Overtime Theater 2014 - Call for Submissions!

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2013

The Overtime Theater is seeking play submissions for our 2014 season. Devoted to original work, we are particularly interested in new plays that are innovative in form and bold and moving in content. San Antonio’s “Theater for the People” -- the Current readers’ favorite theater for four years in a row -- creates a wide range of plays, from scrappy nerdcore to weird fringe, from heartwarming to hilarious, and has a loyal following. Located near the blossoming Pearl Brewery complex at 1203 Camden Street, we are at the heart of the city’s most exciting arts district, right next to the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Museum Reach of the Riverwalk, and the South Broadway renaissance.

We are seeking original experimental and devised work, film and novel adaptations, translations and adaptations of classics, musicals, genre parodies, political pieces, community-based plays, science-fiction and superhero epic adventures, broad comedy, gritty realism, and especially that which we haven’t seen and can’t be categorized. We are looking for unique local and national voices, visions, characters, and worlds that could only be live theatrical events, although they may (and are encouraged to) engage other media. 

In all the plays we select, we are looking for work charged with a sense of now, pieces that wake the audience up to the present moment.

Please submit all completed plays or inquiries to BOTH the Literary Manager, Rachel Joseph at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and the Artistic Director, Kyle Gillette at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it no later than August 1, 2013. We accept electronic submissions only on a .pdf or .doc file. Please include contact information, cast requirements, and technical aspirations. We will acknowledge receipt of work and inform playwrights of their submission status by the end of November 2013.

*Because all of the work at the Overtime is indeed created “overtime,” artists receive compensation through our “love bucket”--audience donations split with the cast and crew. To be honest, it isn’t a lot, but that has never stopped us from surviving and thriving as a truly unique independent theater. 

We look forward to reading your work!

Sincerely, Kyle Gillette, Artistic Director; Rachel Joseph, Literary Manager; and The Overtime Theater

Young Shakespeare auditions for the roles of Benvolio and the Prince (only) for Romeo and Julieta Monday, May 27 and Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Waller Creek School Theater, 710 East 41st Street (off Red River)

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ADDITIONAL AUDITIONS BY APPOINTMENT for the AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE'S production of Romeo and Julieta for the roles of Benvolio and The Prince only. Teen Actors of all ethnic/racial backgrounds. Staged with professional director, and designers.

Performance dates: June 20 - 23, 27 – 30 Thurs-Sat at 8 pm

Performances at the Curtain Theatre a 220-seat replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, off City Park Rd., Austin TX.

Rehearsals: May 28 - June 19, weekday evenings and weekends at Waller Creek Theater, 41^st &Red River

Now in its Fifth year, Young Shakespeare culminates in a professionally staged production at The Curtain Theater, Richard Garriott’s replica of an Elizabethan theater on the shores of Lake Austin.

Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella, who will direct the program, said, “We have had amazing productions by fostering atmosphere of confidence and joy for teen actors to flourish as they tackle Shakespeare’s best-loved script.” Austin Shakespeare productions of free Shakespeare in Zilker Park as well as The Long Center’s Rolling Theatre. “Our free audition workshops have always been welcoming and strengthening environment for young people.” Young Shakespeare uses cross-gender casting where girls often play male roles. This production will have some Spanish language along side Shakespeare original script, so bi-lingual youngsters are especially encouraged to audition.

TUITION: $500 fee for everyone cast.