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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)" align="center"><b>Ensemble Theatre Accepting Submissions and Readers for <br>
2018 Colombi New Plays Festival</b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ensemble Theatre will be accepting submissions for <b>NEW PLAYS</b> and for <b>ACTORS</b> who would like to participate as a reader during our Annual
Colombi New Plays Festival in March, 2018.</p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We will also be holding a Poetry Night as part of this
year’s Festival, and will be accepting poetry and spoken word submissions. </p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The 2018 Festival is slotted between Tony Kushner’s seminal <i>Angles in America, Part One </i>(January 5 –
28) and <i>Angels in America, Part Two</i>
(April 27 – May 20). </p>
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/ Moon</i> will be produced in our Ensemble Mainstage as part of our 8<sup>th</sup>
Annual New Plays Festival. </p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The themes for our upcoming Colombi New Plays Festival plays
will be coming directly from <i>Angels</i> <i>in America</i>. <span> </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u>PLAY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:</u></p>
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</span></span></span>We will be doing readings of both ten-minute
plays and one-act plays. Plays must be between 5 – 10 minutes long to be
considered a ten-minute play, and 10-45 minutes long to be considered a
one-act. </p>
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</span></span></span>These are readings, so plays focusing more on
dialogue will have a better chance of selection, rather than plays that depend
on physicality, design, or other elements missed during staged readings.</p>
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</span></span></span>Keep your characters to a minimum.</p>
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</span></span></span>Ditto locales. </p>
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</span></span></span>Plays must not have been produced elsewhere. </p>
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</span></span></span>You will be responsible for casting and
directing the reading. Ensemble can certainly help steer actors your way, but
it will ultimately be the responsibility of the playwright. </p>
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</span></span></span>Your submission grants Ensemble Theatre the
right to produce a reading of your play in our annual Colombi New Plays
Festival and/or videotape it for archival purposes if it is chosen for the
Fest.</p>
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</span></span></span>Submission also allows Ensemble Theatre to
livestream the reading to an online audience. </p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><u>What We’re Looking For:</u></b></p>
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</span></span></span>Plays that speak to the themes put forth from <i>Angles in America</i> including: <span>healthcare, mental health, illness,
spirituality, race, sexual identity, politics, and love.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Plays
that speak to our community.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span>Plays
offering unique voices in theater, portraying new and exciting perspectives on
the above themes.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Plays read during the Festival will
be read at Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland Heights as well as locations
throughout Cleveland and surrounding areas throughout the month of March, 2018.
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Plays produced during the Festival
come out of our weekly StageWrights workshop and previous Festival submissions.
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><u>DEADLINE for Submissions:</u> January 30, 2017 at 11:59pm</b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><u>TO SUBMIT</u></b>: Please email your scripts with the subject
heading, “2018 Colombi,” to <a href="mailto:plays@ensemble-theatre.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">plays@ensemble-theatre.org</a></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Selected plays/playwrights will be
notified by <b>February 10, 2018</b>.</p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u>FOR POETRY/SPOKEN WORD</u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We are accepting poems of any length to be read aloud during
our Festival’s Poetry Night. The writer may be the reader, or they may wish to
cast a reader for the evening’s events. </p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u>FOR ACTORS</u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">If you’re a Cleveland-area actor and would like to be a
reader for the 2018 New Plays Festival, please email your contact information
and availability throughout February & March (ie: are there days you’re out
of town and completely unavailable?) and we will get back to you.</p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Questions? Please contact us at <a href="mailto:plays@ensemble-theatre.org">plays@ensemble-theatre.org</a></p>
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