JAW: A Playwrights Festival
Script submission guidelines for 2009
JAW 2009: July 13–26
Now in its eleventh year, JAW Playwrights Festival is a new play development program originally created in conjunction with New York Theatre Workshop. During JAW, Portland Center Stage hosts ten days of work that draw upon the talents of professional playwrights, directors, actors, dramaturgs and other collaborators. The Festival culminates in a process-oriented weekend of rehearsed readings presented to the theater community and the general public.
We will accept scripts for JAW 2009 from November 1, 2008 until February 1, 2009. Notification will begin after May 1, 2009.
- Please note: Unsolicited scripts are accepted only from Oregon residents.
- The submitted script must be full-length.
- The submission may have had a previous reading, but not a full production.
Send contact information and a bound copy of the script to:
JAW: A Playwrights Festival
c/o Portland Center Stage
Gerding Theater at the Armory
128 NW Eleventh Ave
Portland, OR 97209
For further information, you are welcome to contact Festival Director, Rose Riordan at roser@pcs.org. Please do not email submissions, however. Thank you for your interest in JAW. We look forward to reading your work.
Casting
Audition hotline: 503.445.3849
Portland Center Stage is a LORT B Theater and is required to hire Actors who are members of Actors' Equity Association. We hire non-union actors when possible and is in accordance with the union rules. If you have questions about that please visit the Actors' Equity website at: www.actorsequity.org
Actors are hired on a show-by-show basis during the season and auditions for individual shows are by invitation only. Portland Center Stage holds open general auditions annually in the spring. These auditions are announced on the AEA hotline and the Oregonian Callboard. If you are a member of Actors’ Equity Association planning to be in Portland and would like to schedule an audition please send your photo and resume with a cover letter to:
Casting
c/o Portland Center Stage
128 NW Eleventh Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
You may also call the audition hotline at 503.445.3849 and leave your name and number or email casting@pcs.org. For any general audition, please prepare two contrasting one minute monologues and provide two 8'x 10' photos and current resumes.
The Artistic Staff at Portland Center stage tries to see as many shows as possible in the Portland area. If you would like us to come and see your work please send an invitation card to the address above. We regret that it is impossible for us to see every production.
The casting director for Portland Center Stage is Rose Riordan, Associate Artistic Director.
JAW Performance History
2008
- Paradise Street
- Constance Congdon
- Enchantment
- Carson Krietzer
- Pony
- Sally Oswald
- A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits
- C. Denby Swanson
- Crazy Enough
- Storm Large
2007
- Marie Antoinette
- David Adjmi
- Box Americana (A Wal-Mart Fantasia)
- Jason Grote
- Bruise Easy
- Dan LeFranc
- A Story About A Girl
- Jacquelyn Reingold
2006
- The Listener
- Liz Duffy Adams
- Telethon
- Kristin Newbom
- Lost Wavelengths
- Steve Patterson
- A Feminine Ending
- Sarah Treem
2005
- The Thugs
- Adam Bock
- Act A Lady
- Jordan Harrison
- Celebrity Row
- Itamar Moses
- Number Three
- Ebbe Roe Smith
2004
- Paradise Street
- Constance Congdon
- Enchantment
- Carson Krietzer
- Pony
- Sally Oswald
- A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits
- C. Denby Swanson
- Crazy Enough
- Storm Large
2003
- Marie Antoinette
- David Adjmi
- Box Americana (A Wal-Mart Fantasia)
- Jason Grote
- Bruise Easy
- Dan LeFranc
- A Story About A Girl
- Jacquelyn Reingold
2002
- The Listener
- Liz Duffy Adams
- Telethon
- Kristin Newbom
- Lost Wavelengths
- Steve Patterson
- A Feminine Ending
- Sarah Treem
2001
- The Thugs
- Adam Bock
- Act A Lady
- Jordan Harrison
- Celebrity Row
- Itamar Moses
- Number Three
- Ebbe Roe Smith
