Calls for Artists
Call for Playwrights To Submit 20 – 30 - minute Plays For 'Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope,Health and Total Well-being – ‘I Rise’”
Wake Up and Live’s Actors’ Studio (WUAL) is continuing its “Healing Arts” project. We are inviting playwrights to submit 20-30 -minute plays on the topic of Virtual and in-person bullying 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 (like the Phoenix – “I Rise.”).
“Wake Up to Healing Arts” Submissions should:
Show how the performing arts (drama, vocal & instrumental music, dance, poetry) may be used to help address the bullying mental health issue in addition to / instead of clinical methods.
Submissions:
. 20 - 30- minute plays may have no more than 3 – 4 characters, with an emphasis on the people of color community, teens and females.
. 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:
1. Plays will be performed on stage at Dunham Museum & Tavern, Sat. Sept. 28 & Sun. Sept. 29
and on “Wake Up And Live With the Arts” YouTube
2. Stipend will be paid.
Submission Deadline: Friday, July 19, 2024. (If you need an extension, email [email protected])
Submissions, Details, and Questions: [email protected]
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 (like the Phoenix – “I Rise.”).
“Wake Up to Healing Arts” Submissions should:
Show how the performing arts (drama, vocal & instrumental music, dance, poetry) may be used to help address the bullying mental health issue in addition to / instead of clinical methods.
Submissions:
. 20 - 30- minute plays may have no more than 3 – 4 characters, with an emphasis on the people of color community, teens and females.
. 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:
1. Plays will be performed on stage at Dunham Museum & Tavern, Sat. Sept. 28 & Sun. Sept. 29
and on “Wake Up And Live With the Arts” YouTube
2. Stipend will be paid.
Submission Deadline: Friday, July 19, 2024. (If you need an extension, email [email protected])
Submissions, Details, and Questions: [email protected]
Call for Performing Artists Seeking Performing Artists: Actors, Dancers, Vocal & Instrumental Musicians, Poets, etc. For 2024 “Wake Up to Healing Arts: Using Performance and Media for Direction, Hope, Health, and Total Well-being” Performance Project – ‘I Rise’”
Wake Up and Live’s Actors’ Studio (WUAL) is seeking Performing Artists for its “Healing Arts” project –in person & internet bullying . Inviting actors, singers, dancers, musicians, poets, etc. to submit a 1 – 2 minute video audition demonstrating their uplifting / inspirational performance genre.
Performances scheduled for Sat. Sept. 28 & Sun. Sept. 29 at Dunham Museum & Tavern, YouTube and “Wake Up and Live With the Arts” shows.
If selected, Stipend Paid.
Please submit Audition Video, Headshot & Resume by Mon. 6/3/24
See website www.wualstudio.org for more performing artists examples and details.
Submissions, Details, and Questions: [email protected]
Performances scheduled for Sat. Sept. 28 & Sun. Sept. 29 at Dunham Museum & Tavern, YouTube and “Wake Up and Live With the Arts” shows.
If selected, Stipend Paid.
Please submit Audition Video, Headshot & Resume by Mon. 6/3/24
See website www.wualstudio.org for more performing artists examples and details.
Submissions, Details, and Questions: [email protected]
Questions?
Sue Johnson, SAG/AFTRA Director, Wake Up And Live & Actors Studio
Producer, & "Wake Up And Live With the Arts"
[email protected]
Judy Allen, co-Coordinator
[email protected]
Thank you to our sponsors
Hope, Health, and Total Well-being – ‘I Rise' " is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
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Special Thanks to Dunham Tavern Museum
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