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The Deadline for submissions for MadLab’s 2015 Young Writer’s Short Play Festival is

December 8, 2014

MadLab Theatre is extending its outreach to young playwrights in local and regional high schools in Central Ohio.  The goal is to produce a group of 10 minute short plays written by high school students for its Young Writers Short Play Festival 2015 in MadLab’s 2015 theatre season.  Playwrights can submit their short play to MadLab any time between now and December 8, 2014.  Scripts will be selected by December 21, 2014.  After this, playwrights will work with known and published playwrights as adult mentors to workshop, stage read, and revise scripts as needed.  This learning environment will provide education and creativity for young playwrights work to be produced for the very first time.  MadLab will then produce all chosen scripts in end of July 2015.

Below are the submission requirements and also a timeline for the Young Writers Short Play Festival 2015 project.  Please help us continue promoting the arts to students throughout the community through this program.


The first YOUNG WRITERS SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL began at the end of 2011, with the program moving through the spring, and the first production in July/August 2012. MadLab followed that with the 2nd annual Young Writers Short Play Festival in 2013.  Highlighting the works of 10 local high school playwrights, all young women, the 2014 went on to even greater success than the previous two years.

SUBMISSIONS:

  1. 1.Content is open to what playwright wants to write.

  2. 2.Up to 10 pages only required.  Must also read at 10 minutes or less. No submissions will be accepted over 10 pages.

  3. 3.PDF or MS Word format.

  4. 4.All submissions should have a title page, character description, set and prop needs. Note: These pages do not count for the 10 pages of the play.

  5. 5.Play should be able to be produced on a theatre stage.  Your stage directions and needs should be geared toward stage rather than film.

  6. 6.All submissions are due to MadLab Theatre by Monday, December 8, 2014.

  7. 7.Go to link:  http://www.123contactform.com/form-1109303/Young-Writers-Submission-Form


Deadlines for The Young Writers Short Play Festival program


The following deadlines include when scripts are due and also required events for playwrights.

  1. Submission deadline: December 8, 2014.

  2. Plays will be chosen: December 21, 2014.

  3. Playwright workshops:  January 2014 (specific dates TBD).

  4. Meet and Greet dinner: January 25, 2015

  5. Stage Reading 1 and Stage Reading 2: February 15th and March 15th, 2015.

  6. Final revised play to be completed by end of April 2014 (specific dates TBD)


COMMUNICATION INFORMATION FOR MADLAB:

Young Writers Coordinators:  Michelle Batt and Becky Horseman

Communication email:  youngwriters@madlab.net

Communication phone number:  614.226.7273 (Michelle Batt)