Showcase Local Writers

                                              Media Contact: Dawn Kellogg

                                                            Communications Manager

(585) 232-1366 ext. 3059

dkellogg@gevatheatre.org

Geva Theatre Center

Showcases Local Writers

Submissions Sought for Geva Theatre’s 15^th Annual

 Regional Writers Showcase

Rochester, N.Y. January 23, 2009 … Geva Theatre Center is pleased to announce that once again they will be collaborating with Writers & Books to give regional playwrights the opportunity to bring their works to local audiences. The theatre is seeking plays and playwrights for its Regional Writers Showcase to be held on April 27 and May 4, 2009 in Geva’s Nextstage. The festival gives area playwrights the opportunity to have their works publicly performed by actors with the help of Geva directors and dramaturgs. Plays must be submitted no later than February 10, 2009.

The purpose of the Regional Writers Showcase (previously known as the Regional Playwrights Festival) is to give promising local writers a chance to hear their work out loud and thereby gain the information they need to rework the script and take it to the next level of development. The festival will feature as many noteworthy new works as time and funds will allow, while showcasing a range of regional talent.

Entrant Guidelines

• The Showcase is open to writers now living or having lived within the five-county area: Monroe, Livingston, Wayne, Ontario and Genesee.

• Plays for consideration must be submitted (postmarked or hand-delivered) between January 20 and February 10, 2009 to Writers & Books, 740 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14607. Manuscripts should be marked to the attention of Jean Ryon, Regional Writers Showcase.

• Please include clear contact information: name, address, phone number and email (if available).

• Scripts will be returned after the selection process has been completed. Therefore, playwrights should include a self-addressed stamped envelope with each manuscript.

• Musicals will not be accepted.

• Entrants must submit the play in its entirety.

• Writers may submit up to three (3) plays for consideration.

• Plays that have been submitted for consideration for previous Regional Playwrights Festivals may be submitted if there has been significant work done on the script since the last submission. 

• Let your imagination be your guide: there are no rules regarding length, content or style.

• Selected authors will be notified by March 12, 2009 and writers will be expected to attend rehearsal on the day of their play’s appearance in the showcase.

For more information, please call Jean Gordon Ryon, Geva’s New Plays Coordinator, at (585) 232-1366 ext 3034.       

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