Greenway Reads Commission
Greenway Reads Commission
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
In 2016, Greenway Arts Alliance launched the Greenway Reads program, a collaboration between the Greenway Court Theatre and Greenway Institute for the Arts with the goal of bringing a professional production of a novel adaptation to the students at Fairfax High School and our wider Greenway audience. Our production of George Orwell’s 1984 launched the program, followed up by our production of Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street in 2017. We will continue with The Color Purple The Musical in 2018.
One of the goals of the Greenway Reads program is to increase the number of quality adaptations of novels available for production. As such, we are launching the Greenway Reads Commission, a $5000 commission to a playwright for the purpose of adapting a high school appropriate novel in an innovative and theatrical way.
The $5000 Greenway Reads Commission will be awarded to a playwright selected by Greenway Arts Alliance based on a proposal to adapt a novel for the stage.
Greenway Reads is NOT theatre for young audiences – although we offer additional free weekday student matinees for the Fairfax High School classes that participate in the program, as well as classroom instruction and Greenway in-school programming at no cost, the production is part of our regular season for our general audience as well, produced with a professional cast and creative team. As such, we are seeking adaptations that are sophisticated and illuminate the novel in ways that will challenge our audience of all ages.
We are particularly interested in novels from the NEA Big Read list or from the reading list below; however, we are also interested in hearing proposals for novels from outside these sources. Our goal is to award a playwright who is excited about the novel they’re adapting! Feel free to also send us a proposal for literature you think should be on the high school reading list, but isn’t.
The commissioned play will be workshopped by Greenway Arts Alliance in the hope of receiving a full production in Fall 2019 or 2020.
Greenway will work with the playwright to secure the underlying rights prior to awarding the commission, to assure the project can be completed.
We will also consider applicants who are already working on an adaptation that they have secured the rights for.
To submit a proposal, email the following by July 31st, 2018 to submissions@greenwayartsalliance.org:
- Resume
- Bio
- 20 page writing sample from another play
(or from the proposed play if you are applying for a completion commission) - Proposal – include the following:
- Name of Novel
- Why did you choose this novel? Why is it relevant to the students of Fairfax High School and the wider Los Angeles audience?
- Adaptation description – tell us about the theatrical style you envision the piece in, and what would make your adaptation unique.
High School Reading List
Grade 9
Animal Farm
Barrio Boy
Bean Trees
Black Boy
Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
Fahrenheit 451
Farewell to Manzanar
The Good Earth
Hobbit, The
The House on Mango Street
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Living Up the Street
The Martian Chronicles
MAUS I & II
Night
The Odyssey
Old Man and the Sea
The Parrot in the Oven
Pearl, and the Red Pony, The
Raisin in the Sun
Romeo and Juliet
Sula
The Good Earth
Grade 10
1984 (Honors)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Honors)
Antigone
Bless Me, Ultima
Brave New World
Cannery Row
Catcher in the Rye (Honors)
The Color Purple
Farewell to Arms
Great Expectations
Holes
Julius Caesar
Les Miserables
Lord of the Flies
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Of Mice and Men
Return to Manzanar
A Separate Peace (Honors)
Siddhartha
Stranger, The (Honors)
A Tale of Two Cities
The Things they Carried
To Kill a Mockingbird
Grade 11
Always Running
Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Bluest Eye
Catcher in the Rye (Reg. 11th)
China Boy
The Crucible
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby, The (AP)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Huckleberry Finn (AP)
Inherit the Wind
Invisible Man
The Joy Luck Club
The Jungle
My Antonia
Native Son
Rain of Gold
Raisin in the Sun
The Red Badge of Courage (AP)
The Scarlet Letter (AP)
A Separate Peace (Reg. 11th)
Sitting Bull
Stranger, The
The Sun Also Rises (A)
Twelve Angry Men
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Grade 12
1984
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alice in Wonderland
Beloved
Candide
Catch 22
Centennial
Crime and Punishment
Cry the Beloved Country
Dead Souls
Don Quixote
Great Expectations AP Lit
Hamlet
Into Thin Air
King Lear
Macbeth
Madame Bovary
Man’s Fate
Manchild in the Promised a Land
Mayor of Casterbridge
The Metamorphosis
Miss Julie
Nights of the Round Table
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Piano Lesson
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Portrait of the Artist
The Scarlet Letter
Seize the Day
Sixteen Famous British Plays
Sound and Sense
The Stranger
The Tempest
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
The Things They Carried
The Underdogs