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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

GET READY FOR THE 2013 JEWISH PLAYWRITING CONTEST

3 Plays Enter • 1 Play Leaves
Just one month until the madness begins!

In just a few short weeks, your 2013 Jewish Playwriting Contest Top 10 Plays start to go head to head in our Regional Contests. Grab your cell phone and head on down to one of these great theaters.

Jersey is up first!
Saturday, February 9 • 7:30 PM
JCC Metrowest, 450 Northfield Avenue, West Orange, NJ
Click here to Buy Tickets!
Click here to Invite Your Friends!

New Haven next!
Saturday, March 9 • 8 PM
JCC New Haven, Off-Broadway Theatre at Yale, 41 Broadway, New Haven, CT

Click here to get the latest details and casting!

What happens at these gigs?
You'll hang out with 100 of your coolest neighbors, drink some wine and eat some cheese, then see 20-minute sections from 3 of our Top 10 Plays read by an AMAZING cast of New York actors.  Then use your cell phone to vote for your favorite by TEXT MESSAGE. It's really fun.

What's the prize?
The regional winners will meet for one last Battle Royale (Theater at the 14th Street Y, June 10, 2013). The Ultimate Champion play will get a 2-week workshop and presentation at the end of the OPEN Residency on June 27-30.

Awesome, right?

So, Go! Buy Tickets! Join FB Events! Get together with your friends - a block of 10 voters can sway the course of Jewish theater history!
Can't wait to see y'all there—

David, Carol, Dede and the rest of the JPP Crew
P.S. And to reiterate, because we love them, here's the line-up plays you have a chance of seeing at the Contests!

  • The Law of Return by Martin Blank
  • Let Me Go by Jon Caren
  • The Maiden of Ludmir by Yossefa Even-Shoshan
  • The Karpovsky Variations by Adam Kraar
  • Good Night, Mrs. Bernstein by Lauren Kettler
  • Divided Among Themselves by Henry Kimmel
  • Israeli Palestinian Resolution: a very extremely important play‚ in progress, by Samuel Goldmeyer by Ira Gamerman
  • A Jew From East Jesus by Jim Shankman
  • Skinwaking by Cecilia by Raker
  • Estelle Singerman by David Rush
  • Leon’s Dictionary by Stephanie Satie
  • A Man, his Wife, and his Hat by Lauren Yee

Donate Now to Make these Plays Happen

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