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The 12th annual Summer Playwrights Festival will take place from Thursday through Sunday, starting from JULY 15th to AUGUST 1, 2021 and is now open for submissions. Annually, the festival mounts 20-40 staged readings of new plays in 12 exciting days. The festival is now the largest staged reading festival in the nation, with playwrights from across the country and around the world participating. Each reading is followed by a talkback with the playwright, director, and Although we receive hundreds of submissions for our festival, new and established playwrights are encouraged to submit. Next summer's festival will again be produced virtually due to COVID-19 restrictions.
From Executive Director Tracey Silver: "As we embark on our 12th annual Summer Playwrights festival, we remain committed to bringing exciting new works and unique voices to share with our audiences. Last year we produced our first virtual Summer Playwrights Festival (SPF 11) to great success. While we look forward to the day we can get back into our theatre, we remain truly grateful to everyone who has embraced this new virtual medium. As the pandemic continues to effect many at home and around the world, The Road Theatre Company remains committed to celebrate the work of the playwright and performance. We look forward to sharing SPF 12 with you!"
Festival Director, Christian Telesmar, adds "The Summer Playwrights Festival is an exciting culmination of artistic vision and expression in the city of Los Angeles. In 2020, for SPF11, we took our festival virtual for the first time in its 10 year history. We had over 200 artists, from directors to actors to technical assistants, volunteer their time and artistry towards 25 playwrights' short & full length plays. With COVID-19 still rampant throughout the world, The Road Theatre Company is rising to the challenge once again to keep theatre alive by holding yet another fully virtual playwrights festival in 2021. Come join us and be a part of the magic that is SPF 12!"
Artistic Director, Sam Anderson, reflects on the recent changes to the festival: "Last year at this time, the Road was on course to begin setting up for SPF 11, the annual Summer Playwright's Festival. Then in MARCH of 2020, Covid hit and we were on lockdown. If we were to even have a festival, we had to be creative and bold. Under Executive Producer Tracey Silver and the Road board, the decision was made to do SPF as a Virtual Festival, 25 plays presented online on Zoom over a three week period in the fall. Under learning curves that were sudden and enormous, the company overcame odds to produce the festival, our biggest annual fundraiser, without a clue of what the outcome would be. The results surprised all of us. SPF 11 was viewed online by over 18,000 viewers across the US and reaching 6 continents, an audience beyond a small theatre's dreams. So this year, we are starting early, as in NOW, and are going to do it again in late summer 2021. Get ready for the biggest festival in the country!"
"SPF 12 is open and eagerly awaiting submissions for our very next Summer Playwrights Festival", says Founding Artistic Director, Taylor Gilbert. "SPF 11 was such a successful event that we have realized no matter what the Coronavirus has in store for us, a virtual festival is where we will be. Our extensive reach last summer was unprecedented and we can't wait to open The Road to new theatrical internet travelers. Making 2021, The Road Most Traveled!"
Past playwrights have included William Mastrosimone, Harrison David Rivers, Jami Brandli, Lisa B. Thompson, Franky D. Gonzalez, D.L. Coburn, Lisa Loomer, Sharr White, Marisa Wegrzyn, Craig Wright, Wendy MacLeod, Lucy Thurber, Mo Gaffney, Keith Huff, Brett Neveu, Scooter Pietsch, Craig Pospisil, Julie Marie Myatt, and Martyna Majok. Guest artists have included Bryan Cranston, Laurie Metcalf, Jason Alexander, Zachary Quinto, Ann Cusack, Kathy Baker, Jennifer Tilly, Perry King, Rondi Reed, tom irwin, Nancy Travis, Gregory Harrison, Gale Harold, Robert Pine, Michael O'Neill, Harold Gould, Jon Polito, James Eckhouse, Lila Crawford, Zoe Perry, and many, many others.
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