The Skinny

In the spirit of this Suzan-Lori Parks’ achievement of writing a play a day for a year, The Write On Playwriting Competition gives everyone in the Middletown area the challenge of writing a play a day for a week. At the end of the week, a panel composed of Matt Connolly and Gabriel Fries will select one play from each day to be workshopped and performed in a 24-hour period by the Wesleyan 365 Cast under the direction of Nikhil Melnechuk and Jessica Posner. They will be performed at the closing ceremonies on Sunday Feb. 11th.

The Rules:
• Open to all Wesleyan students, alums, and members of the Middletown community!
• Submit one play a day, Mon Feb. 5th to Fri Feb. 9th
to gfries@wesleyan.edu & mconnolly@wesleyan.edu
• Plays due at 12 am each day
• Each play should be 5 pages or less
• Plays can be about ANYTHING!!!
• Writers encouraged, but not required, to write a play every day. Prizes for people who submit a play all five days.

Writing guidance will be offered at:

Brewbakers (169 Main St.), Mon-Fri 3-4 pm (with free coffee!)
With speaker David Jaffe (Frank B. Weeks Visiting Prof. of Theater)
on Mon. at 3

Javapalooza (330 Main St.), Mon-Fri 7-8 pm
With speaker Catherine Filloux (Visiting Assistant Prof. of Theater)
on Mon. at 7

Welcome to the Write-On Competition!

This portion of the Wesleyan365 Blog is for all you aspiring writers out there!
Get your act together and write a play-a-day for the Wesleyan-hosted week of 365days/365plays.
Use this blog to keep in touch with other writers and find out about the details of the competition.
Feel free to post any questions and the 365 staff will be happy to answer them.