NYCPlaywrights call for submissions: Write a Monologue For Me

Tony White, actor & director

NYCPlaywrights has a new project starting this month: Write a Monologue for Me.

Actors are always looking for good monologues. NYCPlaywrights wants to help them find one by putting out this call for submissions. We are looking for monologues tailored to a specific actor, a different actor each month.

We plan to make this a monthly event during 2017 and possibly beyond.

We will select the top three monologues based on quality of writing and relevance for the actor and share them on the NYCPlaywrights web site (with your permission.)

The actor will select his/her favorite from those three and we will video-record him/her performing the monologue and post the video on NYCPlaywrights (via YouTube with your permission.)

This month we'd like you to write a monologue for Tony White an actor and director in New York City.

Bio:

Tony has appeared in many plays from classics to original works, and has directed a variety Off-Off Broadway shows including Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, Uncommon Women, Titus Andronicus, and Lysistrata. He has enjoyed playing Rupert in Rope, Edward in Spike Heels, Deacon Crow-For-a-Day in Tambourines to Glory (nominated best supporting actor 2003 Tiffany Awards), and Reverend Drum in God’s Trombones (nominated best actor 2004 Tiffany Awards). Represented by Carson Kolker Innovative, & Avanti Talent.

About the kind of work he prefers:

"I am most interested in dark comedy. The more unusual the character the better. Some of my favorite roles are Rupert in Rope, Kent in King Lear, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Prospero and Caliban in The Tempest, Archie in The Disposal by William Inge."

THE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

YOU MUST READ THEM BEFORE SUBMITTING
The deadline is Sunday October 1, 2017 at 11:59 PM EST.

• Send only one monologue per author to info@nycplaywrights.org. 
• Please put the words "Write a Monologue for Me" in the subject field of your email.
• The monologue should be no more than one page.
• The submission should be sent by email, with the script itself as a file attached to the email.
• File format should be .pdf because it will retain your original script formatting. 
• There is no fee for submission. 
• All rights will remain with the playwright. 
• The script must be submitted by the author of the script, no agents or others may submit. 
• Make sure you have your name and your email address on the script. 
• The monologue can be submitted by anybody, anywhere in the world but must be primarily in English (a few non-English phrases are acceptable, but the phrases must include English translations.) 
• A monologue that has had a production is not acceptable - we want you to write a new monologue with our actor in mind.
• A monologue that has been published is also not acceptable.
• The NYCPlaywrights selections decisions are final.
• NYCPlaywrights reserves the right to select no monologues.
• We will notify submitters of the decisions and announce the winning monologues on the NYCPlaywrights web site by Sunday October 8.

Any questions email info@nycplaywrights.org

• For some thoughts on writing monologues go here. 

NOTE: although of course the rights to the script are all yours, sometimes actors will ask for permission to perform your monologue in auditions. We hope you say yes.

Thanks.