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What is an Anchorage Press Play?

- An Anchorage Press Play script focuses on a story that is of interest to a younger person. The characters may be of all ages, but their actions must have an impact on or engage the interest of the young protagonist(s) or the young audience members.

- There are scripts that are adaptations from the classics of literature from around the world as well as original stories crafted by talented playwrights.

- Most of the plays published by Anchorage Press Plays are written to be performed by actors before audiences of children, youth and young adults, as well as family audiences.

- The skill level required of these actors varies with the complexity of the play script.

- Skilled high school aged performers, college aged performers and adults will find these scripts have interesting character development and are entertaining for both the performer and the audience.

- Some of the plays for children are also suitable for performance by children who have language and memory skills. For child performers we recommend plays that are episodic, i.e. they have shorter stories, or are in the style of a review with less character development and memorization required.

- There are also plays that have been written especially for the actor of middle school age.

- We also have large cast plays that are often chosen for drama summer-camp productions with performers of various skills.

- If you have questions, please email or fax or call our office. We are here to help you. customerservice@dpcplays.com, 1-800-448-7469

When Planning a Production

- No play may be presented without written permission from our office in advance of production.

- Each play is subject to royalty fee for each performance. The per performance, AMATEUR production royalty fees are listed with the play descriptions. Please inquire for a PROFESSIONAL performance royalty quote.

- Production permission requries purchase of licensed, cast copies of the scripts. Unlicensed copying of the scripts is illegal.

- The performance royalty for each play is due automatically whether admission is charged, or not. The AMATEUR ROYALTY performance fee is payable one week in advance of opening date.

- Sometimes performance rights may be restricted. You should contact the Anchorage Press Plays office as soon as you know that you will be planning a production to secure performance rights.

- Plays are to be performed, as written. Special permission must be obtained to allow cutting or changing the length of the plays. Not all scripts are licensed with that option.

Contest or Competition Adaptation of a Play

-If you are considering performing, for a time-limited contest/competition, a copyrighted/published play that is likely to have a running time that is more than contest limit, please contact the publisher (the author's representative for performance licensing) and ask if the play may be adapted/cut for contest time requirements. The publisher/licenser can give the director specific information that will inform the cutting and the process for approval.

- Touring and contest length versions are available for some of the plays. Please inquire.

Guidelines for Submission of Play Manuscripts

Anchorage has completed its submission cycle for 2010. Please check back in early 2011 for new instructions about our 2011 submission categories and dates.
Please check back to this website for information about the next submission cycle.

Anchorage Press PLAYS publishes plays scripts suitable for performance before audiences of children, youth, teens, young adults, or families. It respectfully suggests that submissions be appropriate in subject, theme and language. We will consider scripts for plays, "musicals", and plays with music. Also see What is an Anchorage Press Play?

Play script submitted may be one-act or longer in length. We will consider groupings of shorter than one-act plays, which can be performed together.

We publish plays for the theatrical stage. (Please do not submit books for children, screenplays or television scripts, novels or books of biography, fiction or non-fiction.)

Adaptations: Adapting an existing book into a theatrical play script requires authorization from the book's author to create a dramatic adaptation, and permission to submit for publication. U.S. Copyright law protects the creative rights of authors and playwrights. Proof of authorization to adapt and permission to submit for publication must accompany submission of playscripts to Anchorage Press Plays.

SUBMISSIONS:

1. A play manuscript must be computer-printed with dark ink.
   
2. It should be submitted by mail to (SUBMISSIONS, Anchorage Press Plays, Linda Habjan, Submissions Editor 311 Washington St. Woodstock, IL 60098) and accompanied by a stamped return mailer adequate for the postage return of the manuscript. (If you do not wish for the play script to be returned, please include that information and a return mailer is not required.)
   
3. Manuscripts will not be accepted via fax or email.
   
4. IMPORTANT: Please send a play script only after it has had staged productions, workshop readings, peer reviews, and rewrites. We cannot accept plays for publication that have not been produced. (Please send information about productions: programs, reviews, etc.) Send your final version.
   
5. We will consider plays with 2 or more characters. Currently we do not publish one-character plays.
6. Please send a REVIEW SHEET (see below) with each play submission.
7. MUSICALS and PLAYS WITH MUSIC: Plays with music scores must submit the music scores in printed annotation (not hand-written manuscripts). Before submitting, please review the music score and lyrics against the final version of the play script to update lyrics and music cues.
8. RECORDINGS FOR MUSICALS: If a quality CD recording of the music (with or without lyrics) is available, please submit it with your play script and note if this CD is for review only, or is also available to be considered for use as recorded accompaniment for the play.
9. COPYRIGHT: Before you mail your play script to anyone, we suggest that you protect your rights to the script and music score by placing the word Copyright (or the symbol) and the year that you completed your script (or the year of the first production) near the bottom of the title page. Although this is not an officially registered copyright, it is recognized as a statement of "ownership" by the author from that date forward. (See U.S. Copyrights.) If your play script is chosen for publication, Anchorage will register a published-book copyright in your name with Anchorage as the publisher

Manuscripts in full conformity with the above requirements will be considered for publication.

Please be patient. The reading and consideration process may span several months.

If your play script is chosen for publication by Anchorage Press Plays, you will be contacted and offered a written contract with specifics about author's book "royalty" (fee paid to the author for each book sold), and performance licensing "royalty" (fee paid to the author for each performance licensed by Anchorage Press Plays).

To assist us in reviewing your play please answer the following questions on a separate cover sheet accompanying your play submission:
REVIEW SHEET
1) Title and Author
2) Audiences: Note age range(s) you believe are suitable audience ages to attend this play: Pre-K to 2nd grade; 3rd to 5th grade; 6th to 8th grade; 9th to 12th grade; college age; family with adult(s) and children. (Select all that are appropriate. Please indicate whether your play has been performed before that age category.)
3) Performers: Note age range(s) you believe could successfully perform this play: Pre-K to 2nd grade; 3rd to 5th grade; 6th to 8th grade; 9th to 12th grade; college age; community theatre-adults; community theatre-age appropriate roles; professional-adult; professional-age appropriate roles. (Select all that apply.)
4) Cast Requirements: Please note casting specifics and flexibility including total cast number (CAST: 6); number roles for females (2 F), number of males (2 M), and roles that may be performed by either gender (2 E). (If roles should be performed by children, indicate by using: 2 G or 2 B.) Note if the cast number can be reduced by doubling (and note which characters may double) or may be expanded by distributing roles or adding extras. Has the play been performed by an all female or all male cast. (FYI: The first question a director asks, when considering a play script for production, is what are the cast requirements.)
5) Performance Length: Please note approximate running time of your play in performance.
6) Additional information: Please note information not evident in the play script (such as but not limited to: suitable for touring, presented at summer camp, awards or recognitions, name of theatre/organization where your play premiered, etc.)

Guidelines for Submission of Theatrical Text Books

As of October 2006, Anchorage Press Plays is not currently accepting unsolicited text book submissions. This policy may be updated in the future and will be noted here.