Call for Playwrights from L.A. City

Seeking extraordinary storytellers with deep concern for environmental justice!

DCA's Performing Arts Division will commission two playwrights to develop, write, and present a short subject stage play reading on subjects of health, air quality, and open space for the newly-launched Leimert Park Cultural Hub Festival of New Works.

The winners will receive a 30-minute research session with a representative from the Los Angeles City Planning’s Environmental Justice Policy Team, and will be required to write a new work or works, conduct a table read, re-writes and rehearsals, all culminating in a staged reading.

Each professional playwright, selected by peer-panel-review, will receive a commission of $2000.00 to write the new work(s). A total of $1,500.00 ($750.00 for each winner), will be awarded for production costs towards two professionally staged readings.

Works may include a one-person play, 2 to 3 ten-minute plays, or a one-act play (not to exceed thirty 30 minutes total running time in performance).

Deadline to apply: June 21, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

For details: culture.lacity.gov/calls/call-for-playwrights-new-works-on-environmental-justice/

*Playwrighting is a rare and old variant, registered in some dictionaries, but it usually gives way to playwriting in edited texts. Playwright vs. playwrite (grammarist.com)

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