Lost Beat Generation is a new project for 13-year-old SceneShop in Fort Worth,
Texas. Artistic Director Nicholas Irion is seeking new and provocative short works (10-30 minutes) for various venues and festivals in the coming year; our
first scheduled performances are in November.
We are especially interested in encouraging new, younger playwrights but anyone is welcome to submit scripts. We have set a deadline to make contact with us by September 1; final drafts are not necessarilu due at that time, but let us know what your thinking. Scripts should require casts no larger than 4 performers and have minimal technical requirements. No subject matter is off-limits and there is no submission fee. Please send submissions and inquiries to LostBeatGeneration@gmail.com
from our press release:
Lost Beat Generation, a project of Fort Worth's 13-year-old SceneShop, is looking for new and provocative unpublished works that will offer audiences challenges as regards politics, sexuality and most importantly, unconventional thinking.
LBG is aiming to perform at various venues, festivals, etc., so variety is important.
In general, submitted works will need to require no more than four characters, minimal staging and run no longer than thirty minutes- but scripts in the 10 to 15-minute range are welcome and encouraged.
LBG wants to work with and encourage new playwrights and asks, in return, that writers approach submitting pieces to us with openness and flexibility.
In fact, all of the above guidelines are flexible..INCLUDING TIME.. LENGTH.. ETC; let us see what you've got to say! Please contact us with scripts, thoughts, questions or recipes at LostBeatGeneration@gmail.com
We are especially interested in encouraging new, younger playwrights but anyone is welcome to submit scripts. We have set a deadline to make contact with us by September 1; final drafts are not necessarilu due at that time, but let us know what your thinking. Scripts should require casts no larger than 4 performers and have minimal technical requirements. No subject matter is off-limits and there is no submission fee. Please send submissions and inquiries to LostBeatGeneration@gmail.com
from our press release:
New writers.
New actors.
New directors.
New audiences.
You up for this?
2009 marks the start of Lost Beat Generation, a theatre and performance alternative stemming from Fort Worth's thirteen-year-old SceneShop. Like its older sibling, LBG will focus
on original material and minimalist staging, but that may be where the similarity ends. Led by SceneShop's Technical
Director, University of Texas at Arlington theatre senior Nicholas Irion, LBG will initiate its efforts by reaching out to new writers. "For us, it has always begin with the words," says
SceneShop co-founder and Artistic Director Steven McGaw, "and I think this new venture can really make contact with a younger and untapped community
of playwrights. Where Nick and his peers take it from there is up to
them."
One likely aim of Lost Beat Generation is to be mobile, extending its efforts beyond Tarrant or Dallas counties,
and even outside North Texas. "LBG's mission statement is 'ART TO INSPIRE' and that really says it
all," says Irion. "Having the availability to be mobile gives us the opportunity to reach a larger audience base and continually create works that
are startling or challenging or beautiful. Hopefully, all three." Playing in new venues and reaching new audiences
will almost certainly broaden the pool of performers as well and could lead to collaborative efforts with other troupes. "It's really open-ended at this point," Irion enthuses, "and that's exciting, to be the literal start of something.
I'm eager to see where this goes. We have SceneShop's encouragement, of course and their experience to draw on, but Lost Beat
Generation really gets to chart its own course."
THE SKINNY
Lost Beat Generation, a project of Fort Worth's 13-year-old SceneShop, is looking for new and provocative unpublished works that will offer audiences challenges as regards politics, sexuality and most importantly, unconventional thinking.
LBG is aiming to perform at various venues, festivals, etc., so variety is important.
In general, submitted works will need to require no more than four characters, minimal staging and run no longer than thirty minutes- but scripts in the 10 to 15-minute range are welcome and encouraged.
LBG wants to work with and encourage new playwrights and asks, in return, that writers approach submitting pieces to us with openness and flexibility.
In fact, all of the above guidelines are flexible..INCLUDING TIME.. LENGTH.. ETC; let us see what you've got to say! Please contact us with scripts, thoughts, questions or recipes at LostBeatGeneration@gmail.com
