Provincetown Theater

Submissions

FOR THE 2012 SEASON

Playwrights! Do You Have a Story to Tell in 2012?

Tell it in Provincetown!

Submit Your Play to the 16th Annual Winter Reading Series!

Hear ye! Hear ye! The Provincetown Theater Company proudly invites local Massachusetts- and Rhode Island-based authors to submit your work to our 2012 Winter Reading Series! Whether your play is a one-act, a collection of shorts running approximately an hour, or a full-length play no longer than two hours – we want to see it read before an audience!

Please, submit one (1) digital copy and three (3) paper copies of your manuscript to:

The Provincetown Theater Company
Winter Reading Series
238 Bradford Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
operations@provincetowntheater.com

Please note the following guidelines:

Plays may not have been previously staged;
If you choose to submit a collection of short plays, individual plays may have been staged, but not the entire collection;
Electronic submissions must be accompanied by three (3) hard copies of each script!
Electronic submissions must be in .DOC format! No other electronic format can be accepted!
Scripts must be typewritten in an accepted playwrighting format, and printed single-sided;
Place your title on the first page of each copy, but do not include the author’s name!
Do not acknowledge the author’s identity anywhere in the script, including any headers or footers;
Please include a 50-word synopsis of your work;

Please include a single information page for each play or collection of short plays that you enter. On this separate page, please indicate:
TITLE
AUTHOR’S NAME
MAILING ADDRESS (and e-mail address)
TELEPHONE NUMBER
Your submitted script will not be returned – but don’t worry, the paper will be recycled!

All submissions must be postmarked (or hand-delivered) by December 17, 2011!
The Winter Reading Series happens on Wednesday evenings at the Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown, beginning January 25 and running for ten weeks, through March 28, 2012.
Ten works will be selected! Will yours be one of them? We hope so!

The Winter Reading Series, now in its Sixteenth year, seeks to sponsor the development and production of new plays by American artists, as part of the mission of the Provincetown Theater Foundation and The Provincetown Theater Company. Works selected for the Winter Reading Series will be considered for possible full production, with the involvement of the Playwright!

For more information email:
operations@provincetowntheater.com

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