New Play Development Workshops
Texas State University
DEADLINE: April 15, 2021
INFO: The mission of Texas State University's Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration (formerly the Black and Latino Playwrights Conference) is to study the craft, to future the artist, and celebrate the work.
The Department of Theatre and Dance annually sponsors a Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration that includes professional guest director and actors, auditions, 3-5 days of open rehearsals and in-class presentations by guest artists culminating in staged reading performances open to the campus and community.
OBJECTIVES:
Provide Texas State University students majoring in theatre with the opportunity to work with professionals for a hands-on, week-long lab that includes the collaborative process of "finding a play" in rehearsals, culminating with a public staged reading.
Showcase the work of Black and Latino playwrights from across the country.
Annually lend an ear to new voices and help writers, in collaboration with directors, actors and dramaturges, to shape their stories and hone their craft in an environment that allows the writer to explore and grow and learn fearlessly.
Share the play with the campus and community in a staged reading for audiences followed by a discussion and/or question and answer session.
GUIDELINES:
Only unproduced and unpublished scripts are eligible for consideration. No musicals.
Submissions must be from Playwrights descending from the African or LatinX diaspora, writing about Black and Latino cultural aesthetic
The submission must include a synopsis and character list/Breakdown.
The playwrights are expected to attend the rehearsals and reading presentations.
Only scripts submitted prior to the April 15, 2021 deadline will be considered.
Playwrights from across the country are encouraged to submit.
Manuscripts must be typed in the standard play format and must include the playwright’s contact information.
You must submit the consent/information form.
Play scripts may be delivered by regular mail, in person or using the submission form. Include a stamped self-addressed envelope if you wish your manuscript returned. Send manuscripts to;
Department of Theatre & Dance
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, Texas 78666
ATTN: Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration
Notification of selected writers by June 30, 2021.
https://www.theatreanddance.txstate.edu/Productions/BLPC/New-Play-Development-Workshops.html
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Bethany Arts Community Residencies
DEADLINE: April 15, 2021
INFO: BAC offers short term residencies attracting artists at different stages of their careers from around the world for the development of both new works and works in progress. BAC welcomes artists working across most disciplines, including visual artists in any medium, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and lighting, projection, costume and sound designers. During their time on site, these artists will develop new works while engaging with local artists and the public.
BAC provides a collective environment for artists of all disciplines where they can engage in meaningful interaction and stimulating discussions with their peers, while pursuing individual or group projects. It is an ideal setting for the exchange of ideas, the inspiration for new work, and the harmonious cross-fertilization of disciplines. Successful applicants are typically mid-career or established artists. However, emerging artists who believe their work is of exceptional merit are eligible as well.
Individuals and small teams of up to 3 artists may apply.
BAC residencies have three important parts:
Evening Meals: All residents must attend evening meals (provided by BAC) with their fellow artists.
Residency Plan: All residents must have a plan of action for what they will complete during their time at BAC.
Public Component: All residencies must include a public component accessible to the outside community that connects to their residency plan.
Public Component
The public component of your application must relate to your artist residency and engage the local and broader community. This may include open studio visits, presentations, teaching a class/workshop, works-in-progress showing, exhibition, or other outreach or community engagement project. BAC will help you schedule your public component but it is up to you to plan how you will execute this event and identify any outside community partners that you are interested in working with in your application. Please make sure that the public component you identify is able to be completed while you are in residence. BAC encourages all the artists to engage with and support each other during their stay, including attending fellow residents’ public programs.
Past Resident Artist examples >
Artist Live/Work Spaces
The artist living spaces are inviting and comfortable with expansive views of our scenic property. Residents have access to our facilities and 25-acre grounds offering a fruit orchard and meditation trail. At the heart of the campus is our commercial kitchen and dining area where artists in residence and visitors of BAC can gather for daily meals.
Learn more about our facilities and grounds >
Meals
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided during your stay. All residents must attend evening meals with their fellow artists. These dinner gatherings encourage the exchange of ideas and the development of collaborative relationships with other residents. This allows the artists to gain familiarity with each other’s’ work and establish a vigorous, engaging dialogue that supports collaboration and connection. We will do our very best to accommodate all food allergies and sensitivities, please let us know of any concerns you may have or specific needs in your application.
Subsidy
BAC offers a weekly subsidy to resident artists.
https://bethanyarts.org/residencies/
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HAMBIDGE RESIDENCIES
Hambidge Center
DEADLINE: April 15, 2021 (for Fall Session - September through December).
INFO: The Hambidge Center is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia and offers miles of nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole and an abundance of wildflowers.
The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities.
Each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. The studios are designed to protect the time, space and solitude that allows residents to focus on their work.
Resident groups are intentionally kept small enough (8-10 people) to gather around the dinner table each evening, Tuesday through Friday, for delicious vegetarian meals prepared by our chef. These communal meals are an essential part of the Hambidge residency experience. Serious topics are discussed (and light-hearted ones, too), experiences are shared, and encouragement is given. Many a collaboration and life-long friendship have begun at the Hambidge dinner table.
Members of each resident group come from different walks of life and work in different creative disciplines; from musicians, chefs and scientists, to visual artists, writers, and beyond. Each year, residents of all ages come to Hambidge from over 30 states across the U.S., as well as internationally.
Specialized equipment and facilities include the Antinori Pottery Studio, and a beautifully rebuilt turn-of-the-century Steinway grand piano housed in Garden Studio.
WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU APPLY
The studios are comfortable, but rustic and secluded. They are purposely simple, and most are out of sight of each other, if not quite isolated.
We are located in a forested environment. Residents should expect to occasionally encounter wildlife and insects – and sometimes the insects are inside the studios.
It is dark at night. There are no street lights or ambient light, other than the moon and stars.
Due to our remote location, there is no cell service at Hambidge. Each studio has a phone for emergency, local and incoming calls.
To encourage focused creativity, there is no internet in the studios. Wi-fi is available 24 hours a day in the communal space of Lucinda's Rock House.
ELIGIBILITY: Qualified applicants must be working at a professional level in their field. We seek applications from emerging and mid-career creatives, as well as from those who are established with national and/or international reputations.
Applications for residency are judged primarily on the quality of submitted work samples and professional promise. Hambidge accepts approximately 170 artists each year. There are no publication, exhibition, or performance requirements contingent on a Hambidge residency.
The Hambidge Center encourages creative professionals of all backgrounds to apply for admission. We celebrate varied ideas, world views, and personal characteristics, and are committed to being an organization that welcomes and respects everyone regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, race, religion, philosophical or political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, geographic origin, and socioeconomic status.
FEES: There is a $30 application fee. If this represents a barrier to submitting an application, please contact our Operations Manager at center@hambidge.org to discuss a waiver.
The residency fee is $250 per week.
Note: the actual cost of a residency is $1500/wk. Every year, the Hambidge Center raises funds to supplement $1250 for every residency week, leaving each resident with only the $250/wk fee.
FUNDING: Hambidge offers several merit-based Distinguished Fellowships which remove the fees for a two-week residency and provide a $700 stipend. Available Distinguished Fellowships vary from session to session and are listed in the Awards & Financial Assistance section of each session's application. Unless otherwise noted, they are reserved for first-time residents. The list of previously awarded Distinguished Fellowships can be seen here.
FINANCIAL AID: Hambidge offers limited financial aid scholarships to accepted residents. Priority will be given to minority residents with the goal of a more diverse and inclusive residency program.
Upon acceptance to the program and receiving the financial aid forms, applicants will be required to provide completed documents within 5 days, including last year’s Tax Return, and a Statement of Need. The Statement is a description of financial needs: the reasons for requesting aid and an explanation of the applicant’s financial situation, including current expenses, debt, and sources of income. International applicants will be asked to complete a questionnaire instead of providing a tax return.
Admission Panels: Applications in each discipline are reviewed by panels of three esteemed peers within that discipline. Panel membership is rotated frequently.
Length of Stay: Applicants may request stays between two weeks and eight weeks. Residents arrive on Tuesday and depart on Sunday. Residencies of one week are available to Arts & Culture Administrator applicants and Culinary applicants ONLY. Eight-week residencies will only be scheduled in the Fall and Spring Sessions. The maximum length of residencies awarded in Summer Session is four weeks. Because of differing lengths of individual stays, residents will arrive and depart on varying schedules.
Creative Disciplines
Hambidge accepts applications in the following disciplines:
ARTS & CULTURE ADMINISTRATION - including propopsals for professional projects and/or personal creative projects by administrators working for arts, culture or environmental organizations, or independently (a freelance curator, for example). It is not a requirement that the organization be a non-profit, however it must be an organization that works with or assists other people or produces public projects.
CERAMICS - including functional and sculptural
CULINARY ARTS - including recipe development, cookbook writing, food writing, food styling, food photography, and food preservation
DANCE - including choreography, performance, and theory
MUSIC - including composition, performance, vocal, and theory, in all genres of music
SCIENCE - this residency offers scientists in any branch of science a place to write and/or organize research
VISUAL ARTS - including book arts, conceptual art, design, drawing, environmental art, fiber arts, film & video, installation arts, metalworking, mixed media, multimedia art, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and woodworking. Note: We do not have darkroom or printmaking facilities, but provide exploration space for artists working in those disciplines. Those working in wood or metal must bring their own tools and machinery.
WRITING - including academic scholarship, criticism, fiction, history, poetry, journalism, nonfiction, philosophy, playwriting, screenwriting, storytelling.
References: Hambidge no longer requires letters of recommendation as part of the application materials.
Collaborations and Couples: Collaborators must submit individual applications, but may choose to share studio/living space. Applications must contain a joint proposal of the work they intend to do while in residence and an example of previous collaborative work. The acceptance of one collaborator does NOT guarantee the acceptance of the other.
Non-collaborating couples who wish to be in residence together must submit individual applications. Upon acceptance, they may request concurrent residency dates and choose whether or not to share studio/living space. No other provisions are made for partners. The acceptance of one partner does NOT guarantee the acceptance of the other.
Children: Hambidge has successfully hosted several residents accompanied by their children. We are still developing our parental program, but we are quite willing to work with resident parents to find the best timing and to recommend part-time childcare for their stay. Please contact us at center@hambidge.org or 706-746-7324 to discuss these options before submitting your application.
Pets: With the exception of licensed service animals (as defined by the ADA), pets are not permitted.
International Applicants: Hambidge welcomes applicants in all disciplines from around the world. Writers who work in languages other than English should supply samples of work in translation as well as in the original. A working understanding of English is required. Hambidge does not provide an interpreter for residents who speak little or no English.
Application Instructions: All application materials must be submitted electronically through hambidge.slideroom.com. Step-by-step instructions are included in each application. For technical assistance during the application process, contact Slidroom Support in the Help tab of the application portal.
Late applications will not be accepted. Notification of results is sent via email approximately 5 weeks after the application deadline.
NOTE: We will contact you using the EMAIL address in your Slideroom Account Information. Before submitting your application, please double check to make sure ALL your Slideroom account info is current.
https://www.hambidge.org/guidelines-apply
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2021 PLAYWRITING COMPETITION
Austin Film Festival
DEADLINES / FEES:
Early Bird: April 16, 2021 ($20)
Late: May 21, 2021 ($30)
INFO: At Austin Film Festival, our mission is to champion all writers across mediums. Our Playwriting Competition (open to full-length plays) gives playwrights a chance to explore our film and television conference. It will also allow film professionals to discover storytellers who have mastered the art and craft of stage drama.
AFF has always promoted story as the most important element of film and TV. So giving playwrights their own story exposure and a chance of crossover into film and TV only advances our mission. There are many other playwriting competitions out there, but AFF offers playwrights broader access to successful writers and professionals in all the other related fields.
Plays that make the Final Round will have readings during the Conference. Advancing playwrights will have access to exclusive panels, workshops, roundtables, and unique networking opportunities with professionals in theatre, film, and television.
AFF understands the relationship between passion and writing. That’s why we have enormous respect for the many successful playwrights who made the seamless transition to film and TV – playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, John Patrick Shanley, Tony Kushner and Beau Willimon. And that list grows exponentially with today’s widening viewer market.
General Eligibility:
All plays submitted must be in English.
The play must not have been optioned, sold, had a professional production, or be scheduled to have a professional production prior to October 23, 2021. A “professional production” is defined as a staged production where the playwrights involved were or will be compensated for their intellectual property or work. Applicants must notify Austin Film Festival (“AFF” or the “Festival”) of any changes in status following submission.
Applicants may submit more than one play.
All submissions must be accompanied by the appropriate submission fee PER ENTRY and if submitting by mail, a completed entry form including authors’ original signatures. Please do not send a photocopy of your signature. Make checks or money orders payable to “Austin Film Festival.” Only US money orders will be accepted.
AFF reserves the right in its sole discretion to reject or disqualify any ineligible entries, without a refund.
Full-length plays, original or adapted, will be accepted. One-act plays, musicals, and screenplays will not be considered.
Only complete applications will be accepted.