Call for Plays for the Very Short Play Festival

The Northfield Arts Guild is proud to invite submissions for its 6th Annual Very Short Play Festival (VSPF VI) to be held on April 29 and April 30, 2011. The Northfield Arts Guild Theater will host the festival.

Submissions cannot exceed TEN MINUTES IN LENGTH when fully staged.

Writers of ANY AND ALL AGES are encouraged to submit their work. There are no restrictions on genre or content, just on the length of the play. Submissions can be complete short plays or stand-alone excerpts from longer works.

Writers will be required to produce their selected play for stage and provide their own actors. Therefore, even if they live far away from Northfield, MN, writers will be responsible for getting their play to Northfield on April 29 or 30, 2011.

The selected youth plays (those rated G or PG) will be performed on Friday night, April 29. The selected adult plays (those rated PG-13 and up) will be performed on Saturday night, April 30, 2011.

On their performance night, each team will need to set up and clear the stage quickly, and there will be only one 30 minute tech rehearsal per team. Thus, all technical elements of the play must be as minimalistic as possible.

You can submit your play either by e-mail OR by ground mail.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS (this has been extended): March 24, 2011.

Winning authors will be notified by e-mail on or before March 31, 2011.

E-MAIL SUBMISSIONS should be sent to Anna Moltchanova at amoltcha@carleton.edu
(please format your script as a Microsoft Word document, plain text file or .pdf file).

OR

If you prefer to send a PAPER COPY instead of an electronic one, it should be mailed to:

The Northfield Arts Guild
Attn: Very Short Play Festival VI
304 Division Street
Northfield, MN 55057