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Luna Stage Now Accepting Submissions for Short Play Festival

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Luna Stage is now accepting submissions to its 4th Annual New Moon Short Play Festival. Playwrights of all career levels making their home in New Jersey, New York or Pennsylvania may submit short plays between five and ten minutes in length and monologues of up to five minutes in length.

The selected plays will be presented over two evenings, on Monday, May 9th and Tuesday, May 10th 2016 at 7:30pm at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ. Each evening will culminate with a talkback with the playwrights.

There is no fee to apply to the Festival. The deadline for submission is a postmark date of February 20, 2016. Selected plays will be announced by March 31st, 2016 and will be posted on the Luna Stage website.

For full submission guidelines and further information, please visit lunastage.org

Luna Stage is a small but mighty professional theatre company located in Essex County, NJ, just under 15 miles from New York City. Throughout the past 23 years, the company has earned a national reputation for developing and producing outstanding new plays and timely revivals and for taking on challenging and provocative subject matter in their work.

A proud member of Valley Arts, Luna Stage is located at 555 Valley Road, West Orange, NJ 07052. The theatre is handicapped accessible and offers assistive listening devices.

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