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CALLS FOR "HEALING ARTS" PLAYWRIGHTS

 

CALL FOR PLAYWRIGHTS TO SUBMIT 15-MINUTE PLAYS FOR "WAKE UP TO HEALING ARTS: USING PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA FOR DIRECTION, HOPE, HEALTH AND TOTAL WELL-BEING, 2.0."

 

 

Wake Up and Live’s Actors’ Studio (WUAL) is continuing its “Healing Arts” project. We are inviting playwrights to submit 15-minute plays or scenes on the topics of depression and / or teen suicide 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.

“Wake Up to Healing Arts” Submissions should:
Show how the performing arts (drama, vocal & instrumental music, dance, poetry) may be used to help address mental health issues in addition to / instead of clinical methods.

Submissions:

• 15- minute plays, monologues or scenes may have no more than 3 characters.
• 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, monologues and scenes will be performed on stage and on “Wake Up And Live With the Arts” YouTube
2. Stipend will be paid.

Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023.  (If you need an extension, email wualstudio@gmail.com)

Questions: wualstudio@gmail.com