Dear Friends,

 

By supporting Pride Films and Plays today, you are helping foster great writing for the stage and screen for the future!

 

In our first 18 months, we have worked with exciting writers from around the globe, and performed highly regarded staged readings of many new works at the Hoover-Leppen Theater of Center on Halsted.

 

With your support, PFP will expand that work in 2012 with workshops and full productions of the winning plays. With this developmental step, our contests - The Great Gay Screenplay Contest, Women's Work (for screenplays and plays written by women with lesbian characters), and The Great Gay Play and Musical Contest - will become a stronger conduit for getting fine scripts into theaters everywhere.

 

In 2012, we will also be launching our first efforts in film, working with a consortium of Chicago artists. And we will continue to work with community partners like Gerber/Hart library and Hydrate to bring the best LGBT work to Chicago audiences.

 

Since 2010, two dozen authors have come to Chicago to work with PFP artists. And we have given $10,000 to those writers to support their work. We are thrilled to celebrate the continuing successes of the winner of the first Great Gay Play Contest - Learn to Be Latina by Enrique Ureata. And we know the spotlight we can shine on new scripts from emerging writers bodes well for theater-going audiences around the world.The five finalists for the 2012 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest will be announced next week, and they are all terrific! 

 

To make a donation, please start here, where payment card donations made be made. Checks may be mailed to Pride Films and Plays, 3023 N Clark 327, Chicago, IL 60657. PFP is a 501(c)3 organization, and all donations are tax deductible the extent the law allows.

 

No matter where in the world you are, please support PFP with a year-end donation today. Your faith in us insures a better future for LGBT film and theater everywhere in the future.

 

Sincerely,

 

David Zak

Executive Director