Special Events
NORTHWEST TEN: WRITING ON THE WALL!
OREGON RESIDENTS ONLY
Back to Work:
In our effort to produce a strong and sturdy ten-minute play festival, NW10 is working with a motive. Please consider NW10: WRITING ON THE WALL as a broadly construed working theme for our 2012 production. Possible interpretations include, but are not limited to:
ACTION: The Act of Writing, the Action of Writers.
TEXT: Graffiti, Press, Signage, Technology.
WORDS: Inevitability, Overtness, Assertion, Omen.
YOU: Your possibilities and creative construction.
Thank you for joining our effort. Your participation is greatly appreciated. Now, get to work!
Submission Guidelines for 2012:
Open only to residents of Oregon.
Scripts must be original, unproduced, and unpublished at the time of submission. (Plays may have received previous workshop readings.)
The play, exclusive of title and cast pages, must be 10 pages or less, with a run time of 8 to 10 minutes.
Plays with a small cast and minimal technical requirements are preferred.
All submissions must be in a standard professional play format.
Electronic submissions only. Submit your script by email attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
Send entries to: NW10Festival@gmail.com with the subject "NW10 Submission."
Your submission must be formatted as follows:
Your email must contain the play's title, author's name, address, phone number, and email address. (The author's name must not appear anywhere on the script itself.)
Your email must also contain one sentence describing how your play addresses the theme "Writing on the Wall"
The first page of the script must contain the title, list of characters, and setting information.
The second page will be the first page of the script. The other pages of the play follow.
Include the title and page numbers on every page.
Authors may submit only one script.
All authors consent to permit Northwest Ten to produce their play if it is selected. Authors retain copyright and full ownership of their plays.
Plays will be staged April 13, 14, 15, 20, 21 & 22 at the Lord Leebrick Theatre Company, Eugene, Oregon.
Deadline: Submissions must be received on or before October 31, 2011.