12/01/2021
Calling all Latinx playwrights! See the email below that we received from San Diego Repertory Theatre - spread the word, and get those play submissions ready!
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Hello,
Submissions are now open for the 2022 San Diego REP Latinx New Play Festival and we would love it if you could share this call for submissions with your students and alumni.
San Diego Repertory Theatre and Amigos del REP are proud to announce open submissions to the 2022 Latinx New Play Festival, a weekend of new play readings by Latinx playwrights. The festival will showcase four new Latinx plays by Latinx playwrights. The 2022 Latinx New Play Festival seeks to expand the presence of Latinx stories and artists on the American stage that spotlight the broad range of today’s Latinx experience. The festival will invite artistic directors, literary managers, and producers to attend a hybrid in-person and online weekend of readings showcasing the work of Latinx actors, directors, and designers. Past selections include work by Diana Burbano, Herbert Siguenza, Francisco Mendoza, C. Quintana, and lily gonzales.
FESTIVAL DETAILS
Four scripts will be selected to be rehearsed and workshopped online between May and August 2022, resulting in a recorded reading. Recordings will then be aired synchronously online and in-person Sept 2-4, 2022. Each of the 4 selected readings will be rehearsed and recorded over one month between May and August 2022; combined rehearsal and performance will not exceed 29 hours. Each selected script will be assigned a Latinx director and actors (unless otherwise indicated by the script).
ELIGIBILITY
Festival submissions are open to self-identifying Latinx/e playwrights living in the United States. Scripts may be in English or English with some Spanish or another Language (scripts with a language other than English must be accompanied by an English translation).
Plays must be unpublished, professionally unproduced, and not currently under option at the time of submission. University productions or other non-professional workshops/productions will not disqualify a script.
At this time, only full length (at least 80 minutes), non-musicals, with cast size under eight will be considered. Plays with music will be considered as resources allow (cast-size less eight and under, piano only). Solo pieces will also be considered. Submissions are limited to one script per playwright.
SELECTION CRITERIA
A selection committee of San Diego Rep Artistic staff and Artistic Director, and Amigos del Rep readers will make recommendations and final selections. Selection will be based upon:
• Artistic merit including quality, impact, purpose, and aesthetics of the play
• Alignment with San Diego Repertory Theatre's mission of producing plays by and about the Latinx experience. Additionally, San Diego Repertory Theatre’s mission is to produce intimate, exotic, provocative theatre through vivid and theatrical works that nourish progressive political and social values.
• Feasibility of a full production in San Diego Repertory Theatre’s mainstage season
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
All applicants must complete the following two steps:
• Complete this google form: (https://forms.gle/gHdR5Y7g2KP6Jtuv9) with
o Playwright name, email address, and phone number
o A one paragraph synopsis of the script
o Number of actors required
o Any prior development work for this play
o Playwright biography (100 word limit)
o Character breakdown
o Playscript
All entries must be submitted by: Saturday January 1, 2021 by 12:59 PST.
Hard copies will not be accepted. PDF documents are strongly recommended to avoid formatting discrepancies.
Selected playwrights will be notified via email by April 1, 2021.
HAVE QUESTIONS?:
• Look for our FAQ page at http://www.sdrep.org/amigos.php
• Email Maria Patrice Amon at: [email protected]
Thank you,
Patrice Amon, PhD
Amigos del REP is a theatre advocacy council of community members and artists who promote Hispanic/Latino/Chicano theatre at San Diego Repertory Theatre. We host the annual San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival, Historias Tenebrosas cultural celebration, and staged readings of plays by Latinx pl...
