CP24: deja vu
Hi. It’s us again. Your favorite summer friends.
Spring is in the air and with it, we can just feel the return of some very familiar things.
Like the look of a boisterous Cherry Picking crowd waiting for the show to begin. The taste of Prosecco flowing down our parched throats. The sounds of frighteningly dystopian political chants of campaigns gone by... The sweat of anticipation as raffle winners are about to be named. The stench of basic human rights being stripped away… Cherry Picking swag on summer bodies everywhere. Low rise jeans and crop tops on twenty-somethings all over town... Now that we think about it, some of these things feel a little bit TOO familiar…
In honor of all the “here we go again” and “haven’t we been here before,” we too are bringing some things BACK, and doing them all again - better than ever.
That’s right. It’s Cherry Season…. AGAIN.
CHERRY PICKING ‘24: deja vu.
And. Writers. We. Want. You.
Interested in penning a submission for this year’s CHERRY PICKING festival?
Read on to find out how it works.
ALL INTERESTED WRITERS RSVP HERE no later than April 7th.
Once you have accepted this challenge... voila! We will send you your "inspiration" via email: a little nugget to get the juices flowing. At that time, you will also get all the info and writers’ guidelines that you will need to proceed.
You have until May 6th to write a SHORT play INSPIRED by the email you’ve received from the CP team.
After submitting your play, your script goes undercover. We (temporarily) remove your name from your script, a panel of readers gobbles up each submission. And at the end of an evening of bawdy battle, they choose this year's line up.
If your script is chosen, it goes into the history books-as a part of this year's TWENTY-FOURTH bonanza. On a steamy summer night, in the midst of saucy celebration, your play will go public - you will be forever commemorated as part of our new works and big fun.
Whether it's YOUR first time or not, don't miss a chance to be a part of this cherry popping fun- you know how great it feels!
Questions? Just email us at: cherrypickingnyc@gmail.com.
Cherry Picking is an annual opportunity for writers, both established and burgeoning, to create new material for performance in one night of staged reading.
