Thanks for your interest in submitting to the Sloan Initiative. The submission deadline for the 2007-08 Season is a postmark date of December 1, 2007.

Please send submissions or drafts to:

Mark Routhier
Magic Theatre
Landmark Building D, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123

Proposals should include a cover letter, one page proposal describing the project (including the name of any scientific advisor or partner you may have attached to the project – optional), and a résumé or biography.

Draft submissions should include a cover letter, a hard copy of the play specifying which draft (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), and a résumé or biography.

SUBMISSIONS

Playwrights and creative teams may submit proposals or early drafts of plays for commission from the Sloan Initiative. The program encourages a breadth and range of topics and forms – providing the issues, characters, settings, or plots in some way address the disciplines in the ‘hard’ sciences (i.e. mathematics, biotechnology, physics, etc. as opposed to psychology, psychiatry, sociology, etc.). Topics can be contemporary or historical. Straight science fiction and plays about medical conditions are discouraged.

Proposals should be one page, including project description, synopsis or outline, and be accompanied by a professional résumé or biography.

Drafts should be full-length in any genre and in process (i.e. no production history).

Final decisions on plays and proposals will be made by a selection committee comprised of members of the artistic staff of Magic Theatre, as well as members of the Bay Area’s leading-edge scientific community.

COMMISSIONS

Commissions for proposals or drafts are awarded to individual playwrights and creative teams for full-length plays, and interdisciplinary performance theatre.

Rewrite commissions will be awarded on a script-by-script basis, with commissions ranging from $1,000 to $5,000.

Proposal commissions will be awarded on a case-by-case basis, with commissions ranging from $2,000 to $6,000. Research support and deadlines for drafts will be determined appropriately case by case.

We encourage people submitting to contact us with any questions about specifics. Contact Sloan Program Coordinator, Mark Routhier, at markr@magictheatre.org or 415 441 8001 x19.