Where new plays come to life
Playwrights - this is for you!
11th Annual PANNDORA'S BOX Festival of New Works is open for submissions through July 1 ~
PANNDORA produces new plays. That's what we do. Every year we hold a new works festival PANNDORA'S BOX, a weekend of staged readings of brand new plays. Plays that have not yet been discovered, written by playwrights yet to achieve stardom. If you are a playwright, and you have a work you love that has not be produced, consider submitting to this year's Festival.
This year will be our 11th Festival. IN KINGS & FOOLS by Kevin Daly is our 6th full production of a new play out of PANNDORA'S BOX. Kevin's play proudly follows: SWEET TEXAS RECKONING by Traci Godfrey (2016), MEDUSA UNDONE by Bella Poynton (2015), FRAGILE THING CRACKS by Ben Jolivet (2014), CATCHING THE BUTCHER by Adam Seidel (2013), and HOOK-UPS by Alexandra Petri (2012).
Here's how to submit your plays ~
There are two ways to submit works to PANNDORA'S BOX. Email them directly to [email protected], or mail a hard copy to Sonja Berggren at P.O. Box 30733, Long Beach, CA 90853. If you submit by mail and want your script returned, please enclose a self addressed stamped envelope. (We prefer electronic submissions as they are easier for our committee to read and share.) You may submit up to 2 plays for consideration.
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2017.
Reading fee ~ $10
Because this festival has been so successful from an artistic standpoint, and because we want to continue to hold these festivals in the future, we assess a reading fee of $10 per script to help offset our costs, which include theatre rental, copying scripts, printing programs, advertising, professional reviewers.
There are two ways to pay the fee: the old fashioned way of writing a check to Panndora Productions and mailing it to our P.O. Box 30733, Long Beach, CA 90853; or paying on line here through Paypal.
The Festival details ~
We are delighted to be returning to THE GARAGE THEATRE in Long Beach for this year's Festival, which will be held over the weekend of October 20, 21, 22, 2017. Five plays will be selected to be read over the weekend, one Friday night and two on both Saturday and Sunday. Each play will be cast with experienced actors and will have the benefit of an experienced director. In addition, each play will receive a critique from a professional theatre critic and written audience comments. If the winner is not able to attend the Festival, we will provide a video recording of the reading.
Winners announced September
The art and craft of playwriting can be a lonely experience. With Panndora's Box, we provide playwrights with a forum in which their plays can be heard as they come off the page in readings by experienced actors with experienced direction.
We can't wait to hear from you!
Sonja & Karen
the Panndora girls
Latest News
We're in the paper! Check out Eric Marchese's review in the OC Register. Director Derek Long’s casting and staging could hardly be improved upon, delivering straightforward and candid emotions while meshing a standard family drama with tragic historic events.
In Kings & Fools is featured in the Press Telegram. Click here for full article.
“This is a play about how our country, our communities, our towns, our families are all better, stronger, the more diverse we are,” says playwright Kevin Daly
We are open for submissions to the 11th annual PANNDORA's BOX Festival of New Works. Playwrights! Send us your treasures for consideration for our fall festival, October 20-22, 2017 at the Garage Theatre. Scroll down left for more.
On January 19, 2017 at 5:30pm, Panndora Productions and the Garage Theatre gathered in a collective, simultaneous action, creating "light" for challenging times ahead. Inspired by the tradition of leaving a "ghost light" on in a darkened theater, we pledged to stand for and protect the values of inclusion, participation, and compassion for everyone--regardless of race, class, religion, country of origin, immigration status, (dis)ability, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
January 19th was a moment of gathering within a larger resistance to intolerance at all levels. We aim to create brave spaces that will serve as lights in the coming years. We aim to activate a network of people across the country working to support vulnerable communities. We pledge continued vigilance and increased advocacy.
To read Panndora's complete manifesto, click here.
Links
- Art Theatre, Long Beach
- Breath of Fire Theatre
- Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro
- Long Beach Opera
- Long Beach Playhouse
- The Garage Theatre
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