[NEohioPAL] Accepting New Play Submissions - $500 Prize!

[Brian M Marshall]

Caryl Crane Children’s Theatre presents The Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival

Each year Caryl Crane Children’s Theatre hosts a national playwriting festival, showcasing new plays for young adults and children. A national search is currently looking for the best and most promising unproduced theatrical works relevant to youth today. The weekend- long festival, held at the end of April each calendar year, consists of 5-6 staged readings of previously unseen theatrical works and will take place in the McBride Auditorium on the BGSU Firelands campus in Huron, OH. A winning work will be chosen through committee/audience voting, and the author(s) will receive a $500 cash prize as well as the option of a 3-week workshop of their production during the following CCCT season.

Submission Criteria There is no submission fee for the CCCT Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival

•	Submission deadline for the 2012 Festival is February 1, 2012. Scripts received after that date will be considered the following year. 5-6 finalists will be selected on March 15 of that year and their     
        names will be posted to the CCCT website at that time.
•	Must be a full-length play/musical for children or young adults without a prior major U.S. production.
•	A brief synopsis must be sent together with a bound complete manuscript. Submission must include a contact phone number and e-mail address on the play’s title page. No electronic submissions will 
        be accepted. 
•	The play must be at least 1 hour and no longer than 90 minutes. 
•	The play must be appropriate for audiences of all ages. 
•	Dramas, comedies and farces (with or without music) are all welcome. •	Cast size limited to no less than 5 or more than 20. 
•	The plays selected will be acted by our student actors, with a mix of regional artists where necessary. Plays that can be effectively cast within our market will be considered favorably. Playwrights who 
        are questioning whether or not their play is a good match for CCCT are strongly encouraged to contact Artistic Director Brian Marshall at mbrian at bgsu.edu before submitting.
•	All plays that are not selected for the festival will be recycled. Please do not include return postage. 
•	All serious submissions will be read by at least three readers on the festival committee, as well as the members of the TeenBoard. 

Be advised that the following are not considered serious submissions:
Screenplays submitted as theatrical plays and obvious first drafts Plays with typos and spelling errors and plays not formatted to industry standards Plays with excessive profanity or violence or are inappropriate for child audience members.

Plays should be submitted to:
Caryl Crane Children's Theatre c/o Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival BGSU Firelands One University Drive Huron, OH 44839-9719


For more information contact: Brian Marshall, Artistic Director mbrian at bgsu.edu, 419.372.0642


Brian Marshall
Artistic Director
Caryl Crane Children's Theatre
BGSU Firelands