Summer Play Festival Accepting Submissions for Next Year
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 01, 2006
The Summer Play Festival wrapped up its most successful year on Sunday. Throughout the entire month of July, SPF showcased 15 shows to houses averaging 95% capacity. SPF also presented four well-attended public discussion panels featuring theatre industry professionals with the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting. The reading series "Thursdays @ 9," a collaboration with Naked Angels, also filled Theatre Row's houses.
The Summer Play Festival will begin taking submissions for its 4th annual event today, Tuesday, August 1. Applications can be submitted electronically via SPF's online application, which can be found at its website: www.spfnyc.com.
SPF accepts submissions for plays, musicals, and now children's shows.
Eligibility requirements for Plays and Musicals:
-Each script may be no less than 45 pages.
-Each script will only be accepted in the following formats: doc pdf rtf.
-No one person shows.
-The website will only accept one attachment per application including cover page and multiple acts. (no separate cover pages or separate act attachments)
-For scripts with no cover page please include the title and playwright's name on the header of each page.
-Make sure each script includes page numbers.
-Translations will not be accepted.
-Adaptations will not be accepted.
-If the playwright has had a play in a New York City theatre with more than 99 seats, the playwright is ineligible for acceptance
-Writers who participated in past Summer Play Festivals are not eligible to be accepted again.
For Musical Submissions:
-Applications require a script attached via the website application. Musical Scores are not required.
-Applications require a CD (and CD only) of recorded selections from the musical. CDs can be mailed to
SPF SUBMISSIONS
PO BOX 778
New York, NY 10108
For Children's Theater Submissions:
-Writers who have had a major New York production in a theater over 99 seats are still eligible to submit children's theater pieces only. Children's plays need not be by emerging writers.
-Adaptations are acceptable for children's theater only, provided writer has the production rights to the play. Public Domain is acceptable.
-Applications require a script attached via the website application. Musical Scores are not required.
-All forms of children's plays will be considered.
-If applications require a CD (and CD only) of recorded selections from the musical. CDs can be mailed to
SPF SUBMISSIONS
PO BOX 778
New York, NY 10108
The Butcherhouse Chronicles by Michael Hidalgo, Father Joy by Sheri Wilner, The Fearless by Etan Frankel, Gardening Leave by Joanna Pinto, Hardball by Victoria Stewart, Hitting the Wall by Barbara Blumenthal- Ehrlich, Marge by Peter Morris, Millicent Scowlworthy by Rob Handel, Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez, Spain by Jim Knable, Splitting Infinity by Jamie Pachino, The Squirrel by Alex Moggridge, Swansong by Patrick Page, Training Wisteria by Molly Smith Metzler, and A Wive's Tale by Christina Ham were the plays presented as part of this year's Summer Play Festival.
Under founder Arielle Tepper (a producer of Broadway's Monty Python's Spamalot, The Pillowman, A Raisin in The Sun, and Freak), The non-profit organization The Living Room for Artists Inc./Summer Play Festival provides emerging writers, directors, designers and producers an opportunity to work on their material and their craft in a protected environment, guided by established professionals at no cost to them. The festival takes place throughout the month of July at Theatre Row on 42nd Street. Tickets to all SPF shows are $10 each.
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