Be a Part of the Action: Submit your Play!
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PLAY READING SERIES Spooky Action Theater invites you to submit to our New Works in Action program! Our program gives you the chance to work on a full-length play that is in the home stretch of completion, offering access to professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors to help you hear, see and experience your play performed in a staged reading for an invited audience. Some of Washington DC’s best directors and most talented actors join us in creating an exciting and fulfilling process. |
Kimberly Gilbert as Beth in A Dog Is a Creature of a Nose, short play presented as part of the (IM)Possible Play cycle
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New Submission Criteria for Our 2023-2024 Reading Series
Here are a few qualifications for entry:
- Plays that push the boundaries of reality with stories too big to fit in a living-room. Imaginative plays telling a human story in a magical way: Magical Realism NOT Science Fiction.
- We are looking for full-length plays from playwrights available to participate in person in the rehearsal and reading process.
- Plays informed by the challenges of the past but looking for the answers that only come through the optimism of looking forward.
About the Program
New Works in Action (NWIA) aims to host a play development experience that is playwright-centered. All plays are read and evaluated by at least one Spooky Action staff member and an experienced reader. At various stages in your writing process, we can give you access to professional directors and actors to help you experience your play. We are here to serve you and your vision. You can read more about our past programming here.
New Works in Action is made possible in part through support from the DC Commission on the
Arts and Humanities, the Dupont Circle Citizens Association, The Kennedy
Center Kenan Fellowship Program, and individual donors.
About Spooky Action Theater
Spooky Action’s programming fits within that ambiguous label of “magical realism,” and our definition expands to include stories from every race, culture, background, gender, orientation and ability. We want plays that are mind-blowers. Reality twisters. We want plays that explore the primality of humanity, experience life in fresh ways and reach beyond the conscious world. Styles and forms that break ordinary order and bend to a new paradigm of rules. Please note: we do not typically look for sci-fi or horror scripts; instead, we are committed to scripts that live in the intersection of the cerebral and the soulful.
New Works in Action (NWIA) aims to host a play development experience that is playwright-centered. All plays are read and evaluated by at least one Spooky Action staff member and an experienced reader. At various stages in your writing process, we can give you access to professional directors and actors to help you experience your play. We are here to serve you and your vision. You can read more about our past programming here.
New Works in Action is made possible in part through support from the DC Commission on the
Arts and Humanities, the Dupont Circle Citizens Association, The Kennedy
Center Kenan Fellowship Program, and individual donors.
About Spooky Action Theater
Spooky Action’s programming fits within that ambiguous label of “magical realism,” and our definition expands to include stories from every race, culture, background, gender, orientation and ability. We want plays that are mind-blowers. Reality twisters. We want plays that explore the primality of humanity, experience life in fresh ways and reach beyond the conscious world. Styles and forms that break ordinary order and bend to a new paradigm of rules. Please note: we do not typically look for sci-fi or horror scripts; instead, we are committed to scripts that live in the intersection of the cerebral and the soulful.
