Heiress Productions Announces 2nd Annual Playwriting Competition, Submit By 10/15

Heiress Productions (www.heiressproductions.org), a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to raising awareness and funds for cancer organizations through live performance, is pleased to announce the company is now accepting scripts for its 2nd Annual Playwriting Competition. Scripts
of full length which have not yet been produced or published will be accepted through October 15, 2010. Complete guidelines for competition submissions can be found at www.heiressproductions.org.

The prize for each competition finalist will be a complete reading produced by Heiress Productions, to be held in New York City in early 2011.

Three finalists were chosen from the 2009 Competition: The Almost True and Truly Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter, American Patriot by Joe Bravaco and Larry Rosler, For Mother's Song by Ian August, and Critical Mass by Joanne Sydney Lessner.

Heiress Productions will present the premiere of the 2009 Grand Prize winner, Critical Mass, opening October 22, 2010 at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row. Critical Mass is about married opera critics, one of whom skewers unsuspecting singers for everything from bad high notes to bad nose jobs, while the other prefers to equivocate rather than hurt anyone's feelings. The cracks in their marriage and in their respective approaches to criticism are broken wide open when a mediocre Italian tenor, whose career they have jointly ruined, moves in with them and proceeds to exact revenge. Net proceeds from Critical Mass will benefit the Lustgarten Foundation (www.lustgarten.org), an organization dedicated to advancing scientific and medical research related to the diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of pancreatic cancer. Tickets will go on sale and casting will be announced in the fall.

Heiress Productions co-founder Mary Willis White said, "The quality and variety of scripts we received as part of last year's competition certainly exceeded our expectations. We are excited to
continue discovering new plays and playwrights. It's an honor to be able to work with playwrights and give them a chance to share their voices with New York audiences."

Heiress Productions (www.heiressproductions.org) is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising cancer awareness and funds through entertaining and inspirational professional theatre
productions. The company produced Lunch Hour by Jean Kerr in May 2007, James Sherman's farce Affluenza! in March 2008, Three Movements by Martin Zimmerman in October 2008, and Mark Dunn's Belles: A play in two acts and forty-five phone calls in March 2009. The mission of Heiress Productions is to raise awareness and funds for all forms of cancer. Featured Cancer Partners, who receive a percentage of ticket sales income, are chosen for each production and have included: Gilda's Club NYC, Miracle House, UsTOO International Prostate Cancer Education and Support Network, Joe's House, and Lustgarten.