[NEohioPAL] Call for Playwrights To Submit 15-minute Plays for "Healing Arts" Project

[sue johnson]

Call for Playwrights

To

Submit 15-minute Plays

For

"Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope,
Health and Total Well-being, 2.0."


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

Wake Up and Live’s Actors’ Studio (WUAL) is continuing its “Healing Arts”
project. We are inviting playwrights to submit  15-minute  plays or scenes
on the topics of depression and / or teen suicide which can be performed on
Cleveland area stages and YouTube .

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

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

  Show how the performing arts (drama, vocal & instrumental music, dance,
poetry)  may be used to

  help address mental health issues in addition to / instead of clinical
methods.



Submissions:

. 15- minute plays, monologues or scenes may have no more than 3 characters.


.  Describe some mental health *CHALLENGES *the character has overcome, and
/ or is currently

   experiencing.

             .  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

                                *.   *How using drama, music and dance can
help heal mental health issues

                                *.   *Issues contributing to mental health
challenges: Depression; Anxiety;  Loss of

                                    Income;  Jobs; Family;
Toxic  Relationships; Domestic abuse; Bullying



IF Selected:

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

Arts” YouTube

2.        Stipend will be paid.



* Submission Deadline:  **Friday, June 2, 2023.  *(If you need an extension,
wualstudio 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.wualstudio.org <http://www.wualstudio.org>*
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