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." (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 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, wualstudio@gmail.com) Questions? Sue Johnson, SAG/AFTRA Director, Wake Up And Live's Actors Studio Producer, "Wake Up And Live With the Arts" *www.wualstudio.org <http://www.wualstudio.org>*