2012 Greenbrier Valley Theatre New Voices Festival of Plays now accepting submissions

Now accepting one-act play submissions for GVT's 2012 NEW VOICES FESTIVAL OF PLAYS!
GVT is now accepting submissions for the2012 New Voices Festival of Plays.  GVT is seeking one-act plays approximately 15-30 minutes in length.

Please mail all submissions to:
 Laurie Riffe, Education Director
Greenbrier Valley Theatre
113 East Washington Street, Lewisburg WV  24901.

Please note that all submissions must be received by Thursday December 1.  Submissions will not be returned.  Playwrights will be notified of acceptance in the festival by Friday December 23th.

10-minute sci-fi comedies sought

Hobo Junction, the company who brought you Bad Guys in Suits and The Regulars: the Epic War Rock Musical about Waiters, is currently accepting script submissions from playwrights for their 3RD ANNUAL HOBO-ROBO NEW COMEDIC WORKS FESTIVAL: HOBOS IN SPACE!

All script submissions are due by Monday MARCH 7th!

They are looking for 10-minute comedic works. They must be original, creative, fresh and above all, ridiculous. We celebrate new comedy so all submissions must be works that make you laugh. Don't worry about us, we laugh at everything. HELP SUPPORT NEW COMEDY! SUBMIT!

All information and questions should be sent to: HoboJunction@sbcglobal.net
(Please put "PLAYWRIGHT" in the Subject)

Pieces should be 7-10 page original COMEDIC works WITH A SCIENCE FICTION THEME. Any play over 15 pages will not be considered! All submissions are due by March 7. A committee will review all submissions and narrow it down to 9 to 10 plays and on March 11, the selected plays will be given to 8 directors to decide the 8 works to be performed in the festival.

PLAYS MUST BE 7-10 PAGES, ORIGINAL COMEDIC WORKS WITH A SCI-FI THEME!

ABOUT HOBO JUNCTION: Hobo Junction has been called "A solid hour of laughs" by Chicagoist.com, "Genius" by the Chicago Reader and "Wacky" by FOX News Chicago. Hobo Junction, the dark pirates of the Chicago scene, was founded by Josh Zagoren and a robot named ZBOT in 2004 and has since gone on to become a darling of theater goers and comedians all over the city. Hobo Junction has grown into a company made up of talented artists with experience in all aspects of theatre, and with their solid blend of silly and smart, they have produced a celebrated six original shows in their time here, two of them with three extensions, and they don't want to slow down any time soon.

INFO:
http://www.HoboJunctionProductions.com

New Voices Original Short Play Festival Lineup Announced

The Greenbrier Valley Theatre is presenting their second annual New Voices Original Short Play Festival later this month.

The plays in the festival include "Embers" by Jeffrey C. Kanode (Lewisburg, WV), "The Unopened Valentine" by Dwayne Yancey (Fincastle, VA), "Roses" by John J. Carosella (Jeanette, PA), "...and Tigers and Bears" by Eric Fritzius (Princeton, WV), and "A Greek Fire Drill" by Christian Giggenbach (Lewisburg, WV).

This years New Voices Cast includes (in alphabetical order) Pamela Barry, Ellen Broudy, Adam Criddle, Larry Davis, Paul Detch, Meredith Donnelly, Mary Leb Foster, Eric Graves, Kelly Kemp, Brian Miluk, George Piasecki, Brennan Smith, and Derek Teaney. Directors include Kurtis Donnelly, Michael Sharp and John Holt.

Shows are January 21-23 and January 28-30 at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in down town Lewisburg.

STO Fest Begins this Week

In conjunction with Market Fest 2009, the Independent Theatre Collective opens StoFest: A New One-Act Play Festival this weekend. The festival runs Thursday, September 17 through Saturday, September 19 at 8pm and Sunday, September 20 at 3pm and features original plays from WV playwrights. The festival's namesake, Tom Stobart, will also be represented each evening with a staging from his repertoire. Tickets will be available at the door for $10 or festival passes can be purchased online (itc.ticketleap.com) for $25.

Wheeling-native writers include Ned Gallaway ("Painting Face"), Butch Maxwell ("Fine"), Jeremy F Richter ("L3" & "Evolving Elliot") and Ron Scott, Jr. ("Opposite But Equal"). Other writers' resumes read like a who's who of theatre artists from Tennessee Williams Award-winner, Jeffrey Scott Elwell to WV Writers podcast creator, Eric Fritzius.

"It is a thrill to be presenting four solid days of all-original, all-WV theatre," says ITC Managing Director, Jeremy Richter. "We have fifteen plays written by ten different writers featuring a cast of twenty. To have this large of a collaborative team in our very first year of StoFest is just incredible."

One play, however, will break the "all-WV" mold. Saturday evening's "Postcards From a Dead Dog" by Pittsburgh playwright, F.J. Hartland will receive a special staged reading. Hartland's script has been highly touted, even being named the Best Play at Pittsburgh's New Works Festival. The reading will feature Arlene Merryman and Richter as a mother/son duo who find it easier to communicate through postcards "sent" from the dead family dog, Rusty.

Performances will be held at Historic Second Presbyterian, 2001 Market Street in Wheeling and doors will open an hour prior to curtain. For further information including online ticket sales and each night's line-up please visit itcgreenroom.org.

StoFest Play Festival in Wheeling

The Independent Theatre Collective's StoFest Play Festival will take place in Wheeling, September 17 – 20. The festival is named after Wheeling playwright T.S. Stobart, whose plays were celebrated this past April with the first version of StoFest. Due to the response this second festival is being produced, featuring not only Stobart’s plays but plays from writers throughout WV and the surrounding region (including one by El Prez Emeritus Eric Fritzius).

The Festival will take place at the Independent Theatre Collective stage located on Historic Second Presbyterian / 2001 Market Street / Wheeling, WV 26003. "...to a Flame" will run on September 20.

The schedule for the festival is as follows…

Thursday, September 17th 2009:

I Endorse This Message - by Jonathon Joy (Huntington, WV)
Opposite but Equal - by Ron Scott, Jr (Wheeling, WV)
Dinnertime - by Dr. Jeffrey Scott Elwell (formerly Huntington, WV)
Painting Faces - by Ned Gallaway (formerly Wheeling, WV)
Next to Nothing - by T. S. Stobart

Friday, September 18th 2009:

Fine - Butch Maxwell (Wheeling, WV)
L3 - by Jeremy Richter (Wheeling, WV)
Spirals - by Dr. Jeffrey Scott Elwell (formerly Huntington, WV)
Lucy Dreaming - by Stacey Lane (formerly St Albans, WV)
Simple Filing - by T.S. Stobart

Saturday, September 19th 2009:

Postcards from a Dead Dog - by F.J. Hartland (Pittsburgh, PA)
Oh, Rob - by T. S. Stobart

Sunday, September 20th 2009:

the War on Halloween - by Jonathon Joy (Huntington, WV)
Evolving Elliot - Jeremy Richter (Wheeling, WV)
Alien to Antiquity by Stacey Lane (formerly St Albans, WV)
...to a Flame - by Eric Fritzius (Princeton, WV)
Gaffer Gone - by T. S. Stobart

* Nightly order & titles subject to change *