OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS
FREE for high school playwrights, journalists, hip-hop and spoken word artists.
PLAYWRITING
The MCC Theater Youth Company
FREE acting and writing workshops for teens.
Acting Lab (Mondays 4:30-6:30) writes and performs
original theatrical pieces; Playwriting Lab
(Wednesdays 4:30-6:30) develops one-act plays,
performed by professional actors. Baruch
College Performing Arts Center, Lexington Ave.
& 25 St. For info or to set up an interview, call
or e-mail Katie Miller at (212) 727-7722 or kmiller@mcctheater.org
TADA! Annual One-Act Playwriting
Contest
DEADLINE: January 4, 2005
For information and submission
guidelines, contact Emmanuel Wilson at (212) 252-1619
ext. 17, or e-mail laycontest@tadatheater.com
or
visit ww.tadatheater.com
Write A Play!
Young Playwrights
Festival
National Playwriting
Competition
DEADLINE: December 1
For submission requirements
and other info,
www.youngplaywrights.org
SPOKEN WORD AND HIP-HOP POETRY
URBAN WORD: Spoken Word& Poetry Workshops
FREE workshops at Teachers & Writers,
5
Union Square West, 7th Fl. 4:30-6:30 pm Mon.& Tues., Sept.-Dec. Registration
required. Workshops open to all teens (13-19). SPACE IS
LIMITED! Include your full name, phone number,
mailing address, birth date and school you
attend in your e-mail to signup@urbanwordnyc.org or
call (212) 691-6570 ext. 21. Specify which workshop series you’re interested
in:
HIP-HOP
POETRY & THE
CLASSICS(Mondays)
RECITE!
VOICES OF MUSLIM AMERICAN YOUTH & ALLIES (Mondays)
QQ&A (QUEER QUESTIONING &
ALLIES) (Tuesdays):
NYC youth ages 13-22
who identify as LGBTSTW, and their allies, can
safely and creatively respond to issues affecting
their communities through spoken word poetry
and performance. To sign up for QQ&A, contact
V. Tobar at (212) 691-6590 ext. 13 or
distasst@twc.org
Last Saturday All Youth Slam:
Semi-competitive
poetry event. Share your work, compete
for fun prizes! Sign up at the door. Open to any
NYC youth ages 13-19. Oct. 30 & Nov. 27, 1-3
pm at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. Free
to teens who sign up to perform at the door, $3
teens & $5 for adults to watch.
JOURNALISM
Play by Play:
If you are interested in writing
for Play by Play, e-mail a writing sample with a
cover letter to playbyplay@tdf.org Be
sure to include your phone number, e-mail address and
your high school and current grade. Applications
accepted year-round. We regret that we
cannot accept all students who apply.
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Young
Critics Institute: DEADLINE EXTENDED
TO LATE OCTOBER FOR PLAY BY PLAY
READERS.
Selected high school juniors and
seniors become critics in this ten-week FREE
program. Students work with a master teacher
to hone their critical writing skills, review three
live BAM performances, meet critics and artists.
Nov. 2004-Feb. 2005 at BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave.,
Brooklyn. Past guests have included The New
York Times critics Ben Brantley and Frank Rich,
New Yorker’s Joan Acocella and Alex Ross, and
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner.
An anthology of the students’ reviews is compiled
at the end of the course. For nformation
and application, call today! (718) 636-4130
ext. 2 or
e-mail jtighe@bam.org
Camp Broadway and Columbia
Scholastic Press Association Stringers
Program:
Attend a Broadway show, write articles and take workshops with renowned arts journalists. FREE for NYC public high school students. For more information, call (212) 575- 2929 or visit www.studentpressreview.com
TRAC: High 5’s Teen Reviewers and
Critics program.
Selected junior and senior
high school students attend and review free
High 5 events and learn from artists and critics.
For application, e-mail sengels@high5tix.org with
your mailing address and phone number.
