At Last!
We've achieved gender parity.
April fools :(
Please join us on April 8 for Ripley's Improv for Playwrights Workshop. Laurie Jones and the ladies of Ripley Improv take writers through improv exercises in this FREE workshop that will help with character development, increasing stakes, and bringing text to life. Space is limited. Please RSVP at RipleyImprov@gmail.com with your name and email address. For details visit https://www.facebook.com/events/598466223827758/
Announcements!
A huge
THANK YOU to all who joined us to
Support Women Artists NOW again in LA, with our friends at
Samuel French, Theatre & Film Bookshop! Shout outs to the playwrights, directors and actors who took part in our Micro-Read Hook-Up. And thanks to Joyce, Brittny, Adam and Trevor for giving us a place to play at the Bookshop. Enjoy
photos from the day!
And
a special thanks to
Son of Semele & Dan Via for inviting LA FPI's Jennie Webb to chat with the all-female cast of OF GOVERNMENT & director Kate Motzenbaker along with audience members about "Amplifying the Female Voice" during the show's closing weekend. Great to see diverse, women's stories getting out there!
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.
Protest Plays seeks 1-3 minute non-partisan plays and monologues that encourage audiences to vote/register to vote for the midterm elections. For details, go
here. Deadline:
April 12
Athena Project seeks submissions for their
Plays In Progress Series (PIP Series). This Series will take place in Denver at a location to be determined over the course of approximately March-April 2019, as part of a larger arts festival celebrating the voices of women artists. For details, go
here. Deadline:
April 15
The New England Theatre Conference announces the 21
st Annual Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award. They seek new full length plays for young audiences. For details, go
here. Deadline:
May 1
The
2018 Rockford New Play Festival is seeking submissions of original ten-minute plays. Six scripts will be chosen as official selections of the festival and presented in an evening of staged readings in Rockford, Illinois on August 23, 2018 and broadcast live on Facebook. Each of the six playwrights will receive $200. For details, go
here. Deadline:
May 31
PlayGround-LA is seeking applications for their 2018-2019 Writers Pool. Member of the Writers Pool can submit their work for the Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading series, now entering its 7th season. On the first Friday of the month, PlayGround releases a prompt. Writers then have four-and-a-half days to write an original ten-minute play inspired by the prompt. For details, go
here. Deadline:
May 31
WOMEN at WORK
on Stage
Through April 7, Campfire Stories by Rachel Burcham presented by
Combined Artform and
Studio C. The play follows four women through different chapters of their friendship, beginning with their final night at the summer camp where they met as young girls. Through four defining moments, we learn the secrets that keep them together and those that keep them apart. For tickets, go here:
https://campfirestoriesla.brownpapertickets.com.
Discount code: stories
April 13 to May 12, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 pm, L.O.V.E.R.: Tales of Love and Lust from a #GrownUpWomansPOV, written and performed
by Lois Robbins at Zephyr on Melrose. L.O.V.E.R. bares all – one woman’s riff on her childhood, adolescence and finally adulthood from a grown-up woman’s point of view, taking the audience through the entire female experience. No stone is left unturned, from innocence to #MeToo. Erotic things can happen when a washing machine segues into the spin cycle. L.O.V.E.R. airs more than dirty laundry. For details, go
here.
Through May 13, Through the Eye of a Needle by Jami Brandli plays at
The Road on Lankershim. The Keen family is dealing with the recent tragedy concerning their daughter, Dana, a navy corpsman in the Iraq War. Larry copes with a tumbler of scotch, or five, Barbara sets an extra plate setting and Samantha, their teenage daughter, secretly uses Twitter to create a protest. Then Nasser, an Iraqi refugee, arrives at their door unannounced on Christmas Eve. For details, visit
http://www.roadtheatre.org/.
Use the code AGA for $15 tickets. This code applies to weekends of April 6th and May 4th.
LA FPI members are encouraged to attend the talk backs with the playwright on Friday, April 6th, and Saturday, May 5th.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INSTIGATORS!
The Orchard Project is launching a two-week long summer lab for artists to develop television and episodic content in a setting where they can hone their skills, have the time and space to accelerate their work, and participate in intimate discussions about how to best bring their content to life within the episodic form. For details, go
here. Deadline:
April 13
The Kilroys are a gang of playwrights and producers in LA who are done talking about gender parity and are taking action. They mobilize others in the field and leverage their power to support one another.
They're looking for a group of theater artist activists who can take the reins of the organization, and take it into its future; to keep The List alive, as well as create fresh actions towards gender parity in the American theater. For details, go
here. Deadline:
April 30
“I think I’m always really interested in the line between humor and pain. I think the best comedy comes from jokes that are rooted in sadness because it’s so truthful. And I think I’m always very interested in stories that play with this.”
—Lauren Yee
