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Submissions: In order to save trees and save time, The Eclectic requests that ALL submissions are sent in electronically ONLY! Please email the following to ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com: 1. A cover letter that includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail, method of payment and source (how you first came to hear about this contest/festival). Please make sure your name and the name of your script is in the body of your email. 2. ONE PDF of the script WITHOUT the name of the author anywhere in the document. This is important to ensure our reading committee has no knowledge of who wrote the script. DEADLINE: All submission and payments must be received by March 18, 2012. Payment: Please note: Early entry fee is $10 - script and payment must be received by February 19, 2012. Regular entry fee is $15 - script and payment must be received by March 18, 2012. You have TWO options for payment processing: 1. Send the processing fee via PayPal to ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com. 2. Send a check via snail mail to the following address. Please make all checks out to Eclectic Company Theatre. HURRICANE SEASON 2012 C/O THE ECLECTIC COMPANY THEATRE 5312 LAUREL CANYON BLVD VALLEY VILLAGE, CA 91607 IMPORTANT: Submission Criteria 1. Scripts must be previously un-published. 2. Scripts must not have been previously produced in California. Prior productions in other states or countries is acceptable. Produced is defined as any production, reading, or staging for a paying audience. 3. The running time of the script should be 15-40 minutes. This is approximately 10-35 pages. 4. One-person shows will not be considered. 5. Submissions must be in English. 6. Production requirements in the script (i.e., size of set, special effects, etc.) must be able to be adapted to fit into a black-box theatre using minimal set pieces, props, and costumes. We reserve the right to reject any script we believe cannot be produced in our facility. 7. Make sure your name and/or personal information is removed from the PDF submitted to ensure unbiased review. 8. We encourage you NOT to submit the same script to Hurricane Season two years in a row unless you have made significant changes. While this may not hurt the chances of your script being chosen, we like to see new and varied work each year. Different scripts will help us get better acquainted with your voice as a writer. Important Fine Print (Please Read!) The Eclectic Company Theatre's Hurricane Season Playwriting Competition is a part of the Hurricane Season New Play Festival. You are submitting to our Festival. Contestants are competing to win cash prizes for the top three best-written plays, as well as non-cash audience favorite awards. The competition is open to anyone but submissions must comply with submission criteria. Authors must guarantee that they have sole rights to all matter contained within the script. By submitting a script for consideration to the competition, the playwright agrees that The Eclectic Company Theatre may produce the script during the Hurricane Season Festival and has control over the artistic choices of this particular production. The Eclectic Company Theatre agrees to produce the script, if chosen, to the best of its ability. Furthermore, the playwright agrees to waive any royalty for the production of the script in the festival. The committee's decision is final and no correspondence concerning the results can be entered into. Play Selection Process The Play Selection Committee will be made up of members of the Eclectic Company Theatre. ONLY the producers of Hurricane Season will know the identity of the playwrights. The producers will not be a part of the reading committee. At least two different members of the Play Selection Committee will read each script. The Play Selection Committee will select the 9 scripts to be produced in the festival. The Producers of Hurricane Season will notify playwrights of their status in a timely manner. The 9 selected scripts will be sent to a committee of 3-5 Judges. These Judges will be active Directors, Producers, Educators, and Playwrights in the theatre profession. None of the Judges will be members of the Eclectic Company Theatre or have any other involvement in the Festival, including submitting scripts of their own. The Judges will select a First, Second, and Third place winner, which will be announced during the award ceremony on August 5th, 2012. All nine scripts sent to the judges, including the three winners, will be performed for one guaranteed weekend consisting of three performances and be eligible for audience favorite awards. The script that receives the Audience Favorite Best Overall Production Award from each weekend will be rewarded with an additional three performances during the final weekend of the festival. (See Schedule below) Cash Prizes First Prize: $150 Second Prize: $100 Third Prize: $50 Production (Non Cash) Prizes Audience Awards for Best Actor & Actress Audience Awards for Best Playwriting Audience Awards for Best Overall Production & Direction Festival Schedule Block A: July 13-15, 2012 Block B: July 20-22, 2012 Block C: July 27-29, 2012 Finalist Weekend (Winners of Best Overall Production from Block A, B, C): August 3-5, 2012 Please email us at ECTHurricaneSeason@gmail.com if you have any questions. |
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| The Eclectic Company Theatre is proud to present its Ninth Annual HURRICANE SEASON, a new works festival and playwrights competition. HURRICANE SEASON will blow through Los Angeles July 13th through August 5th, 2012. Each of the first three weekends of HURRICANE SEASON will feature a new program of one-act plays that have never been produced before. The audience favorite of each weekend will be invited back for a finals weekend of three more performances. The plays will be selected by the members of the Eclectic Company Theatre's reading committee, with monetary prizes given to the top three best-written plays as selected by an independent jury. |
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