[NEohioPAL] Call for entries: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS

[Deborah Magid]

Support Women Artists Now – SWAN Day CLE – 2013  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – CALL FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS

On Saturday, March 30, 2013, the east side’s Ensemble Theatre and the west side’s Convergence Continuum will host Northeast Ohio’s contribution to the sixth annual SWAN Day, an international celebration of women in the performing arts.  Here in the 4th-largest theater-producing area in the USA, SWAN Day CLE – 2013 will stage readings of short plays to raise awareness and celebrate women playwrights, directors, and actors.   

If you’re interested in participating, meet ALL of these criteria:

You’re a woman
You’ve written a 6-10 page play* that speaks to women’s experience or history or both
Your play calls for 2-5 actors (double-casting for more roles is fine)
Your play calls for more than 50% female actors (2:1 or 3:2 women:men or 
all female)
Your play is new or slightly used – no more than one previous public reading or workshop or production
You save your play in standard format* as a PDF file that includes numbered pages; 
a separate page with character list, settings, time period, production notes; 
a separate title page; 12-pt type; at-least-1-inch margins
You put your PDF standard-formatted play*, contact info, and a 100-word bio into an email
The subject line of your email is Your Name - Title of Your Play - Your City, State
You send that email to SwanDay2020 at yahoo.com.au BY January 30, 2013
NOTE: You don’t have to be from the Cleveland, Ohio area to submit, but Cleveland-area playwrights will be given greater consideration than those from outside the area.  Submissions will be capped at 100 Cleveland-based entries, or Cleveland-based entries plus however many non-local entries total 100, as of midnight EST 1/30/13.  The number of plays chosen depends on their relative lengths and how they fit into a 90-minute staged reading.  Submitting does NOT guarantee that your play will be chosen.  There is NO FEE to submit.  

All participating artists will receive a $50-minimum stipend, because we believe in supporting women artists now.

*standard play format 12-pt type, at least 1" margins, page numbers: examples <http://www.oifii.org/ha-org/had/scripts_tv-film-stage/Untitled%20Dramatists%20Guild%20Traditional%20Stageplay.pdf> OR <http://www.indstate.edu/Theater/mhspc_files/Sample%20Playwriting%20Format.pdf>




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March 30, 2013: SWAN Day CLE
March 8, 2013: playwright THE SECRET LIFE OF BIRDS, reading, Dramatists Guild Friday Night Footlights
February 7-9, 2013: playwright THE FORMULA, NEOMFA Playwrights Festival, Convergence Continuum Theatre
October 13 & 20, 2012: actor ANGELIC VOICES IN RITARDANDO by Vickie Williams, Cleveland Public Theatre Springboard 2012
October 6, 2012: writer/performer This Improvised Life at Big Dog Theater
August 9-18 2012: playwright SHIFT! production, Mildred's Umbrella Theater Co Museum of Dysfunction V, Houston TX
August: interview 31 Plays in 31 Days
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International Centre for Women Playwrights, Cleveland Play House Playwrights' Unit, League of Professional Theatre Women, Dobama Theatre Playwrights' GYM, Dramatists Guild, American Composers' Forum
http://deborahmagid.com/



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