Call for Submission: One-act plays or monologues by female playwrights [deadline:15.12.2010]
By Ronda Spinak
The theme of the evening -- “Jewish Women Do Men. They’re our fathers, brothers, sons and lovers. Find out what a bunch of talented Jewish women are saying about the men they love AND the men they love to hate.” |
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Call for submissions: The International Jewish Performing Arts Festival, Leeds, UK. 12 – 16th June 2011.
By Ellie Ruhan
The International Jewish Performing Arts Festival invites all types of performers to apply to perform at the 2011 Festival. |
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Call for Proposals: Theatre Ariel’s 20th Anniversary 10 Minute Play Festival [deadline 30.9.2010]
By Deborah Baer Mozes
Theatre Ariel is seeking 10 minute plays of Jewish content that reflect on the theme of “the stranger in our midst. Throughout history there have been numerous times when Jews and the Jewish community have been “the stranger” in many different Egypts /nations/communities. As well, there are many within the Jewish community/world that are/have been/feel like “the stranger”. We are seeking plays that explore the varied ways to understand the theme and the experience of the “stranger in our midst”. |
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Call for Proposals: The Minerva Arts Center is proud to announce auditions for ALIZA, a musical theatre piece
By Eric K. Auld
All who audition are expected to prepare a solo to sing and a short dramatic monologue, in addition to performing cold readings from the script. Rehearsals for the show will take place on weekday evenings, with performance dates scheduled for September 2nd through 5th. |
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Call for Proposals:Research Projects at Grotowski Institute, Wrocław, Poland [deadline 30.6.2010]
Despite efforts of a multi-generational community of international researchers, many questions regarding Jerzy Grotowski, his work, searches and Grotowski-related research, due to their breath and complexity, remain unanswered and there are still many blank spots on the Grotowski map. In order to remedy this, at least in part, the Grotowski Institute, from 2010 onwards, will invite young researchers from across many disciplines and fields to undertake research projects addressing both the needs |
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Call for Proposals: Call for international interest in alternative Israeli drama
By Alexa Christopher-Daniels
The Karov Theatre (Nico Nitai) in Tel Aviv has a Department of International Exposure looking to establish The Wings Project (Proyect Kanafiyim) – an initiative to develop smaller scale Israeli theatre projects on a worldwide platform. As a non-profit arts charity, we are looking for trusts, sponsors and investors to support Wings and help create a new dimension of Israeli education through theatre. |
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Call for Proposal: An invitation to join the Dramaturgical Advisory Board of 'Metronome Ticking'
Selected as one of the plays in Israel’s largest collection of Holocaust theatre arts (AAJT) and reviewed by Bild, Germany’s largest daily newspaper, Henrik Eger’s Metronome Ticking is the only known docudrama that interweaves the unpublished writings of two young contemporaries, each of whom lived on the other side of the terrible divide in Europe during the Hitler era. For a detailed review of Metronome Ticking and international responses, click here: http://henrikeger.com/Metronome-Ticking.ph |
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Call for Proposals:Richard Schechner and Performance Studies - An International Conference of Scholars and Artists December 19-23, 2010 at the University of Haifa
Richard Schechner was 75 last August. To mark the occasion, and to celebrate his many achievements, a meeting of scholars and artists will take place in Israel on December 19-23, 2010 (we took the liberty of extending Richard's 75th birthday celebrations in order to prepare the event in the best way possible). Friends, colleagues and students will honor him with a conference dedicated to his legacy as an experimental theatre director, scholar, editor and writer, as well as to the field he pionee |
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Call for Proposals: Aply now to the 2010 Paideia Project-Incubator August 3-12
The Paideia Project-Incubator is a program for activists and entrepreneurs for Jewish culture who want to develop projects in the educational, cultural, communal, intercultural and institutional fields. |
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Call for Proposals:New Play Development Programs at Queens Theatre in the Park
Queens Theatre in the Park has two New Play Development Programs.
At this time, we are only accepting submissions, which fit squarely into the parameters of either of the two following programs: |
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Call for Proposals:Theater for the New City (TNC) first'Dream Up Festival' [deadline: 26.3.2010]
From August 8 to September 5, 2010, Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, Artistic Director, will present its first "Dream Up Festival," a theater festival that is open to submissions from artists across the country and abroad. It is curated by the theater's Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price. |
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Call for Proposals: 3rd Annual International Jewish playwrighting competetion [Deadline 1.2.2010]
By Myrna Loman
West Boca Theatre Company of the Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center is once again sponsoring a Jewish Short Play Competition. The original plays should have a theme exploring an aspect of Jewish life or culture, either modern or historic. |
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Call for performers: the 7th edition of the Festival of Jewish Culture Singer’s Warsaw 2010
By Izabela Teodorkiewicz
The Shalom Foundation organizes the Festival of Jewish Culture in September annually, since 2004. The festival preserves the memory of prewar Jewish world, which these days is known mainly from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s stories and novels. Warsaw was not chosen accidentally - the Nobel prizewinner was born near here and grew up in Warsaw, and this city had a special place in his heart throughout his entire life. Each year, superb representatives of Jewish culture from all over the world come to th |
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Call for Panels/Call for Papers: heater Alive -Theater, Media, and Survival [deadline: 15.10.09 /1.11.09 ]
By Paige McGinley
The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) welcomes submissions of complete sessions or individual papers for the 2010 meeting of the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE). ATHE's theme this year is "Theater Alive: Theater, Media, Survival" and will take place at the Hyatt Century City in Los Angeles from August 3 to 6. We welcome submissions on all topics, but are particularly interested in topics that engage with this year's theme. We welcome sessions or papers that explore contem |
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Call for Plays:The Jewish Women's Theatre is accepting submissions of one-act plays by female playwrights
The Jewish Women's Theatre is accepting submissions of one-act plays by female playwrights exploring the issue of beauty. "Hey, Gorgeous! Beauty in the time of Botox is an evening of short pieces exploring what it means to be beautiful, inside and out. The readings will be produced in a salon-setting in homes in early January, 2010. |
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Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research - Lisbon, Portugal[14-17.7.2009]
By Avraham Oz
Like every year since 2003, the Political Performances Working Group if the International Federation for Theatre Research is convening at the annual meeting of the federation: this time in Lisbon, Portugal. The congress takes place between Monday, 14th July 2009 and Friday, 17th July 2009. The working groups sessions take place mainly on Monday, 14th July (early afternoon to late evening) and Tuesday, 15th July from morning to lunchtime. The general topic of the congress this year, "Silent Voice |
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Summer Program: Paideia Project-Incubator 2009 Open for Applications! [ Deadline: April 15th ]
By Brachi Lipshitz
Do you want to initiate new activities for European Jewish life?
Are you looking for the tools and networks to turn your vision into reality?
We invite you to develop your program at the Paideia Project-Incubator. |
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2009 CIVITAS SUMMER PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN WARSAW, POLAND [1.6-31.7.2009]
Unique opportunity to undertake internships in Jewish history, music, arts and culture in Warsaw, Poland. The organizations that participate in our program include, among others, Jewish Historical Institute, Jewish Community of Warsaw, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Beit Warszawa, TSLIL Jewish Choir. The internships are in ENGLISH and come together with credited internship and academic seminars and an optional Polish language course. |
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Call for Proposals:Are you an aspiring playwright over the age of 55?
DIscover: playwriting
Are you an aspiring playwright over the age of 55?
Mrs Affleck a new play by Samuel Adamson (2009) from Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf (1894) |
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Got a good musical that promises to be the next NYMF hit?
10 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT! Got a good musical that promises to be the next NYMF hit? Then why haven't you submitted it to us yet? There are less than 10 days left to apply for the Next Link Project and you don't want to be kicking yourself for missing the deadline when March 2 rolls around! |
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Call for Plays: Bible and Theatre Competition [deadline 1.3.2009]
By Yair Lipshitz
The Department of Theatre Arts in Tel-Aviv University
with
The Fred Simmons Art Project at TAU
invites
Theatre Artists, Playwrights, Writers and Students
To participate in the annual competition for theatrical works based on the Hebrew Bible. |
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Call for submissions: The Leeds Jewish Int. Performing Arts Festival UK June 21 – 25, 2009 [ Application deadline: 10.2.2009]
By Ellie Ruhan
The Leeds Jewish Int. Performing Arts Festival invites performances of Jewish interest including drama, comedy, music, dance, mime and performance art, to apply for this much anticipated, large scale event. |
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Call for Proposals: 2nd Annual International Jewish Playwriting Competition [deadline 2.2.2009]
By Norman Fedder
West Boca Theatre Company of the Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center is sponsoring a Jewish Short Play Competition. The original plays should have a theme exploring an aspect of Jewish life or culture, either modern or historic. |
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Call for Proposals: 6th edition of the Festival of Jewish Culture „Singer’s Warsaw” 2009 [deadline 20.2.2009]
By Iza Teodorkiewicz
The Shalom Foundation organizes the Festival of Jewish Culture in September annually, since 2004. The festival preserves the memory of prewar Jewish world, which these days is known mainly from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s stories and novels. Warsaw was not chosen accidentally - |
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Call for Papers: Silent Voices/Forbidden Lives Censorship and Performance Lisbon, Portugal [14-17.7.09]
The theme proposed for the Conference - Silent Voices / Forbidden Lives: Censorship and Performance is of the utmost political and social significance for countries such as Portugal with a long history of dictatorial rule that left its mark on their national life and culture, as well as on those other lands where power was imposed through colonizing enforcement. |
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Call for Papers: Staging the Middle East in Theatre and Through Performance [deadline: 15.10.08]
With this observation Seyla Benhabib begins her book The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. This conference aims to facilitate the conversation by investigating ways in which various performance practices and theatre produced in the Middle East, the US, Canada and other places simulates, represents, recognizes and challenges narratives of the Middle East. |
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Call for Proposals: Larks Open Access Program seeking 'new plays and new voices' [deadline: 15.11.2008]
The Lark is committed to providing access to all writers, regardless of age, ethnicity, experience, or whether they have agent representation. The Open Access Program ensures that the Lark’s programming reflects both global and U.S. ethnic diversity. |
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Call for Papers: Jews/Theatre/Performance in an Intercultural World New York [deadline 20.10.08]
By Jeanette R. Malkin
A Conference at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York 22-24 February 2009 The focus of this conference is on drama, theatre, and performance that are of Jewish interest by virtue of their themes, authors, artists, or audiences.
We seek to chart and understand the intercultural ties between the theatre that Jews created for themselves and the wider theatrical culture, as well as the impact of Jewish artists on the theatrical culture of their “host” societies. |
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Call for Proposals: EAJC offers grants to artists for new works in the Performing Arts [deadline 29.9.08]
The European Association for Jewish Culture, an independent grant-making body, offers grants to artists for new works in the Performing Arts which reflect the Jewish experience. |
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Call for proposals: The 2009, 1st annual Ritual Theater Conference 'Across Time and Culture '(SPURT).
By Kinyon Lezlie
The 2009, 1st annual Ritual Theater Conference: Across Time and Culture
presented by The Society for the Preservation and Understanding of Ritual Theater (SPURT). |
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Call for Proposals:The Mesaper Theatre is looking for Jewish themed plays for 2008/09 reading series
By Nicole Raphael
The Mesaper Theatre is currently looking for Jewish themed plays for our 2008/09 reading and event series.
We are not accepting musicals at this time.
Kindly follow the following guidelines when submitting. |
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Call for Proposals: Paideia Project-Incubator August 2008 Stockholm [deadline : 15.5.2008]
By Brachi Lipshitz
If you are a person with initiative and involvement in Jewish-European Culture – Paideia invites you to turn your vision into reality within the framework of the Paideia Project-Incubator. Paideia Project-Incubator is a program for Jewish Culture in action, where innovative educational, cultural, artistic and community-centered projects are created and nurtured. Paideia Project-Incubator seeks to enable activists who have acquired knowledge of Jewish content to develop and implement new initiati |
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Call for Proposals: Auditions for St. Louis New Jewish Theatre 2008-09 Season
THE NEW JEWISH THEATRE ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS FOR BOTH EQUITY AND NON-EQUITY ACTORS FOR THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTIONS IN THE 2008-09 SEASON: |
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Call for papers: European Jews as Co-Creators of European Theatre Washington D.C. [deadline 01.5.2008]
By Jeanette R. Malkin
Since the nineteenth century, and sometimes before that, European Jews have been active participants in the creation of European national theatre cultures. This is especially evident in modernist European theatre where assimilated, or partially assimilated Jews played central roles as writers, directors, actors, designers, theatre owners, theatre intellectuals and critics. |
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Call for Proposals: THEATRE METHODS 08 Between Tradition and Contemporaneity Malpils, Latvia [20.04.2008]
THEATRE METHODS 08: Between Tradition and Contemporaneity July 7-13, 2008 Malpils, Latvia
"TM" is the annual professional festival-fair bringing up the question of the Bridge between Tradition and Contemporaneity in performing arts. It is uniting performers from all over the world interested in the research of theatre methods between tradition and contemporaneity. |
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Call for Proposals: The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award [deadline : 02.05.2008]
The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award Applications are invited for The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2009. Two grants of up to £2,500 for Research and Development will be awarded to two individuals/companies. |
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Call for Proposals: International Mime Festival Tsakhkadzor Armenia [10-15.8.2008]
By Arus Aramyan
The goal of the International Mime Festival is to create a cooperation between world theatrical, culture and tourism organizations, to apply for international theatric processes membership, as well as to make widely available the best practices of world pantomime, as the pantomime is the theatrics most difficult and unic genre, which is comprehensible for all people, in spite of nationalities and religions. For 5 exhilarating days, the worldbs exciting mime theatre companies and artists will |
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Call for Proposals:THEATRE METHODS 08 Between Tradition and Contemporaneity July 7-13, 2008 Malpils, Latvia [dedline 20.3.2008]
"TM" is the annual professional festival-fair bringing up the question of the Bridge between Tradition and Contemporaneity in performing arts. It is uniting performers from all over the world interested in the research of theatre methods between tradition and contemporaneity. |
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Call for Papers: The Ninetieth Anniversary of Habima, New Approaches to National Theater [deadline 15.6.2008]
By Shelly Zer-Zion
The ninetieth anniversary of Habima raises questions regarding the role of this esteemed theater institution in Jewish, Hebrew and Israeli cultures, from its early days until today. The story of Habima takes its course over nine decades of vibrant theatrical activity. The founders of the theater moved from the Pale of Settlement to Moscow, where they established the Hebrew Habima, which would shortly thereafter be praised for the high level of its artistic achievements. |
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Call for Performers: The 5th Edition of the Festival of Jewish Culture "Singer’s Warsaw”, 2008 [deadline: March 20th, 2008]
By Izabela Teodorkiewicz
The Shalom Foundation (Poland) is searching for Jewish theatres from the whole world to invite some of them to the 5th edition of the festival. Festival’s dates are: 7 - 14 September, 2008. |
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Call for Papers : Jewish Theatre and Cinema Jerusalem, August 2–6, 2009 [deadline : June 1, 2008]
Individual Papers: Proposals which center on theoretical, cultural, historical, or practice-based issues of Jewish theatre and/or cinema. Sessions: Those interested in proposing a complete session (up to four lectures) are requested to specify the subject of the session and the names of the scholars whose agreement to participate has already been obtained. A brief explanation and a short abstract of the proposed lectures should also be submitted. |
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Call for Proposals : International Performers Village 08 Malpils, Latvia
The Village is open to professional actors, dancers, singers, musicians as well as directors, choreographers, playwrights, scriptwriters and stage designers from different countries, creative genres, techniques and styles. Film makers, photographers, body painters, mask makers and multimedia artists will also find a role in this process. |
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Call for Proposals : 4 th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival , Ankara Turkey [ deadline 1.2.2008 ]
It was on April 23rd, 1920, during the War of Independence, that the Grand National Assembly met in Ankara and laid down the foundations of a new, independent, secular and modern republic from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. He dedicated the day to the children and entrusted in the hands of the youth the protection of this sovereignty and independence. |
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Call for Proposals : FJC New Jewish Theatre Projects [deadline March 24, 2008 ]
New Jewish Theatre Projects provides grants of up to $5,000 to national, nonprofit theatre companies for the commissioning of new plays, musicals or multimedia works of Jewish significance. Since its inception in 1994, the program has commissioned 88 new plays that have been produced at theaters across the country. A New Jewish Theatre Projects grant supports play or performance development, which can include commissioning fees, playwright’s residency expenses, and research or workshop costs. Aw |
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Call for proposals : PMT opens auditions to 'Rags'
Pratt Music Theatre announces auditions for its production of the musical RAGS. Due to the renovation of Liberty Middle School Auditorium last fall, production of the fall PMT show had to be suspended. Enthusiasm and excitement has been growing to begin PMT's 2007-08 season with RAGS. The story for the musical is by Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof); music is by Charles Strouse (Annie & Bye, Bye Birdie); and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Children of Eden and Wicked). With a creative team such as |
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Call for proposals : The 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival. [ Submissions 1.1.2008-1.3.2008 ]
Open Submissions will start January 1st for the 2008 Next Link Project, NYMF's writer service program for the world's emerging musical theatre talent. The authors of musicals accepted into this program are nurtured throughout the year by a variety of resources, including one-on-one professional dramaturgical support, a weekend-long seminar of panels and producer networking events and a subsidized production slot in The 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival |
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Call for Papers :Hamlet-Reception in European Cultures Cardiff University 11-13 September 2008 [deadline 14.1.08 ]
By Ruth J. Owen
Shakespeares Hamlet exemplifies a source text prolifically appropriated by countless national cultures throughout Europe. The Cardiff conference will examine adaptations and transformations of storylines, characters, motifs, and text from the play. Papers are invited that examine the reception of Hamlet in one or more instances of literary or visual culture. Plays, poetry, novels, films, and graphic art have all engaged with Hamlet. |
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Call for Proposals : The Bat-Yam (Israel ) International Street Theatre Festival August 26, 27, 28 2008 invites street theatre artists
By Ati Citron
The Bat-Yam International Street Theatre Festival Invites street theatre artists, buskers, performance artists, experimental theatre artists, dancers and choreographers, clowns, acrobats, stilt walkers, singers, musicians, mixed groups, visual artists, designers and anybody who would like to create original work
to send proposals to the festival's artistic committee. |
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Call for Performers : The 8th Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival 2008
By Ellie Ruhan
The Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival invites all types of high level performers to apply to be part of this dynamic Jewish entertainment event. The Festival, which is unique in Western Europe, will stage thirty shows over 5 days attracting thousands of visitors. Festival dates are 13 – 17 July, 2008. |
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Call for Papers :Performance Research - an issue looking at religious and spiritual practice and performance [deadline: 22.11.07 ]
By Sandra Laureri
Performance Research is seeking contributions to Congregation - an issue
looking at religious and spiritual practice and performance.
The project of Congregation is to seek to make meaningful connections
between the sociality and spirituality of religious practice, and the field
of performance as art and scholarship. Religion is almost always discussed
in terms of belief, but as former nun and historian of religion Karen
Armstrong has pointed out, belief is a late comer to the religious s |
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Call for Proposals : International Jewish Playwriting Competition [ deadline 10.1.08 ]
West Boca Theatre Company of the Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center is sponsoring a Jewish Short Play Competition. The original plays should have a theme exploring an aspect of Jewish life or culture, either modern or historic. |
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Panel on Making Intercultural Productions at Denver Colorado (USA) [deadline 20.10.2007]
By Margaret Coldiron
This panel (roundtable) invites directors, producers, performers and/or
critics to come together to discuss the difficulties and rewards of creating
Intercultural theatre productions. Whether it is using material from one
culture in another, mixing multiple cultures or genres, inter- or cross-
cultural casting or using "foreign" "styles" for familiar material. In all
of these contexts the crossing of cultural divides makes for difficult, |
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Call for Proposals : 11th Iran International Festival of University Theatre (IIFUT) will be held in Tehran [deadline 5.1.08]
By Nasim soleimanpour
The 11th of International Groups including professional, amateur or groups related to Anniversary Theatre Festival which is sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Islamic Republic of Iran will be held in International and Domestic Sections. The International Section will comprise of the following: |
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Call for Proposals :2007 Festival of One-Page Plays [ deadline15.10.07]
The Jewish Theatre Workshop is now accepting submissions for our 2007 Festival of One-Page Plays. In honor of Chanukah the theme for this year's festival is "Miracles". The mission of the one page plays is to create opportunities for Jewish theatre artists to collaborate, develop and share their work. |
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Call for Proposals : Filmaka has launched its Ninth contest 'The Voyeur' [deadline : 31.8.07]
After the success of its first eight contests, Filmaka has launched its Ninth contest 'The Voyeur'. Submissions are accepted till 31st August 2007.www.filmaka.com |
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Call for Papers : Hearing Israel - Music, Culture and History at 60 University of Virginia April 13-14, 2008 [deadline : 15.10.07]
By James Loeffler
As the State of Israel approaches the sixtieth anniversary of its founding
in the spring of 2008, academic scholarship continues to focus primarily on
its political life, religious and ethnic diversity, and foreign policy. Much
less attention has been devoted to the cultural life of Israeli society and
its impact on evolving Israeli identities across generations. |
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Call for Proposals : European Association for Jewish Culture -Performing Arts Programme [ deadline : 28.9.2007]
This grant is designed to provide part-funding for the writing of new plays, original adaptations for the stage of other literary works, or new works of choreography dealing with the Jewish experience. The application must be made by an individual writer or choreographer in association with a theatre company based in one of the European countries listed under II. The applicants must submit an undertaking from an established theatre company (which has been active for at least two years) to perfor |
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Call for proposals : It's All About Hats!
By Rachelle Neuman
On October 22nd, 2005 a convergence of 650 Red Hat Ladies met in San Antonio for a week-end full of fun and camaraderie. On Saturday evening Rachelle Neuman and Linda Kaufman presented their original musical, It’s All About Hats, at the Omni Hotel. The play had premiered in July of 2004 to nine sell out performances at Temple Beth-El and from there Rachelle and Linda were asked to present this lively show at the Red Hat Ladies convention. The play is a delightful musical about two Jewish brother |
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Call for Proposals : The Spiro Ark is looking for new plays, directors and actors for London play-readings project
By Nitza Spiro
The Spiro Ark is a leading educational and cultural organization whose aim it is to put on the map the best of Jewish and Israeli culture, art and science as a way of combating prejudice, spread knowledge and appreciation amongst Jews and non Jews alike. We try to do it while concentrating heavily on the arts. |
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Call for Proposals :The Spiro Ark London seeks Performers, academics, scientists, lecturers
The Spiro Ark is a major Jewish cultural provider is offering the general public (Jewish and gentile alike), varied programmes of Israeli and Jewish interest; plays musical, performances, meeting with artists, writers, scientists, actors, directors, musicians … We also organise symposia on all topics which have link with Jewish and Israeli life but offer a broader outlook to include a universal context. If anyone wishes to be included in our program after judging the suitability and relevance we |
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New York City: The Theatre Museum 2007 Awards
We’re busy preparing for the 2007 Awards for Excellence Gala. We honor individuals and institutions that have made significant contributions in the fields of Theatre History Preservation and Theatre Arts Education. |
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Summer Music Theatre Immersion Experience [3.6.07]
You might call it boot camp for Broadway. It's going to be intense. It's going to be exhilarating. And it's going to be the best investment you ever make in your future as a performing artist. |
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Theatre Research International seeks Book Review Editor [deadline : 30.6.07 ]
By Brian Singleton
Candidates should have a strong publication record, hold a tenure-track position at a university, and possess a wide-ranging and up-to-date knowledge of scholarly publications in theatre studies and performance. Candidates should also be able to demonstrate recent participation at conferences and colloquia. |
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Call for Proposals: The Paideia Project-Incubator August 2007 [deadline 15.5.2007 ]
By Bracha Lipshitz
If you are a person with initiative and involvement in Jewish-European Culture – Paideia, The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, invites you to turn your vision into reality within the framework of the Paideia Project-Incubator. |
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Call for proposals : New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest [deadline : 30.6.2007]
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest is accepting scripts through June 30, 2007 for new works that: |
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Call for papers :MOFA a new, peer-refereed electronic journal to be launched in autumn 2007 by IATR [deadline:15.5.2007]
By Avraham Oz
MOFA ("performance" in Hebrew) will be devoted to the publication of refereed articles in English, covering all areas of the Performing Arts. It will be issued by IATR, the association of researchers of theatre and performance from all Higher Education Institutes in Israel which grant academic degrees in theatre. |
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Call for Proposals : Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival, September 2007 [deadline 31.3.07]
By Ellie Ruhan
7th Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival – 2 - 6 September 2007, is looking for high level performances under the umbrella of Performing Arts. This outstanding five day International Jewish Performing Arts showcase, held annually in Leeds, North of England, has been described as a “Cultural Edinburgh Fringe” style Festival. |
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Call for Proposals :New York Musical Theatre Festival, Next Link Project, 2007 [deadline 1.3.07]
By Jess McLeod
The New York Musical Theatre Festival’s 2007 Next Link Project will be accepting submissions from JANUARY 1, 2007 to MARCH 1, 2007.
NYMF, the original home of Altar Boyz, [title of show], The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Gutenberg! The Musical and Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, among many others, is the world’s largest annual musical theatre event. |
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Call for Papers : Theatre Translation Conference University of East Anglia 29 June-1 July 2007 [dead line 31.1.07]
By Manuela Perteghella
The conference focuses on the practice of staging translations and adaptations of all kinds of drama. We want to explore the links between translated texts and performance and open up a discussion on the (im?)possibility of defining the relationship between translated text and performance. We invite contributors to explore the ways in which translations are, or could be, staged and performed, and how the translated text is placed in performance practice, in the rehearsal room |
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Call for Proposals : International Performing Arts Laboratory Riga, Latvia 30.3 -4.4.07 [deadline 1.2.07]
By Marlen Nichols
Each day will begin from the morning warm-up based on the ancient Chinese system of breathing exercises. The warm-up combines breathing, movement and imagination. It will help to waken and prepare the organism for the intensive practical work during the day. The Laboratory provides a wonderful opportunity to establish news contacts with colleagues from other parts of the world, to share experiences, challenges and successes in the atmosphere of group creative process out of everyday formal profe |
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Call for Proposals : International Children and Youth Theatre Festival [deadline 1.3.07]
By Tamer Levent
In Turkey, TOBAV (Turkish State Theatres Opera and Ballet Members’ Foundation ) is the most well known foundation in it’s field . It is a , non-govermantal organisation that organises festivals, workshops and seminars to promote theatre, opera and ballet culture. |
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Call for Proposals : OY Vey! The Jewish Culture Stage Edinburgh Festival [dead line 15.1.07]
By Philip Parr
JMI will be hosting and promoting a series of performances of Jewish music, theatre, comedy, visual arts – anything that fits the Edinburgh Fringe profile. Our aim is to create a platform where artists and companies can showcase their work within a common environment, and where such work can gain real national and international attention. |
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Call for Papers : International Conference SONG, STAGE & SCREEN II 23-25 .3.2007 [deadline : 5.1.2007]
By Sue Jones
Contributions are invited to the above conference which aims to bring
together scholars from all over the world in any discipline, working on the
relationship between music and the stage/screen. This conference is
organised by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the
University of Leeds. Speakers will include Dr Nicholas Till (Director -
Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex), Jim
Holmes (Head of Music - Opera North), Dominic Gray (Projects Di |
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Call for Papers for Scenography International Conference Prague June 2007 [deadline 16.3.07]
By Christine White
Currently, the Prague Quadrennial is the only Exhibition of its kind and magnitude in the world, which exhibits contemporary stage designs and theatre architecture. "There is no other event like the Prague Quadrennial anywhere in the world. The PQ reminds us that theatre is perhaps first and foremost a visual and spatial event. " Professor Arnold Aronson, General Commissioner of PQ2007 |
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Call for Proposals : Emerging Jewish Artist Application NYU [deadline : 15.12.2006 ]
The Emerging Jewish Artist Fellowship sponsored by the Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU aims to provide Jewish student artists with the means to create a project of their choice through a Jewish perspective. Through the financial support of the EJAF, six exceptional Jewish students will be empowered on their journey to becoming professional artists. Extensive Jewish education is not necessary - just the desire to create a project of a Jewish nature. |
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Call for Proposals : Ask the dead project 2007 Dortmund - choreographers, dancers, directors, performers [dead line : 15.1.2007]
Ask the dead: Call for artists for dancers, choreographers, directors and performers In summer 2007 artscenico and the festival off limits will cooperate to create a competition for “short cuts” dealing with anniversaries, remembering playwrights, composers and other artists. |
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Call for Proposals : 18th Puppet Fair in Lleida, Spain.
Professional puppet theatre companies from around the world are invited to apply for the 18th Puppet Fair in Lleida, Spain. 18th Puppet Fair in Lleida takes place the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th May 2007. |
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Call for Proposals : international meeting professional contemporary dance makers of Mediterranean-Arab-Europe [ deadline : 8.12.06 ]
La Mekanica (Barcelona) will organize an international meeting of professional contemporary dance makers of the Mediterranean – Arab and European countries – on the framework of Festival Complicitats 2007, a new international and intercultural contemporary dance festival that will take place in Barcelona from January 20th until February 18th. |
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Call for Proposals : 30th anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival, summer 2007 [deadline 30.11.06]
Starting September 15, 2006 Playwrights Foundation is accepting submissions for the 30th anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival, summer 2007. The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is open to all American playwrights writing in English, including students enrolled in a BFA or MFA playwriting program. In a strictly juried selection process 5-6 plays are chosen to appear at the festival. |
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Call for Papers : International Conference Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre 15-17 .11.2007 Kraków, Poland [deadline 31.5.2007]
By Malgorzata Sugiera
Starting in 2007 Drama Department of Jagiellonian University, Kraków is planning to organize a cycle of three biennial conferences under the common heading “Aspects of Performativity in Contemporary Writing for the Stage”. Performativity, which has become an umbrella term for the paradigmatic changes taking place currently in all cultural domains, has also left its mark on the most recent phenomena in theatre and writing for the stage. |
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International Children's Theatre Festival 24-29 April 2007 Ankara, Turkey [deadline 4.12.06]
By Mine Faik
It was on April 23rd, 1920, during the War of Independence, that the Grand National Assembly met in Ankara and laid down the foundations of a new, independent, secular and modern republic from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. He dedicated the day to the children and entrusted in the hands of the youth the protection of this sovereignty and independence. |
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The 3rd International LaboraToria Moscow December 10-13, 2006
The International LaboraToria movement is happy to invite you to our annual seminar that will take place in Moscow on December 10-13, 2006. This year we will gather together with our old friends and long-time movement-s members as well as with the new participants who find the LaboraTORIA-s agenda appealing. |
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Berkeley Rep seeks Scripts from aspiring Teen Playwriths [deadline 1.1.2007 ]
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is now accepting submissions from Bay Area teens for its fifth annual Target ® Teen One Acts Festival. Every year, teens select two original plays penned by local students to be performed, directed, and staged by their peers. The winning playwrights are paired with mentors who are theatre professionals to receive feedback and support in revising their scripts for performance, and the entire production process is supported by Berkeley Rep’s staff. |
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Call for Proposals : Break the Walls of Hatred through Art. [ deadline 15.11.2006]
By Juliano Mer
Walls of Hatred are being built in the Middle East. In the West Bank and Gaza these walls are built with concrete, whereas another Wall of Hatred has been constructed through Aerial Bombs in Lebanon. Within the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Jenin is also turning into a big prison, surrounded by an electronic fence and guarded by Israeli army patrols. As peasants are being cut off from their land, students cannot reach their universities and children are unable to get to school, the separatio |
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Call for Proposals: PSFG/ATHE 2007 July 26-29, 2007 [deadline 1 November 2006 ]
By Gwendolyn Alker
The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the Association for Theatre in
Higher Education (ATHE) invites proposals for panels, seminars, roundtable
discussions, performances, workshops, and other innovative sessions for the
annual ATHE Conference, which will be held at the Sheraton in New Orleans,
July 26-29, 2007. |
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Call for Papers : International Seminar on "Drama & Religion" Tehran, January 6 - 7, 2007 [ deadline 21 November 06]
By Farah Yeganeh
Publishing and Research Department of Iranian Dramatic Arts Center
(theatrical branch of Iranian Ministry of Culture) will hold an
International Seminar on "Drama & Religion" with the cooperation of Dramatic
Arts Dept. of Tehran University. The gathering is aimed to put on debate on
the role of religion in creation and development of dramatic arts, their
impacts on one another throughout world theater history and reassess the
role of drama in contemporary world. |
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Call for proposals : BIMA-NY is looking for short pieces [deadline 30.09.06]
By Harriet Picker
BIMA-NY, NYC's newest Jewish theater company, is looking for new plays for our winter reading series at Makor.
We are looking for short pieces (approx. 10 minutes), |
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Call for Proposals :New Jewish Theater Projects 2007 [deadline 12.10.06]
Eligibility :Non-profit theater companies in the United States of America that have completed at least two seasons of public performance. The play :The play must be a new full-length play or musical dealing substantively with issues of Jewish history, tradition, values or contemporary life. The theater company must commit to presenting the play to the public in a workshop production and/or staged reading, including a forum for public discussion. |
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Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists Launched [deadline : 31.08.2006 ]
The Six Points Fellowship supports individual artists in the New York area who want to develop new projects with a Jewish focus, theme or element. The fellowship will accept 12 artists working in visual arts, music, and performing arts. During the 2-year fellowship, artists will create and present their diverse projects to young audiences in the New York area, through programs such as live performances, audio recordings, and gallery events. |
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Call for Proposals : The Public Theater NY in search for Israeli and Arab plays [deadline 15.08.2006]
By Maria Goyanes
The Public Theater (of the Joseph Papp New York Shakespeare Festival) is conducting a broad search for Israeli and Arab artists to participate in the annual New Work Now Reading series this fall. New Work Now showcases the plays of 10 playwrights in a staged reading at The Public. |
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Call for Papers : International Conference ' War on our Worlds' [ deadline 20.10.2006]
By Ruth Daniel
IN PLACE OF WAR is an AHRC funded project exploring the relationship between performance and war. In Place of war invites theatre and performance scholars to submit proposals for papers at the War and Our World International conference at University of Manchester. This interdisciplinary conference has a major performance strand and we would encourage colleagues to submit papers in any of the themed areas. |
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Call for Papers : Aging and Performance [ deadline 01.09.2006 ]
By Valerie Lipscomb
We're inviting additional authors to contribute to a volume on the depictions of age in the media. The working title is 'Aging and Staging ' Theorists argue that age is a performative construction, which is nowhere more
evident than on the stage and screen. This volume will examine the performance of age in theatre, film, television, and other media. |
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Call for Proposals : 2006 Larry Corse Prize for Playwriting [deadline 20.10.2006]
By Larry Corse
The Larry Corse Prize for Playwriting was established in 2003 by Dr. Larry Corse, Professor Emeritus of Theatre and English at Clayton State University, to encourage the development and production of new works for the stage. The 2003 competition was won by Robert Karmon for his play Caliban and Miranda. In 2004, the competition was moved to its new host, Columbus State University Department of Theatre, Columbus, Georgia. The competition has attracted more than 300 entries each year from around t |
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Call for Papers: Acts of Aggression: the performance of violence in contemporary Irish theatre practice [deadline 31.07.06]
By Lisa Fitzpatrick
In the past decade a theatrical moment described as ‘in-yer-face theatre’ [Sierz],, or framed using Artaud’s theatre of cruelty [Ken Urban], has emerged on the British stage. Internationally, the post-dramatic theatre of verbatim performance, tribunal plays, or Robin Soans’ ‘Talking with Terrorists’, open a range of theoretical and performance questions about the staging of power and violence. In Ireland, examples such as Gary Mitchell’s representation of loyalist paramilitarism, contemporary tr |
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Call for Papers : Revealing All - an annual symposium for research students in cultural policy and management 01.12.2006 [deadline:30.09.06]
The Department of Cultural Policy and Management, City University and the Department of Drama, Arts Management and Cultural Policy, Goldsmiths College, University of London, in conjunction with LCACE, are launching an annual research student symposia. The first will take place on 1st December 2006 at Somerset House. |
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Call for Papers : Contemporary Theatre Review - special issue of Musical Theatre [deadline: 03.08.2006]
By Dan Rebellato
The Broadway musical is one of the most popular and most derided forms of contemporary theatre. Dismissed for its alleged sentimentality and political conservatism, its dumbed-down narratives and economic imperatives, the musical has tended to be left behind by some of the debates that have swept through drama and theatre studies, performance theory, cultural studies, and musicology. Yet there are signs that debates around the stage musical are beginning to stir into life. Several recent books h |
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Call for Papers :Performance Research 'On the Road' [deadline:31.07.06]
By Linden Elmhirst
'On the Road' - Call for Contributions Issue Editors: Martin Welton, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Paul Rae, writer and theatre-maker, spell#7, Singapore/UK The aim of this issue of Performance Research is to present a selection of arguments and analyses that underscore the experience of mobility and the actuality of travel as integral to the production and reception of theatre and performance. |
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Lightstone Studios, LLC is coming to Washington, D.C. in search of singers, songwriters, actors and other performers. [date20 May 06 ]
By Josh Tenney
Lightstone Studios, LLC, which is dedicated to providing uplifting, family-friendly entertainment, is coming to Washington, D.C. in search of singers, songwriters, actors and other performers. Lightstone Records, a division of Lightstone Studios, LLC, is seeking quality new talent to produce for the mainstream market. Whether your style is country, inspirational, R&B, pop or rock‘n’roll, we want to hear it. Come show us what you’ve got, we’ll take care of the rest. |
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Call for Submissions : 7th Annual Chutzpah! March 2007 [ deadline : 15 June 2006 ]
By Mary-Louise Albert
The Norman Rothstein Theatre of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver is accepting proposals for the 7th Annual Chutzpah! The Lisa Nemetz Showcase of Jewish Performing Arts. The festival is a multi-disciplinary performing arts event featuring Jewish performing artists and/or work with Judaic content. |
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Call for Papers : On Beckett Performance Research Issue 12:1[deadline 29 May 06]
By Linden Elmhirst
As Beckett reaches 100 years of age, his work continues to provoke new artistic and theoretical responses. The centenary is generating a wide range of performances, exhibitions and conferences explicitly dedicated to his legacy in the arts and beyond. However, Beckett's influence upon much recent art and his relationship to theory can be deeply rooted but subtle and indirect. The format of Performance Research allows for artists' pages and other visual representations alongside articles, intervi |
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