Skyline Theatre Company Seeks New Musical Scripts
Bergen
County’s most established professional theatre company will present chosen
script as its March 2022 production during New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Stages
Festival
Skyline Theatre Company, Bergen County’s most established
professional theatre company, is seeking unproduced and original script
submissions for consideration for its March 2022 production of a new musical in
development as part of New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s state-wide annual Stages
Festival.
The selected piece will be presented live in front of an
audience on Skyline’s stage in Bergen County by a cast of professional actors
after a standard “29-hour reading” rehearsal period. A post-performance Q&A
session with the performers and creative team will also be held to provide
feedback for future development of the piece. The musical will be Skyline’s
sole production in the 2022 Stages Festival (njtheatrealliance.org/stages).
The deadline submission is October 1, 2021. Skyline’s
artistic staff will review all eligible submissions and announce the selection
decision no later than November 1, 2021. Eligibility requirements and
additional details can be found on Skyline’s website at http://www.skylinetheatrecompany.org/skyline-news.htm
“We at Skyline Theatre Company have been proud over the
last several years to bring a new musical in development to life as our
production during the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Stages Festival,” said
Skyline’s Associate Artistic Director David C. Neal. “This is truly a unique
opportunity for a theatermaker’s work to be showcased during a high-profile
festival, and we are confident we will have some excellent submissions and
can’t wait to start receiving the submissions.”
In order to be eligible, the submission must have a
complete script, a piano score, and no less than 75% of the score available on
demo tracks that accurately represent the music and style of the entire show.
Any and all underlying rights clearances for any pre-existing material used
(music, score, material, etc.) must be secured. Additionally, the script should
require no more than 8 actors to perform, and a precise casting plot indicating
doubling is required for larger casts. The estimated running time must be
between 75 and 150 minutes. Although not required, additional consideration
will be given to New Jersey-based creatives and/or New Jersey-relevant subject
matter.
Submitters are asked to provide Skyline with the following
information and material via email in PDF format and with links to demo
recordings (i.e., Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.):
- Title page and full list of creative team of composers,
lyricists and book writers (including if there is either a director or a music
director already attached to the project)
- Brief synopsis (less than 1 page)
- Character breakdown
- The complete script (all scenes, songs and lyrics on the
page, along with demo track numbers
- Demo tracks of songs
- Creative team’s story behind the musical’s origination and
any additional information the creators wish to share with Skyline (less than 3
pages)
- Submitter’s email and telephone contact information
Please submit all required information in one email to SkylineScriptSubmissions@gmail.com
on or before October 1, 2021 with subject line: SUBMISSION STAGES 2022.
For questions about submissions or eligibility, please email the address above
with QUESTION STAGES 2022.
About Skyline Theatre Company
Founded
in 1995, Skyline Theatre Company’s mission is to bring together professional
artists to create quality theatre that entertains and inspires an audience. We
make commitments to the education of young people in all aspects of the arts
and to cultivating and nurturing new artists and their works.
Skyline
Theatre Company is a proud Associate Equity Theatre Member of the New Jersey
Theatre Alliance. As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Skyline Theatre Company
depends on private donations, corporate sponsorships, grants, and supportive
audiences to fund its programming. Funding is made possible in part by the New
Jersey State Council on Arts/Department of State, through grant funds
administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and
Historic Affairs.
Skyline
Theatre Company enjoys warm support for bringing inspirational, professional
theatre to Bergen County and Northern New Jersey.
More
information can be found at SkylineTheatreCompany.org or on Facebook at
SKYLINETHEATRECOMPANY, Instagram @SkylineTheatre Company, Twitter
@SkylineBergen, and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbYW2-0-c4boBJRHf-O9bLg.
About New Jersey Theatre Alliances’ Stages Festival
This
production will be a part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance 2022 Stages
Festival, made possible by support from the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Bank of America;
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey; OceanFirst Foundation; the George A.
Ohl, Jr. Trust; New Jersey Historical Commission; and Fund for the New Jersey
Blind.
The
New Jersey Theatre Alliance annual Stages Festival is the state’s largest
annual theatre festival, which provides free and discounted theatre events for
all ages throughout the months of March, April, and May. A full listing
of events will be found at the NJTA’s website: www.njtheatrealliance.org/stages. The Stages Festival offers dozens of in-person and online
performances, workshops, classes, and events at theatres, libraries, and other
community venues throughout the state. The program was developed to encourage
New Jersey’s residents to attend their local professional theatres by making
the experience affordable, accessible, and fun.
