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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest is accepting scripts through June 30,
2008 for new works that:
1) Enhance self-realization
2) Support peace and social justice
3) Foster new understanding of minority issues that focus on racial, ethnic
and gender discrimination both in the United States and abroad
4) Empower youth to build healthy inner foundations
5) Educate to gain further insight into healthy social/emotional living
6) Shed new light on religious, spiritual, and cultural differences and issues
7) Build respect for cultural expression and identity in a world that is
experiencing rapid globalization
8) Explore the widening gap between the values this country was founded on
and the values we present to the world today
For Guidelines and Application Form: www.PlaywritingContest.cjb.net.
Wisconsin-based
Playwrights
Mike Birkley
Ludmilla Bollow
Steven Brown
Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn
Jodi Cohen
Bob Curry
Danielle
Dresden
George Farah
Holly Walter
Kerby
Gary Kriesel
Jessica Lanius
Anthony Lamarr
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.
Playwrights From
Elsewhere
Hristo Boytchev
Deborah Johnson - DJWorks Music
ONE LITTLE KISS is a story about romance, lust, committment
and love. Each of the main characters discover more of
who they are through humor, drama and the circumstances of life. The twenty-four
songs guide
the story along, yet many of them can stand alone. ONE LITTLE KISS
is entertaining, yet through-provoking; fun, yet serious. The answer to
the question "what
is love" is not easy, but we may come closer in ONE LITTLE KISS.
24 songs, 27 transitions, full script in 2 acts, piano/vocal score and
rhythm
charts. Orchestrated Instrumental tracks are available for all the songs
and transitions. ONE LITTLE KISS can be performed with a cast as small
as 12 or up to 30 or more with extra chorus members. This musical is
geared
towards
Community Theatre or College Theatre.
Dean Kaner
Wolf Larsen
Adventurer, Cutting Edge Playwright, Novelist, & Poet.
Jim Lassiter
The Tavern & The Storyteller - a 2
act musical comedy, now available for your production. Currently royalty
free until the end of 2007.
Script, songs, info, pics, video clips & full video production
from its debut perfomance on the website.
Quick detail: 2 acts, 10 songs, 10M/5F minimum (other parts can be doubled),
2.5 hours long, no set changes.
Emmett Loverde
A collection of one-act and
full-length comedies available for reading online. Children's
plays, adult-oriented plays, even Christmas- and religious-themed
pieces. Over twenty productions worldwide and counting.
Yair Packer
Judith PriorAustralian playwright, specialising in Dinner Theatre,
theatre restaurant and pantomime scripts.
Paisley Productions
The Paisley Sisters'
Christmas Special, now available for production, is a loving
sendup of those delightful Christmas TV specials of the 1960s.
The show, in the spirit of the Broadway smash hit Hairspray, is about a fictitious sister act and their first live
television special. It contains 20 original songs, a hilarious
script (including mock television commercials), plus
great Sixties costumes and wigs!
Steve A. Rowell
Colorado Tolston
Original plays
by Minnesota playwright Colorado Tolston in genres such as mystery, fantasy
and religious. Colorado has been produced around the
world in such places as Kenya, Great Britain, Australia and the United States.
Full scripts are available for download.
Script Sites
- 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.
- The
Dramatic Exchange
- Dramatists
Play Service, Inc. -
Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing
the work of new and established playwrights.
- 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.
- 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.
- Plays
For Stage - entertaining, family-friendly
play scripts for schools, community theaters, melodrama houses, churches,
and other groups to perform for reasonable prices.
- 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.
- StoryFoundry.com -
The StoryFoundry is a place
for playwrights to list their works and start a community.
Companies looking for new works to perform will find
a large collection of plays of all lengths, with contact
information for the playwrights. All services are free.
- 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.