Call for Artists: GCA seeking to commission a script

Call for Artists: GCA seeking to commission a script

Via The Georgia Council of the Arts:

The Georgia Council for the Arts seeks a playwright or theatre to create a script for a one-act play to serve as a preventative educational initiative against domestic commercial sex exploitation of minors. Applications are due at 5PM on November 20, 2019.

GCA has partnered with the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, the Georgia Department of Education, Wellspring Living and Street Grace to offer a $10,000 contract for the creation of a script for a one-act play to serve as a preventative educational initiative against domestic commercial sex exploitation of minors. Though this contract is for a one-year time period to develop the script, GCA seeking a playwright or theatre willing to remain engaged in this project in subsequent years as we promote this script to community theatres and college/university theatre departments and encourage productions by those groups for their area middle and high schools. The commissioned playwright/arts organization will have 12 months to develop and workshop content which can be either new or adapted work.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: NOVEMBER 20TH, 2019

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