ACTORS WANTED!! by Scripts Ireland’s Playwriting Festival

Scripts

Ireland’s Playwriting Festival

http://www.scriptsireland.com

 

ACTORS WANTED!!

♦ AUDITIONS AT BIRR THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE ON:

Thursday, August 1st 7:00-9:30pm

 

♦ AUDITIONS OPEN TO ALL AGES. C.V. & HEADSHOTS WELCOMED,

BUT NOT REQUIRED. PREPARED PIECE OPTIONAL.

 

♦ SCRIPTS DEBUTS AT BIRR THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE,

CO. OFFALY FROM SEPTEMBER 8th – 14th

 

♦ ACTORS TO PERFORM IN A REHEARSED READING OF NEW

15 MINUTE PLAYS ON SATURDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER AT 8PM.

 

 

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?

Scripts is a festival dedicated to new Irish plays—the writing of them, the development and nurturing of them. 4 selected plays will benefit from a professional development process where they will be mentored by professional playwright Eugene O’ Brien in an exciting workshopping process. They will then be rehearsed and performed as Staged Readings on Saturday the 14th of September.

 

Scripts will be casting an ensemble of actors to bring our exciting new works from page to stage. We are looking for men and women of all ages, to get involved in this unique acting process. The new plays will be presented as Staged Readings at the headline event of the festival ” Scripts New Plays:The Performance” on Saturday September 14th 2013. The performance will be judged on the night by a panel of professional playwrights and guests on the night will include directors and producers from leading Irish theatre companies.

 

Rehearsals will take place in Birr Co. Offaly between Sunday, September 8th and Saturday September 14th. Rehearsal schedules will be organized around actor/director availability where possible, with day and evening rehearsal slots available for all plays.

 

For more info check out our website at http://www.scriptsireland.com and our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/scriptsireland

 

Please email scriptsireland@gmail.com with cv’s, headshots, or any questions.

 

We look forward to seeing you on the the 1st of August!!!
Look forward to hearing from you,
The Scripts Team
http://www.scriptsireland.com

An exciting opportunity for a theatre director to join the team at the Abbey Theatre with their Resident Assistant Director Scheme! http://ow.ly/nqgtt

Juliet Mushens

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“Without new writers we have no business. Today’s slushpile author could be next year’s number one bestseller. Every successful writer started out where you are now – and if they can do it, so can you.” – Juliet Mushens, Literary Agent at The Agency Group Ltd and Judge of The Bath Novel Award 2014
Before becoming a literary agent, Juliet worked in fiction marketing and editorial at HarperCollins, after reading history at Cambridge. She is always looking for new voices and earlier this year conducted an eleven-publisher auction, resulting in a six figure deal, for ‘The Miniaturist’, a debut novel she picked off the slush pile and which she has sold in 30 territories since April.

Another slushpile find for Mushens was THE FIRE SERMON by Francesca Haig which just sold to HarperVoyager for 6 figures at 6 way auction. The film rights have been pre-empted by Dreamworks and the rights have also sold in Turkey with auctions in Spain and Italy, all within a fortnight of Mushens submitting the novel to publishers.
Juliet was shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2013 and was one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars of 2012. Juliet also regularly fields up to 500 questions in her @mushenska #askagent sessions on Twitter

Booktrust feature: A typical day in the life of agent Juliet Mushens

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Confirmed Speakers/Paper Titles/Schedule

Confirmed Speakers/Paper Titles/Schedule.

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