The Oklahoma City Theatre Company’s 8^th annual Native American New Play Festival will have an open call for scripts beginning December 1, 2016. All American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, Canadian First Nation, and Indigenous Mexican playwrights, including those studying theater at tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are encouraged to submit full-length plays. All themes and topics are welcomed. Plays may focus on historical or present-day issues. The festival will be April 6-8 and April 14-15, 2017, and will center on last year’s chosen play Blood Boundary by Vicki Mooney.

Full length plays that are received by February 15, 2017, will be read and evaluated by a panel comprised of Native American theatre artists, Oklahoma City Theatre Company artistic staff, and invested community members. The panel will select two to three plays for a staged reading during the festival based on originality, theatricality, and execution. Finalists will receive a staged reading with actors and a director during the first weekend festival on April 8, 2017. An audience discussion will follow the readings. A full production will be awarded to one of the finalists from the readings and showcased as the featured production for the following festival year, 2018.

For more information please contact the Oklahoma City Theatre Company at: mtorralba@okctc.org.