New Works Festival

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The New Works Literary Committee and Annual New Works Festival were established over 20 years ago as a part of Long Beach Playhouse’s commitment to the arts.  Each year starts with novice and experienced playwrights from all over the world sending in their unproduced plays to the committee.  (The committee receives over 100 submissions every year!)  Each script is read and evaluated by at least two members of the Literary Committee.  Four “Winners” and four “Finalists” are selected for the two-week festival.  With the winning plays receiving a staged reading and the finalists a cold reading, the playwrights have the opportunity to hear their words brought to life by actors and receive feedback from the audience.  Winning playwrights also receive detailed written critiques by professional theatre critics.

 

 

2012 Annual New Works Festival

 

 

DATES TO REMEMBER

 

September 30th, 2011

Deadline for play submissions.

For information about submitting your play, please click on the link below.  Submissions are accepted from June 30 th through September 30th to be considered for the following year.

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>> 2012 Submission Form

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Note to Playwrights:  Thank you for your submissions to the 2012 New Works Festival!  The Literary Committee is hard at work processing, reading, and evaluating each and every submission.


October 6 th, 7 th, 13th and 14 th, 2012

2012 New Works Festival

New for 2012, the festival will be held on two consecutive weekends in the beginning of October and will showcase all winning and finalist plays.

  

2012 NEW WORKS LITERARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

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Artistic Director: Andrew Vonderschmitt

Secretary: Lisa Morrison

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Patricia Benoit                     Jo Black-Jacob                    

Ralph Richmond                   Laura Vargas

Sam Wellengard                  Sean Wellengard

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A special thank you to the NWLC’s Caprice Spencer-Rothe for her dedicated years of service to the committee and the New Works Festival.  We wish her all the best in all future ventures!

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2012 NEW WORKS FESTIVAL CRITICS

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Shirle Gottlieb                 Vicki Paris Goodman                     

Cecilia Fannon                    Rico Freedman                   

Eric Marchese

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If you have any other questions regarding the

Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival, please send an email to: newworks@lbplayhouse.org

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