A Brief Overview
For an extended overview, click here.
For a story that appeared in Cleveland Scene,
click here.
What is The Marilyn Bianchi Kids'
Playwriting Festival?
For the 30th year, Dobama Theater,
a small professional theater company in Cleveland Heights, has
produced the work of young playwrights, ages 6 to 18. Each year
the theater receives between four and five hundred plays written
in classrooms or at home by young people all over Cuyahoga County.
These plays explore all sorts of subjects using a range of styles.
Some come from students who have never seen a play performed,
some from sophisticated seventeen year olds with accomplished
writing portfolios. What distinguishes the plays that win the
Festival and end up on our stage, however, is the playwright's
capacity for original storytelling and imaginative dialogue
and characters.
When is the
Festival?
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Dobama Theatre
is proud to present
The 30th Marilyn
Bianchi Kids Playwriting Festival
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June 12th - 15th, 2008
Elementary & Junior High Plays
Thursday, June 12 7:30 pm
Friday, June 13 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 14 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 15 2:30 pm
Senior High Plays
Friday, June 13 10 pm
Saturday, June 14 10 pm
Sunday June 15 5 pm
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Where is the Festival?
Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre
The Idea Center at Playhouse Square
1375 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
Click here for directions
Benefit Performance: Thursday, June 12th
Admission is free for Friday-Sunday performances
Who can participate in the Festival?
The Festival is open to students
in grades 1 through 12 who are being educated in Cuyahoga County:
Public, Private, or Home Schooled.
What happens after I send my
play in to the Festival?
Each play is read by multiple judges. These judges
are either theater professionals or very knowledgeable arts patrons.
Each judge gives written feedback to the playwright about his or her
play. Finalists are chosen and read by the Festival Director, the
Artistic Director of Dobama Theater, and a third theater artist,
usually a playwright. The winners are then chosen and contacted.
What happens if I win the
Festival?
Each of the winners receives:
- The publication of your play in the Festival
book
- Possible production of your play *
- A $100 savings bond
- Public recognition in local media
* Of the winners chosen in a year, about two-thirds
receive a full professional production.
How can I enter the Festival?
You can download your application form right now and start writing!
To display the form, click here.
(Acrobat
Reader™ required.)
OR
You can explore the Resource Links (below) and write a play later.
Teachers and students alike should feel free
to e-mail questions to jcasey@dobama.org.
Please note that we will also try to meet requests for classroom
workshops and site visits to our theater. |