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Sunday, December 4, 2011

#NEWPLAY ANNOUNCEMENT: Former Florida Stage Artistic Director named Artistic Director of Arts Garage by Arena Stage

The void in the local theater scene caused by the sudden closure of Florida Stage may soon be filled. By the founding producing director of Florida Stage. Louis Tyrrell, who began the nonpro…

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

#NEWPLAY ANNOUNCEMENT: @pwfoundation One Minute Playfest Dec.17th and 18th by Arena Stage

Playwrights Foundation (PF) announced the second annual SF One-Minute Play Festival (SF OMPF), a two-day event on December 17 & 18, 2011 showcasing the talents of 32 Bay Area playwrights…

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Friday, December 2, 2011

#NEWPLAY OPP: @FoxValleyRep Accepting Submissions for this Year's Collider New Play Project by Arena Stage

Now accepting new play submission for Fox Valley Rep's 2nd Collider New Play Festival through January 1, 2012 Collider: New Play Project partners area scientists and Fox Valley Repertory to …

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @SingleCarrot Accepting Play Submissions for 2012 by Arena Stage

Submit electronically one full-length play or two plays not to exceed 150 pages in length. You may submit synopses of other works with submitted scripts. Submissions are reviewed on a rollin…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @IncitingInc Asking for Submissions to Literary Journal (Via @sadplaywright) by Arena Stage

The Inciting Incident, a new online literary journal for screenwriting, playwriting, and storyboarding. The Inciting Incident is the first of its kind—devoted solely to publishing screenwr…

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

#NEWPLAY OPP: Exchange NYC Accepting APPS for Orchard Project (Via @Civilians) by Arena Stage

The Orchard Project is a development program at which the most innovative companies and artists are invited to retreat to the Catskills in order to develop their next great work. Over the pa…

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#NEWPLAY CONTRIBUTE: @occupyAntigone Join a Crowdsourced Performance Project by Arena Stage

occupyantigone ‍ A crowdsourced emergent text contributed to by #OWS protestors, friends, allies, comrades, and fellow artists. The text will form the basis of performances to be developed…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Puffin Foundation Artists Grants for 2012 (via @HorizonTheatreR) by Arena Stage

The Puffin Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from emerging artists in the fields of music, theater, and photography whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy…

SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

#NEWPLAY OPP: Indy Convergence call for artists! by Arena Stage

What is the Indy Convergence from Ian Garrett on Vimeo. Once a year The Indy Convergence brings together a group of professional artists from around the country to collaborate on cross-disci…

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#NEWPLAY ACTIVISM: a 24hr Broadway Occupation Dec 2-3: Civilians, @FoundryTheatre #ows #occupybroadway by Arena Stage

#OWS is organizing a 24-hour event called Occupy Broadway that will take place from 6pm on Friday, Dec 2nd to 6pm on Saturday Dec 3rd at a private/public plaza in the Broadway area (place is…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Georgetown Theatre seeks submissions for DC Swan Day by Arena Stage

DC SWAN Day seeks short plays by women for its 2012 Staged Reading Marathon. We are seeking plays 10-20 minutes long. Selected plays will be read at the National Museum of Women in the Arts …

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

#NEWPLAY HOT CONVOS: Wrap up of the Weekly Howl of Nov. 29th 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 NEWS: Tony Kushner wins Award for 'Creative Citizenship' by Arena Stage

The playwright Tony Kushner has been named the recipient of a $100,000 award honoring artists and others for “socially responsible work” and challenges to authority, like Mr. Kushner’s…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Call for scripts for the Austin Latino New Play Festival April 2012 by Arena Stage

Teatro Vivo: Call for scripts for the Austin Latino New Play Festival April 2012. Deadline for submission January 10, 2012 April 2012 • Teatro Vivo de Austin, Texas will present the Austin…

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#NEWPLAY NEWS: Congrats to Les Waters- The new AD at @ATLouisville by Arena Stage

Les Waters Named New Artistic Director at Actors Theater of Louisville Les Waters, an Obie-award winning director known for his work with Sarah Ruhl and other emerging playwrights, will beco…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @mindthegapny Britbits: Call for Play Submissions (via @IdeasTap) by Arena Stage

BRITBITS: Call for Play Submissions Mind The Gap Theatre in NYC is now accepting submissions for their Spring 2012 production of BRITBITS. This will be their 8th series of short works by nat…

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#NEWPLAY WEEKLY HOWL TOPIC: Civic Theatre-Convo Today at 12-1PM PST/ 3-4PM EST by Arena Stage

THE WEEKLY HOWL Join HowlRound.com for a Twitter conversation on the topic of "Civic Theatre" See Michael Rohd's article HERE! Tuesday, Nov 29th at 12pm-1pm Pacific / 3pm-4pm Easte…

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Monday, November 28, 2011

#NEWPLAY FEST: @LABtheaterNYC 12th Annual Barn Reading Series by Arena Stage

The critical second step in Labyrinth's unique play development process, the Barn Series focuses on the special relationship between artist and audience by giving writers the opportunity to …

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Carte Blanche Studios submission to Festival by Arena Stage

Carte Blanche Studios introduces it’s biannual NORTH AMERICAN NEW PLAYS FESTVAL!!! With the success of our first NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL this past summer, we decided to put it on twice a year. …

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#NEWPLAY OPP: @aboutfacechi Opens Submission for XYZ Festival 2012-2013 by Arena Stage

XYZ.4: FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS About Face Theatre is happy to announce that it is now accepting scripts for selection for its 4th annual XYZ Festival of New Works to be performed in the 2012-2…

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

#NEWPLAY TV LIVE: @company_one's Conversation with Tarrell McCraney & Lydia Diamond - Sun Nov 27 2pm PST by Arena Stage

In celebration of Company One's current production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays, we invite you to join us in person and online for a dynamic conversation betw…

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

#NEWPLAY PROCESS: @RudeMechs Process of Creation - Part II by Arena Stage

What’s your artistic process? The process for each play is really dependent on who conceived, who is leading, how many and which people are in the room at generative stage, how on fire the…

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#NEWPLAY SUPPORT: Pony Fellowship at @LarkPDC to now include Health Insurance! (via @newdramatists) by Arena Stage

Sandi Farkas, Founder of the Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, has announced that health insurance will now be provided as part of the yearly Fellowship going forward. This is in ad…

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#NEWPLAY VIDEO: Does Theatre and Swag belong in the same sentence? by Arena Stage

Lauren Whitehead answers the question: Does Theatre and Swag belong in the same sentence? If you want to share your video on this blog: 1. You can go to youtube.com/​my_webcam 2. Record Yo…

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Monday, November 21, 2011

The Weekly Howl talks about 'Happy Thanksgiving' in only one Tweet! #newplay by Arena Stage

Hello #NEWPLAY Community! We wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for tweeting with us every Tuesday for the Weekly Howl, but we're going to take this Tuesday off to store up some energy to rock i…

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#NEWPLAY OPP: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation accepting apps for USArtists International (via @FracturedAtlas) by Arena Stage

Upcoming Grant Deadline diannedebicella | Nov 4, 2011 6:00 am The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is accepting applications for USArtists International. Who they fund: Through USAI, grants are …

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#NEWPLAY AWARD: Clubbed Thumb Awards 2011-12 Biennial Commission by Arena Stage

Clubbed Thumb Awards 2011-12 Biennial Commission to Aimée Gonzalez and Gregory Moss Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning New York theatre company that commissions, develops and produces fu…

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

#NEWPLAY TV WATCH PARTY: SoHo Gallery for Digital Art Sponsors Viewing Party for Cause by Arena Stage

SoHo Gallery for Digital Art, New York, NY: ON THE SPECTRUM (produced by Mixed Blood Theatre): will be projected LIVE onto a movie screen for a #NEWPLAY TV "Watch Party". Autism an…

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#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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