<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:14px;text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Stow Players is accepting new submissions for their Emerging Playwright Reading Series (EPRS).</span><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background:transparent;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background:transparent;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">EPRS is a play development program, minimally staged with actors (6 or less) carrying scripts, allowing the audience to assist the playwright in fulfilling the play’s full potential.  We are currently seeking playwrights who currently live within 3 hours of Stow, Ohio and are willing to travel to our performance space for the Staged Reading.  We have the following dates available for our 2025-2026 season:  January 9, January 10, February 6, February 7, February 27, February 28, March 26 and March 27. Performances are at 7:30PM.  We are currently planning on choosing two or three scripts for this season, depending on submissions received. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background:transparent;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background:transparent;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Performances takes place at </span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Heritage Barn</span></span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Silver Springs Park</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:center"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">5238 Young Rd</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Stow, Ohio 44224</span></span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submissions can be less than full length (~90 minutes). However, if submissions are not full length, they may be combined with other shorter scripts for one evening of staged reading and talk back. </font></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submissions must not have received a full production. Submissions that have received full productions, even if they have undergone significant post-production revisions, will not be considered.</font></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:center"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-line:underline;letter-spacing:-1px;text-transform:uppercase">TO SUBMIT:</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Send an email to <a href="mailto:StowPlayers@gmail.com" target="_blank">StowPlayers@gmail.com</a> with the following information:</font></span></span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px"><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">NAME:</span></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">EMAIL:</font></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">PHONE:</font></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ADDRESS:</font></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">BIO: (250 words of less, please)</font></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">PLAY TITLE:</font></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"># OF CHARACTERS: (6 or under)</font></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">SYNOPSIS: (In 250 words or less, tell us about your script)</font></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Attach script(s) as a .pdf</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">.  </span></font></span></span> </li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000">Preferred date of staged reading</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you have a Director and/or Actors in mind, please provide that information when submitting your script. If not, Stow Players will provide them for you. If you choose the latter approach, these choices will be at our discretion and you, the playwright, will have no veto power.</font></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Please submit scripts no later than September 15, 2025 to be considered for this season. If scripts are received after this date, they will be placed into consideration for next season. Scripts are submitted to our play reading committee for consideration.  </font>If you are chosen, you will be notified by Stow Players in October.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Further questions? Please email us at <a href="mailto:stowplayers@gmail.com" target="_blank">stowplayers@gmail.com</a>.</p></div>
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