Maine Playwrights Competition now open for submissions 

PORTLAND — Acorn Productions, producers of the annual Maine Playwrights Competition, has begun to just accept scripts for this 12 months’s twenty first version of the state’s long-running incubator for brand spanking new performs by native playwrights.  

Anyone dwelling in Maine is eligible to submit a brand new play for consideration within the competition. All new performs submitted to the competition should be 8-Half-hour in size and will need to have not acquired knowledgeable manufacturing previous to submission. The deadline for submissions is Nov. 27.  

“The Maine Playwrights Competition welcomes writers of all ranges of expertise, and we’re proud to be right here to assist them develop their writing and inform their tales,” mentioned Daniel Burson, the competition’s creative director.  

The competition is centered on creating and honing quick performs, from submission via staged readings, rewrites and public performances. The 2023 Maine Playwrights Competition might be comprised of two weekends of totally staged performances of quick performs to be carried out in Portland in April. The competition anticipates deciding on 5 or 6 quick performs for manufacturing this 12 months.   

Chosen playwrights will obtain assist to revise their items throughout a workshop section earlier than the performs go into rehearsals. Along with the competition productions, a number of playwrights not chosen for the complete competition will get the chance to workshop their performs with this 12 months’s skilled playwright-in-residence, who might be introduced later this month. 

Every year, playwrights from throughout Maine submit between 50 and 70 scripts to the competition, and a committee of native theater professionals reads them and selects a small group of performs for manufacturing at public performances within the late spring.   

Through the years, the competition has showcased over 100 Maine playwrights, a lot of whom have subsequently had their work produced at theater festivals all around the nation. 

Submission info is offered at www.acorn-productions.org.