Starting January 1st, submissions are officially open!
Submissions: Jan 1-Feb 28, 2025
Performances: Oct. 10-12 & 17-19, 2025
This year, the festival falls during spooky season, so we’re especially excited to see pieces featuring eerie, mysterious, or Halloween-inspired themes. Bring on your most creative and chilling ideas—or tell us about something that is haunting you (scary or not!) We can’t wait to see what you’ve got!
We’re looking to showcase a variety of performative art as we continue Sundown’s goal of cultivating and collaborating with local performers and artists.
We’re open to anything, so send us all of your ideas and all the short works you have!
Here’s some examples of what you could submit:
- short plays
- one-person shows
- devised piece
- movement theatre
- dance pieces
- music
- improv
- sketches
- poetry
- stand up
- if you can think of it, we’re interested in it!
We’re looking for pieces that are 20 minutes or less.
We don’t need you to submit a finished product by the deadline, we only ask that you send us SOMETHING by Feb. 28, 2025. If you feel that a discussion is necessary to explain your idea, contact us and we can set up an in-person or Skype meeting to talk. (An oral presentation is optional; we will consider all submissions we get.)
Performances are scheduled for Oct. 10-12 & 17-19, 2025; tech will take place the week leading up to these dates. Location TBD.
If you have any questions, or would like to submit your ideas directly to an Artistic Executive, you can email any of the following company members:
Julia Bodiford – juliabodiford@sundowntheatre.org
Lindsey Hall – lindseyhall@sundowntheatre.org
Ryan Davila – ryandavila@sundowntheatre.org
Emily Chambers – emilychambers@sundowntheatre.org
Please let us know if you are interested in directing your piece when you submit. It’s not a requirement, but it’s helpful to know upfront.
If material is copyrighted, you will be responsible for obtaining and paying for the rights if your piece is chosen.
There is no compensation offered for producing your work, but you can see every performance for free!
Click here for the submission form
TIMELINE:
Submissions will be open from January 1st until February 28th.
As a company, we’ll read everything and make our choices by early June 2025.
Pieces should be cast by late summer; we will work to help directors find cast members if needed.