We have made a couple of changes for this year's event. First, a name change. A festival implies many plays. It is TRTC's desire to select one play that we believe has promise and that we wish to help develop. Therefore, we have changed the program from "New Play Festival" to "New Play Development." We will select a play, work on it with an appropriate cast, and then spend a couple of rehearsals with the playwright. For your play to be selected, we would expect you to be in attendance. TRTC will locate housing for you (as a guest in a home, not a hotel,) but we would not be responsible for you getting here. The selected playwright will receive a small honorarium to help mitigate some of their expenses. A full staged reading of the play would be presented for two nights ... free to the public ... with a talk-back immediately following each performance.

We have changed the dates of the workshop from late April to The second weekend in August. This year it will be Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 11 & 12, 2012.

Finally, this years focus is on our western region. We will be accepting plays only from playwrights who reside in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

• Please submit one, full-length, unproduced play per playwight.

• Employ a standard play format. If you are using Final Draft script writing software, do not format as a screenplay.

• Include your correct contact information on the front page of the script.

• Number the pages of the play only. Do not include your cover page, character description page, dedication page, and/or production history page in the page count.

• Please note that plays must be under two hours in length. A general rule of thumb is one minute of performance time = one page of dialogue.

• We will only accept a hard copy of your script (not an e-copy), unless you are specifically requested to do otherwise.

• Include a resume and a cover letter along with your play, as well as an SASE for response, not return of the play. Please understand that we cannot return scripts.

• Keep in mind that TRTC is an intimate 99-seat Black Box Equity Waiver Theatre. Extremely large casts and Broadway-musical sized sets would be prohibitive.

• We are looking for innovative, character-driven, thought-provoking plays and wish you the very best in creating them.

Good luck!