The Thistle Dew Theatre welcomes new plays for production in our intimate theatre. Our New Playwrights From Afar Program is not a competition, festival, workshop or staged reading program. We consider plays that writers feel are ready for production, not development.
We have an in-house Playwright’s Workshop, which considers only local playwright’s (Sacramento, CA) work for development.

We are interested in full-length plays; 1 to 5 characters; with no double casting; no produced or published plays; and no musicals at this time.
There is no submission fee.
Playwrights will not be compensated if play is produced.

Email to thistledewplaywrights@yahoo.com as an attachment, your script should include:
1. A character list and a twenty-four word character description.
2. 350 Word critical synopsis.
3. 100 Word Raison Pour Écriture.
4. Your resume, including contact information.
5. Typewritten in proper manuscript form with pages numbered and your name in the header or footer of each page (see example below).

Inform me in the body of your email whether you sent your script via "Apple" or "PC"

Use one (1) line/sentence spacing throughout.  

All margins should be set as follows: top, .5", bottom, .5", left 1", right 5".

JUBAL  (How.  Interrupting.) < actor directions. <

You mean the Injun Village.

AIYANNA

No.  I meant the Native Village you intend to build...

JUBAL

M’am.  Ah don’t mean no disrespect, but in in the movies they were called injun villages.

AIYANNA

It is disrespectful to abuse Native Americans by calling us “injuns”.  Such an epithet is beneath our digity as the indigenous people of this land and members of our great nations, especially the proud Apache Nation.  It is demeaning.

JUBAL

No, m’am ...  Ah mean yer right, but in the movies... 

AIYANNA  (How.  Interrupting.) 

My name is Aiyanna.  I am a Jicarilla Apache.  I am descendant of Chief Eskiminzin.  He was an famous Aravaipa Apache Chief during the Apache Wars.  He was influential in the negotiations to establish the San Carlos Apache Reservation.  The Apache people of today are descendents of the Ancients.  Over time, many bands of Apache were relocated to the reservation from their traditional homelands extending from Texas through New Mexico and Arizona into Mexico and California. The San Carlos Apache Reservation, established on November 9, 1871, is the worlds first concentration camp.  It is still in existance.

JUBAL

Yes, m’am.  Ah mean Yanna.

AIYANNA

Ai...yanna.

JUBAL

Yes, Aiyanna, but ya’ see...  Ya’ see m’am, in the movies they were called injun villages.

AIYANNA

And you perpetuate the abusive language.

JUBAL

Per...pet...?  > two tabs from margin stage direction away from actor dialogue. >

(AIYANNA storms off and exits to the parking lot.  JUBAL reaches for a dictionary. 

In the parking lot off stage a car door slams shut.)  < stage directions away from actor dialogue.<

Per...pet...?  Did she say per..pet...uate?  Ah’ha... perpetuate.... to continue something indefinitely, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief.  Yup, Ah knew that. 

(From the parking lot a car door open and shuts again.) 

 Well, that’s what they did in the movies ta’ sell tickets...  (How.  Regretably.) < actor directions within dialogue.<  Ah guess Ah’m doin’ the same thing by keepin’ it up.

(AIYANNA storms in from the parking lot.)

AIYANNA

And another thing...

JUBAL  (How.  Interrupting.)

Whoa.  First things first: we ain’t settled the ‘injun village versus native village’  thing yet.  

AIYANNA  (Standing with her hands on her hips defiantly.)

Oh, but we have.

JUBAL

We have? 

AIYANNA

Yes, we have.  It is to be called Native American Village.

JUBAL

Let me think on it.

AIYANNA

There won’t be any thinking on it: It will be called the “Native American Village”

JUBAL

How ‘bout we settle with “Mixville’s Native Village”?

AIYANNA  (How.  Matter-of-factly.)