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Wisconsin Playwrights and Scripts
Wisconsin playwrights and theater companies running script competitions are welcome to send information to be included on this page to webmaster@madstage.com.
This site is provided as a free service. We'd very much appreciate a link to our site from yours and mention in your programs and mailings! If you find it useful and would like to help make it even an even more effective tool for promoting theater, dance and comedy in Wisconsin, contributions will be applied toward development and maintenance expenses and publicity for the site.
Calls for Submissions
Professional, community and school-based theater companies in Wisconsin.
Forward Theater Company Monologue Festival
Forward Theater Company, a professional theater in Madison,
Wisconsin, is happy to announce its first monologue festival. It will be
held February 11 & 12, 2011, at the Overture Center for the Arts. We
invite you to submit monologues for performance in thiscelebration of original
work by both established and up-and-coming playwrights. The focus
for this season’s monologues is: “The Love that Changed My
Life.”
GUIDELINES FOR PLAY SUBMISSION
• We are soliciting new, original monologues between two and ten minutes
long. Since the festival will include ten to twelve monologues, it is important
that each one require as little production as possible; set-pieces, props,
or effects needing set-up, strike, or special technical support may disqualify
an otherwise excellent submission.
• The plays should be inspired by the theme: “The Love that Changed
My Life”
• Scripts should be a maximum of eight pages long, double-spaced, using
a standard format (twelve point font), and be written for a single actor to
perform. (Please read it aloud and include the approximate performance time
on the first page of your submission; all lengths of up to ten minutes will
be considered, with the objective of choosing monologues of varying lengths).
• We do not accept musical submissions, adaptations, or children’s
plays.
• Keep in mind that you are writing for the stage – pieces must
have dynamic, dramatic structure
• Each playwright may submit up to two scripts with no fee. For each additional
script, there is a $5 reading fee, payable by check to Forward Theater Company.
Checks may be sent to Forward Theater Company, PO Box 14574, Madison, WI 53708.
• We are looking to mount premiere productions of submitted monologues.
If the piece has previously received a fully-realized production, please do
NOT submit. Monologues that have been given public readings are allowed.
• Each manuscript must include an additional title page with name, address,
phone number and e-mail address. Please do not list your name anywhere on the
monologue itself.
• You may submit via e-mail ONLY to info@forwardtheater.com. Please use
the subject line “monologue festival.”
• E-Submissions will be accepted until midnight (central time) on October
1, 2010.
• Entries will be acknowledged by e-mail once they have been received.
Due to the volume of scripts we are unable to offer criticism or return any
submissions.
• The winning scripts will be announced on our web site, on or before
November 30, 2010.
• Writers will be credited in all marketing and playbill materials; no
royalties will be paid for performance. Monologues will be individually rehearsed
and coached by the director until the week of the performance when the entire
company will rehearse at the Overture Center. Playwrights are entitled to two
complimentary tickets to the opening performance on February 11; tickets are
not transferable.
For more information, please visit forwardtheater.com, or email Gwendolyn Rice at grice@forwardtheater.com.
2011 Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival
Produced by the Over Our Head Players
At Racine’s Sixth Street Theatre
Official Rules, Application, and Script information
The Snowdance Comedy Festival is a festival of original comedies
that run 10 minutes or less. Submitted scripts will be judged by
The SNOWDANCE Selection Committee. A selection of scripts will be chosen
for production during the festival the winter of 2011. These selections will
round out a complete Festival performance. Audiences attending a Festival
performance will have the ability to vote for the production they enjoyed the
most. The votes will be tallied throughout the five week festival run,
and the Snowdance “Best in Snow” will be awarded to the
winning playwright after the final performance on February 27th. Cash
award of $300.00 to “Best in Snow,” with $100.00 awards going to
both 2nd and 3rd place.
* Through November 1st - Call for scripts.
* November -Scripts chosen for production will be announced.
* January 28th – February 27th - Run of festival performances.
* February 27th (immediately after final performance) -Announcement
of “Best in Snow.”
To enter a script, please follow these steps.
#1- Competition is open to original, unpublished, 10 minute or shorter plays free of royalty and copyright restrictions. Musicals, adaptations, and translations will not be considered. One entry per playwright.
#2- Plays must run 10 minutes or less. A rule of thumb - 1 page (8 1/2 x 11) of single spaced, average dialogue will total about 90 seconds. Read it out loud - time it – test it – and re-write if need be.
#3- Submissions must be postmarked on or before November 1st 2010.
#4- Manuscripts must be on standard 8-1/2” x 11” paper, cleanly typed and securely bound. Scripts should follow standard format. (Check any scriptwriting book in your library)
#5 – Plays can have a cast of 1 to 5 characters and should be easily staged. Avoid any elaborate set requirements. And remember it is a ‘COMEDY FESTIVAL’.
#6- The writer’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (if applicable) should be included on the title page and only the title page. The title page should also include a cast list, set requirements, and a 1 to 3 sentence synopsis of the play.
#7 –Submit one (1) copy of your script.
#8 - Send scripts to:
SNOWDANCE
C/O
Sixth Street Theatre
318 Sixth Street
Racine, Wisconsin 53403
#9 - Any questions can be directed to Rich Smith at (262) 632-6802
or by e-mail at snowdance318@gmail.com.
* Plays selected for the festival will be produced by Over
Our Head Players.
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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
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.
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
Script Resource Sites
Script publishers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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