Do you ever feel like you are kinda stumped creatively?  Possibly you are an actor and you are not landing the types of roles that challenge you, or inspire you.  Possibly you are a director, and you need to be challenged.  Or you might be a playwright and no one is even READING your work.

It’s time to create, and take responsibility for your personal creation.  That is the one thing that artists can do, no matter what the circumstance - they can create.  The play might be held in the park, the exhibit might be your garage, your first reading might be in your apartment - but you can and should take control of your own personal creation.

Here at Manhattan Rep, I am passionate about creation.  I don’t care if a play put up here is different every night if that is the creative process this play needs to take.  I don’t really like scripts - for they are just an outline of the reality of performance - the living, breathing people now living on stage, struggling, fighting for what they need -  once  two dimensional CHARACTERS on a piece of paper.  But when embodied by actors, given direction from a caring director - it all changes.  The magic begins - which really can’t be explained or defined but theatre more so than any medium in my book, is magic, for it is alive now happening in front of you. 

Our mission here at Manhattan Rep is to help you fulfill your personal creation by making it easy to put up your play with our intimate theatre in Times Square.  By having stock furniture for your set. By having you store all your props and costumes here (not like at other festivals where you have to load in and load out each performance.) And by being SUPER HANDS on with your process here - readily available to help with casting, with finding crew, with production questions and being here with a passionately creative smile.

In August, we celebrate our 6th year here in our Times Square space and we have produced over 600 plays in that time.  (Do you believe it?)  One of the reasons for this abundance of work is our commitment to the artist, to personal creation, and to the deliciousness of LIVE THEATRE.  There is nothing like it.  It is magic.

So come join us.  We are happy to house your play if you are passionate and professional. We are currently holding submissions for our FallFest 2011 play festival.

Check our website at: http://www.manhattanrep.com

Submission is free.  If we accept your play, we only require a refundable security deposit of $300 to secure your place in the festival, which is returned if you bring in 30 friends to see your show.  (A total of 30 for three shows - averaging 10 friends a performance.)  

We make it easy, inexpensive and fun to grow your art.

It is time for you to expand your personal creation.  

Life is too damn short not to be creating!

with best regards,

Ken Wolf

Artistic Director

Manhattan Repertory Theatre