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Centenary Stage Company
Women Playwrights Series (WPS)
The Centenary Stage Company, an Equity theatre in residence on the campus of Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ is accepting submissions for the 2010 Women Playwrights Series (WPS) and the 2010 Susan Glaspell Contest.
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The WPS is a developmental program dedicated to providing a working forum for the unique and underserved voice of women
writing for the theatre today. Each season 3-4 new plays are selected for a collaborative workshop process, with a professional
director and actors, which takes place over a period of a approximately 1 week, allowing time for the playwright to hear
and adapt their work with other professionals. At the end of the rehearsal, a staged reading of the play is presented
at CSC (50 miles w. of NYC) for our regional audiences, giving CSC audiences larger exposure to new work, as well as
offering the playwright an opportunity to get feedback from the audience during the development process.
Playwrights selected for the workshop process will receive a $200 honorarium. Additional funds for travel and housing
are available for one playwright each season.
The 2010 WPS will celebrate new plays and playwrights in a week-long festival, featuring a series of readings, seminars, workshop presentations and playwrighting classes.
Alumni of the CSC WPS include:
- Eugenie Chan
- Caridad Svitch
- Neena Beber
- Heather McCutchen
- Deborah Brevoort
- Wendy Hammond
- Christina De Lancie
- Darrah Cloud
- Allison Moore
- Colin Denby Swanson
- Judy Sheehan
- Jeanne Murray Walker
- Dominique Cieri
- and more
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Project 1
Deadline: Feb.
1,
2010
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The 2010 SUSAN GLASPELL CONTEST: One play from the WPS Festival will be selected by a panel of judges to be featured in a subsequent CSC main-stage season as a full production, with an additional award of $1500 to the playwright.
Guidelines for WPS Susan Glaspell Contest: Submit Full-length play, previously unproduced.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2010
Alumni of the CSC WPS include Merri Biechler, Eugenie Chan, Caridad Svitch, Neena Beber, Heather McCutchen, Deborah Brevoort, Wendy Hammond, Christina De Lancie, Darrah Cloud, Allison Moore, Colin Denby Swanson, Judy Sheehan, Jeanne Murray Walker, Dominique Cieri and more.
Project 2
Deadline: Mar
1, 2010
This season the WPS Festival will feature the 2nd annual "THE MASTODON CHALLENGE" contest, for
short plays having anything to do with the subject of mastodons. The challenge is inspired by The Harvard Mastodon (now
in the Harvard Museum), which was discovered and excavated from the great swamplands just north of Hackettstown, in the
shadow of the Delaware Water Gap. The real-life history of the event includes a discovery of historical significance,
subsequent financial hardship and finally, murder. The Terminal Moraine of the last ice age ends just a few miles from
the site near Stephens State Park in Hackettstown.
Three submissions from the Harvard Mastodon "Challenge" will be read during the WPS festival week, April 20 - 25, and one will be selected for further development. The winner of the short play contest will receive an honorarium of $150, plus further development by the Centenary Stage Company.
Guidelines for Harvard Mastodon "Challenge": One-act or 'short' play having anything to do with the subject "Mastodon".
Deadline: Mar 1, 2010
| CSC is an SPT Equity Company located 50 miles west of NYC in Hackettstown, NJ Artistic Director: Carl Wallnau. WPS Program Director: Catherine Rust |
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