ATTENTION: CHICAGO LATINO/A PLAYWRIGHTS!!! EL SEMILLERO :: ALTA Chicago’s Latino Playwright’s Circle PROGRAM OVERVIEW: El Semillero (Spanish for seedbed or nursery) is a Chicago-based playwriting circle dedicated to fostering emerging Latino playwrights and their work. Sponsored by ALTA Chicago (Alliance of Latino Theatre Artists), El Semillero will select six early-career playwrights to develop first drafts of original plays over the course of 9 months. El Semillero sessions will take place twice a month at Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre in Lincoln Park. At each session, playwrights will read pages aloud from their plays-in-progress for discussion, and will seek feedback from each other. On occassion, participants will also have the opportunity to receive feedback from established Chicago Latina/o Theatre artists. Additionally, as a branch of El Semillero, mandatory writing-workshops will be available on a monthly basis forEl Semillero participants to sharpen their writing skills while working on their current plays-in-development. These workshops will also be open and available to the public on a first-come first-serve basis, and will be facilitated by working Latina/o Theatre artists in the industry. At the end of the program, plays written through El Semillero will be showcased in a public reading. El Semillero aspires to strengthen the Latino theater community in Chicago by fostering a family of emerging Latina/o artists who challenge, inspire, and champion each other in the development of a new Latino narrative. WHEN WILL EL SEMILLERO MEET? · Sessions will occur twice a month, three-hours per session starting on June 2nd, 2014. · Writing workshops will occur four times a year. WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE? All applicants must: -Be 18 years of age or older. -Identify as Latina/o or Hispanic -Be based in the Chicago area. -Be interested in developing a new play. -Have previous writing experience . (Experience can range anywhere from playwriting, poetry, fiction, short story, prose, etc.) -Have some knowledge and experience in theatre. -Collaborate and play well with others. -Be open to constructive criticism. -Be available to attend all El Semillero sessions. TO APPLY: Email the following materials by April 15th, 2014 to: ALTAChicagoLatino@gmail -Either a 10-page play sample, 3-page prose sample or 10-page poetry sample in PDF format -Submit an accompanying two-hundred word Artist’s Statement (also attached in PDF format) -A short professional bio or resume (in PDF) Please include your name and phone number in the body of the email, as well as on all your submission materials. Submission deadline: April 15th, 2014 Semillero participants will be announced on May 20th, 2014 Start date: June 2nd, 2014 For questions, please email: ALTAChicagoLatino@gmail Tony Mendoza Lorena Diaz Wendy Mateo Melissa DuPrey Carlo Garcia Todd Garcia Dano Duran Alonzo Alcaraz Isaac Gomez Erica Cruz Hernández Nancy Garcia Angelica M. Roque Angelica Acebedo-Frint Sari Sanchez Ana Velazquez Adelina Treviño Bradshaw
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