Monthly Archives: March 2015

Hear ye, here, ye – announcing a new acronym – PTF! The purpose of the Playwright Travel Fund is to defray travel and lodging expenses for North Carolina playwrights to attend productions of their work in exotic and faraway locations like Lubbock Texas (as just one example).

All the eligibility details can be found in the Playwright Travel Fund Application (PDF – here is a Word version).

If you’d like to donate to the fund, click on our PayPal ‘Donate’ button on our home page (lower-right). Please put “Playwright Travel Fund Donation” for “Purpose” so we can allocate this money properly. Supporters can also send a check to Cary Playwrights’ Forum by USPS (Cary Playwrights’ Forum, 101 Dry Avenue Cary, NC 27511). Please note on the check that the money should go to the Playwright Travel Fund.

Bring out your scripts! Tiny Engine Theatre has agreed to be the first visiting local troupe to CPF. Our playwrights will provide Tiny Engine with scenes that have already been through revisions after cold readings. The troupe will pick scenes that they can cast and would be fun to read; then they’ll share a read through with us at our regular monthly mtg on May 20. The troupe will share their impressions about the characters and the story.

Send your revised scripts to phil.lewis@caryplaywrightsforum.org. In your submission, include your name, email, copy of script (pdf), synopsis of character descriptions, and an affirmation if you’ve revised the script since a previous CPF read-through. If you are interested in a particular scene from a larger work to be read, please include any additional information that the troupe should know.

Also be sure to check out Tiny Engine’s production of RECALL starting March 26!

Auditions forthcoming at the Cary Arts Center on Mon Apr 6 (Principals Hall) 7:00 – 9:00 PM and Sun Apr 12 (Paul Cooper Room) 3:30 – 5:30 PM (you need only attend one). Check for updates as we get closer at the Auditions page here (character descriptions are already there).

Shows are Friday, June 5th at 7:30 pm, Saturday, June 6th at 7:00 pm, and Sunday, June 7th at 2:00 pm at the Cary Arts Center.

We tricked twelve playwrights into adapting “Pride and Prejudice”… they didn’t know what show they were writing until it was done.