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Ebook Links for Scriptwriting
- Storyboarding byPublication Date: 2017-05-30
Digital Theatre+
- Digital Theatre + This link opens in a new windowThis database features musical and drama productions for Theatre and the Performing Arts. It also includes interviews, production design videos, script writing, acting workshops and more.
Online Community
- HowlRound Theatre Commons"HowlRound is a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners."
Interviews, Blogs and Websites: The Process of Writing
- BBC Writers RoomA comprehensive site for beginning British screenwriters and script writers; much of the content applies anywhere, except for the Britain-only competitions. Interviews, how-tos, and more!
- Writer's Guild interviews on YoutubeInterviews with screenwriters including Shonda Rimes, Lawrence Kasdan, and many more.
- 3rd and FairfaxPodcast on screenwriting from the Writers Guild of America
- Building Play, from Theatre 33A playwriting podcast and play reading series based at Willamette University.
Ten Minute Play Festivals and Competitions
Do you want to see your play performed? Want to send it out to the world for others to experience?
- NW10 FestivalNW10 is "continuing its mission to be the Pacific Northwest’s premiere ten-minute play festival." Submissions in September-October.
- The Champion 10 minute Play FestivalThe Portland 10MPF is an event Monkey with a Hat On produces 2-3 times a year. [They] feature new plays written, directed and performed by Portland artists... Every play is ten minutes or less and all of the plays are performed every performance night. It’s a very fun, well attended event and there is nothing else like it in the city. [They] are theater for everybody: never turning away audience members for lack of funds and ...have an open-door policy where anyone can submit a play or try out to be involved.
- JAW New Play Festival from Portland Center StageThe JAW New Play Festival is Portland Center Stage’s week-long assembling of artists and audiences to create new plays! Each July, artistic teams, including playwrights, directors, and actors, come together to rehearse — and a lot of times rewrite! — a new play. The final piece of the process happens during the weekend, when we share “music stand readings” with audiences so the playwrights can hear their work, often for the very first time!
- Theatre 33 -- at the Oregon UFO FestivalIn McMinnville. The playwright is responsible for providing the acting and directing team. This seems to be on hold for the time being.
- Kennedy Center National Playwriting Program, Region 7This regional competition is the largest and most prestigious for student playwrights.
Professional organization
- Dramatists GuildThe professional organization for playwrights. Limited resources available to non-members include a podcast and April's End of Play, a month of writing goals and community much like NaNoWriMo or Inktober.
- Writer's Guild of America WestWriters Guild of America West (WGAW), is a labor union representing the thousands of creators who write scripted series, features, news programs, and other conten