PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTORS GROWING, EXPERIENCING, SHARING
HERE'S SOME FUN NEWS!
Onstage/Offstage, hosted and produced by George Sapio (onstageoffstage.org) is featuring RAYMOND ALVIN as its late October guest. We have a great chat with Ray and also produce his short play "Where Do We Go?" Do not miss this!!
https://onstageoffstage.podbean.com/
FUTURE MEETINGS:
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2024 ON ZOOM
6:00 pm until 9:30 PM
GROUP C: THE LINE-UP:
6:15 TASMIN JAHAN
6:30 WALTRUDIS BUCK
6:45 DONALD LOFTUS
7:00 DIRK BURROWS
7:15 SHERRY FRIEDMAN
7:30 CORLISS PARKER
7:45 PAUL K SMITH
8:00 MADELINE PUCCIONI
8:15 MARTIN ALVIN
8:30 RAYMOND ALVIN
8:45 REX MCGREGOR
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THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is on Tuesday, November 5th.
Therefore, we will meet LIVE on Wednesday, November 6th.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2024 LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
6:00 pm until 9:30
797 8th Ave
New York, NY 10019
FOR ALL LIVE SESSIONS, PLAYS WILL BE READ IN THE ORDER OF THE PLAYWRIGHT’S ARRIVAL. THEY WILL BE CAST AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LIVE SESSION.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024 ON ZOOM
6:00 pm until 10:00 PM
THE LINE-UP:
6:15 IURI SILVESTRI
6:30 ANITA WEBB
6:45 AMY DRAKE
7:00 CORLISS PARKER
7:15 SHARON STEIN (REPLACING ANDREW LEVINE)
7:30 CAROL BERMAN
7:45 DONALD LOFTUS (REPLACING CANDACE CAPLIN)
8:00 RAYMOND ALVIN (REPLACING DAWN JAMIESON)
8:15 LAURA ROHRMAN (REPLACING APRIL LINSCOTT)
9:00 CATHERINE HAMPTON
9:00 ARTHUR LUNDQUIST
9:15 MAX HEPPNER
9:30 DIRK BURROWS
9:45 ALAN STEWART
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2024 ON ZOOM
6:00 pm until 10:00 PM
GROUP B: THE LINE-UP:
6:15 IURI SILVESTRI
6:30 JOY MARTIN
6:45 J. LOIS DIAMOND (REPLACING ELWHY JONES)
7:00 LESLIE CORN
7:15 LINDA PALLOTTA
7:30 KATHRYN KEATS
7:45 GEORGE SAPIO
8:00 GREG THOMAS
8:15 JENIFER M. KELLY
8:30 JESSICA F. BIRNBAUM
8:45 LIONELLE HAMANAKA
9:00 GRACE ANGELA HENRY
9:15 DONALD LOFTUS
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2024 ON ZOOM
6:00 pm until 10:00 PM
GROUP C: THE LINE-UP:
6:15 TASMIN JAHAN
6:30 PAUL K SMITH
6:45 MICHAEL AHMED
7:00 MICHELLE RISSE
7:15 SHERRY FRIEDMAN
7:30 TONY BARONE
7:45 WALTRUDIS BUCK
8:00 MADELINE PUCCIONI
8:15 MARTIN ALVIN
8:30 NICHOLAS HART
8:45 RACHEL R. LADUTKE
9:00 RAYMOND ALVIN
9:15 MICHAEL BLIZZARD
9:30 REX MCGREGOR
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2024 LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
6:00 pm until 9:30
797 8th Ave
New York, NY 10019
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2024 ON ZOOM
6:00 pm until 10:00 PM
GROUP A: THE LINE-UP:
6:15 ANITA WEBB
6:30 AMY DRAKE
6:45 CORLISS PARKER
7:00 SHARON STEIN (REPLACING ANDREW LEVINE)
7:15 CAROL BERMAN
7:30 CANDACE CAPLIN
7:45 DAWN JAMIESON
8:00 LAURA ROHRMAN (REPLACING APRIL LINSCOTT)
8:30 CATHERINE HAMPTON
8:45 ARTHUR LUNDQUIST
9:00 DIRK BURROWS
9:15 ALAN STEWART
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2024 ON ZOOM
6:00 pm until 10:00 PM
GROUP B: THE LINE-UP:
6:15 IURI SILVESTRI
6:30 JOY MARTIN
6:45 J. LOIS DIAMOND (REPLACING ELWHY JONES)
7:00 LESLIE CORN
7:15 LINDA PALLOTTA
7:30 KATHRYN KEATS
7:45 GEORGE SAPIO
8:00 GREG THOMAS
8:15 JENIFER M. KELLY
8:30 JESSICA F. BIRNBAUM
8:45 LIONELLE HAMANAKA
9:00 GRACE ANGELA HENRY
9:15 DONALD LOFTUS
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THE NEXT TWO WEEKS ARE CHRISTMAS EVE AND NEW YEARS EVE. WE WILL NOT HAVE SESSIONS THESE WEEKS. WE WILL RESUME IN THE NEW YEAR ON JANUARY 7, 2025.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2024 LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
6:00 pm until 9:30
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2024 LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
6:00 pm until 9:30
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OPPORTUNITIES:
ONGOING
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is $1,900.
Dramatists Guild Fund -Bridge and Crisis Relief GrantsThe Dramatists Guild Foundation’s
Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500, now available to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses.
Crisis Relief Grants support writers in times of need to get back to doing what they do best. DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
Concord Theatricals – Playwrights Welcome
Developed for the Dramatists Guild of America members, Playwrights Welcome is a national ticketing initiative created by Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals company, along with input from other publishing and licensing houses. Playwrights Welcome is designed to offer free tickets to professional playwrights on the day of a performance. These available tickets are ones that would otherwise go unsold; we firmly believe that no theatre should give away a ticket that could otherwise be sold. Visit the website for information on how to participate.
Action, Spectacle Poetry Magazine
Action, Spectacle is a biannual magazine based in Louisville, KY, and Brooklyn. We also open an open call reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts, a chapbook contest, and editor’s prize for a single poem, manuscript consultations, and workshops. We seek both debut and established writers and thinkers creating intriguing and original work, whether conventional or experimental, and we don’t shy away from the idea of a text that might be “difficult.”
Pioneer Drama Service- Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest
To encourage the development of quality theatrical materials for the educational, community and children’s theatre markets, Pioneer Drama Service is proud to sponsor the annual Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest. Submissions will be accepted on an on-going basis with a December 31 cutoff each year. All eligible plays accepted for publication will be considered contest finalists, from which the winner will be selected by April 30 of the year following submission. The contest winner will receive a $1,000 royalty advance in addition to publication.
2025 Trustus Theatre Playwrights’ Festival
Columbia, SC
NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS (no deadline provided)
Application fee: $20.The Trustus Playwrights’ Festival began at Trustus Theatre in 1988. This festival accepts submissions nationally from playwrights seeking to develop their script for a full main stage production at Trustus Theatre. Past winners include David Lindsay-Abaire, Jon Tuttle, Deborah Breevort, Stephen Belber, Andrea Lepcio, and Sarah Hammond (to name a few). Trustus Theatre selects one new play annually as the winner of the Trustus Playwrights’ Festival. Submissions should be non-musical plays that have small casts (6 actors or less) and modest design needs (no fly systems or pyrotechnics please). The festival is welcoming to experimental works. The festival prefers scripts that have not been produced, and Trustus’ production has “World Premiere” status.
We now have more than 50 active playwrights, as outlined below.
A. STEWART, A. DRAKE, A. LEVINE, A. WEBB, A. LINSCOTT, A. FEINGLASS, A. LUNDQUIST, B. LITT, C. CAPLIN, C. BERMAN, C. HAMPTON, C. PARKER, D. HREPLACINGALBERSTEIN, D. JAMIESON, D. BURROWS, D. LOFTUS, E. JONES, G. SAPIO, G. KADIGAN, G. A. HENRY, G. THOMAS I. SILVESTRI J. M. KELLY J. F. BIRNBAUM J. HUNTER J.L. DIAMOND J. MARTIN K.FALLIN, K. KEATS, L. CORN, L. PALLOTTA, L. HAMANAKA, L. ROHRMAN, M. PUCCIONI, M. ALVIN, M. AHMED, M. BLIZZARD, M.DIGAETANO, M. RIESSE, N. HART, P. K. SMITH, P. CHANE, R. R. LADUTKE, R. ALVIN, R. MCGREGOR, S. FRIEDMAN, S. STEIN, T. JAHAN, T. BARONE, W. BUCK.
THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE GROUPS:
FOR FALL 2024, THE THREE GROUPS HAVE BEEN REORGANIZED. EACH GROUP HAS 15 PLAYWRIGHTS.
THE NEW GROUPS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
GROUP A:
ALAN STEWART, AMY DRAKE, SHARON STEIN, ANITA WEBB, APRIL LINSCOTT, ART FEINGLASS,
ARTHUR J LUNDQUIST, BARBARA LITT, CANDACE CAPLIN, CAROL BERMAN, CATHERINE HAMPTON, CORLISS PARKER,
DAN HALBERSTEIN, DAWN JAMIESON, DIRK BURROWS.
GROUP B:
DONALD LOFTUS, ELWHY JONES, GEORGE SAPIO, GLORY KADIGAN, GRACE ANGELA, HENRY GREG THOMAS,
IURI SILVESTRI , JENIFER MARGARET KELLY, JESSICA FEDER-BIRNBAUM, J. LOIS DIAMOND, JOY MARTIN, KATHRYN KEATS,
LESLIE CORN, LINDA PALLOTTA, LIONELLE HAMANAKA.
GROUP C:
MADELINE PUCCIONI, MARTIN ALVIN, MICHAEL AHMED, MICHAEL BLIZZARD, MICHAEL DIGAETANO, MICHELLE RISSE,
NICHOLAS HART, PAUL K SMITH, RACHEL RUBIN LADUTKE, RAYMOND ALVIN, REX MCGREGOR, SHERRY FRIEDMAN,
TASMIN JAHAN, TONY BARONE, WALTRUDIS BUCK.
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