Plays From the Earth and Sky

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Salt Lake Acting Company (www.saltlakeactingcompany.org), in conjunction with the Environmental Humanities Education Center through the University of Utah College of Humanities, is accepting applications to the First Annual PLAYS FROM THE EARTH AND SKY workshop.

Playwrights are asked to submit a proposal for a project they would like to work on while in residence at the Center. (http://www.ehec.utah.edu/)
The play should focus on dramatic human relationships with the land, wildlife, or the natural environment. 

We are not looking for full length plays at the time.  We are interested in writers who are in the process of exploring ideas, scenes, characters.

Proposals should be under ten pages and should express the idea, and some sense of how the playwright envisions developing it as a full length theatrical experience.   

We are only accepting proposals at this time from playwrights who have had at least one play produced, either professionally or at an accredited University.

Seven writers will be chosen to participate in a week-long workshop in the beautiful Wilderness Center in Lakeview Montana beside the 45,000-acre Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, in the heart of the Yellowstone ecosystem.  Daily workshops will be lead by nationally recognized playwrights David Kranes and Kathleen Cahill. 

Plays which are developed through the Center will be considered for further development by the Salt Lake Acting Company.

Workshop participants are housed in comfortable guest cabins.  Conference and performance spaces, and a dining hall are part of the facilities. Guided explorations of the valley are included in the workshop experience.

All meals are prepared by an on-site chef.

Total cost to participants is $1500.  (excluding travel)  

Submission proposals should include a playwrights biography, and contact information.

 

Deadline for submission is March 15, 2012. April 30, 2012 - Extended!

Participants will be notified by June 1, 2012. 

Workshops dates are August 22-August 29, 2012.

All submissions should be emailed in .pdf format to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it