Echo Theatre's BIG SHOUT OUT 4
New Play Contest for TEXAN Playwrights
In 2023, Echo conducted a TEXAS Shout Out New Play Contest for playwrights, calling for Unproduced Script submissions from BIPOC women+ who consider themselves Texas writers.
Congratulations to 2 Winning Playwrights who each receive $1000 and a Production Run in our 2024 Season!
Brava to our Finalist Honorees who each receive a $150 Royalty and are featured in our Echo Reads, Free Reading Series in Fall 2023.
EL REY DEL POLLO
by Anna Skidis Vargas
The New King Lear-Inspired
Latinx Comedy.
Director: Bethany Mejorado
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Tuesday, October 24
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7:30pm Arts Mission Oak Cliff
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Wednesday, October 25
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7:30pm Bath House Cultural Center
DELIVERY
by Jelisa Jay Robinson
Black & Brown students find
their voices through poetry.
Director: Richard Quadri
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Tuesday, October 31
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7:30pm Wild Detectives Bookstore
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Wednesday, November 1
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7:30pm Bath House Cultural Center
Submission Guidelines were as follows:
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Must be a BIPOC women+ playwright who considers themselves a Texas writer (currently residing in Texas, or if you consider Texas central to your identity or your work)
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Submission must include your full script, a 10-page excerpt of that script, and a play summary.
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All submissions must be emailed to erin@echotheatre.org by July 1, 2023.
Echo Theatre's Big Shout Out 4 was produced by Erin Malone Turner.
(Note: The Big Shout Out contests are always conducted with "blind" reads of entries. No Judge Knows who submitted the scripts until the winners are named. Congratulations go Echo's own Erin Malone Turner and co-winner Shyana Nithiananda, who are both from Dallas. Our two Finalist Honorees, are from Austin - Anna Skidis Vargas, - and Houston - Jelisa Jay Robinson. Brava!
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. Whether your script is an experiment in form and language, a comedy, a drama, a work about historical characters, or a new translation, we pledge to produce rich and compelling creative work with high quality artistic effort. Plays should be written primarily for English-speaking audiences, although they may contain other languages.
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Thank you for writing your truths!
PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE BIG SHOUT OUT:
Winner of the Big Shout Out 3
FOUNDERS, KEEPERS
by Aurora Behlke
"We the People redefined, as seen through the eyes of the next generation."
Directed by Caroline Hamilton
September 16-October 8, 2022
Bath House Cultural Center / White Rock Lake Park
CAST
NICOLE - Caitlin Chapa
WINNIE - Kristen Lazarchick
TABITHA - Rickeya Jones
GILLIAN - Lauren Floyd
IMOGEN - Hadley Shipley
MYSTERIOUS WOMAN / WOMAN - Allyn Carrell
Understudy - Rowan Gilvie
Understudy - Bwalya Chisanga
CREATIVE TEAM
Producer / CCO - Eric Berg
Director - Caroline Hamilton
Assistant Director - Rowan Gilvie
Echo Managing & Artistic Director
and SFX Design - Kateri Cale
Production Stage Manager - Hailey Green
Set Design - Clare DeVries
Light Design - Landry Strickland
Sound Design - Noah Heller
Costume Design - Ariel Kregal
Co-Prop Design - Rebekka Koepke and Lynn Mauldin
Fight Choreographer - Danielle Georgiou
Technical Director - Dane Tuttle
Deck Czar - Ben Bryant
Marketing & Graphic Design - Lauren Floyd
Box Office Manager - Rowan Gilvie
This contest's winner was Aurora Behlke (she/her), a self-described Storyteller raised in Anchorage, AK, and based in Seattle & St. Louis. Written while a directing major at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Behlke stated, "My work puts an emphasis on what we inherit as we move forward in time. I’m interested in telling stories about the people who catch the pieces as the world falls apart."
Cast: 6 / Genre: adventure, dark comedy, political, science fiction
Keyword: apocalypse, U.S. Constitution
Synopsis: The nation is in crisis. Washington DC is burning, and the
government has assembled five 5th grade girls to rewrite the Constitution of the United
States in their image. Played by adult actors, friendships form and break as these young
ladies struggle with grief, power, and what it means to grow up in a broken democracy.
Congratulations to the 2021 Finalist Honorees:
TOMORROW GAME by Brandy N. Carie
FOR THE PEOPLE by Carol Mullen
THOSE HOLLOW BODIES by emma joy hill
SLEEP/WAKE by Yael Haskal
DAISY VIOLET THE BITCH BEAST KING by Sam Collier
FROZEN FLUID: An Antarctic Gender Non-Conforming
Creation Myth by Fly Jamerson
Winners of the 2019 Big Shout Out Special Project: #WRITENOW
HEAR ME: Voices of #MeToo
Curated and Directed by Kateri Cale
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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