Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre Play Contests 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 <p class="font_8">Submissions are accepted year-round, but must meet the summer deadline of July 1 to be considered for the 8 Tens Festival the following January.</p> <p class="font_8">Over the following six months, 16 plays are anonymously selected by a panel of judges consisting of local writers, directors, and theater enthusiasts. They are then assigned to directors at random, and rehearsed for three months, before premiering in front of a sold-out audience at the annual 8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival.</p> <p class="font_8">The only criteria for entering: each play must be 10 minutes or less.</p> <p class="font_8">Submissions must be 10 pages or fewer, in 12-point type, written in standard play format.</p> <p class="font_8">All submissions must include three copies of the play and two cover letters – one of which includes the play's title, plus name, address, phone, email and short biography of the writer, and one with the play's title only.</p> <p class="font_8">All submissions will be judged with the identity of the writers withheld.</p> <p class="font_8">There is a $10 fee per submission. Submission fee is waived for young writers (under 18 years of age) or incarcerated writers.</p> 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 <ul class="color_19 font_8"> <li> <p class="font_8"><span class="color_19">Deadline: March 15, 2022. There is no entry fee.</span></p> </li> <li> <p class="font_8"><span class="color_19">Submissions should be e-mailed to: <a href="mailto:ypcat21@gmail.com" target="_self">ypcat21@gmail.com</a></span></p> </li> <li> <p class="font_8"><span class="color_19">or mailed to: SC Actors’ Theatre, PO BOX 7084, Santa Cruz, CA. 95061</span></p> </li> </ul> <p class="font_8"><span class="color_19"><span class="wixGuard">No updates for 2024 as of Sept 2023.</span></span></p>
