A Call for Help! ... and for Actors and Playwrights

This weekend, we celebrated our THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY. On June 30th, 2014 The Bechdel Group held its inaugural workshop reading, featuring Chisa Hutchinson's Somebody's Daughter (which just closed off-Broadway!).

Since then, we've workshopped 49 scripts by 41 playwrights that included more than 200 new roles for women. Our 24 Hour Writing Challenges have produced 40 new ten minute plays. And our third annual staged reading is scheduled for late August of this year.

A Call for Help ...
We are thrilled to have come this far, and now it's time for more. We are preparing to file for official non-profit status, so that we can continue to offer our free workshops, produce staged readings, and host special events like our Write-Ins and 24 Hour Challenges.

In September, we'll be Running a 5K – that is to say, we’re launching a fundraiser to raise $5,000 in order to meet our goals. We are putting together our fundraising team, and are putting out the call for Team Leaders. Love us? Want to help us promote our fundraiser? Email Gina at bechdelgroup@gmail.com and I'll give you details. It's fun. It's easy. I promise.

A Call for Actors and Playwrights ...
Our bi-annual 24 Hour Challenge is upon us!
On Monday, July 24 from 6-9pm we will present up to 10 short plays written in a mere 24 hours!

We will be taking:

• Up to 10 playwrights (or playwright teams, if you and a friend want to partner up)
• Up to 15 actors

Here's what will happen:

• PLAYWRIGHTS
  • Will come to a half-hour meeting/fantasy actor pick on Sunday, July 23rd at noon (at a TBA space in Manhattan).
  • Will complete an up to 10 page play by 1pm Monday, July 24th.
  • Will hear their plays read the evening of Monday, July 24th, relaxed with drink in hand.

• ACTORS
  • Will arrive by 6pm at Jimmy's No. 43 (43 E. 7th street in the East Village) on Monday, July 24th to pick up and look over their scripts.
  • Will impressively mostly-cold read the phenomenal work of our playwrights.

Want to Play?

• Reply to this email to let us know you want in!
• Let us know if you're a playwright or an actor.
• Actors, include your headshot.
• Playwrights, be sure you can make it to the Sunday meeting/actor pick. (And to the actual event, of course.)
• We will fill spots as we hear from you.
• * A note! I'm still in Berlin, so you may not get an immediate reply. I'll reply/accept in the order the emails come in, never fear - and there will be a waitlist if spaces fill. :)

Other details:

• Actors, we will email your script to you once your playwright(s) have submitted to us the afternoon of the 24th so you can glance over it (if you would like to).
• Playwrights, we will do all the printing for you.
• This is a writing challenge, so the readings will be cold.
• Playwrights will be asked to follow a handful of parameters, including:
  • Passing the Bechdel Test
  • Incorporating a mystery challenge

And that's all the news for now!

Have a fabulous week, and hope to hear from all you potential Team Leaders soon.

Gina :)