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<div class="elementToProof"><span class="x_elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"><b class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0">2023 FESTIVAL THEME </b></span></span><b class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">"Social
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<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Notre Dame College Performing Arts will host a 2023 Fall New Plays Festival. This festival will lift the voices of authors and writers
who are </span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">members of the BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and underrepresented communities. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">This call is open to Notre Dame College Faculty,
Staff and Students, as well as residents of Cuyahoga County and Northeast Ohio!</span></div>
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<div class="x_elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0 elementToProof">If you are a Northeast Ohio Based playwright and/or performing artist and would like to submit a piece
<i>(either you have already written or would like to write)</i> we are looking for you!! We are excited to be a part of providing a platform to bring new works to Northeast Ohio audiences!<br class="ContentPasted0">
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<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0 elementToProof"><u class="ContentPasted0">If you would like to submit a piece, here are some parameters and important information:</u></span></div>
<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">-Selected piece should echo/focus on the festival theme of
<b><i>Social Awareness.</i></b></span></div>
<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">-Selected pieces should be ideally between 30 and 90min in length<b style="font-style: italic;">. </b></span></div>
<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"><b class="ContentPasted0">-5 Semi Finalist pieces<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">will
be selected and presented as "staged readings" and/or presentations. (Think chairs and music stands only, a general wash and some sound effects if needed). </span></div>
<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">-These 5 selected works will be presented Friday<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">September
29</span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">th</span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"> and Saturday 30</span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">in
the Regina Auditorium on the campus of Notre Dame College.<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"><b class="ContentPasted0">The 5 semifinalist authors will receive an honorarium (stipend). </b></span></div>
<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">-Voting will be open to audiences to participate in helping to select ONE to TWO finalists from the semi Finalist works presented
on the 29<span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup> and 30th.</span></span></div>
<div class="x_elementToProof elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"><b class="ContentPasted0">-Finalists will receive an honorarium and their work will be presented as the Fall NDC Theatre Ensemble Workshop Production performing
November 17th, 18th, & 19th, 2023. </b></span></div>
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<div class="x_elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;margin:0px"><span class="x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><b><u>Deadlines and Submission details</u></b>. <br class="ContentPasted0">
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will be accepted through September 1st, 2023.</span></div>
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Submission should be emailed to Celeste Cosentino, Director of Theatre Studies, Notre Dame College Performing Arts.<b class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>ccosentino@ndc.edu </b></div>
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<span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Email your submission. </span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Format can be PDF, WORD, YOU TUBE links (if you have video footage of a piece) will also be accepted. </span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Put<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b class="ContentPasted0">NDC
Fall 2023 NP Festival Submission<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></b></span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">in the
<b>SUBJECT LINE of the email. </b></span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Please feel free to call or email<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><b class="ContentPasted0">Celeste Cosentino,</b></span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>Director
of Theatre Studies, with any questions! </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px"><b class="ContentPasted0">216-373.6540</b></span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span>or<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><b class="ContentPasted0">ccosentino@ndc.edu</b></span></div>
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