ShareSubmitting to The Global Age Project
NOTE: The deadline for submissions has passed and we are no longer accepting scripts. Thank you to all who submitted. If you're interested in submitting your script to next year's GAP, watch this page - the window will open again late next spring.
The Global Age Project (GAP) is Aurora Theatre Company's annual festival
celebrating fresh forward-looking visions of global
significance. The festival provides a development opportunity for
plays that explore the world as it is, and as it might be, at the
dawn of this Global Age. Themes that have appeared in the work of past
winners include the environment, childcare, automation, cloning, life-span,
family, currency, communications, business, politics, spirituality,
warfare and entertainment, but are not limited to these. Plays may be
comedic or serious, and experimentation with innovative forms of theatrical
storytelling is also encouraged.
Submissions will culminate in a four-week festival of staged readings in the spring of 2010. Four scripts will be selected with the potential of a full production the following season.
Remuneration: $1,000, reading, travel and housing for playwrights outside the Bay Area, possible production.
Submission: ONE unproduced play per playwright, per year. We will accept the first submission only - anything submitted afterwards will be discarded without consideration.
Length: any length.
Styles: all styles.
Origin: Currently accepting scripts from USA, Canada and Mexico
Language: Must be written in English, and submitted by the original author - no translations, please.
Subjects: Pertaining to the future state of the global community.
Application Fee: There is a $20 submission fee, put toward the costs associated with the selection process. Previous festival participants and honorable mentions are exempt from the submission fee. If the submission fee poses a severe financial hardship, please email the contest to discuss.
Deadline: August 1st, 2009
Response: February, 2010
The Global Age Project is supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.
