OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR NEW PLAYS FOR 2015
Overview
Each year Caryl Crane Youth Theatre hosts a national playwriting festival, showcasing new plays and musicals suitable for young adults and children. A national search is currently looking for the best and most promising unproduced theatrical works relevant to youth today. The weekend long festival held at the beginning of May each year, consists of three to five staged readings of previously unseen theatrical works and will take place in the McBride Auditorium on the BGSU Firelands campus in Huron, Ohio. A winning work will be chosen through committee/audience/participant voting and the author(s) will receive a $500 cash prize as well as the option of a 3-week workshop of their production during the following CCYT season.
Submission Criteria
There is no submission fee for all plays received before January 15, 2015.
A $10 reader’s fee must be included with all works submitted after January 15, 2014, to be eligible for the CCYT Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival and the $500 award.
Submission deadline for the 2015 Festival is February 16, 2015.
Scripts received after that date will be considered for the following year. Three to five finalists will be selected and announced on April 3, 2015 and their names will be posted to the CCYT website and all social media outlets at that time.
Submission deadline for the 2015 Festival is February 16, 2015.
Scripts received after that date will be considered for the following year. Three to five finalists will be selected and announced on April 3, 2015 and their names will be posted to the CCYT website and all social media outlets at that time.
Must be a full-length play/musical for children or young adults without a prior major "fully-produced" U.S. production.
A brief synopsis must be sent together with a bound complete manuscript. Submission must include a contact phone number and e-mail address on the play’s synopsis page. No electronic submissions will be accepted.
The play must be at least 1 hour and no longer than 120 minutes.
The play must be appropriate for audiences of all ages.
Dramas, comedies and farces (with or without music) are all welcome.
Cast size limited to no less than 5 or no more than 32.
The plays selected will be acted by our CCYT student actors, with a mix of regional artists where necessary. Plays that can be effectively cast within our market will be considered favorably.
Playwrights who are questioning whether or not their play is a good match for CCYT are strongly encouraged to contact Artistic Director Brian Marshall at mbrian@bgsu.edu before submitting.
All plays that are not selected for the festival will be recycled. Please do not include return postage.
All qualifying submissions will be read by at least three readers on the festival committee as well as the CCYT Artistic Director and members of the CCYT Teen Board. Be advised that the following are not considered qualifying submissions:
Screenplays submitted as theatrical plays and first drafts
Plays with typos and spelling errors and plays not in a readable format
Plays with excessive profanity or violence or are inappropriate for child audience members
For more information contact:
Brian Marshall, Artistic Director
mbrian@bgsu.edu, 419.372.0732
Plays should be submitted to:
Caryl Crane Youth Theatre
c/o CCYT New Play Festival
BGSU Firelands
One University Drive
Huron, OH 44839-9719
Screenplays submitted as theatrical plays and first drafts
Plays with typos and spelling errors and plays not in a readable format
Plays with excessive profanity or violence or are inappropriate for child audience members
For more information contact:
Brian Marshall, Artistic Director
mbrian@bgsu.edu, 419.372.0732
Plays should be submitted to:
Caryl Crane Youth Theatre
c/o CCYT New Play Festival
BGSU Firelands
One University Drive
Huron, OH 44839-9719