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Playwrights who submit their work MUST commit themselves to be available and in residence for all 9 days of the Festival. ICTF's support to playwrights includes providing professional actors, dramaturgs, rehearsal space, stage management, round-trip transportation, shared resort lodging, meals, and an honorarium of $500. All artists, including playwrights, reside in very large modern cabins (see Facilities page.) Actors at ICTF operate on a special agreement with Actors Equity Association.

Before submitting a script, you must send an email to info@iciclecreekact.com

That email should contain the following:

Synopsis of play.
Brief statement of: (a) inspiration for the play (why you wrote it), (b) what themes you develop in the play, (c) where you think the play currently is in its development, and (d) what you believe you can accomplish at the festival.
Character breakdown (genders & ages, etc.)
Status of the play, including prior readings.
Your brief history as a playwright (if you are unknown to ICTF).

If ICTF's email reply to you requests that you send your play, the postmark deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008. Applicants will be notified by email by May 15th, 2008.

If the play is requested, it of course must be collated and paginated and, importantly: the title page must contain the title, the playwright's full contact information PLUS EMAIL ADDRESS, and the play MUST contain a character breakdown with genders and ages.

All playwrights will be notified by email that their play was received. We regret that this year, plays will not be returned. However, we continue with our policy of charging no application fee.

WHAT ICTF IS LOOKING FOR

ICTF currently selects two to three projects for the Festival. Artists can only submit one application each year; previous applicants may re-apply.

ICTF seeks writers who are interested in genuinely exploring their material. ICTF offers an environment that encourages and supports experimentation, re-imagining, and rigorous RE-WRITING. If you feel your work is done except for minor tweaking, this would not be the place for you.

Please keep in mind that ICTF will be utilizing a pool of FIVE (5) actors. If your play can be reasonably and successfully workshopped using 5 actors (or fewer) -- where any doubling will not lead to audience confusion -- then we will consider it.

Scripts that are epic in nature would require more time than the Festival can provide. Also, only full-length plays -- not one-acts -- will be accepted. (We prefer running times of 90 to 140 minutes). We cannot accept film or TV scripts, adaptations, translations, or children's theatre project at this time.

Although ICTF is not prepared to present musicals in 2008, we are considering eventually developing smaller musicals, and you are encouraged to email us about your project.

ICTF welcomes applications for projects at any stage of development, but focuses on work that is ready to be explored, at least in part, on its feet.

A play can have received multiple "table reads" and even an amateur/college staged reading or workshop. It generally should not have been previously professionally workshopped, though ICTF will make exceptions. The work absolutely cannot have received a professional production. Plays scheduled to receive a production before September, 2008, are not eligible.

Under certain circumstances, ICTF will consider playwright/director teams who submit their work. But ICTF will generally match chosen projects with one of our directors.

A playwright is expected to publish ICTF's credit, “[Title of Project] was developed, in part, with assistance from the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival” on the title page of all printed materials of future readings, workshops, productions, recordings and publications of his/her project, and include a link to the ICTF website on all successive producer websites.