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John Gassner New Play Festival |
The 2007 John Gassner New Play Festival Results |
After three excellent staged readings and much deliberation, the Literary Managers of the John Gassner New Play Festival have reached a decision. We are very pleased to announce that Saving Grace by James McLindon will be workshopped here at Stony Brook. McLindon's dark comedy about crime and absolution will be developed in conjunction with the Department of Theatre Arts' Graduate Program in Dramaturgy. The workshop production of Saving Grace will take place in the Spring semester of 2008.
Congratulations to our other finalists Tira Palmquist (Lost Nation) and Nancy Terry (Retrospective); their hard work and excellent plays made our decision a difficult one.
6th annual playwriting contest
at Stony Brook Department of Theatre Arts
The Department of Theatre Arts at Stony
Brook University has announced a CALL FOR PLAYS for
its 2007 Fifth annual John Gassner New Play Festival.
The festival and playwriting contest is named for John
Gassner (1903-1967), one of the most distinguished names
in American theatre. Gassner, a Long Island resident,
pioneered the field of dramaturgy in America and championed
American playwrights. (Stony Brook University has one
of the nation’s leading graduate programs in Dramaturgy
in America.) |
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Submission guidelines
The Play Contest is open to American
playwrights in all 50 states. The Play Contest is open
to American playwrights in all 50 states. The play
submission period has already begun for our 2008 competition.
Plays should be full-length (approximately 90 minutes)
and will not be returned. Send two bound copies of your
play, with contact information and a self-addressed-stamped,
letter-size envelope (for notification after finalists
are chosen) to:
Steve Marsh, Literary Manager
Department of Theatre Arts
Stony Brook University
Staller Center for the Arts, Rm. 3037
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5450 |
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Two finalist plays will be selected by the
literary associates at Stony Brook University’s department
of Theatre Arts and presented in public staged readings. The
new play festival will be open to the public free-of-charge.
The first place winner will receive a $200 prize and the
winning play will be workshopped by the department of Theatre
Arts’ graduate program in Dramaturgy. |
Previous winners
(2006) Off Compass by Kelly Younger
According to the playwright: "Highway 50,
which old maps call the Loneliest Road, goes from San Francisco,
California to Ocean City, Maryland. Highway 83, called the Road
to Nowhere by the same old maps goes from Swan River, Manitoba to
Brownsville, Texas. They crisscross in Garden City, Kansas, where
the drama takes place, This play explores the intersection of human
loneliness and the desire for anywhere, and nowhere... The play
is a modern recasting of American myth–from Elvis Presley
to the Wizard of Oz– where four unlikely travelers yearn for
courage, a brain, a heart, and a way home. How they get what they
want, however is a different story."
(2005) Japanese
Death Poem, by DT Arcieri
(2004) Love
in a Thirsty Land by Alan Glass
(2003) Ephemera by John Yearley
For more information call literary manager, Steve Marsh in
the department of Theatre Arts at 631-632-4291. |
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