Geographical coverage: undisclosed
Reading Fee: $30
Accepts (genre): play
Prize/Payment: $400 (each of the 5 finalists)
Contact: Prideplay@gmail.com
Purpose: The Great Gay Play Contest fosters excellent writing for the stage that features GLBT characters, history, or themes important to the community and relevant to the world.
Entry fee is $30 if entry is made between September 1 and September 30, 2010, and $45 if entry is received between October 1 and the final deadline of October 31, 2010. To make the final deadline scripts must be filed electronically by 11:59 Central Time on October 31, 2010.
You may submit more than one entry but each script must be submitted with its own entry form. (If you submit more than one script, there is a $10 discount off the entry fee for subsequent entries.)
Applicant must by at least 18 years old at time of entry. Please read the complete set of contest rules.
Scripts that have no production history will be accepted. We will also consider scripts that have been supported with staged readings or workshops as well as scripts that at the time of entry have had one community theater, educational theater, or one non-Equity production (which ran for no more than 25 performances). Plays which have received full Equity productions are not eligible.
All scripts will be read by our committee of readers as stipulated in the contest rules. They will select fifteen semi-finalists, then five finalists whose works will be read as staged reading at the Hoover-Leppen Theater at the Center on Halsted, Chicago, on or about February 21, 2011. The five finalists will also receive cash prizes of $400. If script is co-authored, please complete additional author information.
Should you have any questions about the contest or the proposal, please contact us a pridefilmsandplays@gmail.com.
After submitting this form, email script to PridePlay@gmail.com and we will confirm it has been received.
PDF files preferred.
We look forward to reading your work.
David Zak
Executive Director
John Nasca, Patrick Rybarczyk
Artistic Associates
More information here.
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