Project Coordinator and Co-director: Kris Harrington of Lit Youngstown
Project Co-coordinator: Bill Soldan of Lit Youngstown
Co-director: Mary Ruth Lynn of Selah Dessert Theatre
Co-director: Mary Ruth Lynn of Selah Dessert Theatre
Strand: (n)one of a number of fibers plaited or twisted together; (v) to form a rope by twisting strands
A unique collaboration between Selah Dessert Theatre and Lit Youngstown, The Strand Project is in its third year. The Strand Project features a selection of original dramatic monologues, each piece revealing something about the speaker: inspirations, bad choices, personality quirks, fears, hopes, regrets, dreams, and secrets.
We’re looking for 300-1000 word first-person theatrical (not poetic) dramatic monologues about American experiences. We want monologues that are unique and universal, pieces that are authentic, funny, disruptive, and/or poignant in unexpected ways—pieces that speak and need to be heard. We don’t want pat endings, moralizing, or simplistic “and then I changed my life forever” tales. We want strands of the characters’ lives and experiences that speak to a larger, the-personal-is-political point.
Submitted monologues are screened, selected, and compiled into a full-length theatrical script based on themes, tone, and cohesiveness to the whole. Monologues should be contemporary and adaptable to any setting.
Submission deadline is November 17, 2017. Writers will be notified by February 2, 2018. Submit to:
thestrandprojectatselahATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)
No attachments! Copy and paste your submission into the body of the e-mail, and please include a brief (100 words or fewer) biography as well as contact information.
Submitted works must be previously unpublished and unproduced. No simultaneous submissions, please.
Once monologues are selected, auditions will be held to choose actors to perform the monologues in the final production. Writers are welcome to audition to read their own works.
In the final production, the strands will be woven together to represent a piece of the human experience. The Strand Project will run at Selah Dinner Theater at 130 South Bridge Street in Struthers, OH 44471 for four evening, June 1, June 2, June 8, and June 9, 2018. Each performance will be followed by refreshments and a talk back with the production team, cast, and writers who are able to attend.
The Strand Project 2016 and 2017 played to sold-out houses and featured the combined work of 40 writers and 37 actors.
Selah Dessert Theatre places emphasis on human expression through intimate works that focus on character and their stories. Situated in a cozy upstairs black box venue at the restaurant, audiences enjoy a relaxed evening of great theatre and are treated to homemade desserts at intermission.
Lit Youngstown is a non-profit Literary Arts Center founded in 2015 in Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown has a long and abundant history of writers, beginning with immigrant steelworker Michael McGovern, the “Puddler Poet,” who crafted his verse in the mid 1800s. Today we celebrate award-winning poets, fiction and non-fiction writers and journalists, as well as presses, programs and publications. We believe that the act of writing and reading fosters creativity, an increased understanding of the self, a strengthening of community, and a broader knowledge of the world.
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