The Dramatists Guild will host HOW TO SUBMIT SO YOUR PLAYS AND
GET PRODUCED, a free workshop with Donna Hoke, award-winning playwright and newly elected
Dramatists Guild Council New England Representative. This workshop is designed to
inspire writers to market their work more effectively. Hoke makes about 550
submissions per year, and will offer concrete information on how to get your work out into the world. This workshop is modeled after a popular breakout session, which was offered at the the DG National Conference in La Jolla, 2015.
WORKSHOP SYNOSPSIS: You hear it all the time: the only difference between unproduced playwrights and produced playwrights is that produced playwrights get their work seen by the decision makers. That translates to submissions and networking, a daunting task that we'd like to make easier. This workshop covers resources for finding opportunities, tips for easier submission, success stories from cold calls, and remote networking.
The event is free of charge, and reservations are not required. It is open to both DG
members and non-members. Feel free to bring a friend who you feel may benefit from membership in the Dramatists Guild.
The event will be held in the morning (start time TBA), and we will follow up with an
exact start time when we have confirmed.
DONNA HOKE is an award-winning playwright whose work has been commissioned,
produced, and/or developed in 38 states and on 5 continents, and counting. She
makes her artistic home as an ensemble playwright at Road Less Traveled
Productions, where the premiere of her first full-length production,
The Couple Next Door, was the theatre's top-grossing world premiere and the sixth highest grossing
play in the theatre's history. Hoke is also author of the full-length plays
Cockeyed Today,
Lost at Sea,
Seeds (winner of the 2013 Emanuel Fried Award for
Outstanding New Play),
Flowers in the Desert (finalist for the inaugural
American Association of Community Theatres contest),
Safe (winner of the 2014
Todd McNerney and Naatak National Playwriting Contests, 2015 Great Gay Play and
Musical, 2014 Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist),
Christmas 2.0 (Hormel
Festival of New Works, 2015),
Brilliant Works of Art (2015 Last Frontier
Theatre Conference, TADA! fifth place finisher, top ten finisher Woodward/Newman
Drama contest, top three finisher Rising Sage Visiting Playwrights, semi-finalist
Playwright First, winner Firehouse Festival of New American Plays),
On the Roof,
The Way It Is,
Open and Shut,
Meet Me At the Gates, and
Marcus James, as
well as more than two dozen short plays. A member of the International Center for
Women Playwrights, Chicago Dramatists, and the Dramatists Guild, Hoke serves as
the Dramatists Guild Regional Rep of Western New York, the greater New England area, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council.
Saturday, April 15
Time TBA (will be in the morning)
Chicago Dramatists
1105 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60642
