This item from Alex Roe, Metropolitan Playhouse
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010 – Festival Run: January 17 – 30, 2011
Metropolitan Playhouse, devoted to exploring America’s cultural legacy through theater, is accepting submissions for inclusion in its 6th annual Living Literature Festival, devoted this season to the artists and driving spirits of The Harlem Renaissance. Submission guidelines are available at Metropolitan’s website: www.metropolitanplayhouse.org /harlemrenaissance
The Living Literature Festival is an annual series of presentations at the Playhouse celebrating the life, work, and spirit of notable figures from America’s literary past. The festival runs for two weeks each January, and offers as many as 14 separate performances played in repertory. Past subjects have included Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Women of the 19th Century.
The Harlem Renaissance Festival will include works adapted from, inspired by, and relating to the works and lives of artists and leaders of the flourishing of African American literature and culture in Harlem of the 1920’s and 30’s. Inspirations should come from literature, but that literature may be from Harlem or about Harlem, and it may be poetry or it may be political.
Who can submit: Participants should be producers of new work or work never before presented in New York City. The annual festival is a co-production of Metropolitan Playhouse and the participating artists. Metropolitan will curate, host and promote the festival, while the participants will create and perform the plays in the festival for a share of its proceeds. Submissions are welcome from individual artists and performance companies alike. Co-producers will take responsibility for conceiving and creating their contribution to the festival, with use of Metropolitan’s space and physical resources
What kind of work: Adaptations, biographies, fantasies, treatises will all be considered; there are no restrictions concerning style. Submissions should run from between twenty-minutes and 1 hour and 45 minutes.
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