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I took my AW ten-minute play and expanded it. I'm pleased with the result, although I'd like to do one more draft to polish it to a luster. But then what?
My local equity theater hosts an annual one-act contest with free entry. Winners receive a script-in-hand performance and a modest honorarium, I think $50. Naturally, I've just missed the deadline for this year.
In seeking other contests, I've got a dilemma. I've found several with requirements this play meets, but they all have entry fees not in keeping with the guidelines of the Dramatists Guild of America for contests (i.e., the monetary prize for the winner must be at least 100 times the amount of the fee). Most appear to be non-equity theaters, either associated with a college or with a community theater.
The fees range from $15 to $40 per contest entry. Some offer feedback from judges, but most either don't or demand a higher entry fee for comments. The prize for the winners ranges from three times the fee to forty times the fee--way short of the DGA recommendation.
I can afford the fees, but is it worth the effort and expense to enter such contests? Or should I just polish and sit on it until my no-fee local equity theater's contest next year?
Your opinions, please? Some of the deadlines are approaching fast.
Maryn, who expected more opportunities
I took my AW ten-minute play and expanded it. I'm pleased with the result, although I'd like to do one more draft to polish it to a luster. But then what?
My local equity theater hosts an annual one-act contest with free entry. Winners receive a script-in-hand performance and a modest honorarium, I think $50. Naturally, I've just missed the deadline for this year.
In seeking other contests, I've got a dilemma. I've found several with requirements this play meets, but they all have entry fees not in keeping with the guidelines of the Dramatists Guild of America for contests (i.e., the monetary prize for the winner must be at least 100 times the amount of the fee). Most appear to be non-equity theaters, either associated with a college or with a community theater.
The fees range from $15 to $40 per contest entry. Some offer feedback from judges, but most either don't or demand a higher entry fee for comments. The prize for the winners ranges from three times the fee to forty times the fee--way short of the DGA recommendation.
I can afford the fees, but is it worth the effort and expense to enter such contests? Or should I just polish and sit on it until my no-fee local equity theater's contest next year?
Your opinions, please? Some of the deadlines are approaching fast.
Maryn, who expected more opportunities
