The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for 2023-2024

Synecdoche Works is pleased to announce:

The Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for 2023-2024.

Monetary award to playwright: $3000 for works with a running time of at least 40 minutes.

Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provide a meaningful challenge to the actors. This includes, but is not limited to, works using metre, verse, rhyming schemes, pidgins, creoles, and code-switching.

Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.

Conditions for Consideration

Submissions must be in a heightened version of the English language in order to provide a meaningful challenge to the actors. This includes, but is not limited to, works using metre, verse, rhyming schemes, pidgins, creoles, and code-switching.

Plays must contain at least 60% heightened language.

Submissions may be translations or adaptations of works in the public domain.

Authors awarded a grant must be willing to participate in a brief rehearsal process culminating in a Zoom reading of their submitted work.

Submitted works cannot be currently attached to a theater or production company.

Submitted works cannot have had a prior development cycle outside of an educational program.

Submission deadline: April 30, 2024

Submission portfolio must include:

  1. Our Google form found at https://www.synecdocheworks.org/announcing-fellowship/
  2. The play in standard script format, uploaded via the Google form or emailed as an attachment to submissions@synecdocheworks.org

Optional: CV or resume

Synecdoche Works may support further development of a submitted work at its discretion.

Please visit https://www.synecdocheworks.org/announcing-fellowship/ for more information.

Deadline: 30 April 2023

Source: direct contact

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