New Works Reading Series
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New Works Reading Series
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Upcoming Readings
Readings are nearly every Sunday, and usually at 4:30 pm and are open to the general public. Closed workshops for works-in-development will be attended by playwrights and a select group of people. If students and playwrights are interested in attending closed workshops to learn more about the craft of playwriting, please contact Sandra Nordgren at NewWorksOfMerit@aol.com or call at 917 363-2369.
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Submission Guidelines/Location/Time/About the Series
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING A PLAY
At the present time we are only accepting plays and musicals that are approximately one and a half hours long, between 4 - 10 characters. (One-person plays will NOT be considered.) If you would like to submit a work for possible inclusion in the reading series, kindly send the following:
-- a BRIEF synopsis (NO LONGER THAN 1/2 PAGE)
-- 10 pages of your BEST dialogue
-- character descriptions (including ages)
-- time and place
-- settings
-- brief staging needs
-- a CD/tape if it is a musical
Mail to:
New Works Reading Series
511 Avenue of the Americas - #2000
NYC, NY 10011
NewWorksOfMerit@aol.com (917) 363-2369
DO NOT DROP MATERIALS OFF. We will not be responsible for the whereabouts of any script not mailed per submission guidelines.
To find out the result of the Literary Committee's decision about the script, please include a self-addressed post card that states the following
Name of Play:
___ We are requesting a copy of your script
___ We are not requesting a copy of your script
New Works Reading Series
If you have not heard from Ms. Nordgren for four months from the date of mailing, please email her at NewWorksOfMerit@aol.com
An offering of 36 productions, 15 development workshops and two theatre playwriting residencies have resulted from the New Works Reading Series.
A list of plays read and productions that came from this play reading series are listed below in the link: "Previous Readings/Readings to be Scheduled".
READING SERIES LOCATION AND TIMES:
Thirteenth Street Repertory Company
50 West 13th Street, NYC, NY 10011
(917) 363-2369
Sundays at 4:30pm
Director of Literary Services, Sandra Nordgren (see bio at the end of the webpage) initiated, developed, and implements the New Works Reading Series. This series provides a forum for up-and-coming playwrights, composers, and lyricists to develop their work. The play or musical is directed by directors from 13th Street Repertory Company's Directors Unit and performed by members of the repertory. There is feedback in a Q & A after the reading. Most of the works in this reading series are published in The New York Theatre Experience's Plays and Playwrights anthologies. They are among the best new plays and musicals reviewed during the past nine years by Martin Denton and his nytheatre.com, one of the country's largest and prestigious theatre websites. For a brief synopsis of each play in the 2007 anthology: http://www.nyte.org
Other scripts are from the New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest and scripts from selected playwrights.
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About Ms. Nordgren & 13th St Rep
SANDRA NORDGREN, DIRECTOR OF LITERARY SERVICES:
Sandra studied creative writing at New York City's New School University, New York University and The Writer's Voice. She has written several screenplays and is currently writing a non-fiction screenplay dealing with spirituality and the holocaust. Sandra co-wrote a full-length play in quadrameter, entitled Old Witch Blinda on Smeltzburg Hill, which is in workshop development after having had three readings. Another reading is scheduled in 2008. Her adaptation of A Christmas Carol has had eight NYC productions and numerous productions around the U.S. The play is published in the U.S. by Brooklyn Publishers in Odessa TX, and has been translated into French by French playwright Christian Palustran and into German by German playwright Christian Michalak. The French/English volume, "Un Conte de Noel", has been published in France and may be purchased through Amazon.fr. It has been performed in Switzerland at the Atelier-Theatre "Les compagnons du Coteau", in Paris-France, in Lyon-France and in Belgium. Ms. Nordgren is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the League of Professional Theater Women.
13TH STREET REPERTORY COMPANY:
Thirteenth Street Repertory Company was founded by Artistic Director, Edith O'Hara in 1972. TSRC provides a place for actors, directors, playwrights, and technicians to develop their craft in a caring, nurturing, professional environment. Anywhere between five to seven shows run weekly, including children's shows on the weekend. TSRC is also home to the longest running Off-Off-Broadway play, LINE, by Israel Horovitz, now in its 34th year at the theatre.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU:
A special thank you to Maria Vasil, a living angel, for helping Sandra Nordgren to launch this series.
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