5th Annual Front Range Playwrights'Showcase

Coal Creek Community Theater presents an evening of new plays written by local Colorado Playwrights. There will be staged readings of all the scripts that will also be adjudicated and the winner will be entered into the 2012 Colorado Community Theater Coalition Festival.

Coal Creek Community Theater Seeks Play Submissions
for the 5th Annual Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase


Coal Creek Community Theater of Louisville, CO seeks submissions for  
their 5th Annual Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase. Colorado  
playwrights are encouraged to submit their short plays by May 11, 2011.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
1. Scripts of 15 – 40 minutes in performance. No musicals or multiple act plays will be considered.
2. Only one (1) submission per playwright.
3. Playwrights must be from the state of Colorado. (Exceptions may be  
made on a case-by-case basis for those living in towns that  
immediately border state lines)
4. Scripts must include a cast list with brief character descriptions  
and short summary of the   play.
5.  Preferred method of submission is electronic in either Word or PDF format.
6.  If you wish to submit by USPS, 6 copies of each script must be  
submitted in standard manuscript format and bound, not stapled, with  
card stock cover. Copies will not be returned.
7.  Please include a cover letter with title of play, resume and ALL  
contact information for playwright:  address, phone and email address.
8.  A short playwright bio or resume should be included
9.  Please send scripts: via email to Showcase2011@aol.com or mail to  
CCCT Showcase, Attn: Play Reading Committee at P.O. Box 791,  
Louisville, CO 80027.
10.  Deadline for submissions is May 11, 2011.  Finalists will be  
notified by July 9, 2011.
11. Submissions may have been performed as staged readings or  
educational projects.
12. Scripts that have been professionally published or performed will  
not be considered.

All scripts submitted will be read, reviewed and scored by the members  
of the Play Reading Committee.  Three or four finalists (depending on  
the performance time of the selected pieces) will be chosen for a  
reader’s theater presentation at the Coal Creek Community Theater  
Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase on August 26, 2011.  The winner of  
that competition may be taken to the Colorado Community Theater  
Coalition Festival in 2012 in full production with playwright’s  
permission.

The winner of the 1st Annual Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase, The  
Organist’s Daughter by William C. Kovacsik, won FIRST PLACE at the  
CCTC Festival and competed at the American Association of Community  
Theater’s Regional Competition in 2009, and the winner of the 3rd  
Annual Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase, Senior Moments by Don Fried,  
earned its leading actor “Best Actor” honors at both the state and  
regional competitions in 2010 and 2011.  Don also received a special  
award at the AACT Regional Festival for his original work.  Other  
winners have since had their works published or performed throughout  
the region.