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Sunday, November 20, 2011

#NEWPLAY FEST: @BostonCourt Announces PLAY/ground Festival (via @LABitterLemons) by Arena Stage

PASADENA, Calif., November 16, 2011 – The Theatre @ Boston Court announces PLAY/ground, the annual New Play Festival December 10-11, 2011 at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Puffin Foundation's Emerging Artist Grant Deadline (via @FracturedAtlas) by Arena Stage

Upcoming Emerging Artist Grant Deadline diannedebicella | Nov 10, 2011 11:31 am The Puffin Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from emerging artists in the fields of music, …

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

#NEWPLAY TV: Watch @DramatistsGuild Writer/Actor Panel with Charles Busch, Dael Orlandersmith, David Greenspan & Hunter Bell. by Arena Stage

Watch the open-source #NEWPLAY TV channel on Tuesday, November 22 from 2:30pm - 4pm Pacific / 5:30pm - 7:00pm Eastern / 10:30pm - 12am GMT for a writer/actor round table with Charles Busch, …

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @IceAndFire_E1 Accepting Scripts for "Everyone Has the Right" (Via @PatriciaMilton) by Arena Stage

Everyone Has the Right is a rolling script submission service (i.e. there is no deadline) for plays with human rights at their heart. A joint initiative with Amnesty International, Everyone …

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#NEWPLAY HIP HOP: @ArizonaTheatre Winter Newsletter by Arena Stage

No. 2 - Winter 2012 Special Events/Special People Café Bohemia presents Hip-Hop Theatre Café Bohemia has emerged onto the Tucson theatre scene with two successful readings (La Bella Famili…

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Friday, November 18, 2011

#NEWPLAY OPP: apply for the HERE Artist Residency Program @HEREARTS by Arena Stage

Call for Submissions: HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) 2012 HERE has been one of New York’s most prolific producing organizations since 1993, and today, stands at the forefront of the …

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#NEWPLAY TV LIVE: Watch Revolutionizing Access: performance of "On the Spectrum" @mixed_blood by Arena Stage

Is autism a disability or a difference? This simple but profound question is at the center of a new play by Ken LaZebnik (author of Mixed Blood’sVestibular Sense and Theory of Mind and win…

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#NEWPLAY AGGREGATION: African American Playwrights Exchange aggregates writers by Arena Stage

A collective that sheds light on the happenings of African American Theatre all over the nation! FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE!

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#NEWPLAY FEST: @GANemeed Announces 'Not A Box' #NewPlay Fest @PlaywrightsBPT Dec1-4 by Arena Stage

From December 1st through 4th at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, GAN-e-meed Theatre Project will present Not A Box New Play Festival, a variety of thought-provoking new work by artists from Bos…

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

#NEWPLAY TV: Watch @salvagevanguard "The Story of Jacob Murakami, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying..." by Arena Stage

Join Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin, TX) for A workshop presentation of a new play "The Story of Jacob Murakami, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Realized Sacred Cows Make The Fi…

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#NEWPLAY TV LIVE: Watch @HESherman @petermarksdrama Theater Beyond Twitter Event Sat Nov 19 - 2p Pacific by Arena Stage

Arena Stage is proud to announce Theater Beyond Twitter: A Discussion Between Peter Marks and Howard Sherman in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center for American Theater, Sa…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Univ of California Accepting Submissions for Stage Int'l Script Competition (Via @FracturedAtlas) by Arena Stage

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA NOW ACCEPTING PLAY SUBMISSIONS FOR ITS 5TH CYCLE OF THE STAGE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT COMPETITION - $10,000 PRIZE TO BE GIVEN FOR BEST NEW PLAY ABOUT SCIENCE AND TECHNO…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @theatricum Accepting Submissions for Seedlings Fest (via @PatriciaMilton) by Arena Stage

With its roots in the McCarthy Era Blacklisiting, over the past 35 years the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum has provided a unique Southern California home for Shakespeare and the classics in…

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#NEWPLAY LIVE: @pwcenter A madcap experiment in online giving and writing by Arena Stage

On November 16, nine Playwrights' Center writers created a new play LIVE online. THE WRITING TEAM FOR THE COMPLETE TEXT CLICK HERE!

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

#NEWPLAY EVENT: Invitation to join us for Knowledge Sharing Nov 21 with @PollyKCarl by Arena Stage

image by Libby Levi Join the #NEWPLAY community for a new open source initiative called "Knowledge Sharing" - a series that enables ANYONE who has a particular expertise or signifi…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: WomenArts.org's Huge Listing of Ongoing Opps (via @PatriciaMilton) by Arena Stage

Resources - Ongoing Calls for Plays Overview This page is an extension of our Theatre Funding Newsletter. It contains calls for scripts from theatres accepting submissions on an ongoing basi…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @CircleRising's Writers of Color 2012 INKtank Play Development Intensive by Arena Stage

INKtank is Rising Circle’s 12-week playwriting intensive for emerging writers of color. This year, the lab will be facilitated by playwright Sevan Greene. Playwright Melisa Tien will join …

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @Dragon_Theatre accepting submissions (via @TheyCallMeJLo) by Arena Stage

We will select 3 full-length new works to have staged readings at the 3-week festival running from April 17 to May 6th, 2012. The selected plays will have one stage reading each week of the …

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

#NEWPLAY PARTICIPATORY EXPERIMENT: Nov16 @PWCenter 9 Playwrights write live, YOU tell them what by Arena Stage

BE A BACKSEAT WRITER. Join us for a madcap experiment in online giving and online writing! During Give to the Max Day, November 16, 2011, nine Playwrights' Center writers will tag-team to wr…

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#NEWPLAY HOT CONVOS: Wrap up of the "Weekly Howl" for Nov 15, 2011 by Arena Stage

THE HOWL EVERY TUESDAY AT 12PM-1PM PACIFIC / 3PM-4PM EASTERN ON HASHTAG #NEWPLAY Today's HowlRound.com "Weekly Howl"- Our weekly Twitter conversation on hashtag '#newplay' about Ne…

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#NEWPLAY INTERVIEW: @SteppenwolfThtr interviews Christina Anderson, Zayd Dohrn & Carly Mensch (via @PatriciaMilton) by Arena Stage

'Meet the Playwrights of First Look. We sat down with playwrights Christina Anderson, Zayd Dohrn and Carly Mensch to hear their thoughts about Steppenwolf's 7th Annual Repertory of New Work.…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Women's Project Applications for the 2012-2014 Lab are now being accepted by Arena Stage

The heart of WP’s artistic programming is its free, two-year Lab for early to mid-career playwrights, directors, and producers. The Lab is a vibrant community providing opportunities to ne…

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#NEWPLAY FEST: @ATLouisville Announces Lineup for the 36th Annual Humana Festival by Arena Stage

Louisville, KY – Actors Theatre of Louisville is thrilled to announce the lineup of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. This year’s Festival will feature 10 world prem…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Studio 42 accepting submissions of 'unproducible' plays (via @PatriciaMilton) by Arena Stage

Studio 42 is always continuing its search for “unproducible” plays to build an even more unproducible repertoire. The concept may seem paradoxical, especially when considering what exact…

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Monday, November 14, 2011

#NEWPLAY ASKS: @TheatreBayArea Wants You to Weigh in on an Important Question by Arena Stage

@Theatrebayarea Asks: Theatre artists can devise some wonderfully innovative solutions in order to continue to produce work in difficult financial times. What is the biggest/strangest/most s…

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WHAT'S THE TOPIC FOR THE WEEKLY HOWL ON HASHTAG #NEWPLAY? "IT'S ART THAT MAKES THE MONEY". CONVO'S TUES AT 3-4PM EST by Arena Stage

THE WEEKLY HOWL Join HowlRound.com for a Twitter conversation on the topic of IT'S ART THAT MAKES THE MONEY. Cite Zelda Fitchhandler article, Click HERE! Tuesday, NOV 15th at 12pm-1pm Pacifi…

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#NEWPLAY CONVENING REPORT NOW AVAILABLE! by Arena Stage

We've just published the full report from our mega convening in January 2011, From Scarcity to Abundance - Capturing the Moment for the New Play Sector, written by Ben Pesner. If you're inte…

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

#NEWPLAY OPPS: Playwrights Foundation @PWfoundation submission deadline soon! by Arena Stage

November 30 deadline: The majority of Playwrights Foundation's programs are open to all playwrights writing in English and living in North America. The staff and a dedicated committee of Bay…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Patti B. Playwriting Award - Submit now (via @PatriciaMilton) by Arena Stage

In honor of a great champion of the theatre, the Patti B. Playwriting Award seeks to advance the career of an emerging playwright from the United States. This non-discriminatory award seeks …

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#NEWPLAY LAB: @BerkeleyRep's Center for the Creation & Development of New Work by Arena Stage

Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work THE GROUND FLOOR MISSION The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work seeks to …

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

#NEWPLAY COMMONS: "Playwrights Wish List" (stewarded by @GwydionS) Organizations, Read This! by Arena Stage

"PLAYWRIGHT WISH LIST" excerpt: Submissions: Nuts and Bolts No playwright should ever receive a rejection letter that begins with anything that resembles “Dear [INSERT NAME OF PL…

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