Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Sets Theme for Playwriting Festival

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center will be producing our bi-annual Rough Writers New Play Festival in the spring of 2015. This two week-long festival will feature readings of new scripts submitted by playwrights worldwide. Playwrights whose work is included in the festival will have the opportunity to have readings of their scripts in front of an audience with a moderated talkback session immediately following. A panel of theatre professionals will adjudicate the submissions.

As part of the FAC's "Year of Georgia O'Keeffe," we ask that this year's submissions be related to the life and/or the work of O'Keeffe. The plays may utilize Georgia O'Keeffe as a character, use her art as a springboard for the story or, in a larger sense, explore the lives and art of groundbreaking women.

Submissions for this year's festival are due by March 1. The submissions may be full-length, one-act or 10-minute plays or musicals. Submissions must be in a state of development and not have a history of productions. The Rough Writers New Play Festival will be held between June 4 and 14, 2015. Please send cover letter and copy of formatted script (along with Demo CD for musicals) to: Nathan Halvorson, Associate Director of Performing Arts c/o The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO 80903, or via email at: nhalvorson@csfineartscenter.org