The deadline is passed and we are no longer taking submissions for the 14th International Women’s Playwriting Festival 

The deadline for the 15th International Women’s Playwriting Festival will be January 15, 2010!

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OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  

PERISHABLE THEATRE’S

14th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL 

PROVIDENCE, RI- Perishable Theatre, Rhode Island’s Research and Development Theatre, is looking for innovative, unproduced one-act plays by women for its 14th International Women’s Playwriting Festival. Three plays will be selected to be performed by a professional cast and crew as part of the 2008 festival in Providence, RI. Each of the three winning playwrights will receive a $500 cash prize, round-trip travel to Providence and accommodation in order to participate in the development of their work and the festival. They will also receive copies of the 14th Annual International Women’s Playwriting Festival published anthology, which will feature the winning plays.  

Perishable Theatre founded the International Women’s Playwriting Festival in 1992 with the mission to spotlight and produce emerging female playwrights and to encourage their unique artistic voices. Each year three plays are selected out of hundred of entries received from around the globe. Among our past winners are Pulitzer-prize finalists, Susan Smith Blackburn award-winners, Hollywood screenwriters and internationally recognized talent. Winners of the Perishable Theatre’s Women’s Playwriting Festival are having their work performed everywhere from Broadway to the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival for New American Plays. The festival has grown to include opening acts by local performers, an art exhibit at a local gallery that runs in conjunction with the festival and a humanities component which includes post-performance talk-backs. 

Women playwrights are asked to submit up to two of their one-act plays of approximately 10-30 minutes in length, along with a $10.00 reading fee per playwright (not play) in the form of a check or money order by May 15, 2008 to:  

Festival Coordinator

14th International WPF

Perishable Theatre

P.O. Box 23132

Providence, RI 02903  

Online submissions are accepted at wpf@perishable.org in coordination with PayPal; for more information on online submissions, past winners and detailed submission guidelines, visit: www.perishable.org. 

Perishable Theatre is celebrating its 24th year at the forefront of introducing new voices to the American theatre. Nationally recognized as an incubator for the development of new plays, Perishable is dedicated to cultivating the power of the arts as a community catalyst. For more than two decades, Perishable has remained actively committed to giving a voice to artists who otherwise would not be heard. Perishable’s body of work dares audiences of all ages to challenge their assumptions about how we live today.

What: OPEN CALL for submissions to 14th Annual International Women’s Playwriting Festival

When: Deadline: May 15th, 2008

Contact: wpf@perishable.org

Where: Perishable Theatre Arts Center, 95 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903