Allow Me to Shamelessly Brag a Bit

I just got notified that a ten-minute play I wrote has been accepted at a play festival in Albuquerque! I sent it in with a little hope that the people who work for my company in Albuquerque could see it. I was hoping to see it myself, but I need to save up money now, since I am to be jobless June 28th (see http://searching4ajob.blogspot.com/)

The letter attached was very nice:

“Hello playwrights!

First of all I want to thank all of you for submitting your work to FUSION's 2nd annual new play festival, The Seven.

We received 325 submissions from 38 states as well as Russia, Spain, Mexico, Australia and England. To know that writers from Alaska to Montana to Arkansas to Maine took the time and creative energy to send us their dramatic work warms the cockles of this Literary Managers heart.

At a time when so many regional theatres are complaining about lagging ticket sales and disinterested audiences, I think they are overlooking something. That perhaps the reason audiences are thinning is that they've already seen The Glass Menagerie and Tuesdays with Maurie twenty times. People crave new stories, new characters, those uniquely and universal experiences that can only be expressed through live theatre. New voices must be encouraged, fostered and produced.

Our Final Seven Selections to receive full festival production June 21st- 24th are:

"Silver Men" by Amy Fox of Brooklyn, NY
"What I've Learned from Fair-Feathered Friends" by Virginia Fry of New York, NY
"Knocking Louder" by Tara Meddaugh of Harrison, NY
"7 Sonnets" by Stephen J. Miller of Orlando, FL
"Trace Evidence" by Jeff Stewart of Los Alamos, NM
"The Sentry" by Michael Tooher of Portland, ME
"The Magician and the Memory" by Michael Vukadinovich of Santa Monica, CA

In addition, we are pleased to announce that we have also selected seven pieces to receive a staged reading as part of our One Night Stand Cabaret in late June.
Those pieces are:

"Looking for Bruce" by Jami Brandli of Somerville, MA
"The Next New Life" by Gaylord Brewer of Murfreesboro, TN
"Butterflies" by Ken Brisbois of Los Angeles, CA
"The Last Beautiful" by Eric Dickson of New York, NY
"Third of Three" by Michael Elyanow of Hartford, CT
"Yours Till the Cows Come Home" by Ian Fraser of Somerville, MA
"The Tryst" by Rima Miller of Santa Fe, NM

FUSION already has plans for our 3rd annual Seven Festival June 19-22, 2008.
Our audiences will vote this fall on a new theme and submissions will be accepted January through May. Keep in touch with us for updates: www.fusionabq.org

Thanks once again to everyone and best in your writing!

Kind Regards,
Jen Grigg, Literary Manager
FUSION Theatre Co.700 1st Street NWAlbuquerque, NM 87102Ph: 505.766.9412Fax: 505.766.1096
www.fusionabq.org”