Call for Scripts for 2015 Austin New Latino Play Festival

Teatro Vivo is pleased to announce a call for applicants for their annual Austin Latino New Play Festival (ALNPF), presented in collaboration with Austin ScriptWorks, to run May 14-16 2015. Participants are invited to submit original bilingual scripts that provide a window into the Latino/a community by the deadline of midnight Monday, December 15, 2014. Three scripts will be chosen for festival production.

Now in its fifth year, the ALNPF provides an opportunity for playwrights to hear, see, and receive feedback on their original works. The festival format brings playwrights together to work with a dramaturg, director, and actors to bring a play to life as a staged reading in front of an audience. The rehearsal process for each stages reading is approximately one week.

Selected playwrights will be available and willing to collaborate with a dramaturg and director chosen by Teatro Vivo. Additionally, playwrights will be available to attend the reading of their play and participate in a facilitated talk aback with the audience immediately after the reading. The staged readings are workshop-style presentations. After each reading, the playwright and director participate in talkback sessions with the audience. Visit teatrovivo.org for information.

Teatro Vivo has produced more than 25 bilingual plays since JoAnn Reyes and Rupert Reyes founded the company in 2000. Teatro Vivo is proud to be a resident company with the Latino Arts Residency Program at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Contact Dolores Díaz atAustinLNPF@gmail.com for more information.