Pandora Announces Call For New Plays

PlayDates with Pandora is an initiative begun in the 2016-2017 season reading plays on LGBTQ+ themes and celebrating plays written by local and regional playwrights. The mission of the Pandora Productions Playdates is to give local and regional playwrights a voice and introduce their work to our audiences. Thanks to a generous matching grant from the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation through the Fund for the Arts ArtsMatch program, the PlayDates with Pandora project is expanding for 2018-2019.

Pandora Productions calls for new plays that focus on current issues of importance to and about the LGBTQ+ community. We are looking for plays on specific themes this season but are open to including other themes relevant to and taking on issues related to the LGBTQ+ community that is forward looking:
- Aging in the LGBTQ community,
- Transgender experience in today's political climate,
- Parenting in the LGBTQ community,
- Coming Out for Youth in the new LGBTQ age,
- Hate Crimes against LBGTQ people in a new political climate,
- Figures of historical significance to the LBGTQ community.

Plays selected to be a part of the 2018-2019 Season of PlayDates will receive rehearsals with professional quality actors and directors accompanied by the playwright, then presented in a staged reading for our audiences followed by talkbacks and discussions of the scripts and themes with relevant invited experts.

Guidelines and submission requirements can be found at: https://pandoraprods.org/playdates-pandora-call-new-plays/

Pandora Productions was founded in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1995 and represents the transformational power of theatre. Its mission is to entertain, engage and inspire its audiences, the community, and the greater human communities by presenting bold, cutting-edge theatrical productions that reveal the commonality of all people while investigating the diversity of human nature, particularly the nature of sexual orientation, through artistic expression. Pandora Productions is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization that benefits largely from the generosity of the community. Donations are encouraged and welcomed, in any amount. Please visit http://PandoraProds.org for more information.

Michael J. Drury, Pandora Productions Producing Artistic Director,has worked as a professional actor for 30+ years throughout the Midwest and is no stranger to Louisville area audiences having appeared with Stage One: Louisville's Children's Theatre, Derby Dinner Playhouse, Music Theatre Louisville, CenterStage, Theatre [502] and the Stephen Foster Drama Association, with whom he also toured Japan and was chosen to remake the official cast recording. He has directed numerous productions at Derby Dinner, Louisville Repertory Company, Clarksville Little Theatre and the Shelby County Community Theatre, in addition to adjudicating at theatre festivals including The Kentucky Theatre Association and The Southeastern Theatre Conference.