SUBMIT YOUR SHORT PLAY!
Children’s Theatre Workshop is hosting its first Young Writers Play Festival in July 2023, featuring works written by youth in northwest Ohio!
GUIDELINES:
- Submissions are due April 30, 2023.
- Playwrights must be 13-18 years old and live in NW Ohio/SE Michigan at the time of their submission.
- Scripts should be between 9 and 20 pages long.
- Scripts do not need to be fully completed; CTW can offer support to help finish a play.
- No more than two (2) submissions per playwright or group.
- Scripts can be collaborations as opposed to written by only one person, as long as the playwrights are all ages 13-18.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Email your script to Aimee Reid at areid@ctwtoledo.org by April 30, 2023. You will receive a confirmation email no later than May 3, 2023. Please only submit in Word or PDF. There is no cost to submit or participate in the festival.
SELECTION:
Plays will be selected with a committee of CTW staff and students. Selected plays will be chosen no later than May 30, 2023. CTW will select four (4) short plays.
THE PROCESS:
Playwrights will collaborate with a CTW director to cast their short play and rehearse it at the Collingwood Arts Center or the Ohio Theatre.
Tech week is July 17-20, 2023. The performance will be July 21, 2023.
