WUAL - Call for Playwrights
To
Submit 20 – 30 - minute Plays
For
"Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope, Health and Total Well-being – ‘I Rise’”
(Please share with your directors, students, casts, social media.)
Wake Up and Live’s Actors’ Studio (WUAL) is continuing its “Healing Arts” project. We are inviting playwrights to submit 20-30 -minute plays on the topic of Virtual and in-person bullying which can be performed on Cleveland area stages and YouTube .
Selected stories will depict mental health challenges the character faces, is overcoming, or has overcome, which allow him / her to now live an improved mental health life (like the Phoenix – “I Rise.”).
“Wake Up to Healing Arts” Submissions should:
Show how the performing arts (drama, vocal & instrumental music, dance, poetry) may be used to
help address the bullying mental health issue in addition to / instead of clinical methods.
Submissions:
. 20 - 30- minute plays may have no more than 3 – 4 characters, with an emphasis on the people of color community, teens and females.
. Describe some mental health CHALLENGES the character has overcome, and / or is currently
experiencing.
. Why the character wants to make changes
. Examples of topics which reflect mental health issues
. The stigma of mental health issues
. Teens and young adults’ suicide
. Teen pregnancy
. How using drama, music and dance can help heal mental health issues
. Issues contributing to mental health challenges: Depression; Anxiety; Loss of
income; Jobs; Family; Toxic Relationships; Domestic abuse; Bullying
IF Selected:
1. Plays will be performed on stage at Dunham Museum & Tavern, Sat. Sept. 28 & Sun. Sept. 29 and on “Wake Up And Live With the Arts” YouTube
2. Stipend will be paid.
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 31, 2024. (If you need an extension, wualstudio@gmail.com)
Questions?
Sue Johnson, SAG/AFTRA
Director, Wake Up And Live's Actors Studio
Producer, "Wake Up And Live With the Arts"
Judy Allen
co-Coordinator