NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS Native Voices at the Autry is devoted to the development and production of new works for the stage by Native American writers. Native Voices brings established, mid-career, and/or emerging playwrights to the Autry National Center in Los Angeles to workshop material with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors. Through workshops and staged readings, an annual festival of new plays, a vibrant and growing Young Native Voices: Theater Education Project, an annual Playwrights Retreat, new play commissions, and Equity productions, Native Voices at the Autry supports Native American playwrights and their individual creative processes, often from original idea to production. DEADLINES for Submissions: For 2008 Equity Productions DEADLINE March 15, 2007 For November 2007 Festival of Plays DEADLINE April 15, 2007 2008 Native Voices at the Autry Equity Productions Native Voices at the Autry produces in Los Angeles under a HAT "A" EQUITY Contract. For these production opportunities we will accept original material and plays that have been developed or produced in smaller venues. To be considered for EQUITY productions in 2008 please submit scripts by March 15, 2007. 2007 Native Voices at the Autry Play Festival Up to five playwrights will be invited to work on their plays with professional actors, directors, and dramaturgs during a weeklong workshop at the Autry National Center. Each play will receive a staged reading at the Autry’s 215-seat Wells Fargo Theater. Submissions should be received by April 15, 2007. Selected playwrights receive an honorarium, round trip airfare to Los Angeles, plus room and board. Selected playwrights will be notified by August 15, 2007. WHO SHOULD SUBMIT: All emerging or experienced playwrights writing from the indigenous experience in North America are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. FOR MORE INFORMATION, including submission details, please visit the Native Voices website at www.nativevoicesattheautry.org or www.myspace.com/nativevoices. Alternatively, you can contact, Carlenne Lacosta, Native Voices Literary Associate on carlenne@gmail.com A CALL FOR NATIVE AMERICAN WRITERS Borderlands Theater, founded in 1986, has consistently developed and presented plays and theater productions that reflect the diversity of the U.S./Mexico border region. Although we have developed and produced work with Mexican and U. S. indigenous themes and characters, we have been remiss in producing works by Native playwrights from either Mexico or the US. We wish to change this by developing a play or theatrical work focusing on the U.S./Mexico border region and the Native communities that live there: Tohono O’odham, Pascua Yaqui, Tohono Akimel and Cocopah. The production is bi-national in scope though playwrights/writers must be indigenous, they do not have to be from this region nor be members of these communities. We are accepting short dramatic material: story telling, a monologue, dramatic songs or musical pieces, dramatic scenes, sketches, and treatments, etc. These can be in any style or genre: satire, drama, comedy, and/or melodrama. Themes can include but not be limited to: myth of sovereignty, immigration (including tribal accountability for migrant deaths in the desert); militarization of the border, environment, language, and “the virtual wall”. Should you choose to join us, here are a few guidelines for your writing: • Write for a diverse audience which includes Native Americans • Have an opinion and express your point of view regarding US/Mexico border issues from the perspective of Indigenous peoples who live on either side of the border. • Limit your cast to no more than five actors and make certain to include Native peoples. • The work should be about NOW! This call for submissions is being organized and administered by a special Native American committee within borderlands which will select the initial material and set policies and timelines for its future development into a full production. The committee members are: William Lang (Lenape), playwright and also dramaturg for this project; Jose Matus (Pascua Yaqui); Claudia Oldman (Dine), Leanne Whitewolf-Charlton (Anishinaabe); Mike Wilson, (Tohono O’odham); Robert Ybanez (Pascua Yaqui), and Barclay Goldsmith. We will try to assemble a talented production team of artists, Native and non-Native. As of the moment we have only seed funding to administer this search and to award playwrights small honorariums for work which we wish to consider. Writers whose works will actually be selected for development and final production will receive additional honorariums. The final work will be either a narrative play by one playwright or a tapestry of material by many writers. Guide Lines: Please email Barclay Goldsmith (bltheater@aol.com) no later than July 1 to let us know you will or will not be mailing us material. Please send your submissions to William Lang either email (wlang@U.Arizona.edu) or land mail, 5040 North Camino Esplendora, Tucson, AZ. 85718-6225. Of course include self addressed envelope if you want material returned. We’d like to receive everyone’s first draft by August 1, and we expect to assemble a final creation with re-writes by June 1, 2008, a year from now. We hope you’ll join us in this unique project at this very important historical time.