WOMENSWORX at THE VORTEX
A festival of 10 minute plays written by women, directed by women
WOMENSWORX at THE VORTEX is a national women´s play festival created to foster and showcase new works by women writers as interpreted by women directors. The Vortex Theatre´s ongoing mission is to produce stimulating multi-cultural classical, contemporary and cutting edge plays on a minimal budget. The Vortex is a 33 year old non-Equity theatre in Albuquerque, NM
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 1, 2009
WINNERS will be notified personally, as well as posted on our website (vortexabq.org)
on October 1, 2009.
TWO $100 CASH PRIZES will be awarded to the playwright(s) whose plays are selected as
1) best play of festival by jury selection and 2) audience favorite (votes polled during production run).
THE 8 PLAYS CHOSEN will receive a FULL PRODUCTION and a 4 WEEK RUN in January 2010.
Vortex board and staff members are not eligible.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Each script (excluding title and cast pgs.) must be no more that ten (10) pgs. long. Please use 12 pt. font.
Please submit only original, unpublished, never produced work (past staged reading of play permitted). Previously submitted plays, musicals, children´s shows, and any unsolicited longer one act or full length play should not be submitted.
Each playwright may submit up to three scripts. Send us your best!
No submission fee is required.
Each manuscript must be typed and individually bound or stapled with pages numbered.
Please format your submission in accordance with standard play script format.
Submit three (3) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy for each script.
Hard copies: We require a single separate information page for each play that you enter. On this separate page indicate:
1) TITLE 2) PLAYWRIGHT NAME 3) EMAIL ADDRESS
4) MAILING ADDRESS 5) PHONE NUMBER
Please do not staple this page to the script copies. This page will be separated from the script before being read by the panel. THIS SEPARATE PAGE IS THE ONLY PLACE YOUR NAME WILL APPEAR. Though 3 copies of the play are required, only 1 info. page is necessary.
Electronic submissions should include your name, title and phone number in body of email. Electronic submissions should be sent to womensworx@aol.com .
Submissions which do not follow these specific requirements will be disqualified.
We are unable to return scripts - save postage. No SASE required.
All legal clearances in the script are the sole responsibility of the playwright.
The Vortex Theatre is not responsible for lost or damaged scripts.
There are no restrictions on subject matter. The only requirement is that the playwright be female.
Minimal set, costume and sound requirements. A repertory set and lighting plot will be used.
All plays must be submitted in a flat (unfolded) envelope to:
WOMENSWORX at THE VORTEX, 2004 ½ Central Ave. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
A festival of 10 minute plays written by women, directed by women
WOMENSWORX at THE VORTEX is a national women´s play festival created to foster and showcase new works by women writers as interpreted by women directors. The Vortex Theatre´s ongoing mission is to produce stimulating multi-cultural classical, contemporary and cutting edge plays on a minimal budget. The Vortex is a 33 year old non-Equity theatre in Albuquerque, NM
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 1, 2009
WINNERS will be notified personally, as well as posted on our website (vortexabq.org)
on October 1, 2009.
TWO $100 CASH PRIZES will be awarded to the playwright(s) whose plays are selected as
1) best play of festival by jury selection and 2) audience favorite (votes polled during production run).
THE 8 PLAYS CHOSEN will receive a FULL PRODUCTION and a 4 WEEK RUN in January 2010.
Vortex board and staff members are not eligible.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Each script (excluding title and cast pgs.) must be no more that ten (10) pgs. long. Please use 12 pt. font.
Please submit only original, unpublished, never produced work (past staged reading of play permitted). Previously submitted plays, musicals, children´s shows, and any unsolicited longer one act or full length play should not be submitted.
Each playwright may submit up to three scripts. Send us your best!
No submission fee is required.
Each manuscript must be typed and individually bound or stapled with pages numbered.
Please format your submission in accordance with standard play script format.
Submit three (3) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy for each script.
Hard copies: We require a single separate information page for each play that you enter. On this separate page indicate:
1) TITLE 2) PLAYWRIGHT NAME 3) EMAIL ADDRESS
4) MAILING ADDRESS 5) PHONE NUMBER
Please do not staple this page to the script copies. This page will be separated from the script before being read by the panel. THIS SEPARATE PAGE IS THE ONLY PLACE YOUR NAME WILL APPEAR. Though 3 copies of the play are required, only 1 info. page is necessary.
Electronic submissions should include your name, title and phone number in body of email. Electronic submissions should be sent to womensworx@aol.com .
Submissions which do not follow these specific requirements will be disqualified.
We are unable to return scripts - save postage. No SASE required.
All legal clearances in the script are the sole responsibility of the playwright.
The Vortex Theatre is not responsible for lost or damaged scripts.
There are no restrictions on subject matter. The only requirement is that the playwright be female.
Minimal set, costume and sound requirements. A repertory set and lighting plot will be used.
All plays must be submitted in a flat (unfolded) envelope to:
WOMENSWORX at THE VORTEX, 2004 ½ Central Ave. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
