CALL FOR SCRIPTS ~ we're sorry, submissions for this season are closed ~ 
The next EMOS festival will be in 2011-2012. Scripts accepted Feb. 1 - Sept. 1, 2011.

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Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium 2009
Festival Dates: May 21~ 31, 2009 ~ University of Oregon

First place Award: $2,000 and workshop production
Second place Award: $500 and workshop production
Honorable mentions: public staged reading

The winning plays will be chosen by a panel of distinguished theatre artists from the USA and Canada. Judges

Submission Deadline: Postmarked by Nov. 1, 2012.
Early submission encouraged. / No electronic submission please.

Submit:: A cover page with: Play Title, Author Name, Contact Information; and two blind copies of the script with synopsis and cast requirements (Please do not put author name on the script, only on the title page). 

Ecodrama Festival
c/o Theresa May
Theatre Arts, VIL 216
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1231 

GUIDELINES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS
Guidelines-PDF

The Ecodrama Festival encourages submissions of full-length plays (at least 30 min. in length) in English that do one or more of the following:

• Put an ecological issue or environmental event/crisis at the center of the dramatic action or theme of the play.
• Explore issues of environmental justice.
• Interpret “community” to include our ecological community, and/or give voice or “character” to the land, or elements of the land. 
• Theatrically explore the connection between people and place, human and non-human, and/or between culture and nature.
• Grow out of the playwright’s personal relationship to the land and the ecology of a specific place.
• Theatrically examine the reciprocal relationship between human, animal and plant communities.
• Offer an imagined world where the characters’ society is one that is more in harmony with principles of sustainability than we find in today’s modern world.
• Critique or satirizes patterns of exploitation, consumption, or other ingrained values that are ecologically unsustainable.
• Are written specifically to be performed in an unorthodox venue such as a natural or environmental setting, and for which that setting is a not merely a backdrop, but an integral part of the intention of the play.