Announcing San Francisco Olympians V: Monster Ball
Want to write for the Olympians Festival?
Well, now is your chance!
We are now accepting submissions for the 2014 San Francisco Olympians Festival, a multi-discipline, nationally recognized new works theater festival based at the Exit Theater in San Francisco!
Proposals due by midnight on September 30th, with the line-up for next year’s festival to be announced 11/1/2013. Our first meeting will be on December 12 of 2013.
The festival will take place in November of 2014, from November 5-November 22, Wedesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Each night of the festival will consist of the staged reading of either a full-length play or a series of shorts, inspired by the mythical creatures of Ancient Greece. The subjects, and the lengths of the plays we’re looking for, are specified below. Some nights of the festival will be a competition, with a pair of one acts pitted against each other and the audience given a chance to vote. Those nights are also specified below.
There are no submission fees. The Olympians Festival is non-exclusive and does not retain ownership of any play created for it, beyond the initial staged reading. Participating writers should be local (San Francisco and the greater Bay Area), and will be expected to help promote the festival and contribute a raffle prize of their choosing to be raffled off to the audience on the night their play is read, or awarded to the winner of their night should they be involved in one of the competitive evenings of the festival. Writers are also expected to attend 4-6 meetings over the course of the year, and our auditions, which happen about a month before the festival.
Writers are encouraged to submit as many proposals as they want for as many topics as they like. Applications for a topic can be submitted by individuals or writers can work in pairs, or teams of three or more. Writers may be picked for more than one project, and should note that they’d like to be considered for more than one (or not). Each proposal should be 500 words or less and answer three questions:
1) Why you?
2) Why this monster?
3) What is your idea?
All proposals should be submitted electronically to Stuart at [email protected].
2014′s subjects are as follows. Only one is currently claimed and submissions are encouraged for all of the rest:
Week One: Guardians Of Nature (11/5-11/8)
Wednesday, November 5: Nymphs! Nymphs! Nymphs!
Short: Austere
Short: Nephele
Short: Oreads
Short: Dryads
Short: Nereids
Short: Naiads
Short: Oceanids
Short: Lampades
Thursday, November 6: Pastoral Masters
One Act: Centaurs
One Act: Saytrs
Friday, November 7: Winged Wonder
Full-Length: Pegasus
Saturday, November 8: The Lord of the Dance
Full-Length: Pan (CLAIMED)
Week Two: Celebrity Monster Deathmatch! (Audience Judged Dueling One Acts)
Wednesday, November 12: Dangerous Dragons
One Act: Hydra
One Act: Typhon
Thursday, November 13: Evil Eyes
One Act: Argus
One Act: Polyphemus
Friday, November 14: Three Headed Trouble
One Act: Cerberus
One Act: Chimera
Saturday, November 15: Hero-Makers
One Act: Geryon
One Act: Minotaur
Week Three: Femme Fatales (11/19-11/22)
Wednesday, November 19: She-Beasts Triads
One-Act: Sirens
One-Act: Harpies
One-Act: Graeae
Thursday, November 20: Lethal Wisdom
Full Length: Sphinx
Friday, November 21: Deadly Beauty
Full Length: Medusa
Saturday, November 22: Vagina Dentata
Short: Scylla
Full Length: Echidna
Short: Charybdis
Definitions:
Short- Ten to Fifteen Minutes
One-Act- Twenty-five to Fifty Minutes
Full Length- Sixty-Five Minutes to Two Hours
Happy Brainstorming! We look forward to your submissions!