THE 7th ANNUAL

Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th November 2018

NEWvember is a festival of rehearsed readings of new plays that will take place over one weekend at the New Theatre in Dublin’s city centre, produced by AboutFACE Ireland. There is no fee for submissions and all plays are read blind of name or gender by our panel. The spirit of NEWvember is to provide a dynamic, interactive and comfortable place where writers can hear their plays read by professional actors, and discuss their work and creative process with the audience. We are delighted that NEWvember 2018 is supported by FRINGE LAB at Dublin Fringe Festival and by the New Theatre. We are also pleased to announce a new transatlantic connection with the Off-Broadway theatre The Cell, and are excited to announce that one of this year’s final plays will be given a further reading at the Cell in New York.

This marks NEWvember’s second year in Dublin after 5 years in New York. AboutFACE co-created and co-produced NEWvember at the Carpenter Shop Theatre in the village of Tivoli in upstate New York, with our partners Tangent Theatre, from 2011 to 2015. During this time, NEWvember was highly successful – drawing large audiences, including breaking the box office record for the venue on successive nights; and finding massive interest from writers – by its fifth year, submissions reached nearly 500 plays a year and rehearsed readings of new work by over 30 playwrights had been presented, while several plays developed at the festival have gone on to Off-Broadway and regional American productions.

In 2017 NEWvember moved to Dublin, Ireland, where the festival was held at Belvedere House. Already from NEWvember 2017, plays have gone on to further success – Extremophiles by Fergal O’Byrne has since been awarded the prestigious Eamon Keane Playwriting Award at the 2018 Listowel Writers’ Week while The Barber of Moville by Ronan Carr has gone on to full production including a 10-venue Irish tour.

In 2018 we are happy to be hosted by the New Theatre in Temple Bar.

We are now pleased to invite submissions of new plays for the 2018 NEWvember Dublin festival:

Please submit your play via our online application form here: SUBMIT YOUR PLAY.

The closing date for submissions is Friday August 17th 2018 (12 midnight GMT).

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For submission criteria and to submit your play to the Dublin festival please visit our SUBMIT YOUR PLAY page.
For more information on previous festivals visit our website NEWvemberFestival.com.