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SHOWOFF!
2009
Annual
Capistrano Playwriting Festival
 Our
Subscriber Favorite...
Drama, Comedy, Intrigue and Mystery are all
on the plate for our playwriting festival.
You vote for the winning plays...and every
play is a World Premiere!
ShowOff!
INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL
2007
2008
All of nearly two hundred ten-minute plays that
were submitted for our playwriting festival
during the last year were excellent.
Congratulations to all playwrights and thank
you for participating. Here are Festival
Winners for this year's festival.
Festival Winners for ShowOff! 2008
2007 2008 FESTIVAL WINNER
Dont Ask,
Dont Tell
Playwright: Michael Sadler
Director Matthew Dodd
2007 2008 FESTIVAL
SECOND PLACE
Bride on the Rocks
Playwright: David
Wiener
Director: Bruce Alexander
2007 2008 FESTIVAL THIRD
PLACE
All the
Way
Playwright: Steven Korbar
Director: Steph Davis
What It Takes To Get Selected for our
Annual Playwriting Festival
First
this is a 10-minute playwriting
festival. Plays under 10 minutes or over 10
minutes are rejected. Even if your short
scene is cute or your one-act is good, it
doesn't count.
Second the work must have a beginning that
grabs your attention, a middle with some
meat and character development, and an
ending that makes sense. It can surprise
you, shock you, make you laugh, make you
cry, make you think, but it must have an
ending.
Third
is everything else! Is the dialog
natural for the character created? Is the
character someone an audience can hate,
love, believe ... is there some emotion
touched? Is it something that an audience
will remember? Something to tell someone
else about? In short, is it a good story!
Rules for
Submitting your Plays
Deadline is October 15th each year. We target
to announce winners by End of November.
Performances begin each year in January with auditions
shortly after the winners are announced ...
think early December. A $10.00
per play entry fee is required for
submissions for use as winner stipends. We
will acknowledge receipt of your script and
$10.00 fee either by post card or e-mail.
Submit plays unbound (stapled is OK) with
your full contact info on the cover or title
page.
Important Reminder: All plays must be able
to be performed in roughly 10 minutes.
Submitted
plays can be on any subject
We do like to have one or two quality dramas
along with a selection of comedies, so
consider touching our hearts as well as our
funny bones! We're not able to produce
musicals in this venue, and the audience is
principally adults, so plays for children
are not appropriate, but as a community
theater we want to appeal to the largest
possible audience, so plays with an
excessive amount of @#!X* words or graphic
violence need to have an incredible message
... shock value although allowed doesn't
rank a winning vote with most audiences. And
after all you want to win ... don't you? ...
Well don't you?
PLEASE MAIL YOUR PLAYS AND ENTRY FEES TO
ShowOff!
Camino Real Playhouse
31776 El Camino Real San Juan Capistrano
CA 92675
2006 2007 FESTIVAL WINNER
Death Takes a Vacation
Written by Bruce Alexander
San Francisco, CA
Directed by Mario Rossi
2006 2007 FESTIVAL SECOND PLACE
Under Par
Written by William Allen
Homer, NY
Directed by Jennifer Hartline
2006 2007 FESTIVAL THIRD
PLACE
Die Baby Die
Written by Jody Gehrman & David Wolf
Potter Valley, CA
Directed by Nick Charles
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