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First Run Theatre Spectrum Now Accepting Script Submissions

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First Run Theatre is now accepting script submissions for its Spectrum short play festival to be presented in October. The submission period is from March 15 to June 30 2011.

The scripts should be unpublished unproduced short plays no less than ten minutes and no more than 20 minutes in length. Scripts can be submitted either as softcopy or hardcopy. Submitted scripts should not have the authors name or contact information in them. A separate sheet of contact information should be submitted with the script. All scripts should have a cover sheet, list of characters, and all pages numbered.

The selected plays will be performed with acting boxes, limited props and limited costumes.


Softcopy submission:
MS Word, Adobe Acrobat, TXT, or RTF formats
Emailed to info@firstruntheatre.com


Hardcopy submission:
Three printed copies of script
One contact information sheet
Mailed to First Run Theatre
Spectrum
5215 Winona Ave.
St. Louis MO 63109


Finalists will be announced in July.

 

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