RAT Fwd: Puget Sound New Play Program

[Chris Jeffries <cjeffries@seanet.com>]

For those who qualify and might be interested.  cj

Subject:     RE: Puget Sound New Play Program
Sent:        2/27/19 9:23 AM
Received:    2/24/99 1:16 PM
From:        lathrop@sprynet.com
To:          tpsmembers@tpsonline.org

Elise Forier, the Executive Director of the Whidbey Island Center for 
the Arts, asked me to broadcast this to the TPS list. 

This is a new opportunity for women playwrights who live in western 
Washington. She envisions a mini-O'Neill West. This is to be the first 
annual, with the program growing to serve more writers in coming years.

Please feel free to pass this info on to others, as she really wants to 
get the word out about this.

--Mary Lathrop


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February 16, 1999

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Whidbey Island Center for the Arts 
PO Box 52
565 Camano Avenue
Langley, WA 98260
(360) 221-8262
Contact: Elise Forier

The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts announces the Puget Sound New 
Play Project, a play development program designed to support and 
promote women playwrights. The Puget Sound New Play Project is open to 
women playwrights who reside in Western Washington.

One woman playwright will be chosen to have her play developed over a 
week-long residency on Whidbey Island in August, 1999. The Puget Sound 
New Play Project will provide professional actors, director and 
dramaturg to rehearse, read and develop the script. Two staged readings 
will be performed for the general public at the Whidbey Island Center 
for the Arts. The playwright will receive a $250 honorarium and ten 
days housing at Hedgebrook Farm, a nationally renowned center for women 
writers.

To apply for the Puget Sound New Play Project, women authors should 
send their original, unproduced play scripts to the Whidbey Island 
Center for the Arts. Plays must be full length, on any subject. 
Interested authors should send one bound, typed copy of their 
manuscript (unbound scripts cannot be accepted), a brief bio, character 
breakdown and synopsis, contact information and an SASE, if they wish 
to have their manuscript returned. Playwrights must be female and 
reside in Western Washington. All submissions must be postmarked by 
April 15 and sent to Puget Sound New Play Project, Whidbey Island 
Center for the Arts, PO Box 52, Langley, WA 98260.

The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is a non-profit corporation 
whose mission is to provide and maintain a community arts facility, and 
to promote, develop and present diverse programs of educational and 
cultural enrichment. The Puget Sound New Play Project was conceived by 
a diverse group of community members, the Hedgebrook Foundation and the 
programming committee of the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.

For more information, contact Elise Forier, Executive Director of the 
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts at (360) 221-8262.