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The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival honors new American plays that provide dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors.
The festival endeavors both to recognize playwrights for their outstanding work and to provide a resource for universities across the country to identify dynamic plays with robust roles for college-aged actors for production at their institutions.
The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival identifies and supports new plays that feature robust roles for college-aged actors, while providing a laboratory to train students in the skills and ethics inherent to work with living playwrights on new works.
The festival accepts submissions of full length plays from playwrights nationwide and one-act plays from residents of the state of Missouri and/or students enrolled at universities in Missouri.
Full-Length Plays December 15, 2020
One Act Plays March 26, 2021
Seeking plays that have:
The festival also places a value on plays that have the potential to provide performance opportunities to actors from under-represented groups.
Plays should not have had a previous full production. Workshops and readings are fine.
Finalists for the festival’s top prize will receive airfare and housing to participate in the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival on the campus of the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University in the summer of 2021. Staged readings of the finalists’ plays will be presented as part of the festival, and the winner of the prize will be announced at the end of the week-long event.
The winning play will receive:
Full-length submissions for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival should be submitted by December 15, 2020, to:
Kitt Lavoie
Artistic Director
The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
lanfordwilsonfest@semo.edu
Please include “Lanford Wilson Festival Submission” in the subject line.
Please direct any questions about the festival or the submission process to Kitt
Lavoie, Artistic Director, at lanfordwilsonfest@semo.edu.
Submissions should include PDF copies of:
To be eligible for the one-act category of the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, plays must be written by persons who are residents of Missouri and/or who are enrolled in universities in Missouri.
Seeking plays that have:
Five one act plays will be chosen to be Official Selections of the Lanford Wilson
New American Play Festival, taking place on the campus of the Jeanine Larson Dobbins
Conservatory of Theatre and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University June of 2021.
Staged readings of the plays will be presented as part of the festival and the five
plays will then be presented as a fully staged evening of shorts as part of the Dobbins
Conservatory 2021-2022 Theatre Season.
One-act submissions for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival should be submitted
by March 26, 2021, to:
Kitt Lavoie
Artistic Director
The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
lanfordwilsonfest@semo.edu
Please include “Lanford Wilson Festival One Act Submission” in the subject line.
Please direct any questions about the festival or the submission process to Kitt Lavoie,
Artistic Director, at lanfordwilsonfest@semo.edu.
Submissions should include the following, combined into a single PDF:
Contact
Sara Steffens
573.651.2149
ssteffens@semo.edu
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