<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Support Women Artists Now – SWAN Day CLE – 2013 </b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – <b><i>CALL FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS</i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">On <b>Saturday, March 30, 2013</b>, the east side’s <b>Ensemble Theatre</b> and the west side’s <b>Convergence Continuum</b> will host Northeast Ohio’s contribution to the <b>sixth annual SWAN Day</b>, 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 <b>readings of short plays</b> to raise awareness and celebrate women playwrights, directors, and actors. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">If you’re interested in participating, <b>meet ALL of these criteria</b>:</span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">You’re a <b>woman</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">You’ve written a <b>6-10 page play</b>* that speaks to women’s experience or history or both</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Your play calls for <b>2-5 actors</b> (double-casting for more roles is fine)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Your play calls for <b>more than 50% female actors</b> (2:1 or 3:2 women:men or <br>
all female)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Your play is new or slightly used – <b>no more than one previous public reading or workshop or production</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">You save your play in standard format* <b>as a PDF file</b> that includes numbered pages; <br>
a separate page with character list, settings, time period, production notes; <br>
a separate title page; 12-pt type; at-least-1-inch margins</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">You <b>put your PDF standard-formatted play</b>*<b>, contact info, and a 100-word bio into an email</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The <b>subject</b> line of your email is <b>Your Name - Title of Your Play - Your City, State</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">You send that email to </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #2d3030"><b><a href="mailto:SwanDay2020@yahoo.com.au">SwanDay2020@yahoo.com.au</a></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b> BY January 30, 2013</b></span></li>
</ol><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>NOTE: You don’t have to be from the Cleveland, Ohio area to submit, </i><b><i>but Cleveland-area playwrights will be given greater consideration than those from outside the area</i></b><i>. 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. </i></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">All participating artists will receive a $50-minimum stipend, because we believe in supporting women artists now.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Verdana; color: #2b00ae"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Verdana; color: #2b00ae"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000000">*standard play format 12-pt type, at least 1" margins, page numbers: examples </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #2b02ae"><<a href="http://www.oifii.org/ha-org/had/scripts_tv-film-stage/Untitled%20Dramatists%20Guild%20Traditional%20Stageplay.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #2b00ae">http://www.oifii.org/ha-org/had/scripts_tv-film-stage/Untitled%20Dramatists%20Guild%20Traditional%20Stageplay.pdf</span></a>> OR <<a href="http://www.indstate.edu/Theater/mhspc_files/Sample%20Playwriting%20Format.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #2b00ae">http://www.indstate.edu/Theater/mhspc_files/Sample%20Playwriting%20Format.pdf</span></a>></span></p><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #2b02ae"><br></span></div></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); min-height: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><a href="http://miseentheatre.wordpress.com/">http://miseentheatre.wordpress.com/</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; ">***********************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; ">March 30, 2013:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://deborahmagid.com/DeborahMagid/SWAN_Day_CLE_2013/SWAN_Day_CLE_2013.html">SWAN Day CLE</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; ">March 8, 2013: playwright THE SECRET LIFE OF BIRDS, reading,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.dramatistsguild.com/eventseducation/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); ">Dramatists Guild Friday Night Footlights</span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; ">February 7-9, 2013: playwright THE FORMULA, NEOMFA Playwrights Festival,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.convergence-continuum.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); ">Convergence Continuum Theatre</span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; ">October 13 & 20, 2012: actor ANGELIC VOICES IN RITARDANDO by Vickie Williams,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/theater-show.php?id=189"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); ">Cleveland Public Theatre Springboard 2012</span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">October 6, 2012: writer/performer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/28264265"><span style="text-decoration: underline; ">This Improvised Life at Big Dog Theater</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; ">August 9-18 2012: playwright <a href="http://deborahmagid.com/DeborahMagid/Magid_Shift%21.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); ">SHIFT!</span></a> production, <a href="http://mildredsumbrella.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); ">Mildred's Umbrella Theater Co</span></a> <i>Museum of Dysfunction V</i>, Houston TX</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(19, 80, 174); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">August: interview<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://31plays31days.com/blog/2012/08/04/31-plus-interviews-%7C-deborah-magid/"><i>31 Plays in 31 Days</i></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; ">***********************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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