[NEohioPAL] Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwiritng Festival - Workshop & Submissions Information

JD Tell via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Tue Jan 13 09:51:33 PST 2015


  Weekend Ink: From Page to Stage Play Writing Workshop When: Saturday January 17, 2015 & Saturday, January 31 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm        Where: Lake Erie Ink, 2843 Washington Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Cost: $5 at the door. Free to members, Ink Spotters and Evening Inkers. Scholarships available.   Contact: Lake Erie Ink at 216-320-4757
Write a play, see it performed in a readers’ theater workshop, and be ready to submit it to the Marilyn Bianchi Kids’ Play Writing Festival.  Learn from professional playwrights.  Karamu Playwright-in-residence, Michael Oatman, will be our guest on January 17th.Born in Cleveland and a graduate of Shaw High School, in 2008 Michael completed his MFA in theater. His works have been produced at Karamu, Cleveland Play House Fusion Fest, Cleveland Public Theatre, CSU and Ingenuity Fest — in addition to many other locations around the U.S. Many of his plays deal with important and controversial issues, as indicated by some of the titles, such as Hitler and Gandhi, Not a Uterus in Sight and The War Between Pac and B.I.G.
Cuyahoga County Students in Grades 1 -12 are invited to submit original plays to the 37th Annual Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwriting Festival 
The Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwriting Festival is open to all students in Cuyahoga County, grades 1 -12, whether home-schooled or attending a private, public or charter school.
All plays must be the original work of the student who is submitting it. No collaborations, no adaptations or copying from movies, TV, books or other plays. Teachers and parents can offer advise or constructive criticism, but should not help with characters or dialogue.
The play may be in any category: comedy, drama, mystery, fantasy - wherever your imagination leads you. The Festival does not accept musicals (but scripts may call for brief music or songs as part of the action).
Winning plays are awarded on the basis of imagination and human values as much as upon playwriting skill. 
Plays must b typed, no handwritten plays are accepted.
Include a title page that has: The title of the play, playwright's name and address, phone number, school, and grade. The playwright's name and age should not appear anywhere else on the play.
Plays can be submitted as a word document, a pdf or in a hard (paper) copy.
Click here for Entry Form word doc
E-mail word files or pdfs (along with your completed entry form) to youngplaywrights at dobama.org.
Or mail a hard copy to: Dobama Theatre, MBKPF, 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
SOME SUGGESTIONS1. Keep your play to around 10 -15 pages long.
2. Having anywhere from two to ten characters in your play is a good thing. The characters can be people (kids, teenagers or grown-ups), animals (dogs, cats, insects), monsters (all kinds), robots, plants (trees, flowers, poison ivy) and even inanimate objects (a television set, a toaster, a washing machine), etcetera.
3. Having your play take place anywhere from one to three locations is another good thing.
4. Remember a play is different from a movie.  If in your play a character jumps out of a plane, lands in pasture on top of a giant bull who throws him into a lake that he swims across: this will be a challenge to put on a stage. This would be something you would more likely to see in a movie.
5. Remember these are just suggestions and not rules.
Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2015. 
Winners will be announced on May 1, 2015
The Festival will take place on June 5-7, 2015.
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