Falling Back Into Step
As fall arrives and we dive back into our routines after a summer getaway or break from school, let’s remember to make time for what nurtures us as artists and as humans. It’s so easy to get back into the old grind and forget to make time for ourselves.
I recently received a phone call from a friend who was feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. She told me about all the activity in her life and her quest for self-improvement. When I asked her what she liked to do for fun, she was stumped.
So whether it’s taking a walk, meeting a friend, stealing a moment to write or hanging onto those few extra minutes in the shower to finish singing that song…sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to fall out of step.
-Desiree' York
LA FPI Gathering + Micro-Reads: Come join us on
Saturday, September 8 at 1 PM - 4 PM at
Samuel French Theatre & Film Bookshop to schmooze, nosh, embibe, and of course Micro-Read! If you don’t know
Micro-Reads, you must come. They’re the best. Visit our
Facebook event page for details.
Announcements!
The Robey Theatre Company Playwrights Lab conducted by Dylan Southard, September 8-November 17 (No class November 3) from 10AM-1PM. Cost: $250 (Payment due by September 8). To Apply: Submit a resume with your writing sample (one act or full-length – need not be a finished work) to dylansouthard@gmail.com. Questions: (213) 489-7402 or
info@robeytheatrecompany.org.
Deadline: September 1!
3rd LA FPI Night at the Geffen is set for Tuesday, September 18: THE CAKE, written by Bekah Brunstetter. Directed by Jennifer Chambers, who also directed the Echo Theater Company's world premiere last year.
Exclusive LA FPI ticket offer for select performances of THE CAKE is $25 (fees included - regularly $60 + fees) and on the LA FPI Night, your ticket includes a free drink coupon! Starting at 7pm, we enjoy drinks in the lobby with fellow writers as well as Geffen audience members who (surprise!) are curious about and want to hear from female playwrights. Then enjoy this award-winning production. For more info,
click here.
SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES
To avoid repetition and keep the EBlast readable, check out the EBlast Archive for previously posted submission opportunities! Please send new ones you come across to be included in the EBlast to Submission Opportunities.
Phoebus Fire seeks submissions for a performance project to take place in November 2019 on the theme of women’s empowerment. For details, go
here.
Deadline: September 30
The Adirondack Theatre Festival seeks plays that fit their mission. “ATF strives to challenge, entertain, and nourish its audience through the development and production of new and contemporary musicals and plays. This relationship engages the community as audience members and participants in workshops, discussions, and educational programming.” For details, go
here.
Submission Window: August 15 to October 1
365 Women a Year Playwriting Project 2019 is an international playwriting project which involves over 200 playwrights who have signed on to write one or more one-acts about extraordinary women in both past and present history. The project’s ambitious yet focused goal is to write women back into the social consciousness as well as empower and promote female playwrights around the country. They are now in their sixth year of writing pieces about 365 historical women a year. To find the full details about how to submit a proposal for the woman you would like to write about and their formatting guidelines, please review their step by step process for 2018 by
clicking here Deadline: December 31
Southwest Theatre Production (SWTP) announces its First Annual Playwriting Competition. The top three finalists will each be given a stage reading in Austin, Texas on separate dates in spring 2019 at the Santa Cruz Theater. In addition, one or more entries may receive a full production, showcase or workshop in 2019 or 2020. Each will receive performance royalties for their event, including for the reading. For more information
click here Deadline: December 31
WOMEN at WORK on STAGE
Through September 9, The Glass Menagerie at International City Theatre! Use promocode: THANKYOU to get $10 tickets for the September 1 performance. For more info,
click here.
August 18 to September 23, Jews, Christians, and Screwing Stalin by Jo Ann Astrow, produced by Took A Cab Productions present an outrageous comedy, inspired by a true story, about family dysfunction, atonement and matzo balls. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah in 1967, Joey brings his pregnant, Christian fiancée home to meet the radical communist bubby who raised him. Minka Grazonsky is tough as nails — and why not? Her brother was the first president of Stalin’s Soviet Union. When Joey’s alcoholic father shows up at the table, alliances are challenged and new beginnings forged… maybe. For details, visit
www.Plays411.com/Matzoballs
September 6 to September 23, a new play, Gunshot Medley: Part 1 by emerging, young playwright Dionna Michelle Daniel, will make its American premiere at Rogue Machine Theater. Set in a haunted North Carolina graveyard, this delicately-crafted work brings past and present together in a soulful tale of lives destroyed by the deep-seated racial tensions that have marred America's history from Antebellum south to the present day. For more details, visit
www.roguemachinetheatre.net
Through Sepember 30, Enid Bagnold’s delightful classic,
The Chalk Garden at
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum. Dyed-in-the-wool British dowager Mrs. St. Maugham is a selfish eccentric who spends her days gardening, but can’t make anything grow. Her teenage granddaughter, Laurel, is a precocious liar. When enigmatic Miss Madrigal is hired as household companion and manager, the two finally meet their match. For details, go to
www.theatricum.com
September 20 to October 14, Rag Head by Sundeep Morrison returns to the stage at The Complex Hollywood. After premiering in Los Angeles this past spring to a sold-out run, Morrison’s one woman show explores Sikhs and xenophobia in a post 9/11 America. On August 5, 2012 a white supremacist entered a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and murdered six people. Morrison portrays six inextricably linked characters whose lives are forever changed by one desperate action. Since 9/11, there has been an alarming increase in hate crimes committed against Sikhs, Muslims and other immigrant communities. According to the Sikh Coalition, there are roughly 500,000 Sikhs in the U.S., many of whom have been subject to xenophobic harassment or violence. A Sikh awareness workshop with Q&A will follow each performance. For more information & tickets visit:
www.sundeepmorrison.com
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INSTIGATORS!
We The People Theatre Action for Performance on Oct 10. PROMPT: Rights of Conscience!
- PIECES MUST BE BRAND NEW AND MUST BE BORN FROM THE PROMPT
- 3-5 MINUTES LONG
- PIECES CAN NOT BE PART OF A LARGER PIECE
- TRUMP CAN NOT BE A CHARACTER IN THE PIECE... Sorry, we're just not ready to see him on stage
E-mail submissions to wethepeople@sacredfools.org. Singers/Musicians please submit a self-tape of your piece. For More information,
click here.
Deadline: September 12
The Illlyrian Players Theatre Co. offers Healing Through Performance (for actors and non-actors) This is a brand new class conceived of and led by Illyrian Players Artistic Director & Thespomancer, Carly D. Weckstein. The class centers around re-connecting with your purpose as an artist and re-kindling your spark from the LA hustle burnout - using exercises from Clowning, Viewpoints, Mask Work, Theatre of the Oppressed, Theatre of Witness, Melodrama and Devised Theatre. To reserve your spot and with any questions email
carlyw@illyrianplayers.com. For more details,
click here. This is a series of four 3-hour classes held on Monday nights, starting
Monday September 17th.
Women Deliver 2019. Women Deliver is committed to providing a platform at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference for artists whose creations will help fuel a better world for girls and women, and thereby for all. Curated by Emmy-winning filmmaker, arts curator and global health advocate, Lisa Russell, MPH, the Women Deliver 2019 Conference Film Festival will be a dynamic exhibition of the power of arts and storytelling. For details, go
here.
Deadline: September 30
Space on Ryder Farm 2019 Residencies now accepting applications. Questions? Sign up for an info session at: bit.ly/SPACEAppInfo or
click here to visit their website.
Deadline: October 8
Clubbed Thumb has just launched a new open application commission for playwrights of color. Submit your proposal for a new play that uses an alternative shape! Visit their website for more info
click here.
Deadline: October 8
Elsewhere Studios Sponsored Residency for Parent Artists provides space and time for artists at any stage of their careers to explore and expand their work in a unique and supportive environment in downtown Paonia, Colorado. Residencies span from 1-6 months beginning in May to August 2019. For more information
click here.
Deadline: October 9
The Los Angeles Press publishes the best in emerging art, literature, and political discourse, from Southern California and the West. They are committed to uplifting and focusing Voices Yet Heard, including Women, POC, LGBTQ+, and traditionally under-represented and marginalized artists and writers. They seek unpublished poetry, performance texts, hybrid genres, history, feminist literature, fiction, political discourse, interviews, literary translation and multilingual texts, visual art (performance art, painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, mixed-media, graphic narratives and comics). For details, go
here. Send questions and texts to
thelosangelespress@gmail.com
"I know what I’m trying to say, so I’m always open to learning how to say it.”
― Lynn Nottage
