6th annual NEW VOICES
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL Sponsored by The Norton Foundation
With additional support from
the Gannett Foundation,
Councilman Kevin Kramer,
Councilman James Peden
and Councilwoman Mary C. Woolridge.
How to Submit a Play to the New Voices Young Playwrights Festival
The clock is ticking! October 31, 2010 is the deadline to submit your original ten-minute play to the 6th annual New Voices Young Playwrights Festival. Be sure to send some drama our way before the stroke of midnight.
If you prefer your guidelines with a little less drama, you can find the no-frills version here.
E-mail and snail mail submissions will be accepted. All entries must be accompanied by a completed cover sheet. Please see contest guidelines links above and read for details.
Stumped or stuck? Why not take a look at our tips for young writers? We’re also happy to send you some sample plays to jog your imagination. Please email NewVoices@ActorsTheatre.org with your requests.
We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Learn more about the festival
This short documentary gives you the inside scoop on the New Voices process.
What is a New Voices residency?
Aimed at teaching the basics of playwriting, New Voices is a classroom residency program guiding middle and high school students through the process of writing a ten-minute play. In the 2008-2009 school year, 450 students participated in eighteen residencies throughout fifteen schools. Our annual New Voices Young Playwrights Contest is open to ten-minute plays written in our residency program as well as those written independently. Winning plays are developed and fully produced in an evening of world premieres performed on stage at Actors Theatre by members of the Acting Apprentice Company. These plays are then published in our annual New Voices Anthology of student-written work.
2010 NEW VOICES YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
The Wait is Always Scary by Hannah Jones,
Muhlenberg County High School, Greenville, Ky.
Finale by Trey DiNoto,
Providence Junior-Senior High School, Clarksville, In.
Sets by Max Abner,
Youth Performing Arts School, Louisville, Ky.
HP LaserJet 6P/6MP Postscript by Noah Park,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Ky.
The Curious Case of Ashes and Posy by Sheila Wilson,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Ky.
Calcu-Clash by Nisa Jones,
Louisville Male High School, Louisville, Ky.
5 Sure Fire Ways to Finally Get the Girl by Erica Schmidt,
Bethlehem High School, Bardstown, Ky.
A Creation of Small Proportions by Josh Wiersema,
North Oldham High School, Goshen, Ky.
The Threepenny Space Opera by Jackson Wolford,
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Ky.
HONORABLE MENTIONS The Tortoise and the Hare by Jordan Golding,
Atherton High School, Louisville, Ky.
Kongaloosh by Daniel Tuma
Moore Traditional High School, Louisville, Ky.
Frederick and William Stop the Terrible Thing by Tyler Samples
Providence Junior-Senior High School, Clarksville, In.
2009 NEW VOICES YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL Vanilla by Jordan Golding, Atherton High School What is Normal? by Patrick O'Rourke, Trinity High School The Spy Who Never Loved Me by Peytone Lightfoot, Atherton High School Imagination by Anabelle
Horton, Jeffersonville High School Shrink by Craig Brauner, Trinity High School Picture Perfect by Audrey Simpson, Oldham County High The Never Before Seen Interview of Norman McClellan by Max Abner, St. Francis School Sugarless by Brittany Henderson, Louisville Male Traditional High School
Picture Perfect
by Audrey Simpson
directed by Steven Rahe
Vanilla
by Jordan Golding
directed by Lila Neugebauer
The Never Before Seen Interivew of Norman McClellan
by Max Abner
directed by Anna Kull
Imagination
by Annabelle Horton
directed by Jeffrey Mosser
Sugarless
by Brittany Henderson
directed by Amy Attaway
Shrink
by Craig Brauner
directed by Jacob Stoebel
The Spy Who Never Loved Me
by Peytone Lightfoot
directed by Julie Mercurio
What Is Normal?
by Patrick O'Rourke
directed by Brendan Pelsue
2008 NEW VOICES PLAYS Public, private and parochial school students throughout Kentucky and Indiana submitted more than 250 ten-minute plays to the New Voices Ten-Minute Play contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Ten plays written by high school students were selected as winners of the festival, while three were chosen as Honorable Mentions.
Winning Plays A Hypothetical Situation by Caitlin Willenbrink, DuPont Manual High American Beer by Neil Carter, Louisville Male High Behind the Yellow Brick Road by Leyla Nouri, Atherton High Gin by Laura Garrett, Atherton High Gin and Tonic by Jackson Wolford, DuPont Manual High Little Miracles by Lusie Cuskey, Atherton High (book & lyrics) and Nicole Carlson (score), Ballard High Sessions by Leah Blair, Louisville Male High The Laurel by Max Newland, Youth Performing Arts School What Doesn’t Kill You by Ramey Monem, North Oldham High Write of Passage by Shawn Hughes, Jr., Meade County High
Honorable Mention Measure Still for Measure by Jacob Lyle and Wes Laudeman, Trinity High
Talk Politics by Morgan Sinnard, Atherton High Dependent by Tara Duffy, Ballard High
