Penn State University's new play festival CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS is celebrating its 3rd season in 2010, and has already produced staged readings for Sean Lewis, Saviana Stanescu, Jennifer Fawcett, Ruth McKee, Damon Chua, Vicki Grise, and Irma Mayorga. We are a funded festival with room/transportation/honorarium for playwrights chosen to participate, and new work appears every spring at The York Theatre in NYC as a part of Penn State at The York. Our website is down at this time, but we are accepting plays for our 2010 season and the deadline is 10/31/09. We are seeking full length works that circle issues of local or global diversity. This year's theme is "The Abled, Disabled, and Disappearing Body." Please send unpublished, unproduced work to:

Susan Russell
Artistic Director
Cultural Conversations
Penn State University School of Theatre
116 Arts Building
University Park, PA 16802

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