"We will miss you Horton....... from your fellow Texas playwrights"
(Horton Foote, Dramatist, ‘Mockingbird’ Screenwriter, Dies at 92)
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| The Aim: Connect with professional theatre. Texas Dramatists was created to foster playwrights of the greater southwest . . . by providing performance opportunities through development, support, and recognition. |
Future Projects: Festivals, contests, readings, symposiums, and workshops located throughout the region, economically priced, and led by playwrights, directors, and actors. |
- More readings to be announced soon!
- Centerville, Saturday, June 19th, Pierce Beard Fine Arts Center
- Grapeland, Saturday, July 17th, First Christian Memorial Church
To be considered for a reading, send a bound copy of your play to:
David Crawford, 1211 Balmoral, Tyler, TX 75703.
Please specify the reading you’d prefer to attend. You will be contacted in May. You will be asked to provide your own actors. If that is a hardship, we will help find readers. We will select 3-5 plays, depending on development possibilities. A large cast and graphic language will lessen your chances, especially if we look for actors in the community. All plays will be critiqued by Texas Dramatists officials with the purpose of developing the plays to its next level.
Sample schedule:
- 9-12 - Play #1, Play #2 rehearses.
- 12-1 - Lunch, in the community, on your own.
- 1-3 - Play #2, Play #3 rehearses.
- 3-5 - Play #3
Call Board 2010
Texas Educational Theatre Association’s Playfest competition was won by:
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"Moonlight Serenade" by David W. Crawford
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"The Blood Line" by Michael Ward
- Both plays were presented at the convention at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, January 22 & 23, 2010
- Michael Ward: (Tyler)
Also won the “Off Broadway Playwriting Contest” at the Erickson Theatre in Seattle. The staged reading will be on Feb. 21st at 1:30
WANTED - Hosts for 2010 Readings and/or Workshops:
(Anywhere in Texas... all we need is space.)
The Labyrinth Theatre
"We do indeed invite submissions and we produce an original work every year."
In fact we currently are soliciting scripts having to do with the concept of STIGMA as our original production for next spring. This production will have a workshop here as a fully realized production, then move to NYC to the Algonquin Theatre for an off-Broadway run. It is not too late for submissions. We will be reading scripts and doing readings through January and bring in the chosen playwrigh,t to do re-writes through February and March, work with the director and cast in April to culminate in the World Premiere at The Labyrinth Theatre prior to moving to NY in June.
Send submissions to:
STIGMA SUBMISSIONS
Tony Cunningham
The Labyrinth Theatre
1400 W. Arapaho Road
Richardson, TX 75080
www.TheLabyrinthTheatre.org
Submissions for future production other than STIGMA should be Attn:
"Original script submission"
Tyler Civic Theatre Center
Fifth Annual New Play Festival
"Seeking a good story, well told"…
Tyler Civic Theatre Center has opened the submission period for its fifth annual
New Play Festival, to be held the afternoon of Saturday, June 12, 2010. Entries
must be submitted no later than Monday, April 19, 2010.
A Junior Division has been added this year for playwrights who are 12-18 years of
age and students in junior high or high school. The Senior Division will be for
playwrights of college age and older.
For submission guidelines and information on the festival, visit TylerCivicTheatre.com.
Queries may be sent to newplays@tylercivictheatre.com.
Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival
Baylor University
Waco, Texas
Announcing new plays by Linda Daughtery:
To Order African Tales of Earth and Sky, Coyote Tales or
Ananse, the African Spiderman, please visit
DramaticPublishing.com, apPlays.com
| The Board |
Dr. Marion Castleberry
Graduate Studies, Baylor University Theatre Department; member, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY; Off-Broadway director, actor; Founding President of the Horton Foote Society; Artistic Director of the American Actors Company; co-founder of the Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival; nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play; editor of Horton Foote: The Genesis of an American Playwright.
Dr. David W. Crawford
Professor, Theatre Department, Tyler Junior College; authored six published plays, (three appearing off-Broadway: Harvest: A High Plains Trilogy at the Beckett Theatre, Theatre Row produced by the Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, Borrowed Plumage at the Provincetown Playhouse by the North American Theatre Project and a staged reading of Night Cries at Theatre Row by Theatre East, and three scene books: Moments, Timeless, and Gallery.
Judson Jones
Judson Jones, is a founder and Producing Artistic Director for Theatre East
and has been working professionally as an actor, director and producer for
over a decade. The past few years he's had the privilege of collaborating
Off Broadway with the premier of Christopher Durang's "The Vietnamization of
New Jersey", and the premier of David W. Crawford's "Harvest", which he also
co-directed with Benard Cummings, L. Pontius's "Umbrella", and Zayd Dohrn's
"Haymarket". Along with his involvement with Theatre East, he served as
Associate Director for Alchemy Theatre Company from 2004 – 2007, currently
serves of the Board of Directors, both for Texas Dramatists and the dirigo
group. He is a founding member of the dirigo group where he served as
Co-Producing Artistic Director, and is an active member of First Look
Theatre Company, Hyde Park Theatre Company, and a proud member of Actors'
Equity Association.
Jon Perry
Marketing/Public Relations Coordinator, Tyler Museum of Art, following seven
years as award-winning arts/entertainment editor, chief film and theater
critic, and columnist for Tyler Morning Telegraph; former drama critic for
the Santa Fe New Mexican; 10 years as actor, director and designer in
educational and regional theater in Texas.
Clarence Strickland
Retired Technical Director, Tyler Junior College for forty years with over one hundred plays
directing and designing. A dramaturge of regional renown. Has conducted workshops and clinics all over Texas.
Larry Wisdom
Long time Texas high school teacher and theatre director winning countless competitions at Van and Mineola High Schools; leads workshops for the Texas University Interscholastic League and presenter at Texas Educational Theatre Association.
| Texas Hot Links |
- Tyler Junior College
- Theatre East
- Baylor University Theatre
- Ensemble Studio Theatre
- Texas Educational Theatre Association
- Dirigo Group
| Contact Texas Dramatists |
Dr. David W. Crawford,
Professor, Theatre Department, Tyler Junior College; authored six published plays, (three appearing off-Broadway.
e-Mail: dcra@tjc.edu
Phone: 903-510-2678
Dr. Marion Castleberry, Graduate Theatre Studies, Baylor
Phone: (254) 710-1861
e-Mail: Marion_Castleberry@baylor.edu
Judson Jones,
Associate Director of Theatre East
e-Mail: info@theatreeast.org
Larry Wisdom,
Theatre Director, Van High School - Van, Texas
e-Mail: LWisdom@aol.com
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The College nor the Texas Dramatists, therefore, has no control over content!