The Vermont Playwrights Circle TenFest 2025 Call for Scripts

THEME: “Discovery” DEADLINE: April 30, 2025, 11:59 pm (EDT)

The Vermont Playwrights Circle is accepting scripts for our annual TenFest, a festival of ten 10-minute plays written by Vermont playwrights. Any Vermonter may submit a play. We consider you a Vermonter if you have lived here for three consecutive months at any point in your life.

TenFest 2025 will take place Thursday, August 14—Sunday, August 17 and Thursday, August 21—Sunday, August 24.

Our theme for this year is “Discovery.” We look forward to reading what “Discovery” means to you!

GUIDELINES

** Please read these guidelines carefully to be sure that you follow them as written. **

* We want NO MORE than ten minutes’ worth of play. This does not necessarily work

out to ten pages of play, so be sure to read your finished play aloud, not rushing,

accounting for anticipated action, and time it. We will not accept plays that are longer

than ten minutes.

* Plays should have a maximum of four characters.

* To minimize set changes, we are looking for plays that are easily staged and that use

minimal set pieces and props. Think in terms of using simple sets, like a couple of

black boxes, a table and chairs, etc.

* A 10-minute play works best as one continuous piece, without multiple scenes and

scene changes. Please only submit plays that have a single scene and set.

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* Format your play using proper playwriting format. A good example is the Dramatists

Guild's Formatting guidelines: FORMATTING GUIDELINES--These guidelines are designed for Microsoft Word or a similar word processor such as Open Office

* We will accept only ONE submission per playwright.

* All plays are judged anonymously. Please make sure that your name or other

identifying information does not appear anywhere on the script. Submit a separate

cover page with your name, contact information, and title of your play.

SUBMITTING YOUR PLAY

Please submit your play in PDF format via email to: vtplaywrightscircle@gmail.com ** Please make sure to include the following TWO separate documents, as PDFs:

1) A Cover Page that includes:

Title of Play Your full name Mailing address Phone number(s) email address

2) Your play that includes:

A character list and setting information. Please keep these simple and, when possible, flexible concerning gender, physical description, etc.

A brief synopsis of your play.

Please include the title of the play and page numbers in a header on your script, but do NOT include your name.

Submit your play NO LATER than 11:59 pm (EDT) on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

All playwrights will be notified by May 31, 2025 whether their play has been accepted or not.

The Vermont Playwrights Circle reserves the right to choose less than or more than ten plays,