[NEohioPAL] WUAL Call for Playwrights - 20-30 minute Plays for "Healing Arts" Project

[sue johnson]

*WUAL - Call for Playwrights *

*To *

*Submit 20 – 30 - minute Plays*

*For *

*"Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope,
Health and Total Well-being – ‘I Rise’” *

*(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  20-30 -minute  plays on the
topic of Virtual and in-person bullying 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 (like the Phoenix – “I Rise.”).

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

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

  help address the bullying mental health issue in addition to / instead of
clinical methods.



Submissions:

. 20 - 30- minute plays may have no more than 3 – 4 characters, with an
emphasis on the people of color community, teens and females.

.  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   will be performed on stage at Dunham Museum & Tavern,
Sat. Sept. 28 & Sun. Sept. 29 and on “Wake Up And Live With the Arts”
YouTube

2.        Stipend will be paid.



* Submission Deadline:  **Friday, May 31, 2024.  *(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



Judy Allen

co-Coordinator

jallen3778 at gmail.com
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