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Your writing sample can be an essay describing your goals for this program, a summary of an idea you would like to write about or a sample monologue or scene.
After submitting this form, be sure to email or mail your writing sample to:
Suzanne Maloney First Light – Theater of the First Amendment George Mason University 4400 University Drive, MS 3E6 Fairfax VA 22030-4444
Or electronically to: smaloney@gmu.edu
All application forms and writing samples must be received by October 30, 2009.
Applicants accepted into the program will be notified by email and required to attend an informational session with a local professional playwright, who will speak on the topic of the playwright’s craft. This talk will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 1pm in George Mason’s TheaterSpace. Immediately afterwards, playwrights will be matched with professional artist mentors specializing in new play development. The mentors will set up deadlines for drafts and establish a schedule for providing feedback. Mentors will monitor students’ progress from November through the final draft submission deadline of February 26, 2010.
The winning entries will receive a professional five-day workshop and public reading at the 2010 First Light Discvoery Program in June, 2010.
The winners will be contacted by March 26, 2010.