Playwrights

Script Submissions  FireWorks Festival 2019

Alumnae Theatre Company's FireWorks Festival is a festival of new full-length plays presented in the Studio. This year the Festival is being held November 6 - 24, 2019.
We invite playwrights who meet the following criteria to submit their work:
Criteria:

1. Only finished, unproduced full-length plays may be submitted.
2. We are seeking plays with strong roles for women.
3. The script must be either: a script that has been partially presented at the New Ideas Festival, OR a script that has been presented at the Big Ideas Festival, OR a script written by a member of the Women’s Caucus of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. 
4. The playwright must be prepared to work with a dramaturge assigned by the FireWorks reading committee throughout the process leading to performance.
5.  The playwright cannot opt to direct the play, but will participate in choosing the Director.
6. If the play has had a full production elsewhere the script must have undergone a substantial rewrite.

Deadline for Submissions:
March 24, 2019.

To Submit your Script:
Please send to fireworksATC@gmail.com 
with the email subject line reading, "2019 Submission".

We look forward to reading your work!

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New Play Development Group

All Active, Lifetime and Senior Supporting Members of the Alumnae Theatre are invited to join the New Play Development (NPD) group. We’re a group of women playwrights and dramaturges, at all levels of experience, who meet once a month from September through June to read and share our work, give feedback to each other, and discuss playwriting issues. At times we also meet in smaller, weekly groups.

Partnering with directors, dramaturges, and actors, NPD organizes three annual showcases of new Canadian works:

• Write Now! Weekend-long playwriting challenge held in October that culminates a week later in a presentation of rehearsed readings of all the entries;
• Big Ideas   A festival of longer works held each May that includes directed staged readings with actors, as well as table reads.
• Next Stage Reading Series  A series of "semi-cold" lobby readings open to the public that runs throughout the year and aids in the development of works-in-progress

​Many NPD members submit plays to New Ideas Festival, Alumnae Theatre’s juried three-week festival of new plays held each March. Plays developed through NPD are also eligible for full production in November as part of Alumnae’s FireWorks, which features two to three new works.

Script Development and Submission Opportunities:
A full list of Alumnae script opportunities is here.

​How to Join the New Play Development (NPD) group:
NPD always welcomes new members. For more information on how to join the NPD and the meeting dates/times, visit our Members Only section  under ''Who's Who'' to contact the Director, New Play Development.  
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To join NPD, you must be a member of Alumnae Theatre.
If you are not yet a member, please  join us and indicate on your registration that you would like to be included in the NPD.

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Main Stage​​ Shows

The Main Stage plays are usually by established playwrights. However, any playwright is welcome to submit his/her script to our programming chair at any time for consideration. The Mainstage season programming process occurs between June and October each year, with a season usually announced in November or December. To submit a script, contact our Programming Chair at program@alumnaetheatre.com. ​

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