CALL FOR NEW PLAYS

Ten-Minute Play Festival

Student playwrights are invited to submit plays ranging in length from 4-10 minutes (10 pages or less, 12pt. font), with no restriction on subject matter, style, or intended audience. A panel of readers from outside our region will select six scripts from those submitted.The playwrights whose scripts have been selected for the Region VIII festival will be assigned a director, dramaturg, and group of actors. These creative teams will work on the scripts throughout the KCACTF Regional Festival. The festival will culminate in a public, concert reading of the plays. Following the readings, two of the six plays will be selected as National Semi-finalists to be considered for an invitation to the national festival in Washington, D.C. in the spring.

[Note: While all six plays will be invited to the workshop and will receive a concert reading, the two that will be selected for consideration at the national level will not be judged by the concert reading but by a reading of the plays, which will be done by our festival respondents.]

Students may submit 1-2 plays in this category. Each script that is submitted must be accompanied by a COVER SHEET. Please, read the cover sheet carefully; it contains important submission instructions.

In order to make the evaluation process as easy as possible for our readers, we ask that scripts follow uniform formatting practices. See SCRIPT FORMATTING for details.

Scripts are to be submitted to 10REG8@GMAIL.COM. Every effort will be made to handle submissions with care. However, neither KCACTF nor Region VIII will be responsible for misdirected or lost submissions. Within one week after you submit your script, you should receive an email confirmation stating that we have received it. If you do not receive confirmation, please contact Wade Hollingshaus (email address below). We will not begin accepting scripts until September 1. Please, do not submit before this date.

DEADLINE: All scripts must be received by October 25.

No application fee is required from students attending schools that have entered either an Associate or Participating entry for the current year's Regional Festival. A $10.00 script-handling fee is required for any script entered by a student from a school without an Associate or Participating entry in the current year's festival.

For additional information contact:
Wade Hollingshaus
KCACTF NNP Vice-Chair, Region VIII
(801) 422-8995
WADEH@BYU.EDU

Link to Cover Sheet

Link to Script Formatting