Who Wants Cake? Announces Their New Summer Gay Play Series, Seeks Submissions

Who Wants Cake? is sounding a call for new, original one-act plays to be performed as part of their new Gay Play Series (GPS). As the Detroit-area's newest short play festival, the GPS Festival is striving to provide early-career writers the opportunity to see their work produced, giving them what is oft-needed exposure.

The plays submitted should have a performance time of 30 minutes or less and deal directly with issues or characters that are identified as gay/lesbian/transgender, or contain a gay sensibility. Straight plays (no pun intended) and musicals will be considered. From the initial submission pool, a final line up will be chosen by a panel of judges to be performed over 2 weekends in July, 2010. From those performed, an audience poll will be conducted to select one script that will receive a full production at The Ringwald Theatre during the 2010/2011 season.

All submissions must be delivered by hand or via post to:
The Ringwald Theatre, 22742 Woodward Ave. Ferndale, MI 48220.

• The submitted script must be the script proposed for presentation, with no major alterations necessary.
• The scripts should be previously unproduced.
• Please provide an approximate running time and a one sentence synopsis on your cover sheet.
• Neither fax nor email submissions will be accepted.
• Submission materials will not be returned.
• Only one entry per person will be accepted.
• The deadline for submissions is April 17, 2010.
• The final line-up will be announced in June 2010.
• Casting and directing opportunities will be announced at a later date.

Who Wants Cake? opened the doors to their resident home, The Ringwald, in May 2007 with Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy. Quickly, The Ringwald became a mainstay of Detroit's theatre community. Since opening their doors, Who Wants Cake? has been offering up slice after slice of successful shows gay-themed shows including Southern Baptist Sissies, Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical, The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, Some Men, Based on a Totally True Story, and The Bad Seed. Who Wants Cake? was named the 2008 and 2009 Best Theatre Group in Channel 4's Vote 4 The Best contest.