{"id":17386,"date":"2012-09-09T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=17386"},"modified":"2012-11-24T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T21:05:47","slug":"calling-all-playwrights-directors-actors-write-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=17386","title":{"rendered":"Calling all Playwrights, Directors &amp; Actors: \u201cWrite the Election\u201d &#8211; NEW DATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?s=NativeNewYorker\" target=\"_blank\">NativeNewYorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/national-black-theatre-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17388\" title=\"national black theatre 2\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/national-black-theatre-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/national-black-theatre-21.jpg 320w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/national-black-theatre-21-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/event\/detail\/gs4cmx\" target=\"_blank\">Writing the Election 2012<\/a>&#8221; is a novel, non-partisan event being planned by the Harlem\u00a0theater\u00a0community to encourage all of us to register and vote.\u00a0 Writers are invited to submit ten-minute plays, short scenes or monologues about the upcoming presidential election. \u00a0Subject matter can include any aspect of the political process: the issues, civic life, government, leadership, public service, voting, etc. \u00a0Diversity of opinions from all points on the political spectrum are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Accepted works will be read at a free, public event hosted by Dr. Barbara Ann Teer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thenationalblacktheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Black Theatre<\/a> (2031-33 Fifth Avenue, between 125th and 126th Streets) on <strong>Mon<\/strong><strong>day, October 29th from 7:30-10:30pm <\/strong>( originally scheduled for September 28th).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17389\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/yvette-heyliger-director-playwright-producer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-17389 \" title=\"Yvette Heyliger, Director, Playwright, Producer\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/yvette-heyliger-director-playwright-producer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yvette Heyliger,<br \/>Director, Playwright, Producer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWriting the Election 2012\u201d is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicaltheatreofharlem.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Classical Theatre of Harlem <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewblackfest.org\/#!nbf_home\/mainPage\" target=\"_blank\">New Black Fest<\/a> and is being produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twinbiz.com\/introtwinbiz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twinbiz<\/a>, Harlem playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twinbiz.com\/yvette_res.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yvette Heyliger<\/a>\u2019s production company. \u00a0Scripts must be submitted no later than September 21st at 11:59pm. \u00a0For more information or to submit your play or your directing resume, please contact Yvette Heyliger at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.mountsinai.org\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=b30bb13cd2ef483f84bdefaa1a441531&amp;URL=mailto%3awritingtheelection2012%40aol.com\" target=\"_blank\">Writing the Election 2012<\/a><\/span>. \u00a0\u00a0Plays should be no longer than ten pages, in 12 point Times New Roman font, and in standard playwriting format. Monologues should be one page only and in 12 point Times New Roman font.\u00a0 Actors with cold-reading skills should email\/bring pictures and resume for on-site casting beginning at 6:00pm. There is no submission fee for playwrights. There is no compensation for the actors or directors.<\/p>\n<p>Join Yvette and other members of the Harlem\u00a0theater\u00a0community for \u201cWriting the Election 2012\u201d on October 29<sup>th<\/sup> when the plays, moderated by a guest political pundit, will be read \u201cto celebrate the joy of democracy and to inspire citizens to get out and vote on Election Day\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NativeNewYorker &#8220;Writing the Election 2012&#8221; is a novel, non-partisan event being planned by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6234,103804,384,1827,124718155,34961255,398],"tags":[644475,124718172,14039799,2098259,6772003,111528547,34621536,33473696,208704,111528535,34621535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17386"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17634,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386\/revisions\/17634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}