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Wonderlust Productions

Wonderlust Productions New Play Development

This play will ask the question, “What does a community of care look like?” We are interested in the stories of caregivers whose stories haven’t historically been centered, including nurses and family taking care of family, but also neighborhood caretakers, first responders, body workers, teachers, therapists, bartenders and hair stylists. A multidisciplinary writing team will spend the next year reading content gathered in community story circles, collaboratively developing the dramaturgical structure of the play, and taking on individual writing assignments. The process will be led and the final script edited by our co-artistic directors, Alan Berks and Leah Cooper. We estimate the time commitment to be about 25 hours spent in creative meetings, attendance in at least one story circle, and two public readings, plus about 35 hours of reading and writing time, for a total of approximately 60 hours. Compensation is a fee of $1,500.
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No Fee
Restrictions: 
Playwrights should be based in or around Twin Cities, MN enough to attend in-person creative meetings, workshops, and public readings spread out over the next year.
Submission Method: 
Online
Deadline: 
4 / 14 / 2023

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Olney Theatre Center (Olney | MD)

Vanguard Arts Fund

Vanguard Arts Fund applications are now open for Olney Theatre Center’s 2023-24 season. The Vanguard Arts Fund provides development support to diverse teams of artists interested in creating works - especially works that cross artistic disciplines - in a collaborative environment. From the seed of an idea for a new play, to a concept for a classic adaptation, to a first draft or first song of a musical, we provide intensive workshop time at various stages of the development process. We commit to these artistic teams in hopes of producing their work at Olney Theatre Center in a future season. While OTC will consider text-based work that springs from the mind of a singular playwright, successful proposals for new work will more likely bring together more than one generative artist in an interdisciplinary fashion to explore new or classic stories.
Fee: 
No Fee
Restrictions: 
For U.S. based playwrights with a U.S. citizenship or permanent residency
Submission Method: 
Email
Deadline: 
5 / 12 / 2023

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The Laboratory Theater of Florida

New Play Contest: Louise Wigglesworth Award

This contest honors one of the theater's founders, noted playwright Louise Wigglesworth.
Fee: 
No fee
Restrictions: 
Open to all playwrights
Submission Method: 
Online
Deadline: 
3 / 31 / 2023

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Empowering Playwrights one Pixel at a Time: How Online Resources Can Fuel Your Playwriting Interests

What if you want to write a play? Where to start? And what if you have a few plays? What to do with them? And what if you want to learn more skills as a writer? Where to go next? If you’re here, you probably already have some ideas. But member to member, I’ll offer some tips and tricks, in what has become a daily habit: Read, Write, Send and Find. Let’s go!

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Exploring Character Through Environment

Environment dictates more than we give it credit for in our writing. Give environment its due and follow your impulses to explore all facets of your character. Hopefully, the result will be characters that feel molded from the earth they grew up in. In this article, readers are taken through a three-part exercise to explore how environment dictates character and character dictates environment. 

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The Playwright & Biography

Arguably, some of the most successful American plays are gripped by biography. So, how do we shape elements of biography into dramatic works?

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