwrights, deadline 1/30/10, no fee

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:12:35 GMT

The 4th annual Pandora Festival, sponsored by Arizona Women's Theatre Company, seeks scripts written by Arizona women playwrights.

Unpublished full length, one-act, and 10-minute plays will be selected by a juried panel for staged readings at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ on April 23, 24, and 25, 2010

Mail 3 copies of your script postmarked by January 30, 2010 to:

Arizona Women's Theatre Company
...

Women in Theatre, Los Angeles, seeks new plays for readings, ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:47:08 GMT
The nonprofit organization Women in Theatre, located in Los Angeles, is seeking new plays for our series of monthly staged play readings. We welcome male and female playwrights' submissions.

The Monthly Writers Reading Series- FREE for everyone - The last Sunday of every month. Refreshments are provided. Casting is preferred to WIT members, non-members may be cast as needed. Scripts are picked ahead of time, some evenings monologues and scenes are also welcome. Non-Members are...

ANT Fest, Ars Nova, NYC, Out Loud, ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:33:49 GMT
A.N.T. FEST
OUTLOUD: Plays

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: As New York's premier
hub for emerging artists and new work, Ars Nova
is committed to developing and producing eclectic
theater, comedy and music to feed today's popular
culture. To that end, Ars Nova strives to create daring
collaborations, meld disciplines and give clear voice to a
new generation of artists. Founded on the principle that
a professional and safe environment where...

Little Hibiscus Productions, NYC, ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:45:22 GMT
Little Hibiscus Productions in association with the Matthew Corozine Studio Theater looking for original full-length plays for their reading series.

Towne St. Theater, LA, seeks plays for TST on Tour, ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:24:03 GMT
Towne Street Theater, LA's premiere African American Theater Company, is soliciting scripts for its 2009 staged reading series: TST on Tour. Five scripts will be chosen to be presented as staged readings at various theaters around town during the year.We are looking for plays and screenplays with universal themes - comedy, drama, mystery, sci-fi, war, chick flicks, etc. At this time please only submit a log line, synopsis, and brief letter of introduction. Submit to:...

Play With Your Food, lunchtime playreading series, ongoing, no fee

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:54:05 GMT

Play With Your Food is a professional lunchtime Edgemar Center for the Arts is a two-theater complex located in
the Frank Gehry building in the heart of Santa Monica, with board
members including Steven Spielberg, Doorway Arts Ensemble seeks plays
Doorway Arts Ensemble is a nonequity professional theater. We are looking to produce one full-length play and several staged readings of plays in various venues throughout the Washington, DC metro area each year. DAE will also consider submission of plays for fringe festivals in Washington, DC and New York. Submissions considered must be new plays or a creative, contemporary...

the side project, Harvest Festival of New Works, Chi, ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:58:28 GMT

Submissions for Harvest Festival of New Works

The side project is always accepting full-length scripts for the ongoing Harvest Festival of New Works. Please e-mail full script with synopsis to scripts@thesideproject.net or mail to the side project ATTN: Literary, 1439 W. Jarvis Chicago, Il 60626. Local writers are encouraged to submit, as the playwright is expected to be in town during the rehearsal process and final...

Celebration Theatre, LA, LGBT, New Works, also for mainstage season. ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:57:12 GMT
CELEBRATION THEATRE: NEW WORKS
READING SERIES (CA)
Material: Full Length Plays: progressive gay and
lesbian voices
Celebration Theatre is a company of artists dedicated to
creating a dynamic outlet for progressive gay and lesbian
voices in contemporary theater and performance in Los
Angeles. We intend to create a broader involvement in
our community, conduct a rigorous exploration of our
society's changing sentiments and values, and share
...

eyeBLINK, NYC, Tomorrow's Gold, ASAP

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:01:20 GMT
eyeBLINK is looking for a comedic play for Tomorrow's Gold: New Work Series! Reading will be at the end of July in a theatre in midtown. Q&A with audience and playwright will follow reading. Please submit a full length comedic play with roles that can be cast multiculturally. Ideal plays will have 5-7 roles. Preference for plays with mostly/all female roles. Preference for plays that have never been produced. Tomorrow's Gold! is a reading series designed specifically for emerging...

Pacifica Table Readers, radio drama, ongoing, no fee

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:02:50 GMT
My name is Ann Thomas and I host Pacifica Table Readers, a monthly ongoing table reading group for original, unpublished stage plays and screenplays. We have been meeting since 2000. I combine my readings with a potluck and host them on a sunday evening. I am looking to pod cast some original, unpublished radio drama later this summer. I am hoping to cast my net and see if there are some writers who might be interested. The pieces can be anywhere from 10 minutes to 25 minutes in length. If...

Gestation Series, Cheshire Union, Toronto, ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:22:18 GMT
Call for Submissions - Gestation Series The Cheshire Unicorn presents its exciting new monthly experimental script reading sessions called Gestation Series. It is an opportunity for new scripts to be read by actors, where preference is given (but not limited) to scripts which are written for the stage and explore experimental subject matter or way of showing a story. The more risks you take with the script, the more daring you are with your story, the more interested we are in it. WHO can...

Living Theatre, NYC, monthly reading series

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:06:59 GMT
Living Theatre looking for scripts The Living Theatre is looking for scripts for its monthy series of public readings to be held at our theatre on New York's Lower East Side. We're interested in scripts that address social issues and/or involve the audience. Send scripts to: Steve Capra The Living Theatre 21 Clinton Street New York NY 10002 www.livingtheatre.org enquiries: stevecapra@pipeline.com

Theatre Seven, Chi, ongoing

feeds@yuku.com (KWNYC) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:17:22 GMT
Theatre Seven seeks submissions

THEATRE SEVEN produces four staged readings a year. These readings consist of two weeks of rehearsal with a dramaturg, director and cast. The workshop process culminates in a public performance with a public audience, and a feedback session.

Our goal is to provide playwrights with an opportunity to develop their unfinished play for future production. If your play is finished, or has been produced more than once, we are not interested in...