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SECOND GENERATION SEEKS
MANUSCRIPTS
FOR DEVELOPMENTAL CONSIDERATION
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President
Gladys Chen
Resident Artist
Lloyd Suh
Development
Director
Arlene Yang
Founder &
Honorary Artist
Welly Yang
Resident
Producer
Grace C. Lee
Board
of Directors
Sherman Chin, Chairman
Lloyd Cheu
Vice-Chair
Yau Cheng
Secretary
Chad Tanaka
Treasurer
Aaron Frankel
Irwin Liu
June Jee
Welly Yang
Board of
Advisors
Cindy Hsu
David Henry Hwang
Lisa Ling
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29 September 2005
Second
Generation is currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts through
November 1, 2005, for development consideration, especially for our
In The Works reading series.
Second
Generation is a non-profit theater company, dedicated since 1997 to
bringing Asian American stories to the world’s stage.
In
The Works represents the developmental,
literary wing of Second Generation’s productions. Since its inception
in 1999, the series has presented more than a dozen new plays by
emerging Asian American playwrights. The In The Works process
begins with a workshop and rehearsal period designed to provide each
writer with a safe and productive developmental environment, including
an experienced director and cast, culminating in a public staged
reading. Past events have been hosted by some of New York City’s most
venerable artistic and theatrical institutions, including the NYSF/Joseph
Papp Public Theater, the Asian-American Writers’ Workshop, the Culture
Project/45 Bleecker, HERE Arts Center, and the Asia Society.
Previous plays presented In The Works have earned awards from
the New York Foundation of the Arts and the New York Asian American
Film Festival, and received production at theatres throughout the
country, including East West Players and the National Asian American
Theatre Company (NAATCO), among others.
Submission Guidelines:
1. Manuscripts should be bound, on letter-size 8.5” x
11” paper in a readable font, with a title page containing all
relevant contact information for the author and/or author’s
representative.
2. Please include a resume and cover letter with your
submission, including all previous development, readings and/or
productions, if applicable, of the submitted work. If there are any
options, rights or other contractual obligations related to the
submission, please provide all pertinent details in your cover letter.
3. If you wish for us to notify you upon our receipt of
your submission, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard,
and we will return it to you upon receipt.
4. If you require that your submission materials to be
returned to you, please send a manuscript-sized, self-addressed
envelope with appropriate return postage. If we do not receive this
envelope, we reserve the right to retain your submitted materials for
archival purposes, or otherwise recycle your materials following our
review.
While
we take great care in reviewing all submitted materials, we regret
that we may be unable to respond to all submissions in a substantive
way.
Although we are specifically seeking plays by writers
of Asian descent, we are a broad-ranged Asian American theater
company, and therefore highly encourage the submission of works by or
for artists underrepresented in our communities (e.g., the Pacific
Islands, South and Southeast Asia, biracial or mixed-race communities,
etc.).
Additionally, we have no limitations on technical or
artistic modes of expression, and therefore do not impose any
requirements in terms of form, style, genre, length, or theme. In
other words, please feel free to submit any full-length or one-act
plays that you might be interested in developing.
We are not limiting our interest to plays that specifically address
“Asian American issues”, or some broad notion of “The Asian American
Experience”. As an arts organization dedicated to providing a
platform for the diversity of experience within our community, we have
no interest in defining or limiting the scope of what this
“experience” might be.
So please don’t worry about such formal restrictions, and simply send
us work that matters to you. Regardless of whether or not it is
selected for further development, it will matter to us as well.
Please address your scripts, postmarked on or before
November 1, 2005 to:
Second Generation
New Play Submissions
248 West 35th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Please
do not send submissions via email. If you have any questions, contact
us at
info@2g.org or (212) 334-4777. For more information about Second
Generation, visit us at
www.2g.org
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29 September 2005
Second
Generation is currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts through November
1, 2005, for development consideration, especially for our In The Works
reading series.
Second
Generation is a non-profit theater company, dedicated since 1997 to bringing
Asian American stories to the world’s stage.
In The
Works represents the developmental, literary wing of
Second Generation’s productions. Since its inception in 1999, the series has
presented more than a dozen new plays by emerging Asian American playwrights.
The In The Works process begins with a workshop and rehearsal period
designed to provide each writer with a safe and productive developmental
environment, including an experienced director and cast, culminating in a
public staged reading. Past events have been hosted by some of New York
City’s most venerable artistic and theatrical institutions, including the NYSF/Joseph
Papp Public Theater, the Asian-American Writers’ Workshop, the Culture
Project/45 Bleecker, HERE Arts Center, and the Asia Society.
Previous plays
presented In The Works have earned awards from the New York Foundation
of the Arts and the New York Asian American Film Festival, and received
production at theatres throughout the country, including East West Players and
the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), among others.
Submission
Guidelines:
1. Manuscripts should be bound, on letter-size 8.5” x 11” paper
in a readable font, with a title page containing all relevant contact
information for the author and/or author’s representative.
2. Please include a resume and cover letter with your
submission, including all previous development, readings and/or productions,
if applicable, of the submitted work. If there are any options, rights or
other contractual obligations related to the submission, please provide all
pertinent details in your cover letter.
3. If you wish for us to notify you upon our receipt of your
submission, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard, and we will
return it to you upon receipt.
4. If you require that your submission materials to be returned
to you, please send a manuscript-sized, self-addressed envelope with
appropriate return postage. If we do not receive this envelope, we reserve the
right to retain your submitted materials for archival purposes, or otherwise
recycle your materials following our review.
While we take
great care in reviewing all submitted materials, we regret that we may be
unable to respond to all submissions in a substantive way.
Although we are specifically seeking plays by writers of Asian
descent, we are a broad-ranged Asian American theater company, and therefore
highly encourage the submission of works by or for artists underrepresented in
our communities (e.g., the Pacific Islands, South and Southeast Asia, biracial
or mixed-race communities, etc.).
Additionally, we have no limitations on technical or artistic
modes of expression, and therefore do not impose any requirements in terms of
form, style, genre, length, or theme. In other words, please feel free to
submit any full-length or one-act plays that you might be interested in
developing.
We are not limiting our interest to plays that specifically address “Asian
American issues”, or some broad notion of “The Asian American Experience”. As
an arts organization dedicated to providing a platform for the diversity of
experience within our community, we have no interest in defining or limiting
the scope of what this “experience” might be.
So please don’t worry about such formal restrictions, and simply send us work
that matters to you. Regardless of whether or not it is selected for further
development, it will matter to us as well.
Please address your scripts, postmarked on or before November
1, 2005 to:
Second Generation
New Play Submissions
248 West 35th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Please do not
send submissions via email. If you have any questions, contact us at
info@2g.org or (212) 334-4777. For more information about Second
Generation, visit us at
www.2g.org
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