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Wisconsin Playwrights and Scripts
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Calls for Submissions
Over Our Head Players Soliciting Playwriting Contest Scripts
Over Our Head Players is accepting submissions for the “2017 Snowdance® 10 Minute Comedy Festival,” now through November 1. “Snowdance®” entry is open to original 10 minute or shorter comedies for the stage. Winning entries will be performed together in one theatre presentation by the OOHP Snowdance ensemble at Sixth Street Theatre for five weeks beginning February 3, 2017. The entire Snowdance production will be presented more than 24 times during the run. At each performance, audience members can vote for their favorite individual comedy; the audience favorites will earn cash prizes for the playwright. Entries may be sent to SNOWDANCE, c/o Sixth Street Theatre, 318 Sixth Street, Racine, Wisconsin, 53403. Alternatively, entries may be sent by email to Snowdance318@gmail.com.
Rules for the Snowdance Comedy Competition, which is open to everyone without age or geographic restriction, are relatively simple. In summary, competition is open to unpublished, 10 minute or shorter comedies free of royalty and copyright restrictions. Musicals, adaptations, and translations will not be considered. One entry per playwright, postmarked by November 1, 2016. The writer’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address should be included on the title page and only the title page. The title page should also include a cast list and a one- to three- sentence synopsis of the play. Plays can have a cast of one to five characters; plays should be easily staged, avoiding elaborate set requirements. Submit one typed manuscript in standard format, securely bound. Complete rules are posted on the theatre website at www.overourheadplayers.org. Any questions can be directed to Rich Smith via the box office, at (262)632-6802, or by e-mail at snowdance318@gmail.com. Scripts will not be returned.
Call for submission: Wisconsin Wrights
Wisconsin Wrights and Forward Theater Company are once again sending out a call for submissions of new plays by Wisconsin Playwrights.
The next Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Reading series will take place during Forward Theater’s 2017-2018 season. Up to three playwrights will develop their plays with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors. Rehearsals will culminate in a public reading. The Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project provides an extraordinary opportunity for the expansion and exercise of the playwriting craft, exploration of characters, and constructive critique by caring, invested artists.
Wisconsin Wrights will begin accepting scripts on December 1, 2016. The deadline for submissions for Wisconsin Wrights is February 1, 2017 with the selection process taking place from February through May, 2017. Finalists will be announced in mid-June 2017. Complete details, contact info and submission guidelines are available at forwardtheater.com/learn/submissions.
Wisconsin Wrights is accepting submissions from current Wisconsin residents only.
Call For Submissions: New Full-Length Plays
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre workshops two new plays annually through the Montgomery Davis Play Development Series. To that end, we accept new scripts for consideration on a rolling basis.
ELIGIBILITY: Priority for consideration lies with Wisconsin artists. Playwrights should only submit work if they are current Wisconsin residents, have a link to Wisconsin in their own history, and/or consider Wisconsin-specific subject matter in their play.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please send a query letter and the first ten pages of your script. Electronic or paper submissions are accepted. Email Marcella Kearns or send hard copy to the following address: Marcella Kearns, Lead Educator/Literary Manager, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, 158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202. See email address and additional information at www.chamber-theatre.com/performance/play-reading.aspx.
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Wisconsin-based Playwrights
Mike Birkley
Ludmilla Bollow
- Email: bollow@earthlink.net
- Web site: home.earthlink.net/~bollow
Steven Brown
- Email: stevenmbrown@hotmail.com
- And on the Eighth Day: Bryan v. Darrow
- I also produce (and write) live, original (and broadcast) radio dramas and comedies for the WGTD Radio Theater, in Kenosha-Racine.
Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn
- Email: capellar@chorus.net
- Web site: www.walmartopia.com
- Authors of Walmartopia
Bob Curry
- Email: curryclan@aol.com
- Current president of Playwrights Ink
Danielle Dresden
- Email: info@tapitnewworks.org
- Web site: TAPIT/new works
George Farah
Jeffrey James Ircink
- Email: jeffbumbershoot43@gmail.com
- Web site: belairjeffircink.wordpress.com
Holly Walter Kerby
- Email: hkerby@matcmadison.edu
- Web site: www.matcmadison.edu/faculty/hkerby
Gary Kriesel
Jessica Lanius
Anthony Lamarr
- Email: anthonylamarr@gmail.com
- Ballots - an 80s Rock 'n Roll MUSICAL parody of the 2000 presidential elections.
Michael Lucchesi
- Email: lucckyschran@yahoo.com
- The Two Rivers - a 90 minute, two act play with five characters, Aaron 50-ish, Kyle 25-ish, A.J. 23-ish, Lilith 50-ish and Eden 18-ish. This is the Young family, and they could be any race or nationality. The play, which takes place in a living room of a fixer-upper vacation home, deals with Kyle returning home (AWOL from the Marines) to deal with what he views as “unfinished business." Challenging themes are dealt with including incest, cutting, alcoholism, and homelessness.
Stephen F. Murray
- Web site: www.stephenfmurray.zohosites.com
Rick Ponzio
- Email: rponzio@wi.rr.com
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.
- Web site: www.madison.com/communities/ink
Mary K. Ryan
Wisconsin theatre director and playwright based in Milwaukee.
- Web site: marykryan.weebly.com
- Email: mary_k_ryan@hotmail.com
Script Resource Sites
Script publishers.
- Beat by Beat Press - A new publishing company providing community theaters with new, high-quality musicals for young performers.
- 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.
- Dramatists Play Service, Inc. - Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing the work of new and established playwrights.
- Eldridge Plays & Musicals - offers hundreds of full-length plays, one-acts, melodramas, holiday and religious plays, children's theatre plays and musicals of all kinds.
- HaveScripts.com - Online publishing company with an emphasis on middle school and high school plays for both the stage and the classroom. We have some competition one-acts and many books and scripts ideal for readers theater in the classroom.
- 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.
- New Theatre Publications - a script publishing company that is owned and managed by writers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stageplays.com - Virtually every play and musical currently published in the English language.
- 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.
- YouthPLAYS - a publisher of hundreds of plays and musicals for young actors and audiences, with material suitable for teen and preteen performers, as well as community theatres, colleges and professional theatres for young audiences.
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