Green Light Seeks Submissions for SHORTIES; Deadline 12/31

Green Light Productions produces new plays written and directed by women. The company is looking for directors and playwrights for SHORTIES. Shorties, GL's new, short, comedic plays written and directed by women, runs March 19-29th at The Miles Memorial Playhouse. Submission are open until December 31st. Click HERE for guidelines.

Female Directors: If you'd like to direct one of our Shorties, please send your resume to: alex@greenlightproductions.org.

The 2015 season features three productions, including Shorties, created entirely by LA women writers and directors. Green Light launched its first Kickstarter to engage its audience and to provide a way for you to help women theatre artists make their voices heard. The campaign has until January 8th to make it happen. Any amount will show that people care about Green Light's coming 2015 season of all women, all the time

Why did Green Light create Shorties? Strangely, some people think that women aren't as funny as men. Green Light is doing Shorties to prove them wrong.

In 2007 the late Christopher Hitchens explained "Why Women Aren't Funny." To sum it up, Hitchens thought that women weren't funny because of men, babies and religion. Maybe the women Hitchens knew found it difficult to be funny around him -- it's tough to be funny when you're laughing so hard.

Where are the women writing comedy? In Katla McGlynn's article "So Wait, Why Aren't There More Women Writers in Late Night Again?" the amount of female writers working on late-night shows is practically non-existent. If you look at theatres around the country, it's not much better. In 2014, Green Light discovered that out of the 349 theatres currently receiving funding from The Shubert Foundation, 125 of them weren't producing any plays by women. That's definitely not funny.

Green Light created Shorties to celebrate women writing comedy and entertaining audiences. Deadline for submissions is 12/31/14. Guidelines and details are online. No fee to submit - EVER.

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