Join the 2021-22 PlayGround-LA Writers Pool!
Are you a Los-Angeles-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines?
PlayGround-LA is seeking applications for the 2021-22 (Season 10) Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to write for the Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading series, and from which are drawn the six plays and playwrights for each year’s Best of PlayGround. PlayGround releases a prompt on a Friday morning and writers have just four-and-a-half days to write an original ten-minute play inspired by the prompt. Of the submitted scripts, 6 get chosen for a fully-staged, partly-teched, script-in-hand reading led by leading local directors and actors on second Mondays, October-March. Writers not chosen can participate in PlayGround-LA Recess, with the opportunity to hear their work read aloud by professional actors and receive peer feedback in a private setting. BIPOC, trans/gender non-conforming & differently-abled are encouraged to apply!
The PlayGround Writers Pool has featured some of the nation’s most distinguished new writers of the past two decades, including Lauren Yee, Christopher Chen, Aaron Loeb, Geetha Reddy, Vincent Terrell Durham, and Diana Burbano, among others.
To apply for a place in the 2021-22 writers pool, please submit your short (ten-page max) double-spaced script (previously produced & unproduced scripts eligible) as a Portable Document Format (.pdf) attachment via the Google form at https://forms.gle/8HnT9DJgbPPCEHxV7. Excerpts from longer works are not accepted but short plays that meet the above requirements and are derived from a longer work are accepted. Women and artists of color encouraged. Submissions are due by 11:59pm on June 30, 2021. The 2021-22 PlayGround-LA Writers Pool will be announced on or before September 1, 2021 and all selected writers must attend a mandatory Company Meeting on Sunday, September 12.
POOL REQUIREMENTS
To be eligible, writers must reside within the five counties of the Greater Los Angeles Area. To apply for a place in the 2021-22 writers pool, playwrights must submit a maximum ten-page double-spaced script (previously produced and unproduced scripts eligible) as a Portable Document Format (.pdf) attachment within the following form: https://forms.gle/8HnT9DJgbPPCEHxV7. Applications must be received by 11:59pm PT on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. The script must have the playwright’s name, address, email and phone number at the top of the first page of the script and include a detailed cast breakdown, and all pages must be numbered. Please label your script by “Lastname, Firstname_Title.” Excerpts from longer works are not accepted but short plays that meet the above requirements and are derived from a longer work are accepted. BIPOC, trans/gender non-conforming & differently-abled writers are encouraged to apply.
The 2021-22 PlayGround-LA Writers Pool will be announced on or before September 1, 2021. There will be a mandatory meeting of the Writers Pool on September 12, 2021 (time to be confirmed). Writers Pool members must commit to submitting for at least four of the six Monday Night PlayGrounds in any season. The submission of a script to Monday Night PlayGround grants PlayGround-LA the exclusive option to stage the play as part of the Monday Night PlayGround and, should it be so selected, as part of the annual Best of PlayGround and the non-exclusive right to publish the script in the “Best of PlayGround” anthology.
For any questions not answered above, email to info@playground-la.org.