Women's Work Weekend
Pride Films and Plays is most excited about Women's Work - an ongoing program supporting the development of work written by written with lesbian characters or themes. And I can't tell you how important I think sustaining this effort it.
This weekend you have the chance to see staged readings of six new lesbian plays and screenplays at Center on Halsted. There is a performance Friday evening, a matinee and evening performance on Saturday, and two matinee performances on Sunday. The pieces are daring and diverse. So please join us to give feedback to authors, and join in a community discussion about the future of lesbian films and plays.
You can find the synopsis of plays along with author bios here. Tickets are only $10 and can be purchased here. And we hope you will make a donation in support of Women's Work so that one of our fully staged productions next season can be a world premiere of a new lesbian play or musical. I look forward to talking with you at COH this weekend! 
David Zak, Executive Director
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We start rehearsal this week for the thrilling World
Premiere of our 2013 Gay Play Contest winner! Directions for Restoring the Apparently Dead by Martin Casella is a wonderful drama full of humor and suspense. It will surprise you, and give you plenty to discuss on the way home. It is a great tale that deals with relationships, marriage, faith, and a friendship that lasts for decades.
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How did we find a great play like Directions for Restoring the Apparently Dead? It was entered in our Great Gay Play Contest, and judged by readers across the country. It was then featured in our Gay Play Weekend in May where it was performed as an enhanced stage reading alongside four other finalists.
If you have a play for the contest, submissions are being accepted now through October 31. Find application materials here! The five finalists get enhanced staged readings of the work in Chicago next spring, plus cash prizes!
And like the previous contest winners Learn to Be Latina by Enrique Ureata, and At the Flash by Sean Chandler and David Leeper, and Leo Schwartz's Jeff Award-Winning Musical Under A Rainbow Flag, we know it will have a long life at regional theaters everywhere.
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Please Support Our Seasonal Campaign.
As we enter our new season, Pride Films and Plays remains an organization staffed by volunteers and a team of dedicated artists.
Ticket sales account for only 40% of our revenue. We could not do what we do without the support of individual donors. PFP is a 501(c)3 non-profit, so your donation is tax deductible.
Your donation now will support the development of new work. It will also help us expand our marketing and outreach efforts.
Please make a donation to support our new season here. And plan to be with us on October 28 for our great fall benefit Simply Sensational. You don't want to miss it! 
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