Unleashed 2025
New Plays for a New World
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Unleashed 2025 returns for a week-long festival of brand new genre plays by Asian Americans! Pork Filled Productions is sounding the call, once again, for one acts and full length plays that indulge in genre, upend expectations, and expand imaginations. Deadline for submission is October 25th 2024.
From Roger Tang, executive director of PFP: “We have more stories in us than oppression or identity plays. We want to give writers free rein to let loose their full storytelling potential on stage. And we want the audience to have fun and we get to tell our stories.”
If you are accepted, you will be given actors, a director, and a dramaturge. Private workshops, writing time, and a public workshop at Theatre Off Jackson in Seattle, W.A.
Please Submit your Application Here.
Key info
- Deadline for submissions – October 25th 2024.
- Send plays to – submissions@porkfilled.com
- All submitting playwrights must complete the accompanying application form
- We have a CAP of 50 eligible plays. We will close submissions early if we reach this mark.
- We are only accepting 4 Play at this time for workshop readings.
Questions? – info@porkfilled.com
Plays are not required to have specifically diverse casts or racial themes; however, Pork Filled Productions is dedicated to casting all of our shows with at least 51% actors of color, so please keep that in mind when considering your submissions.
Submission guidelines
1 – We are looking for one acts (30-45 minutes) and full length plays (90+ minutes) by Asian American playwrights.
2 – We are specifically seeking bold, imaginative new work in genres such as noir, science fiction, fantasy, horror, action adventure, or any mashup in-between. We want your play to have FUN and FANTASTICAL universes and indulge in the idea of play! No living room drama plays please!
3 – Selected plays will receive a public staged reading in Seattle, WA. Local writers from the Pacific Northwest are strongly encouraged to submit.
4- We will prioritize local playwrights, but this application is open to a national call. If accepted, your play will have a private and public staged reading, but we are not able to offer accommodation or transportation to Seattle at this time.
5 – All submitted plays will be considered for a full production by Pork Filled Productions.
6– Deadline for submissions is October 25th 2024.
7 – Only emailed submissions with a completed Application Form will be considered. Please submit all materials as attachments in MS Word or PDF format to submissions@porkfilled.com.
8 – Playwrights may ONLY make one submission, and the plays must not have had a professional stage production at the time of submission. Readings and workshops are not considered productions.
9- If accepted will receive a stipend of 300$ for you time and dedication to your work
10- Winners will be announced Early January 2025
11- In Feb/March/April- Private readings will be had and the playwright will have time to rewrite the script and have feedback from actors, the director, and the dramaturge
12- There will be a public reading of the play at Theatre Off Jackson the week of 6/16/25
Past Unleashed Scripts Receiving Full Productions
- Repossessed, by Greg Lam (Theatre Conspiracy, FL)
- Reparations, by Darren Canady (Sound Theatre, WA)
- She Devil of the China Seas, by Roger Tang (PFP, WA)
- Persimmon Nights, by Seayoung Yim (Cafe Nordo, WA)
- Utopia, by Angela Primlani (Otherworldl Theater Company, IL)
- I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet, by Andrew Rincon (New Light, NY)
- miku and the Gods, by Julia Izumi (ArtsWest, WA)
- Autocorrect Thinks I’m Dead, by Aimee Chou (Sound Theatre, WA)