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Attention local playwrights!

AVT is looking for short works by local playwrights to be considered for limited workshop production to be held in the AVT Blackbox on July 24. Each scene or short selected for this Expo will be given a reading and limited staging by actors and AVT’s artistic director (all who will have had advance reading of the scripts to develop basic characters) followed by discussion to receive feedback from actors, techies, directors, fellow writers, audience members, and AVT’s dramaturg.

Submissions should have no more than 4 characters and be no more than 20 minutes long (typically 1 page of pure dialogue in standard type is about 1 minute of stage time).

Submissions are due to the dramaturg (anna@avthespians.org) no later than June 26th for consideration.  Please see our Playwrights Page for more information on our process for accepting original work for full production.

AVT is proud to support ScriptFrenzy 2010!  For those of you familiar with National Novel Writing Month (or “NaNoWriMo”), the format of ScriptFrenzy will seem quite familiar.  In fact, it’s run by the same organization!

So what is ScriptFrenzy?  The basic concept is that you write 100 pages of scripted material in 30 days.  Simple right?  For the month of April, join those of us who are theatre geeks, writing nerds, have no life, or are just plain insane, and live out your lifelong dream (or passing fancy) of being a playwright.  It’s exciting, glamorous, loads of fun, highly masochistic, and pays absolutely nothing.  Just like being a real writer.

Similar to NaNoWriMo, the theory is that the major hurdle in writing is just getting something out there, no matter how trite or inane.  There will be time for editing later.  For now, get that story and those killer (or God-awful) lines down, and give yourself a starting point for later refinement.

And need we remind you that AVT is constantly on the lookout for quality original work?  One of our goals is to be able to produce at least one full-length play by a local playwright every single year.  We have annual calls-for-scripts on specific themes, host irregular playwrights expos, and we also accept work on any subject at any time for production consideration.  Oh yeah, and we pay.  Like, money.  Yeah, I know.  Intrigued? Check out our Playwrights Page for more info.

And if you’re looking for the perfect place to find your muse and mingle with other over-caffeinated nerds, then why not head over to Sagebrush Cafe in Quartz Hill?  Our one-and-only business patron boasts fine coffee, an arsty atmosphere, and free WiFi for all your wrighting needs.

This April, stop watching.  Start writing.  Register now at ScriptFrenzy.org.