Calls for Artists
Call for Playwrights To Submit 15-minute Plays For "Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope, Health and Total Well-being, 2.0."
Wake Up and Live’s Actors’ Studio (WUAL) is continuing its “Healing Arts” project. We are inviting playwrights to submit 15-minute plays or scenes on the topics of depression and / or teen suicide which can be performed on Cleveland area stages and YouTube.
Selected stories will depict mental health challenges the character faces, is overcoming, or has overcome, which allow him / her to now live an improved mental health life.
“Wake Up to Healing Arts” Submissions should:
Show how the performing arts (drama, vocal & instrumental music, dance, poetry) may be used to help address mental health issues in addition to / instead of clinical methods.
Submissions:
IF Selected:
Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023. (If you need an extension, email wualstudio@gmail.com
Questions: wualstudio@gmail.com
Selected stories will depict mental health challenges the character faces, is overcoming, or has overcome, which allow him / her to now live an improved mental health life.
“Wake Up to Healing Arts” Submissions should:
Show how the performing arts (drama, vocal & instrumental music, dance, poetry) may be used to help address mental health issues in addition to / instead of clinical methods.
Submissions:
- 15- minute plays, monologues or scenes may have no more than 3characters.
- Describe some mental health CHALLENGES the character has overcome, and / or is currently experiencing.
- Why the character wants to make changes
- Examples of topics which reflect mental health issues
- The stigma of mental health issues
- Teens and young adults’ suicide
- Teen pregnancy.
- How using drama, music and dance can help heal mental health issues
- Issues contributing to mental health challenges: Depression; Anxiety; Loss of Income; Jobs; Family; Toxic Relationships; Domestic abuse; Bullying
IF Selected:
- Plays, monologues and scenes will be performed on stage and on “Wake Up And Live With the Arts” YouTube
- Stipend will be paid.
Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023. (If you need an extension, email wualstudio@gmail.com
Questions: wualstudio@gmail.com
