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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 Hollywood was the first time all three acts
were presented as an entire evening.
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.
Both Raincheck and Bookish were work-shopped
and premiered as part of the NWF 2008. |
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NOW AVAILABLE
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New Works Festival
Anthology 2008 available in paperback now !
The plays
from the 2008 New Works Festival are now available in an anthology. The collection
includes all the material that was work-shopped and
presented as part of the NWF in 2008.
"This is an
exciting project for both the playwrights and the
festival", says David Stears, director of the New Works
Festival. "It is great exposure for the writers,
and a generous gift to the festival."
Playwrights
retain all their rights to their material, while the
proceeds from sales of the anthology go to the College
of the Canyons Foundation, in support of the New Works
Festival and the festival's on-going activities.
The
New Works Anthology 2008 is published
through and available at Createspace:
https://www.createspace.com/3507198
Also available at AMAZON:
New Works Festival 2008 |

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