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Tomorrow's Playwrights... Today! |
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Submit your Work NOW! Extended Deadline is November 30th
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Submissions now being accepted to the 12th annual New Works Festival at COC. The New Works Festival is now open for submission to the 12th Annual New Works Festival at College of the Canyons The New Works Festival focuses on the development process for playwrights, through readings, discussions, revisions and eventually rehearsals and performance. Writers are integrated throughout the process."The process is simple," says David Stears, the Director to the New Works Festival since 2005. "LISTEN, DISCUSS, PLAN, REVISE, REPEAT. Many festivals are more concerned about producing the play rather than giving the playwrights an opportunity to listen to their work." Playwrights experience the process of hearing their plays, working with a director and or dramaturge. Then during the revision process, the playwrights work with a director and actors to clarify or strengthen their works. Finally, the playwrights are invited to attend all rehearsals and watch as their plays are fleshed out by the production process. Currently, there is no registration fee or entry fee for submitting your work. The submission process is open to all original and previously unproduced dramatic work. All playwrights are required to participate in the development process by registering for the production class in the spring. After the submission deadline, the play selection committee reads all the plays and selects pieces that show the most promise in being developed. Playwrights are notified by the middle of December. Selected playwrights must register for the production class in the spring and be available to participate in the process. For more information about the submission process, click here. Dust of your scripts and submit them now!
NWF@COC IN THE NEWS Many of the NWF alumnae receive accolades for their after participating in the festival's workshop . Here are some of their recent accomplishments: Joseph
Camhi (NWF ’07, ’08, ’09) received a staging of his
play, Wacadamia
at the Actor’s Playpen in 2010.
Wacadamia is the full length play comprised of
three short One Acts: Construction/Deconstruction,
A Dirty Joke, Box: A Romantic
Ending. Each
of the individual plays participated as part of the New Works Festival.
The staging in Congratulations to NWF 2008 alumni Rene Solivan for his acceptance into the prestigious Masters of Fine Arts in Writing at Spalding University. The program ("one of the top ten low-residency MFA programs in the country" - Poets & Writers Magazine), is headed by award-winning and best-selling author Sena Jeter Naslund. Solivan’s short play, The Pill premiered in 2008 at College of the Canyon's New Works Festival. NWF@COC alumni Colleen Niemi, had her piece Gentlemen selected for a staged reading at the 2010 Pittsburgh New Works Festival August 22nd. The reading was at The Father Ryan Arts Center as part of the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, now in its 20th year. Each year the festival selects twelve one-act plays to be performed as main-stage productions. An additional six are selected for staged readings. Each of the 18 playwrights whose plays are selected receives a $50 honorarium. Dave Wisehart, a NWF@COC alum, will be premiered his full-length play, VALENTINO, as part of the he Hollywood Fringe Festival, in June this year.Valentino had selected scenes worked-shopped as part of the NWF 2007. Since then, the play has had a full-length reading, and will be making a world premiere at the inaugural Hollywood Fringe Festival in June at the Flight Theatre at The Complex, with 8 performances.
Congratulations to Dean Stewart, (NWF08-09) for his accolades
from Writer's Digest. Dean has recently placed 8th for his script
Raincheck (NWF09) in 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing
Competition, in the category of Stage Play. Dean is no stranger to the
Writer’s Digest competition. He received honorable mention for his play
Bookish (NWF 08) in the 77th WD competition in the
category of Stage Play, and this year received an honorable mention for
his revision of Bookish in the category of
Television/Movie Script category. |
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To contact us: NEW WORKS FESTIVAL COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS—THEATRE DEPARTMENT 26455 North Rockwell Canyon Blvd Santa Clarita, CA 91355 Phone Kim Gurnee: 661-362-3073 E-mail: newworks@canyons.edu |