HOW TO SUBMIT - Thespis Theater Festival

Submission Rules

How to Submit your work to the Thespis Festival

In order to submit a play please send the following via email:

1.	A short synopsis of the play
2.	The complete script and character breakdown
3.	Your telephone number and home address,
4.	Your bio.
	All genres of shows are welcome to submit to our festivals.
	Shows that have already been staged can also participate as long as the run was BEFORE 2014 and will participate with AN ENTIRELY NEW CAST AND CREW.

As soon as your play is accepted, you will be sent the festival guidelines.

Prizes

After all plays have had their performance run, the best 6 plays will be selected by the Thespis jury as nominees for the $3,500 prize of Best Play. Those 6 shows will be given a fourth performance.

That will be seen by judges, who are theater professionals invited by the Thespis team. Along with the judges, you are encouraged to invite audience members to attend your fourth performance.

In Addition to the Best Pay there will also be several nominations:
Best actress ($500 prize) Best Actor ($500),
Best Director ($500), Best Singer $500, Best Original play $200 and Best African American Play from the Griot selection $250

Winners will be announced during a special prize ceremony at the end of the festival to which the cast and crew of all nominated productions will be invited.

All winners leave the prize ceremony

with their check in hand.

There is no fee to submit your play to the Thespis Festival. Once you are accepted:

Productions will be asked to send in a $200 participation fee if their plays are accepted.

Plays from every part of the US are accepted.

If you will run your play as an Equity showcase you will be participating using the shared box office option.

This festival has no hidden costs. Again, there is no submission fee. Only those plays that are accepted will be required to send a participant payment. Submissions will be accepted until June 1, 2015.

For more info
see our: Introduction