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WHAT IS
NEW PLAYS ON CAMPUS?
New Plays on Campus is an institutional membership program
of The Playwrights’ Center that puts the best new plays
in America
into the hands
of
college and
university
theaters
and connects
today’s students and faculty with living playwrights and
the professional playwriting world..
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WHAT IT OFFERS
For an annual enrollment fee of $275, institutions receive:
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The Playwrights’ Center’s peerless custom script-matching
services, plus
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individual General Memberships for up to 6 students and faculty
members, with full General Membership
benefits
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Priority access to Playwrights’ Center
internships and mentorships
HOW IT WORKS
Want to produce a contemporary play? Commission a new piece? Expose
your students and staff to the craft of playmaking? Enroll in New
Plays on Campus and tap The Playwrights’ Center’s vast
nationwide network of playwrights and information. The Playwrights’ Center
will send scripts, five at-a-time, that answer to member institutions’ particular
needs. Got a one-act festival coming up? Let The Playwrights’ Center
be your “literary manager at large.” We’ll narrow
the pool to meet your requirements, then you select the play or
playwright in ongoing consultation with us. Scripts are drawn from
the Center’s high-caliber Core Members,
Fellows and PlayLabs Artists
(current and former), assuring
a professional commitment to excellence.
WHY WE DO IT
The Playwrights’ Center fuels the theater by providing services
that support playwrights and playwriting. New Plays on Campus serves
that mission by matching writers with development and production
opportunities in a safe, educational, college theater environment … and
in turn, exposes theater artists in training to the world of new
play development.
Who is enrolled?
...and many other institutions from coast to coast.
HOW TO ENROLL
It’s simple. Download information
and application here.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
$275 annual enrollment fee for a faculty contact person and up to 6 student/colleague
members. Additional participants may be added at a cost of $20 per participant
per year. On-campus residencies, commissions and master class rates are determined
by the playwright and the institution after a match is made.
NEW PROGRAMS FOR STUDENT PLAYWRIGHTS
The Playwrights’ Center is launching several new initiatives
in the New Plays on Campus program to better support emerging student
playwrights.
Playwriting Mentorships: The
Playwrights’ Center
Mentorship program has matched 4 NPoC Member Graduate MFA Playwriting
Students with Core Member
Mentors. After 3 dramaturgical sessions between Mentor and Mentee,
a 10-page sample of each of the student’s plays developed through
the mentorship will be featured in our New Play Gallery.
Current Mentor-Mentees:
- Mentor Vincent Delaney w/ Mentee UC Santa Barbara/ Northwestern
University MFA Student Zach Hart
- Mentor Dominic Orlando w/ Mentee KCACTF Sponsored MFA Student
Terry Davis
- Mentor Deborah Stein w/ Mentee University of New Mexico MFA Student
Lou Clark
- Mentor Julie Jensen w/ Mentee Texas Tech University MFA Student
Ted Dahlman
Tailormade Internships: Individually
customized internships are available on a year round, ongoing basis
to NPoC members! If you're motivated,
interested, responsible and capable, we're pleased to help you
make the best of your
education by giving you access to the play development experiences
going on here at the Center everyday. This type of internship can
last for a weekend,
a week, a month or for however long the student would like to participate.
It can even happen long distance! E-mail Steve Moulds at stevem@pwcenter.org for
more details.
Questions about New Plays on Campus
may be directed to program coordinator Steve Moulds,
612/332-7481 x23 or stevem@pwcenter.org.
New Plays on Campus is supported in part by a generous foundation
grant from the Communication
and Theatre Association of Minnesota and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
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