Undergraduate call for 10-minute plays!
Deadline November 1, 2016
From October 10th untilNovember 1st, undergraduate playwrights at the University of Maryland, College Park, may submit 10-minute plays for consideration to be selected for the Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies New Play Workshop. The workshop is supported, in part, by the Dramatists Guild of America.
TheTDPS New Play Workshopis an opportunity to develop a short play in a supportive environment. Six playwrights will be selected, and assigned a mentor who is a professional dramatist living and working in the Baltimore-DC corridor. Mentors will serve as guides through the process of rehearsing with a director and actors, filtering and implementing feedback, and revising.The weeklong event will kick off onFebruary 19, 2017,with a professional panel on new play development. It willconclude onFebruary 26, 2017,with staged readings of the new plays. In between, each play will receive multiple rehearsals.
To be eligible, a play must:
· Be written by a current TDPS undergraduate student in good academic standing. Playwrights must not be graduating before Spring 2017, nor can they be in rehearsals for another show between February 19-26.
· Be approximately 10 minutes long when read aloud. (8–12 pages, written in 12-pt Times New Roman font and following a generally accepted playwriting format.)
· Have a cast of 2-5 characters.
· Be intended for live performance onstage (not a film script or prose piece).
· Be considered by the playwright to be “in development” (you are interested in further developing and revising the play based on the workshop experience).
Each playwright may submit one play. Along with the script, please submit 3 specific questions you want to explore during the workshop (150 words maximum).
Please email your script and questions to Brent Englar, the Baltimore representative for the Dramatists Guild of America:
by November 1, 2016.
Brent will work with Ann Fraistat, the DG's Young Ambassador for Baltimore, to select six scripts before the end of Fall semester. Plays will be cast at the beginning of Spring semester.