Playwrights' Week Festival
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| Country and Region | United States — New York |
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| Type of Festival | Drama |
| Location of Festival | New York, New York, USA |
| Festival Contact Information | LARK Play Development Center |
| Festival Description | Mark your calendar for the Annual Playwrights' Week. The Festival takes place at the LARK Play Development Center. The program includes the readings of new plays, and there will be three events to help celebrate Playwrights’ Week. There will be a Meet The Writers event where each writer will talk a bit about themselves and read an excerpt from their play. The programming also includes a moderated panel discussion. All Playwrights’ Week readings and events are free and open to the public. All events are FREE, however RSVP’s are REQUIRED +01 212-246-2676, Extension 24. |
| Festival Dates | September 26 - 29, 2012 |
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Festival Story:
Playwright’s Week Festival is produced through the concerted efforts of The LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER and The INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL. The Lark Play Development Center is a laboratory for new voices and new ideas, provides playwrights with indispensable resources to develop their work. The Lark brings together actors, directors, playwrights and the community to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director, Michael Robertson.
INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL is a registered 501(c) 3 not-for-profit, secular service and resource arts organization charged with the mission of promoting and building the awareness, creation, production, exhibition, publication and performance of Indian and cross-cultural art forms in North America. The IAAC supports all artistic disciplines in the classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. IAAC works cooperatively with colleagues around the United States to broaden our collective audiences and to create a network for shared information, resources and funding. IAAC’s focus is to work with artists and arts organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists and arts organizations from India to exhibit, perform and produce their works here. For more information on the Indo-American Arts Council, visit: www.iaac.us
Other Sources:
Podcast interviews:
- If you like this festival — listen to…
- Laura Jacqmin, playwright
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=1459 - Greg Kotis, playwright
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=2098 - Catherine Coray, hotINK curator
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=2530 - Chanttal Bilodeau, playwright
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=1206 - Kerry Clarke, artistic director, Calgary Folk Festival
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=1215 - Ethan Lipton, playwright, song writer, performer
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=946 - Jennifer Fawcett, Playwright
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=947 - Sherry Kramer, playwright
http://kadmusarts.com/blog/?p=326 - Adriana Sevan, actress and playwright
http://kadmusarts.com/blog/?p=750
- Laura Jacqmin, playwright
Practical Info:
Venue:
- All events take place at
LARK Play Development Center
939 Eighth-Avenue, Suite 301
New York, New York 10019 - Mass transportion
A,B,C,D,1 to Columbus Circle, and N, Q, R, W to 57th Street - For information visit
http://www.larktheatre.org or call 212-246-2676, extension 24
Playwrights’ Week Application 2010:
- The annual Playwrights’ Week Festival focuses exclusively on developing new and unheard voices for the theatre through targeted outreach efforts, growth opportunities for playwrights and theatre artists, and organized forums for community discussion. Playwrights selected for the festival are provided with creative teams, ten hours of rehearsal time and a public presentation to address specific developmental goals.
- Postmark Deadline for all submissions: November 20, 2009
- Application form
http://www.iaac.us/playrights2010/index.htm - Please note:
We are committed to a blind reading policy and ask that you remove any identifying information from the script itself. Applications should be typed. Incomplete submissions will be discarded. Before mailing your script, please review the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES at the conclusion of this application! - Please PRINT and MAIL completed submission materials to:
Lark Play Development Center
c/o Playwrights’ Week Submissions 939 Eighth Avenue, Suite 301
New York, NY 10019
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