Playfest – Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays Contest Name: Deadline: (for ongoing submissions, enter 1/1/3000) Contact Website: Accept Musicals?: Unknown Yes No Accept Plays?: Unknown Yes No Accept Young Audiences?: Unknown Yes No Accept Edgy Material?: Unknown Yes No Accept Radio/Film/TV Scripts?: Unknown Yes No Categories Award Cash Conference Fellowship Festival Production Reading Residency Song Contest Workshop Length Full-length Full-length One-act One-act Short -- Parent -- Contest Tags Description: Visual Text Orlando Shakespeare Theater will be performing seven new plays for the PlayFest 2017 weekend, November 2–5, 2017. In Round 1, we will accept submissions from January 1, 2017 through March 1, 2017 of 10 pages from new plays to be considered for PlayFest 2017. WHAT TYPES OF PLAYS ARE WE LOOKING FOR? We look for scripts that are appropriate for our Goldman Theater, an intimate proscenium theater that seats 118. Typical cast size for the Goldman Theater is 1–8. We are especially interested in scripts that speak to the issues that our audiences are experiencing right now. Past PlayFest plays have dealt with issues of racism, autism, gender, Alzheimer's, immigration, etc. Our Shakespeare and classical productions deal with “timeless issues” and we like for our new plays to deal with modern “issues of our times.” ELIGIBILITY For a script to be eligible for inclusion in PlayFest 2017, a play does NOT have to be a world premiere, but it must be a “new” play. For our purposes, that means it cannot: 1. Have had more than two previous professional (AEA) productions before PlayFest 2017 2. Have been published 3. Have had an AEA production in New York City or Orlando 4. Most importantly, the author must still be developing and working on the script. Contact Name - FIRST: LAST: Contact Title: Contact Email: Contact Phone: Contact Address1: Contact Address2: Contact City: Contact State: Contact Zip: Contact Country: Comments from NMI Staff: Visual Text PlayFest 2019 is tentatively scheduled for Fall 2019. More information will be announced at a later date. As of March 2024, there are no updates on the contest.
