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2023 NC Audio Play Festival

Announcing the fourth annual North Carolina Audio Play Festival (previously known as the NC Radio Play Festival)! A yearly collaboration between Cary Playwrights’ Forum and Greensboro Playwrights’ Forum, this festival provides a platform for North Carolinian writers to have their work produced and published at no cost.

Every year the festival has a theme, and this year that theme is…

THE IMPOSSIBLE

Traditional theatrical staging comes with a wide array of limitations—budgetary, practical, and otherwise. To paraphrase a famous fictional engineer, “you cannot change the laws of physics!” Fortunately, the audio play format affords the playwright the freedom to be as creative as their imagination will allow, and this year we’re leaning into those flights of fancy and soliciting scripts that would be impossible (or extremely difficult) to stage with live actors.

Script Submission Requirements:

• Scripts for selected audio plays should not exceed 10 minutes in length
• Scripts must be submitted by 11:59:59pm on June 16, 2023
• Playwright must be a North Carolina resident
• Scripts should be written in standard play format [link to video example]
• Maximum of two script submissions per playwright

Script Submission Link:   Google Form

Questions?

Contact the producers @ ncaudioplays@gmail.com

Who We Are

The Cary Playwrights Forum workshops and develops new stage plays written by North Carolinian playwrights. Its mission is to provide NC playwrights and aspiring playwrights opportunities to develop as dramatic writers. CPF is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.

Founded in 1993, Creative Greensboro’s Playwrights’ Forum supports local aspiring playwrights in getting published or produced through contacts, marketing, and improving their skill as dramatic writers.

The Cary Playwrights’ Forum and Oak City Tonight present:

PLAYSLAM! – The Sketch-tacular 2023 (hosted by ComedyWorx)

WHAT

A two-minute comedic sketch competition!

Playwrights submit up to two scripts, each LESS THAN 2 MINUTES LONG. A reading committee will select scripts to produce from the submission pool. Then playwrights, filmmakers, directors, and actors will have just one Saturday to meet up, rehearse their plays, and perform that evening! A prize will be awarded to the top playwright – as voted by our audience!

WHEN

Saturday, July 29th

8:00 PM – First Show (~90 minutes)

10:00 PM – Second Show (~90 minutes)

WHERE

ComedyWorx

3801 Hillsborough Street, Suite 123

Raleigh, NC 27607

WE NEED WRITERS, FILM MAKERS, AND VOLUNTEERS!

• Submit a Script
• Submit a Filmmaker Application
• Submit an Acting Application
• Submit a Directing Application

Visit the official webpage of this event for up-to-date casting info, submission info, and tickets!