The Big Shout Out is our occasional call for entries for new work submissions, traditionally full-length plays by women+.
Echo Theatre's BIG SHOUT OUT 3
International New Play Contest for Women+ Playwrights
Call for Entries will begin MARCH 15, 2021! Check back for Instructions.
If you are a playwright and self-identify as woman+, you are invited to enter one play or play-with-music (one-act or full-length) to Echo's 3rd BIG SHOUT OUT International New Play Contest. Six Finalist Honorees will be selected and those playwrights each receive a $150 prize. Echo will have the option to present their script twice in our 2022 Echo Reads Performance Reading Series. One Winner receives a $1000 Royalty and (depending on the script's state of readiness) the winning play will be featured either as a workshop production or mainstage regional premiere in Season 24.
Call for Entries will begin MARCH 15, 2021.
BIG SHOUT OUT 3 GUIDELINES
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Please limit submission to one play per playwright.
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There are no readers' fees or contest fees for the Big Shout Out.
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Scripts should be unpublished and past workshop productions are fine.
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Scripts should be primarily written for English-language audiences.
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Other languages may be in the script, as long as English is the primary language.
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We are requesting Digital Submissions Only. No Paper copies accepted.
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Please submit via Email and include a cover letter in the body of the Email.
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This is a Blind Reading Contest, so please no docs with your name in the script.
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Contact info on your Cover Letter only. Our Contest Staff will log your entry.
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Every submission will be read and assigned points based on story/theme, language/dialogue, form, theatricality and aspects unique to itself.
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All cast sizes considered.
Winning Scripts had cast sizes ranging from 2 to 13. - Please attach your short bio along with your submission. Thanks!
A Note to Playwrights...
Echo Theatre enjoys plays that encourage learning, growing, and evolving together as people and as an institution. We look for work that cries out to be performed in a theatrical setting. Experiments in form and language can inspire and a wild comedy will always be a favorite. Social Activism through theater can be impactful. We have a special love for new works about historical characters and we pledge to consistently offer rich and compelling creative work with high quality artistic effort.
We will look for your entry when the Call goes out on March 15.
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PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE BIG SHOUT OUT
Winners of the 2019 Big Shout Out Special Project: #WRITENOW
HEAR ME: Voices of #MeToo
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In response to the #metoo and #timesup movements, Echo Theatre called for monologues and devised a compelling new work distilled from 14 diverse female stories on sexual harassment. Click HERE to visit 2019's Voices of #MeToo.
Winner of the Big Shout Out 2

THE ADVENTURES OF FLO AND GREG
by Briana Pozner
"Everyday Super-Heroes Fighting Modern Day Demons"
Directed by Terri Ferguson
September 10-26, 2015
Bath House Cultural Center / White Rock Lake Park
CAST
Flo - Chandler Ryan
Greg - Matt Holmes
CREATIVE TEAM
Producer/Stage Manager - Alett Gray
Tech Director - Bryan Douglas
Master Electrician/Carpenter - Alexander Ferguson
Set Design - Randy Bonifay
Light Design - Bob McVay
Sound Design - Graeme Bice
Costume Design - Melissa Perkins
Co-Prop Design - Lynn Mauldin and Rebekka Koepke
Box Office - Jordan Willis
Box Office - Alett Gray
Board Op - Jon Leitch
Winner of the Big Shout Out 1 (Three-Way Tie)
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THE EARLY EDUCATION
OF CONRAD EPPLER
by Isabella Russell-Ides
"What if the Myths we Believe in, Believe in Us?"
Directed by Pam Myers-Morgan
February 9-25, 2012
Bath House Cultural Center / White Rock Lake Park
CAST
Sister Mary Extraordinary - Ellen Locy
Sister Merry Berry - Kateri Cale
Sister Subordinary - Lisa Anne Haram
Luce - David Lugo
Kilowatt - David Meglino
Conrad Epplar - Jennings Humphries
Alethia - Kylie Zeko
Roica - Matthew Clark
Miss Demeanor - Miller Pyke
Honeycomb/Epiphany - Tatum Zeko
Honeycomb/Epiphany - Wendy Blackburn
Wing Sergeant - Tamitha Curiel
Wing Sergeant - Stephanie Butler
CREATIVE TEAM
Producer -Terri Ferguson
Production Assistant - James Stroman
Asst. Director - Carolyn McCormick
Stage Manager - Jordan Willis
Asst. Stage Manager - Alett Gray
Set Design - Christopher Jenkins
Light Design - Jaymes Gregory
Sound Design - Graeme Bice
Costume Design - -Ryan Matthieu Smith
Co-Prop Design - Rebekka Koepke and Lynn Mauldin
Winner of the Big Shout Out 1 (Three-Way Tie)

A MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN
by Cathy Tempelsman
"Is George Eliot - the most popular writer of the age - secretly a woman, and living in sin?"
Directed by David Meglino
September 8-24, 2011
Bath House Cultural Center / White Rock Lake Park
CAST
George Eliot - Emily Scott Banks
George Henry Lewes - Russell Schultz
Isaac Evans - Randy Pearlman
John Blackwood - Scott Milligan
Novel Woman - Morgan McClure
George Combs - Adrian S. Churchill
Barbara Bodichon - Jessica Cavanaugh
Herbert Spencer - Brian Witkowicz
Edward - Jordan Willis
CREATIVE TEAM
Set Design - Cindy Ernst
Costume Design - Caitlin Rain
Lighting Design - Jaymes Gregory
Sound Design - Pam Myers-Morgan
Prop Design - Rebekka Koepke and Lynne Mauldin
Dialect Coach - Elly Lindsay
Board Operator - Bryan Douglas
Winner of the Big Shout Out 1 (Three-Way Tie)

THE EXECUTIONER'S SONS
by Catherine Bush
"Once upon a time, there were four little boys who lived in the tower of London."
Directed by Terri Ferguson
February 5-19, 2011
Bath House Cultural Center / White Rock Lake Park
CAST
Henry Tatersall - Wm. Paul Williams
Kate Tatersall - Jessica Cavanagh
John Tatersall - Lily McCollum
Thomas Tatersall - Stuart Lee Williams
Prince Edward V - Jaxon Beeson
Richard, Duke of York - Marlhy Murphy
Duke of Gloucester - Kevin Moore
Lord Hastings - Jack O'Donnell
Shane Beeson - Hooded Henchman
CREATIVE TEAM
Kateri Cale - Co-Producer
David Meglino - Co-Producer
Alett Gray - Stage Manager
Bryan Wofford - Set Designer
Ally Elsey - Costume Designer
Graeme Bice - Sound Designer
Jaymes Gregory - Lighting Designer
Tish Mussey - Properties Designer
Erin Keller - Dramaturg
Bo Barron - Box Office Manager
Linda Marie Ford - Publicity Manager
Jessica Cavanagh - Patron Outreach Manager
Shane Beeson - Kid Wrangler
Lucas Barnes - Board Operator