If you answered yes to all three of these questions, the Young Playwrights Festival (YPF) at the O'Neill Theater Center is for you. All you have to do is write a play that is between 10-15 pages, print out an application form, and mail your completed application with 2 copies of your play to the O'Neill by March 5th, 2010. Plays will then be selected on a competitive basis.
The Festival begins on Friday, May 7th, 2010. If your play is one of the plays selected for the Festival, you will work with a creative team composed of a director, dramaturg and actors to develop and stage your script. The development process for each script will draw on the techniques used during the O'Neill's renowned professional summer play development conferences. Through these methods, you will have the opportunity to take your creative writing project to the next step, by moving from the initial isolation of writing to the collaborative process involved in making your script into a living, breathing play. You should expect a vibrant discussion of your work, professional and helpful artists with whom to work, full rehearsals with your artistic team, and opportunities to re-write and re-work your play. The Festival culminates in a script-in-hand public reading of your work on Sunday, May 9th, 2010.
All selected playwrights must be available for the entire duration of the festival.
For information on how and when to submit a work, visit our submission guidelines page.
