Forward from Steve:
Hello Friends,I just wanted to let everyone know that the National Playwrights Conference (NPC) and the Nation Music Theater Conference (NMTC) are now accepting submissions. Tis the season.
As you know, all are welcome to apply. I hope all of you will help spread the word to your playwriting and composing friends. The submission window for NPC is September 15th to October 17th, 2008. NMTC will be accepting submissions until December 1, 2008.
Each conference has specific requirements for submission, so please check our website for details and applications. (There are links in press release at the bottom of this email.) Each conference does require the script to be submitted by mail and in triplicate - as well, each conference has a $35.00 submission fee. This fee covers the cost of the selection process, and allows us to consider the large number of applications we receive each year.
Please do contact me with any questions. Looking forward to reading many wonderful works. Best to you all,
Martin
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Martin Kettling
Literary Manager
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
305 Great Neck Road
Waterford, CT 06385
Phone: (860)443-5378 ext.227
Fax: (860) 440-3161
www.theoneill.org
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September 15, 2008
Contact: Martin Kettling
Literary Manager
860-443-5378, x227
mkettling@theoneill.org
NEWS FROM THE O’NEILL
EUGENE O’NEILL THEATER CENTER NOW ACCEPTING
OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR 2009 SUMMER CONFERENCES
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 305 Great Neck Road, Waterford,
Connecticut, is now accepting submissions for projects to be included
in its June – August 2009 national new works conferences. Applicants
are invited to submit projects for the O’Neill’s National Playwrights
Conference and National Music Theater Conference. National
Playwrights Conference submissions will accept submissions from
September 15, 2008 through October 17, 2008. National Music Theater
Conference began accepting submissions on September 1, 2008 and will
continue through December 1, 2008.
The O’Neill’s open submission process is unique in the field of
developing works for the stage. It is a key element in its Conference
mission to encourage creativity and develop diverse voices and new
works for the American stage. Applicants may submit work for
consideration through a multi-tiered selection process involving
multiple readers and a panel of theater professionals who consider
projects based oneach writer’s voice as presented in the script and
not on a recognizable name or previous accomplishments. This process
enables the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center to continue to seek and
develop new voices for the stage. Selected artists receive a
developmental residency at the O’Neill during the summer of 2009.
The O’Neill also continues to build its endowment to support the open
submissions process, begun in 2006 and named in honor of O’Neill
playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Income from this permanent endowment
will be used to defray costs associated with the Submissions and
selection process. Please call 860-443-5378 x217 for more information
about making a gift to the Wendy Wasserstein Fund
Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director of the National Playwrights
Conference, noted, “This Conference belongs to the playwrights, and I
believe that it is imperative to allow the playwrights who submit
their work the opportunity to have their plays read and considered
seriously for the conference. I remain committed to the open
submission process and it is a priority for the Playwrights Conference
to seek out the best writers through this endeavor.”
Paulette Haupt, co-founder and Artistic Director of the National Music
Theater Conference describes the open submission policy as “the heart
of our mission since the inception of the Conference in 1978. We look
forward to hearing from the next generation of writers and composers
who seek to explore their projects with peer professionals in the
field and gain a clearer perception of the work still needed to be
done to complete their vision.”
Submissions for the National Playwrights Conference must be postmarked
from September 15, 2008 through October 17, 2008. Details of
submission requirements for the National Playwrights Conference are
available at the O’Neill’s website:
www.theoneill.org/prog/plays/playapp.htm. Submissions for the Music
Theater Conference must be postmarked from September 1, 2008 through
December 1, 2008. Details of submission requirements for the Music
Theater Conference are available at the O’Neill’s website:
www.theoneill.org/prog/music/submit.htm.
For further information about either conference, please contact Martin
Kettling, Literary Manager, at 860-443-5378, x227 or via e-mail at
litoffice@theoneill.org.
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, founded in 1964 in honor of Eugene
O’Neill, America’s only Nobel Prize-winning playwright and four-time
Pulitzer Prize winner, is America’s pre-eminent organization dedicated
to the development of new works and new voices for the American
theater. It has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage
and 2,500 emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the
O’Neill have gone on to full productions at other theaters around the
world, including Broadway, off-Broadway and major regional theaters.
The O’Neill is itself the winner of a special Tony Award, the National
Opera Award, the Jujamcyn Award for Theater Excellence and the Arts
and Business Council Encore Award.
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