CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - 5TH ANNUAL PLAIN SITE THEATRE FESITVAL

SCRIPTS WILL BE ACCEPTED NO LATER THAN 11:59PM on JULY 31ST

The Plain Site Theatre Festival, curated by Alex Rioux and run by Black Box Productions in partnership with Solo Chicken Productions, is proud to return once again to the St. Thomas University campus to present new 2SLGBTQIA+ centered plays with the aim of fostering queer visibility in our arts scene and on our campus. 

The Plain Site Festival is seeking short, two-handers (two actors maximum) with a focus on 2SLGBTQIA+ stories for their 2023 Festival. Selected scripts will receive professional dramaturgy, a workshop process and reading at the 2023 Festival, and full production at the 2024 Festival. The Plain Site Festival will present our winners on November 17th at the Ted Daigle Auditorium. Unfinished scripts will be considered. 


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • Artists eligible to submit must be currently attending a secondary or post-secondary institution in New Brunswick and identify as 2SLGBTQIA+.

  • Scripts must have a running time of between 10-20 minutes.

  • Scripts must contain no more than 2 actors. (Monologues are welcome)

  • Playwrights must be available for 3 dramaturgical sessions between August - November and should be prepared for re-writes of their script.

  • A maximum of 4 plays will be selected for the festival.

The Plain Site Festival reserves the right to award fewer than the maximum number of plays allotted should jury members feel that the quality of submissions does not meet a minimum standard or that the festival would not be able to stage certain submitted scripts for logistical, financial, or legal reasons.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please submit the following information through email by the deadline:

Cover sheet indicating the following: 

  • Playwright's Name, Pronouns, Full Contact Information, Title of Play, Copy of the Script. 

Documents should be in .doc, .docx or.pdf format

Please email scripts to Festival Director, Alex Rioux at pstfdirector@gmail.com

Plain Site Festival Media Contacts: 

- Festival Director – Alex Rioux – pstfdirector@gmail.com

[The Plain Site Theatre Festival acknowledges that for 2SLGBTQIA students identities may put them in a position of risk. Writers and performers are featured on social media posts and may be featured in the related promotions of the festival (ie, press releases, featured in articles in news publications, etc) If you are not comfortable having a public presence with the festival please reach out with your situation so that we can best accommodate you while keeping your safety in mind. We are dedicated to creating spacer spaces for participating artists and we want to be as flexible as possible with our participants.]