North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe
by Jeff Bushnell and Summer Golden
Here is an opportunities to write for theater and test you skills providing the foundation for visiual art and at the same time measure your ability to communicate with an audiance - deliver emotion, sell a story line, and leave them with a nugget of joy. We are looking for playwrights for one act short plays to be performed at the North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe in El Cajon. What follows is our criteria for a successful experience.
Submission guidelines
We are looking for:
Short new plays (no more that 15 minutes, less is fine) that are easily staged and have casts with no more than four people. Our theater is very small and we normally use a minimal set concept in this festival. We have to be able to change sets in just a few minutes as we do six to seven plays each evening of the festival. We don't have space for large casts.
We request new work. A play that has had workshops or one or two previous productions is OK, but we are not interested in work that has been produced in numerous other places. Our goal in building the theater was to have a place to produce brand new work and let playwrights have a chance to see their work done for the first time.
We seek complete plays rather than excerpts from a larger work.
Work will be chosen by the directors we have in the festival. It is not a "contest" and we are not really judging plays in the formal sense. The directors choose the plays we will produce, within the production budget guidelines we give them.
Most subject matter is OK. We don't mind controversial issues, etc., but we don't do nudity.
We ask that all submissions be sent to us via snail mail at the theater. Address is: North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe, 2031 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92104, Attn Summer Golden, Artistic Director. We have too much trouble with differing email, word processing, and computer platform issues to take them via email. Additionally, our selection process requires the directors read all plays submitted and the cost of printing all the plays we receive each year is prohibitive. Please insure submissions have a title page with complete contact information, a character summary, and are in proper script form. There is no charge to enter.
Submissions must be postmarked by June 30, 2008.
Send only one script. Multiple submissions do not increase chances of production.
General information:
We are trying to support new work and involve actors, playwrights, and directors of all experience levels. We have had a wide variety of artists involved from very experienced to first time directors and actors to an 8 year old playwright (very short, well received play). We feel having a wide range of experience involved helps the new people learn from the more experienced.
We really appreciate your interest in our theater.
Contact Information:
Jeff Bushnell and Summer Golden
North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe
2031 El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92104
Check out what the theater looks like and see photos of past cast and performances at out website: www.northparkvaudeville.com
Thanks for telling us about this opportunity... J.
Wolf
