Teatro Vivo Announces Austin Latino New Play Festival 2016 Call for Entries

Teatro Vivo is pleased to announce a call for applicants for their annual Austin Latino New Play Festival (ALNPF) presented in collaboration with ScriptWorks to run February 25-27 2016. Participants are invited to submit original bilingual scripts that provide a window into the Latino/a community by the deadline of midnight Sunday November 1, 2015. Four scripts will be chosen for festival production. Selected plays will announced on or before midnight Friday, November 20.

New this year is the addition of one theater for youth piece to be shown the afternoon of Saturday February 27, 2016. Additionally, playwright work will receive a mid-process reading from January 4-5 and an opportunity to revise their work before the public reading during the February festival. Past guidelines remain: plays must be in line with Teatro Vivo mission statement, a work by a Latino/a playwright focused on the lives of Latino/s, utilize both English and Spanish, must be original, and must not have been produced or scheduled for production before or during 2016.

In its sixth year, the ALNPF provides an opportunity for playwrights to hear, see, and receive feedback on their original work. The festival format brings playwrights together to work with a dramaturg, director, and actors to bring a play to life as a staged reading in front of an audience. The rehearsal process for each staged reading is approximately one week.

Selected playwrights will be available and willing to collaborate with a dramaturg and director chosen by Teatro Vivo. Additionally, playwrights will be available to attend the midprocess reading of their play, the festival reading, and participate in a facilitated talk back with the audience immediately after the February reading. The staged readings are workshop-style presentations. After each reading, the playwright and director participate in talkback sessions with the audience. Visit teatrovivo.org for information.

About Teatro Vivo:

Teatro Vivo has produced more than 25 bilingual plays since JoAnn Reyes and Rupert Reyes founded the company in 2000. Teatro Vivo is proud to be a resident company with the Latino Arts Residency Program at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin TX

Contact Dolores Díaz at AustinLNPF@gmail.com for more information.

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.  Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.

Austin Latino New Play Festival 2016 Call for Scripts

Submission Deadline Friday Nov 1, 2015

The 2016 Austin Latino New Play Festival (ALNPF)
Feb 25-27, 2016 8 pm 3 nights and 1 afternoon, 4 new plays
Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX

The Austin Latino New Play Festival, produced annually by Teatro Vivo, brings together playwrights and audience members for staged readings of new works and rich conversation, each running just one night or afteroon. After each reading, the playwright and dramaturg participate in moderated talkback sessions with the audience.

What is the process for Austin Latino New Play Festival (ALNPF)? The ALNPF provides an opportunity for playwrights to hear, see, and receive feedback on their original work. The festival format brings together the playwright to work with a dramaturg, director, and actors to bring their play to life as a staged reading in front of an audience. The rehearsal process for each staged reading is approximately one week. New for the 2016 season is a reading opportunity mid process (Jan 4-5, 2015) that allows playwrights an opportunity to revise before the formal reading in February.

Teatro Mission Statement: Inspired by the power of theater to educate and entertain, Teatro Vivo produces and promotes Latino theater that provides a window into the Latino community and makes theater accessible to all audiences, especially those underserved in the arts.

ALNPF Script Guidelines:

* The script is in line with the Teatro Vivo mission statement.

* The script is a work by a Latino(a) playwright and/or focused on the lives of Latino(a)s.

* The script is an original work.

* The script utilizes both the English and Spanish language.

* Scripts cannot have been produced or scheduled for full production before or during 2016.

*** NEW*** Additionally, the 2016 festival will select one theater for young audiences to be performed the afternoon of February 27, 2016.

Selected Playwrights will …

*be available and willing to collaborate with the dramaturg and the director selected by Teatro Vivo in the months of January/February 2016.

*be available in person or via Skype to attend the reading of their play mid process Jan 4-5. The playwright is expected to attend the February festival reading Feb 25-27, and participate in a facilitated talk back with the audience immediately after the reading of their script. Playwrights are encouraged to attend all three festival readings.

Submission Information:

*Playwrights will submit their script in a pdf file via email by Sunday November 1, 2015, by midnight, with the submission information requested below. Playwright information, including name, should not extend beyond the cover page of the script.

*Teatro Vivo will select scripts to be read in the play festival.

*No payment, fee, stipend, actual or implied will be paid to the playwrights. Selected playwrights incur their own travel expenses. Housing with Teatro Vivo company members may be available.

*Plays will be announced on or before midnight Friday, November 20, 2015.

In addition to script, please submit (in a separate MSWord doc): A brief biographical sketch and playwright background, email address, phone number, and home address. Include a brief response to two questions in 200 words or less: What areas of your script are you still eager to explore and develop? What are your goals for this play festival process?

Submit to both: AustinLNPF@gmail.com CC:joannreyes@yahoo.com
More info at www.teatrovivo.org