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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Western Reserve Playhouse is pleased to announce the inaugural "80 Minutes" New Works Festival! </span></p></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">We're currently looking for 20 minute plays that are ready for production. Have you written a ten minute play that maybe needed a little more time on-stage? Lengthen it to 20 Minutes! Or do you really love the characters you've created and want to explore them a bit more? Give us a fully fledged 20 minute piece about them.</span></p></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">We are currently seeking original, unpublished 20 Minute Plays to be featured in the festival. If the play that is being submitted has been previously performed (outside of a staged reading or a workshop), please include that information with your submission. While we will be engaging with the playwrights whose pieces are being performed, this is not an official workshop for these shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Our theme for this year is <b>Relationships </b>– romantic, familial, platonic, any kind of relationship you can think of.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Submissions are open now and the deadline for submitting is August 31<sup>st</sup> 2017 at 11:59 PM EST. We are currently only seeking submissions from local playwrights (Northeast Ohio), but if there are any questions about that please contact us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Guidelines:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The play must run 15 – 20 minutes long. The maximum is 20 minutes.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The maximum number of actors involved in each play is 4. If there are additional characters that will be doubled, please indicate that information on the character list.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> Please include the following information in the Word Document or PDF: Name, Mailing Address, E-mail Address, Phone Number. Please also include a short synopsis and a list of characters. </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p>4. Please submit your play as an attachment to an e-mail, sent to <a href="mailto:submissions@westernreserveplayhouse.org">submissions@westernreserveplayhouse.org</a> . Please put "2017 4x20 Submission" in the subject line. </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p>5. There is no fee for submission, but we ask that each playwright send no more than two scripts. </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p>6. If the playwright's script is chosen for the New Works Festival, the playwright grants Western Reserve Playhouse three (3) royalty free performances on October 6, 7, and 8 2017. </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p>If there are any questions, please e-mail Brandi at <a href="mailto:beaton2922@gmail.com">beaton2922@gmail.com</a> for clarification. </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p>Thank you! </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p>Western Reserve Playhouse</o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></body></html>