Plays and Playwrights

This item from Gyda Arber, Brick Theater

The Brick Theater is pleased to announce the fourth annual Game Play festival, taking place from July 6-28, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York. This year’s festival will once again feature cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video gaming and performance. We are now accepting for consideration submissions from a variety of artists, including but not limited to:

• playwrights
• game designers
• performance artists
• musicians
• media and visual artists
• entertainers of all stripes

Applications are due by March 30, 2012, and can be found at www.bricktheater.com/applications
Submissions and all other correspondence should be sent to gameplay@bricktheater.com.

This item submitted by Lorna Littleway

“2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays in NYC!”  Juneteenth Legacy Theatres seeks one-acts, with running times of less than 45 minutes, from established and emerging playwrights, who write about the African-American experience and its legacy. Preferred themes are: (1) 19th Century experience especially in New York; (2) Harlem Renaissance Era; and (3) images of women. The deadline is March 15th.

Mail four (4) copies of your script to: JLT, 605 Water St., #21B, New York NY 10002

Include a $15 script reading fee payable by money order to JLT. Sorry, neither electronic submissions nor synopsis are accepted. Scripts are not returned. Selected playwrights will be notified by April 30th.

This item is from David Winitsky

The Jewish Plays Project and LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture announce applications for OPEN: The New Jewish Theater Residency at the 14th Street Y. We are seeking five collaborative teams of theater artists for a three-week pilot residency program. Modeled on the Space residency at Mabou Mines (and to some extend ART-NY’s Creative Spaces Grant), the residency is designed to give selected artists time, space and support to create vibrant new work that extends the Jewish conversation through cutting-edge theater forms and techniques. Learn more here:
http://jewishplaysproject.squarespace.com/laba/