We'll hope to see you on May 26th 1-4pm at Sam French for our annual #FringeFemmes Gathering! This is always a great event, a chance to get a peek at what's up ahead from this year's "Women on the Fringe" and hang out before #HFF18 begins. (And no, you don't have to be involved in the Fringe, or be a woman, to join us!)

And Mark Your Calendars! June 14 is our 2nd LA FPI Night at the Geffen Playhouse—you don't want to miss the chance to see Dominique Morriseau's SKELETON CREW with us for $25 (with a cocktail included!)

 

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Tickets are available for all 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival productions. From June 7th – 24th, nearly 2,000 performances and events will take place in dozens of venues throughout Hollywood. To purchase tickets, visit hollywoodfringe.org/discover and search for shows by day, venue, category or tag. The full schedule can also be viewed here. 
 

Snap Honey, written and directed by Marcus Ma'at Atkins and co-written by Jaron Hicks and Andrea Carlton. A hilarious and introspective comedy with elements of melodrama about international female impersonator Vageena Honey, who returns home to get interviewed and perform her one-woman show Drag Whore about her rise to fame. Told in flashbacks, Snap Honey gives an in-depth view of Vageena's life from her love of the Supremes as a boy to sexual torment from a high school bully and her first time performing as Vageena. More info here.

SQUIRREL!!! a one-woman show written and performed by Sarah Rose Reynolds. Coming off a highly celebrated sold out performance at SoloFest, the quirky and creative artist brings her powerful and hysterical look at growing up with ADHD in a focused world. Through amusing and moving stories, Reynolds takes the audience on a humorous (and sometimes painful) journey as she grapples with her sexuality, career decisions and the difficult task of learning to think before she speaks. Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson. More info here.

Death of a Mailman, called a "compact and emotional duet", is a world premiere and debut for playwright Annie C. Wright and directed by Ruth Isabel Guerra. Marty and Joe have worked together at the USPS for nearly thirty years, but when Marty discovers that Joe has been hoarding mail, he starts to question their relationship and the difference between what it means to be a friend or merely an acquaintance. For discounted tickets, used code LAFPI. More info here.

Wild At Hart: A Tale of Trauma & Triumph is a solo show written and performed by Kamakshi Hart. Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson. A sexual trauma survivor shares her sojourn from suffering to sovereignty based on her transformational workshops. A healing journey meets spiritual wisdom with the timely power of #MeToo and #TimesUp. Through song and story, spiritual psychologist Kamakshi Hart brings 20 characters from her life to the stage. Hart will offer her popular Wild At Hart workshops on June 9 through the festival. More info here.

Love After Death, a one-woman show by Brittany Stahl. What happens when love meets anxiety? And OCD? And depression? Writer Brittany Stahl doesn't pretend to know the answers but she sure has fun trying to figure them out. What originally began as an exploration of the fear of falling in love has now emerged as a series of character sketches that anyone who has ever had a faulty defense mechanism is sure to relate to. Stahl presents each of her coping "skills" and puts them to the test in a delicately balanced comedic excavation of her self. Premiering at the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, Love After Death is an accessible and humorous examination of mental illness without shame or apology. Presented by The Happy/Sad Artist Collective. More info here.

Mulatto Math, created by Monique DeBose, explores race, family and identity through her unique lens of being born to an African American father and Irish upstate New York mother. Performed with original music, Monique exposes the beauty, disgrace and complication of both the black and white worlds she experienced growing up amid the political and racial tension in the seventies that is still prevalent today. Directed by Denise Dowse. More info at mulattomath.com.

My Own Private River Phoenix, written, produced and performed by Ai Yoshihara. How far would you go to meet your celebrity crush? What if he was dead? Ai moves from Japan to America to find her own River Phoenix. She encounters culture shocks, miscommunications because of language barrier, and she tries to keep 3 promises she made to her father: No religion, No guns, No drugs. She is lucky that she is still alive today. She tells her tragic story in hilarious ways. More info & tickets here.

Ronnie Brixton—The Best of British Boxing tells the story of a renowned BBC Boxing announcer coming to embrace his identity for the first time through a conversation with his fans. This intensely personal solo show examines the complexities of challenging traditional gender identities. Our audience journeys through Ronnie's ascent to self-acceptance. More info & tickets here.
 

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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.
 
Punk Monkey Productions  is accepting one-act plays for their 7th season of PL.A.Y. Noir. Submissions should ideally range from 10-20 pages and fall in the genre of Film Noir and tradition of the vintage crime novels of the 30s and 40s by Chandler, Hammett, and Cain (think private detectives, femme fatales, unscrupulous villains, etc.). Selected pieces will receive a four-week/twelve performance run in the fall of 2018 at The Actor's Workout Studio in the North Hollywood Arts District, as well as non-exclusive publication in a collection of the season's selected plays. More info at www.playnoir.com. Deadline: May 31

Bread & Roses Playwriting Award is open for submissions for full length plays that have not been produced or published and feature at least half of female, non-binary or gender neutral roles. Full guidelines and submission form here. Deadline: May 31
 

The American Playwriting Foundation has extended their deadline for the 2018 Relentless Award to May 31. They're looking for plays that are challenging, fearless, exude passion and relentlessly truthful, from first-time playwrights (age 21+), playwrights of color, and playwrights of all gender identifications. Click here for more info and to submit play. Extended Deadline: May 31
 

Applications for the 2018-19 PlayGround-LA Writers Pool are being accepted. Only members of the Writers Pool may submit scripts as part of the monthly staged reading series, Monday Night PlayGround, from which are selected the six plays and playwrights for each year's Best of PlayGround. Writers must reside within the five counties of the Greater Los Angeles area. Submission details here. Deadline: May 31

Aberrant Theatre is seeking short, horror-themed plays to be produced as part of their upcoming Ghost Light Anthology. Working from an anthology model akin to Creepshow or Tales from the Crypt, Aberrant Theatre will be presenting an evening of short, scary plays as part of what they hope will become an annual event. Selected pieces will reflect their commitment to creating a platform for marginalized identities and experiences. Email submissions to aberranttheatrecreations@gmail.com using subject line "Ghost Light Submission." Deadline: June 1

The Open Eye Theater in Margaretville NY is accepting ten-minute play submissions of family friendly comedies and dramas to be considered for production in SUMMER SHORTCUT VIII. Each playwright may submit a maximum of two plays, formatted in Word, ODT, or PDF, and emailed to openeye@catskill.net, subject line: Summer Shortcuts VIII. More info at www.theopeneyetheater.org. Deadline: June 3

 

Company of Angels invites Los Angeles playwrights to submit full-length scripts for their monthly TO READ AND STAGE IN L.A. reading series returning this summer. They are especially interested in stories that use fresh language and form, speak to our community, and are written by under-represented voices. For questions, contact Xavi Moreno at xavi@companyofangels.org. Send scripts to submissions@companyofangels.org. Deadline: June 4

The Blank Theatre Living Room Series will be accepting submissions of full-length plays during the month of June. The Blank is firmly committed to supporting gender parity and diversity, so women, playwrights of color, and other under-represented voices are strong encouraged. The Living Room Series takes place Monday evenings at the 2nd Stage Theatre in Hollywood between Labor Day and Memorial Day. Submit play via Submittable. Deadline: June 30

SkyPilot Theatre Company will present six new one-act plays over two evenings this fall. Playwrights are invited to submit works based on one of three currently relevant themes: #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, or March for Our Lives (gun violence in schools). More info at www.skypilottheatre.com. Submit plays to skypilottheatre@gmail.com with "One Act Festival" in the subject line. Deadline: August 1

Yale Drama Series Award for Emerging Playwrights will be accepting submissions from June 1-August 15, 2018 for their 2019 competition. The winner will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize, the publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading in New York City at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater. For more info, visit dchornfoundation.org or yalebooks.com/drama, or email yaledramaseries@yale.edu. Deadline: August 15

Manhattan Repertory Theatre seeking playwrights who want to self-produce/finance their work for their Play Production Program, from August-September 2018 for short and 10-minute plays and January-March 2019 for full-length plays. More info here.

Submissions for the next round of PLAY LA awards are now open. Winners will receive a $1500 grant to develop a new play from the ground up, as well as critiques from theatre, film and television professionals throughout the year-long development process. Apply here. Questions can be directed to playlaworkshop@humanitasprize.org.
 

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR INSTIGATORS!

(or for their teens) The Summer Conservatory is designed to create an opportunity for high school students (9th to 12th Grade) to experience and train in a professional setting. Up to 30 students are selected each year. At the Los Angeles Theater Center, students experience and train in a university-style program to obtain the necessary tools for theater production. They attend courses in acting, playwriting, dance, voice/speech, theater analysis, and movement. The students also read college-level plays and texts to spark their imagination, enabling them to explore the expanse of their own creativity. More info here. Deadline: Friday, June 1.

Feminist Acting Class presented by Gina Young and Lyric-Hyperion Theatre on Sundays in July and August from 3-6pm. Feminist Acting Class is a revolutionary approach to actor training that questions the entire foundation upon which everything is built. We center women playwrights, allow anyone to play any gender, question established techniques and structures and make amazing friends and collaborators. For more information, go here.
 

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“Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk, or how fast she could run?”
—Germaine Greer