A Festival of New Work for the Stage
Fort Point Theatre Channel seeks scripts, proposals, outlines, installations, etc.
Using the circus sideshow as unifying theme, we invite playwrights and filmmakers, musicians and dancers, acrobats and others to contribute new work or work
in progress for an imaginative and challenging show that combines the wonderful and the weird, the familiar and the freaks, in an integrated evening of
workshop performances and installations.
Honorarium: Contributors will receive $100-$500
The amount depends upon the length of a piece, production requirements, and other factors. As appropriate, Fort Point Theatre Channel will either produce the
work or provide limited additional expenses for works produced by the contributor.
Length: 1 minute to 30 minutes
Possible Theatrical Genres/Acts: Musicians, dancers, comedians, magicians, female/male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays, video, films,
minstrelsy, freak shows, burlesque, cabaret, etc.
Deadline: August 15, 2009 (one submission/person)
Questions? We encourage you to inquire before submitting a work or a proposal.
From the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, in most any town of any size, curious onlookers would gather near the midway of the fair or the circus to hear sideshow
barkers tout the wonders available to those willing to pay just a few cents to see what they couldn't view anywhere else in those days . . . before
international air travel and cable television . . . before the exploration of every corner of the planet seemed to rid the world of mystery.
Today, the sideshow is in a tough spot, but for that innocent time, it was one of the biggest draws in entertainment. Fort Point Theatre Channel believes the
sideshow has meaning today even-or especially-in a world dominated by television, the Internet, and seemingly endless choices for our entertainment dollars
and time.
Contact: writers@fortpointtheatrechannel.org
