PATV “New Playwright’s” Showcase Set for November 9, 2008
On Sunday, November 9, 2008, PATV along with the North Shore Community Arts Council, and partial funding by the LI Arts Council at Freeport and Astoria Federal Savings, will present the “New Playwrights”Showcase from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Village Club at Lake Success, 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success. This will be a screening of the 2007-2008 Annual Playwright Competition winning plays; “The Last Good Day” by Scott Gibson and “Lunch with Nancy and Becky” by Diane Coffield. There will be a question and answer forum led by Actress Shirley Romaine between the audience and actors, Director, and Playwrights. This event is free to the public. For further information, www.patv.org or call (516) 629-3710 x14.
The “New Playwrights” Project
- Annual “New Playwrights” one - act play competition (featured in the Dramatist Guild Directory)
“New Playwrights” Annual Competition
Winning plays will be Cablecast on Public Access Television in Great Neck/ North Shore and
other Public Access stations in the metro area.
The guidelines for submissions are: Original, Modern/American, Ten/Fifteen
minutes in length, limited to two or three characters and one set. No Monologues.
Include email, phone or address for notification of results of competition.
Multiple submissions are welcome. Scripts will not be returned.
There will be a $100.00 cash prize awarded to each winning playwright.
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Submissions will be accepted as of April 1, 2009
Deadline for entry is July 15, 2009
Submit typed manuscript to:
The Public Access Television Corporation
ATT: "New Playwrights" Competition - 1111 Marcus Avenue - Suite LL27
Lake Success, NY 11042
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- Production of winning plays by Emmy award winning TV Director, Norman Hall with professional actors
- Premier screening of productions at the “New Playwrights” Showcase
- Cablecast of the productions throughout the metro area
New Playwrights 2008 Competition Winners
“Lunch with Nancy and Becky” by Dianne Coffield, Great Neck, NY
“The Last Good Day” by Scott Gibson, Evergreen, Colorado
“New Playwrights” is a series of one - act plays created by emerging playwrights. These plays were selected as the competition winners of the PATV “New Playwrights” Project. The final program includes the professionally produced play and an interview with the playwright.
Programs in this series have won national and regional Hometown, USA awards presented by the Alliance of Community Media. In 2007, the documentary narrated by actress, Erika Slezak, “It All Starts with the Script” about the making of “Seems Like Old Times” (2006 winner), won two awards from the New York International Independent Film Festival: Best Documentary at the LA screening and Best New York Director (NY screening).
New York International Independent Film Festival July 2007 - NYC
The national award winning “New Playwrights” project has been bringing original theatre created by emerging playwrights to the television audience since its inception in 1995. The creator and director of all the competition winners is Emmy Award winning Television Director, Norman Hall. The “New Playwrights” Project gives aspiring playwrights the opportunity to have their work produced and performed by professionals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iztzje2dgCA&feature=PlayList&p=316C39BF5A08B4D2&index=20
The Fall 2006 issue of Television Quarterly, the Journal of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, features the article "Drama on Public Access TV" by Norman Hall and Shirley Ann Bruno. This article describes in detail the first 10 years of the New Playwrights productions. The issue is posted online at http://www.tvquarterly.net/tvq_37_1/index.html
Professor George Stoney, NYU Tisch School of the Arts comments,
“ New Playwrights is an example of public access television at its best. Professionals from the community are given a chance to experiment in ways commercial theatre never affords them and does it with class. I am repeatedly amazed when I see the work of PATV’s New Playwrights. They maintain thoroughly professional standards while working in a limited space with limited technical support. Here is proof positive that non-commercial, community run television need not be second rate.”
The “New Playwrights” Project is sponsored in part by:
North Shore Community Arts Council
Astoria Federal Savings
New York State Council on the Arts’ Decentralization Program.
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“New Playwrights” 2007 Productions
 
“Hello Mom” by James Caputo
“Someplace called Fred’s” by Mark Wacome Stevick
Cast and crew
“New Playwrights” 2006 Productions
Norman Hall, Director on set with Erika Slezak, host of documentary
“It All Starts with the Script/Seems like Old Times”
 
Actors, Nikki Lauren and Charles Wagner IV Playwright, Lucile Lichtblau , Director Norman Hall and
Host, Shirley Romaine
“Seems Like Old Times” by Lucile Lichtblau
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