In honor of Independence Day, give us your poor, your tired, your huddled playwrights. We will take care of you with our updated play submissions deadlines for July on our Opp-Log.
A lot of opportunities on July 1st and 2nd so check it out soon.
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MFA Directing Alum Seeks Short Play Submissions: QUICKLY!
OHIO MFA Directing alum, Lee Kinney is seeking short plays by July 4th:
“Piper Theater Productions, a not for profit theater company in Park Slope, is now accepting submissions for their new summer reading series. This series will take place weekly in July at the Old Stone House Park in Brooklyn.
We are looking for short plays (one acts or 10 minute plays) with a musical component that lend themselves to being performed outdoors. Priority will be given to scripts that present a unique relationship both to music and musical performance, as well as nature and the outdoors.
Publicity, performers and a beautiful outdoor performance space will be provided. Sorry, no stipend. Interested? Please submit your piece and a short statement detailing your background and reasons for applying to pipersummershorts@gmail.com by July 4th.”
Ryan Patrick Dolan (MFA ’16) Performing in UCB’s Del Close Marathon This Weekend
Ryan Patrick Dolan (MFA 2016) will be performing with his improv teams, Revolver and Pudding-Thank-You, this weekend in New York at UCB Theater‘s “Del Close Marathon.”
Dolan is a 12-year veteran of the Chicago improv scene and has been performing with both teams for about 7 years.
Revolver show info:
DCM UCB EAST Fri 7:00 pm – Fri 7:30 pm 153 E. 3rd St. at Avenue A
Pudding-Thank-You show info:
New York Theatre Workshop Sat 7:00 pm – Sat 7:15 pm 83 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Molly Hagan’s SWING OF THE SEA Published by Samuel French
OU BFA Alum, Molly Hagan, had her play, SWING OF THE SEA, published by Samuel French. It was Molly’s undergrad “thesis” play at Ohio. It was produced at Arcadia University in December 2011, and it won the KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award in 2012. Before that it had readings in New York, Louisville and at Ohio University.
Samuel French’s Synopsis: Boots, a girl who wears yellow rain boots even when it’s not raining, and a boy called Eggs take a journey through memory and imagination following the sudden death of their friend, Peter. As Eggs dreams of asking Boots to the upcoming Favorites Dance, Boots loses herself in a world of fallen leaves, consumed by her quest to remember the last words Peter said to her before he died. The Swing of the Sea is a play about growing old without aging that examines the way fantasy and memory converge when we lose someone we love.
You can follow Molly on twitter at @mollyhagan_.
Alum Dana Lynn Formby Reading at Steppenwolf Theater’s “First Look”
Dana Lynn Formby‘s play, AMERICAN BEAUTY SHOP, will have a reading at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater’s 9th Annual First Look of New Work, Friday, August 8 at 2:30pm. It’s being directed by Marti Lyons.
Formby is a OU MFA Alumnus currently living in Chicago and a founding member of Mortar Theater.
The synopsis of AMERICAN BEAUTY SHOP from Steppenwolf’s site: It’s hard to pull yourself up by your bootstraps in this economy—Sue should know. It’s harder when you’ve got kids, even whip-smart, talented ones like Judy. Sue has big dreams for both her basement beauty shop and her daughter, who’s anxiously waiting for a letter from Berkeley that could change her life. Armed with tough love, combative humor and an uncompromising work ethic, Sue is struggling to balance her own livelihood and Judy’s future. A heartfelt play about the true cost of dreams.
Steppenwolf’s “mission of First Look Repertory of New Work is to develop plays for future production at Steppenwolf and other theaters across the country. First Look provides a home for three playwrights each season to develop new plays, and presents developmental productions in rotating repertory, accompanied by readings and special events.”
Bianca Sams’ “Rust On Bone” 1 of 4 Plays Chosen for a New Works Festival.
Bianca Sams’ play “Rust on Bone” was one of four plays chosen for the Gulfshore Playhouse’s 2nd Annual New Works Festival in Naples, Florida. Sams, OU MFA ’14, will work with actors and director for a week before a staged reading of her play the weekend of the festival, Sept 4-7, 2014.
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