Call for Submissions to EarthQuake Latin America

EarthQuake: Moving Latin America with Our Voices
A Global Zoom Festival
 
Same Boat Theater Collective is soliciting short plays and theatrical pieces for EarthQuake: Moving Latin America with our Voices, a global Zoom festival of performances to further the cause of environmental justice. We are looking for theater pieces that raise the awareness of how specific environmental issues affect the lives and communities of the underrepresented and underprivileged among us. The festival intends to produce work that gives an opportunity for a diversity of Latin American and Latinx voices to be heard, with an emphasis on underrepresented and underprivileged artists. Same Boat will cast and direct the zoom performances.
 
Submissions: 15-20 minute scripts, and 2-5 minute songs, monologues and other theatrical works (movement, puppetry, etc.) that can be performed live on Zoom and give thoughtful, engaging responses to one (or more) of the following questions
                  1. If nature is integral to the cultural identity of [a group you identify with, e.g., African 
                  Brazillian], how has the destruction or altering of nature affected the people’s identity or ability to thrive?
 
                  2.What obstacles does your community face in preserving ancestral, sustainable ways of living within nature?
                  What does a Latin American Solution look like?
 
                  3. Consider an element: Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Tech or Waste
                  -How does one of these elements give life to your world? (For example, how is water a
                   stream of life in your city/community?)
                  -How can one of these elements destroy - your world?
 
Guidelines for Submission:

• Scripts and monologues must be fully production ready and possible to be performed on Zoom.
• Scripts must be 15-20 minutes in length
• Shorter pieces (songs, monologues, spoken word, movement) must be 2- 5 minutes
• Maximum four performers per piece. 
• While we are looking for work that can be performed live, we will consider presenting video pieces in our livestream productions, such as movement and puppet pieces. For this category, please provide a fully produced video for us to consider.

• If the work is a collaboration, please ensure the names of all participants appear on the manuscript.
• At the front of the script, please include a cast breakdown with pertinent details about the characters.
• Please fill out and submit the application form attached.

 
Performances:  Livestream Zoom performances will take place in March, 2021. The Livestream performance will consist of several pieces by writers from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the United States, with performers from these countries and the United Kingdom.
 
Submission Deadline: Please send short piece submissions (written pieces, video or sound recordings) by January 21 to SameBoatTheater@gmail.com. We will make final decisions by
February 1. Final Scripts must be completed by February 22.
 
Application for
EarthQuake: Moving the Earth with Our Voices
 
Please supply the following information with your submission.
 
Name:
Email address:
Phone number:
Where/from whom you learned about EarthQuake:
 
 
Title of Work Submitted:
One-sentence description of work:
Cast breakdown:
Any special instructions and names of collaborators:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Please also include a 100- 200 word biography and/or resume (of all co-creators, if applicable) with your submission. If your work is selected, this will be edited into our online program to accompany the production.
 
 
 
 
 
 




 
This work is offered with the full permission of all participants.
 
Signature:                                                                 Date:                                      
 
 
 
 
Thank you!
Same Boat Theater Collective