Maine Playwrights Festival – And the winner is… One of the truly good aspects of the judging process for the 2014 Maine Playwrights Festival is the inclusion of comments from the readers of the play. This is the first time it has happened, and it is most welcome. Acorn Productions, the sponsor of the Festival […]
The Maine Playwrights Festival has been around for 14 years. It’s presented an annual challenge to create some new stage worthy thing or to bring out something you’ve been working on for a while. Whatever, it’s been a call to arms in a sense, if that can be thought of as a metaphor for […]
I’ve been working like the devil on my novel in progress tentatively named Transit of Venus and have let the December 15th deadline for submissions to the Maine Playwrights Festival creep up on me. It’s taken all the effort and skill I have to try to transform my full length play into a novel. It’s […]
I got an email yesterday outlining an interesting approach to short play production that’s completely new to me and probably to you as well. It seems The Improvised Puppet Project is looking for playwrights to write the first 2-4 pages of a full-length play in any genre (comedy, drama, tragedy, tragicomedy, absurdist, postmodern existentialist […]
The National Playwrights Conference is the preeminent laboratory for development of new plays. It is daunting to even think about the prospect of being one of 7 or so playwrights who will stay at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT for a month in the summer working on their baby, their play. Each […]
The Maine Playwrights Festival selections have been announced. I entered a short play, but it did not make the list. Disappointed? Sure. But, best of luck to the playwrights who made the list. Here is the list of selectees: http://www.acorn-productions.org/pages/Playtitles.html
No Problem. Right? I’ve been trying to find the time to give over to my own writing projects, and short plays keep cropping up! Short plays—10 Minute Jobs seem so appealing. Why is this? Well, maybe it’s not obvious, but it’s true that short plays seem as if they would be relatively easy to put […]
In the previous post I provided a link to the book: Off Off Broadway Festival Plays 34th series. One of the short plays in the book is called “Realer Than That” by Kitt Lavoie. Kitt is the Artistic Director of The Cry Havoc Company, which focuses on developing new plays. www.cryhavoccompany.org If you follow the […]