Barn Players seeking short scripts for "6x10 Festival"

Grab your pencils! Or laptops! The Barn Players Theater is holding its third annual 6x10 Play Festival on December 9-11 and we are looking for some great scripts. The Festival will produce six short plays, each roughly ten minutes in length and all by local writers. Tell us a great story in ten minutes and you'll get the chance to see your work performed on our stage.

Playwrights whose scripts are selected will be encouraged to participate in rehearsal and to work collaboratively with the director. They may modify their script as they watch it take shape on the stage.

The Barn Players will host 3 Short Play Workshops this summer for local playwrights to gather to discuss their plays and hear them read aloud. Playwrights may attend any one or all three workshops. Please bring your script to the Workshop so it can be read and discussed by other writers as well as members of the Barn Players Board.

The workshop dates will be announced shortly, and will take place on Saturday  mornings from 10am to Noon at The Barn Players Theatre.

Playwrights are NOT required to attend a Workshop in order to submit a script for the Festival. Attending a Workshop does NOT guarantee that a playwright's script will be selected for production.

GUIDELINES

• All playwrights must live within 200 miles of Kansas City.
• Scripts may not have been produced previously.
• Scripts should be easily produced in the context of a ten-minute play festival (i.e. small casts and simple sets)
• Each playwright may submit up to 2 scripts for review.
• Scripts may be submitted electronically or through the mail.
• Electronic: send to "tenminute@thebarnplayers.org"
• Mail: send TWO copies to "6x10 Festival, The Barn Players, 6219 Martway, Mission KS 66202"
• Please put your name and contact info on a separate page from the text of the script.
• Deadline for submission is August 31, 2011.
• Selections will be made and all playwrights informed by September 23, 2011.
• Scripts sent by mail will not be returned.
• No comments or feedback on the scripts will be given.
• There is no entry fee.

By submitting a script for consideration, the playwright agrees that The Barn Players may produce the script during the festival. The playwright agrees to waive any royalty for the production of the piece in the festival and relinquishes all rights to casting decisions or scenic choices.

For more information, please contact Eric Magnus, Artistic Director of The Barn Players at emagnitude@yahoo.com.