Play Submissions
ARTISTIC MISSION
About Face Theatre creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, and to challenge and entertain audiences in Chicago, across the country, and around the world.
About Face is Chicago’s award-winning LGBTQ theatre company, dedicated to the creation of performances that examine and participate in the development of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. We have a strong commitment to artistic innovation and excellence within the emergent modes of queer theatre. In addition to the main stage series, About Face’s XYZ Festival of New Works offers the opportunity for readings, rough staging and audience response.
MAINSTAGE SERIES
TYPES OF MATERIAL:
Full lengths, musicals and performance art. Scripts and artists are of particular interest. Looking for material that challenges expectations and ideas about gender and sexuality in historical or contemporary contexts. Interested in scripts that break traditional ideas about dramatic form, structure and presentation. Please include in your letter how your play/project relates specifically to our mission at About Face. Will consider second productions. Adaptations accepted. Agent submissions are encouraged.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:
No unsolicited scripts. Send query letter with synopsis, cast list, resume, and relevant production history. Only electronic submissions accepted.
BEST TIME TO SUBMIT:
Year-Round.
2010 XYZ FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
About Face Theatre is happy to announce that it is now accepting scripts for selection for the 2010 XYZ Festival of New Works. After a highly successful inaugural festival in the fall of 2009, About Face looks forward to giving this opportunity to a broader pool of playwrights. Plays selected for the festival will be given seated or staged readings with the support of professional directors and actors. The festival will occur in the fall of 2010.
TYPES OF MATERIAL:
Full length scripts at any stage of development. New works that have not seen full production (readings and workshops okay). Material that challenges expectations and ideas about gender and sexuality in historical or contemporary contexts. Scripts that break traditional ideas about dramatic form, structure and presentation.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:
Electronic submissions only. Documents in PDF or DOC formats accepted. In your email, attach completed submission form (click here to download), full script, and resume/bio. Please remove your name and contact information from every page of your script; display only the title on the title page.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
March 15, 2010. Selections announced April 30, 2010.
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