| New Play Submission Guidelines |
Please note the following guidelines may be following by Secondary Student Artists with
one exception. They may submit Short Plays only.
Each year The Artist’s Path will explore a theme through a specific artistic discipline. For the inaugural event, taking place
in April of 2011, The Artist’s Path will explore The Playwright’s Response to Conflict and Social Crisis. Three previously
produced plays that deal with the theme will be offered to the public as full productions, while we seek out new works that
have been or will be written in response to those pressing issues here and around the world that come under the rubric of
terms like: peace, war, social justice, conflict, social crisis, and fundamental societal change whether those issues come
from the past, the present or some imagined future. New plays selected by the Jury Process will be presented as staged
readings.
There is no submission fee for The Artist’s Path new works program.
Submission deadline for 2011- The Artist’s Path is August 1, 2010. Scripts received after that date will not be considered.
All serious submissions are read by at least two readers. Please note that the following are not considered acceptable
submissions:
Play Formatting
Notification: We appreciate your offering our program the opportunity to consider your work. Our New Works Coordinator
screens submissions for eligibility and for content as they are received and at that time acknowledges receipt of
submission by email only.
Only playwrights whose works are selected for presentation will be notified of selection. Plays selected for presentation
will also be listed on our website at www.theartistspath.org. If you have not received notification of selection, see the
website. It is our intent to post notification by March 1, 2011.
Five Copies of the play should be sent to the address below.
The Artist’s Path
c/o Gail Mangham
1608 St Andrews Way
Prescott, AZ 86301-4431
If your question is not answered within the above guidelines, please email:
gailm@theartistspath.org
one exception. They may submit Short Plays only.
Each year The Artist’s Path will explore a theme through a specific artistic discipline. For the inaugural event, taking place
in April of 2011, The Artist’s Path will explore The Playwright’s Response to Conflict and Social Crisis. Three previously
produced plays that deal with the theme will be offered to the public as full productions, while we seek out new works that
have been or will be written in response to those pressing issues here and around the world that come under the rubric of
terms like: peace, war, social justice, conflict, social crisis, and fundamental societal change whether those issues come
from the past, the present or some imagined future. New plays selected by the Jury Process will be presented as staged
readings.
There is no submission fee for The Artist’s Path new works program.
Submission deadline for 2011- The Artist’s Path is August 1, 2010. Scripts received after that date will not be considered.
- The new play must reflect the 2011 theme, The Playwright’s Response to Conflict and Social Crisis.
- Must be a Short Play (10 to 60 minutes) or Full Length Play (75 – 120 minutes) without a prior full production. (Please
note whether your work is being submitted as a short or full length play on the title page.) - Send brief synopsis together with a bound (minimally a folder with brads) complete manuscript. Please include a
contact telephone number and email address on the play's title page. - Dramas, comedies and farces are all welcome. No musicals or plays for young people, please.
- Cast size limited to 6.
- Play readings may be conducted in a variety of spaces in Prescott AZ.
- Providing playwrights with the highest quality actors is a priority. Plays that can be effectively cast within our market
will be considered favorably. - All plays that are not selected for the festival will be recycled. Please do not include any type of return postage.
Please check our website (www.theartistspath.org) by March 1, 2011 for announcement of current year's
selections in Short and Full Length categories. - Selected plays will receive a rehearsed reading before the public at the April event. The reading committee and the
public will decide a winner in The One Act and The Full Length Play categories. The winners will be announced at the
closing ceremonies April 17, 2011 and a cash prize will be awarded. ( At this time we plan $300 for the winning
Short Play and $500 for the winning Full Length Play.) The two winning scripts will be produced the following year.
All serious submissions are read by at least two readers. Please note that the following are not considered acceptable
submissions:
- Screenplays or teleplays submitted as theatrical plays
- Obvious first drafts
- Plays with typos and spelling errors
- Plays that are not formatted according to industry standards (see below)
Play Formatting
- Your name and contact information should appear on the Title page of your manuscript but not within the body of the
work. We will remove the title page from a work during the reading process to ensure an objective reading. Again
please place Short Play or Full Length Play on the title page. - A page number and Play Title should be included in the header area of each page following the Title page. This
ensures that should a play become unbound it can be easily re-assembled. - All pages should be securely bound, preferably using brads, in such a way that judges and especially actors can leaf
through quickly and often roughly. A good entry will be one that gets passed around a lot, so make sure your entry
can stand up to the punishment. - Top and left margins are to be set at 1.5 inches.
- Bottom and right margins should be set at 1 inch.
- Page numbers appear 1 inch from the top and right.
- Character names are indented 4 inches, not centered.
- Opening stage directions are indented 4 inches.
- Other stage directions are indented 3.5 inches.
- Avoid the use of italics.
- Text is best set at 12 point in one of the following fonts: Palatino, Times New Roman, Courier New, or Arial. The
point size is to insure that text is easily readable. - Five Copies Required
Notification: We appreciate your offering our program the opportunity to consider your work. Our New Works Coordinator
screens submissions for eligibility and for content as they are received and at that time acknowledges receipt of
submission by email only.
Only playwrights whose works are selected for presentation will be notified of selection. Plays selected for presentation
will also be listed on our website at www.theartistspath.org. If you have not received notification of selection, see the
website. It is our intent to post notification by March 1, 2011.
Five Copies of the play should be sent to the address below.
The Artist’s Path
c/o Gail Mangham
1608 St Andrews Way
Prescott, AZ 86301-4431
If your question is not answered within the above guidelines, please email:
gailm@theartistspath.org