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The Castillo Theater is pleased to announce the four winners for the 2010 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest:
- Tangled by Nicole Anderson-Cobb
- The Third Crossing by Debora Threedy
- Put Your Trust in God and Keep Your Powder Dry by Michael Vukadinovich
- Another Kind of Hunger by Judith Marie Wallace
The winning plays will be performed as part of the Political Play Reading Series at Castillo in August.
See the instructions below to submit a script to the 2011 Political Play Contest.
Winners of the 2009 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest:
- A Far Shore by Douglas Huff
- Inside the Coma of Wayne Morse by Steven A. Lyons
- The Owl Girl by Monica Raymond
- Fire in the Garden by Ken Weitzman
Winner of the 2008 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest:
- The Patriot Act by Charles Duncombe
With the launch of the fourth annual Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest, the Castillo Theatre is seeking new scripts for the stage that engage the political/social/cultural questions affecting the world today. The purpose of the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest is to encourage the writing of such plays, and to provide a stage for scripts that might not otherwise find one.
While Castillo recognizes that in the broadest sense, “all theatre is political,” the contest is seeking politically progressive plays that expand or connect the conflicts they explore to a larger social/historical perspective. Castillo also encourages scripts that experiment with form and seek new ways of seeing and new ways of experiencing theatrical performance.
That said, the plays submitted to the Fratti-Newman Contest may be written in any style, set in any historical time, geographic or imaginary location, contain any number of characters and
be of any producible length. The plays must be in English and, due to production limitations, cannot be musicals. No scripts will be considered that have previously been produced or won other contests. Only one script per playwright will be accepted.
The contest is judged by a team of Castillo theatre artists and other distinguished theatre artists from the progressive and experimental theatre world. The winning script(s) will receive a reading and/or a full production at the Castillo Theatre in New York City during the theatre’s 2010-11 season.
All scripts should be submitted in hard copy and must be accompanied by:
- Statement of the political/social/cultural questions that the playwright is engaging with the script
- Brief synopsis
- Character breakdown, including specific gender, age and ethnic requirements
- Set requirements, including how many sets and any special effects needed
- 100-word biography of the playwright
- Stamped, self-addressed post card, which will be mailed back to the author to acknowledge receipt of the script.
Please note that scripts will not be returned, nor will Castillo give critical feedback to contestants.
All scripts must be received by October 1, 2010. The winner(s) will be publicly announced at the Otto René Castillo Awards for Political Theatre in New York City in May of 2011.
Send all submissions to:
Castillo Theatre
543 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Attn: Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest
Questions and inquiries should be addressed to Madelyn Chapman at madelynchapman@hotmail.com, 212-356-8485.
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