[NEohioPAL] CORRECTION! Calling Playwrights: Seeking One-Act Plays For “Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance & Media for Direction, Hope, Health, & Total Well-being”

[sue johnson]

*Call for Playwrights*

*Seeking One-Act Plays and Scenes*

*For*

*                               “Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance
and Media for Direction, Hope, *


   *Health,
and Total Well-being”*

*Performance Project*



*(Please share with your directors, students, casts, social media.)*

Wake Up and Live’s Actors’ Studio (WUAL) is launching its “Healing Arts”
project. We are inviting playwrights to submit  one-act  plays or scenes
which can be performed in 30 minutes or less. These creative works should
 address mental health  inspirational stories to be performed on Cleveland
area stages and on “Wake Up and Live With the Arts” YouTube shows.

Selected plays or scenes  will depict mental health challenges the
character/s  face, is overcoming, or has overcome, which allow him/her to
now live an improved mental health  life.



*“**Wake Up to Healing** Arts” Submissions should:*

  Address the Concept:  Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope,
Health, and Total Well-being.”

  Plays, monologues or scenes may have no more than 3 characters.

Address Mental Health Issues.

What story is character telling?

             .  Describe some mental health *CHALLENGES *the character/s
have overcome, and / or are currently  experiencing.

             .  How the character keeps working on addressing the
challenges to create transformational mental health  changes.

             .  Why the character wants to make changes

             .  Examples of topics which reflect mental health issues

*                                .   *The stigma of mental health issues

                                *.   *Teens and young adults’ suicide

                                .   Teen pregnancy

                                *.   *Using drama, music and dance to help
heal mental health issues

                                *.   *Issues contributing to mental health
challenges: Depression; Anxiety;  Loss of income;  Jobs; Family; Toxic
Relationships;

                                    Domestic abuse

*For Complete set of Guidelines:  wakeupandlives at gmail.com
<wakeupandlives at gmail.com>*

IF Selected:

        1.       Plays and scenes will be performed on stage and on “Wake
Up And Live With the Arts”

        2.    Stipend will be received from net proceeds of live
performances.

* Submission Deadline:  **Friday, September 17,2021.*

* Submissions and Questions:  wakeupandlives at gmail.com
<wakeupandlives at gmail.com>*



Questions?

 Sue Johnson, SAG/AFTRA

Director, Wake Up And Live's Actors Studio

Producer, "Wake Up And Live With the Arts"

www.wakeupandlives.com
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