[Capdist-auditions] Attention Young Playwrights - theREP's NEW VOICES Submission Deadline Extended

[Margaret Hall]

Capital Repertory, Albany, NY
Next Act! New Voices

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Submissions are now being accepted for one act plays by young writers for Capital Repertory Theatre’s (theREP) New Voices event in the 2016 Next Act! New Play Summit 5.

Next Act! celebrating its five year anniversary, is an expansion of Capital Repertory Theatre’s commitment to the development of new work and directly reflects the theatre’s mission, “to create meaningful theatre generated from an authentic link to the community.”

New Voices, which received a pilot run in 2014 summit, reflects the theatre’s dedication to providing theatrical opportunities to students from Elementary School through College. This particular Next Act event is dedicated to new works from the next generation of playwrights, and will include 3-5 readings of one act plays by student playwrights. Next Act! New Play Summit 5 takes place October 21 – 24, 2016.

Accepting 15-Minute one act plays by students ages 13-22.
(must be enrolled in school at the time of submission)
Multi-cultural and ethnically diverse pieces encouraged.
Comedy and Drama welcome!

ELIGIBILITY
Eligible plays must be 15-minutes in length and should have no more than 7 characters.

Plays previously submitted to Next Act will not be considered for this years’ Summit.

Playwrights must be enrolled in school at the time of submission.

Submission Deadline: Friday, July 15, 2016

HOW TO SUBMIT
Plays: Playwrights should submit, as a single Microsoft word or single PDF file attachment, a short one-paragraph synopsis – that illuminates the plays entire plot including its ending; character descriptions and the complete script. Playwrights should include the name of the school they are currently attending – and what year – in the body of the email.

Email your submission to nextact at capitalrep.org<mailto:mhall at capitalrep.org> with NEW VOICES SUBMISSION in the subject line.

Electronic submissions preferred.

PLAYS SELECTED:
Three to five plays will be selected to have readings during the annual 3-day summit, which takes place October 21 – 24, 2016.

A limited travel allotment is provided.

Capital Rep is a professional LORT D theatre, established in Albany in 1981
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