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The deadline has now passed
to enter a show for NSDF08. Click here
to see which companies have been selected to perform.
Our selectors are already
scuttling up and down the country looking for the best
student talent for NSDF09.
How
to enter a show to NSDF09:
1. Decide on your
production, your venue and confirm dates.
2. Make sure that your
company are eligible and want to enter. You are eligible to
enter if:
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You
are a student, studying any subject, aged 16 or over
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You
have been a student within the last year
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You are
a
Director within two years of graduation
3. Contact
Catherine McKinney, NSDF Administrator, to
book a Selector and selection date.
4. Complete and post/email
this form
making sure you give your name contact number and the title,
dates and times of your production.
What
happens when you have filled in the NSDF08 form
In the run
up to NSDF08 our Director and Selection Team travel around
the UK attending student productions. (Click
here to find out more about the team)
The
Selectors see the show, talk to the company afterwards about
the piece, NSDF and theatre in general. They are
there to help you. From the dozens of performances seen,
NSDF will invite the best ten productions to take part
in NSDF08.
NSDF
aims to send a Selector to the first night of your
production, although this is not always possible. We ask
that a production runs for a minimum of two nights. NSDF
sometimes sends a Second Selector.
Why You
Should Enter a Production NSDF08
We were the first ones to enter the NSDF from
our Uni in years so we didn’t really know anything about the
festival: a guy we’d met from Leeds had said that it was
amazing so we thought we better enter. In fact we were so
clueless that the message that our selector was called
Richard Hurst somehow got confused by our producer and for a
couple of days before the selection we were living with the
misguided notion that Richard Curtis was coming to see our
25 minute long piece of student new writing.
When Richard Hurst did finally come to see our offering he
carefully walked us through why our little play didn’t make
any sense to anyone but us. Using his notes and taking a lot
of his advice we all went back to the drawing board, went to
Edinburgh to see some more theatre and entered a show for
the NSDF the next term that got in!
For the next two years we had shows in the Festival. It’s
still the most memorable time from university for me; so
many experts, more workshops than you should have the energy
for and the dream of getting mentioned in the Times! But
what got us most excited, what had us gleefully packing a
full theatre set into the back of a transit van each Easter
was the sheer number of student and young
directors/writers/actors and other assorted artists that
descended on the sleepy town of Scarborough for the week. It
was talking to those fellow students about the work that I
had made, that they had seen, that started me thinking about
all the things that I’m still thinking about. The chance to
hear all those honest intelligent opinions on your work was
something that was vital at the time, and sorely missing
from the professional world that followed.
That my company at the moment is made up, six years on, of
artists I met at NSDF says it all I think.
(Alan Lane, Selector NSDF08)
Not only was the NSDF a fantastic opportunity
for meeting other like-minded folk my age, but being
surrounded by some of the top creative dramatists in the
country armed me with the confidence to pursue playwrighting
and consider it a plausible and realisible life.
(Al Smith, Sunday Times Playwriting Award
NSDF06)
Practical Information
The entry
fee is £95 which allows you to enter one production up to
three hours in length or two productions that are no longer
than thirty minutes each.
NSDF
may charge twice the normal entry fee if you give us less
than three weeks notice of your production date or go over
the three hour limit.
If
selected, each company will need to find their own funds for
travel,
accommodation, food and subscription
tickets.
The following text MUST be
inserted and appear in your programme
This
production has been entered into NSDF08
The NSDF
is a unique week-long event showcasing live student
performance.
If you'd
like information on the NSDF please visit
www.nsdf.org.uk or contact us on 020 7354 8070
Next: Detailed information on
entering a show
and what to expect
if your show is selected
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