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script submission guidelines
Portland Center Stage accepts full-length scripts from literary agents. PCS also accepts scripts directly from writers when they are recommended by the artistic director or literary manager at a professional theater or playwright organization.
If you do not have an agent or an appropriate source who can recommend your work, you are welcome to query the theater for interest in a particular script.
Your query should include the following information:
1. A brief description of the play—not a plot summary, but an account of what the play is about.
2. A production and publication history of the play, including relevant dates, places and workshop development, if any.
3. Your résumé or list of your other works with production and publication history, and any other recognition {grants, awards, etc.} you have received for your writing.
4. A five- to ten-page excerpt from the script you wish to submit.
5. A self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your materials to be returned.
6. A self-addressed, stamped postcard if you would like acknowledgment of the script’s receipt. We will respond to your query within one month. Please note that Portland Center Stage cannot provide any comments or suggestions about work that we do not intend to produce or develop.
Response time for full submissions of scripts is three to six months.
Please send your submission or query letter to:
Mead Hunter, Director of Literary & Education Programs
c/o: Portland Center Stage
Gerding Theater at the Armory
128 NW Eleventh Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Or send by email to Megan Ward.
JAW script submission guidelines
Now in its tenth year, JAW Playwrights Festival is a new play development program originally created in conjunction with New York Theatre Workshop. During JAW, Portland Center Stage hosts ten days of work that draw upon the talents of professional playwrights, directors, actors, dramaturgs and other collaborators. The Festival culminates in a process-oriented weekend of rehearsed readings presented to the theater community and the general public.
FESTIVAL DATES FOR 2008: July 8- 20
We are no longer accepting scripts for JAW 2008
Submission guidelines for 2009:
We will accept scripts for JAW 2009: November 1, 2008 - February 1, 2009.
Notification will begin after May 1, 2009.
• PLEASE NOTE: Unsolicited scripts are accepted only from Oregon residents.
• The submitted script must be full-length.
• The submission may have had a previous reading, but not a full production.
Send contact information and a bound copy of the script to:
JAW: A Playwrights Festival
c/o: Portland Center Stage
Gerding Theater at the Armory
128 NW Eleventh Ave
Portland, OR 97209
For further information, you are welcome to contact Festival Literary Manager Mead Hunter at meadh@pcs.org. Please do not email submissions, however.
Thank you for your interest in JAW. We look forward to reading your work.
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