Charles M. Getchell New Play Contest

Submission Period

Entries are accepted between March 1 and June 1, annually. Please review the guidelines before filling out and submitting your application. Complete applications should be sent to Getchell Chair Joe Frost at setc.getchell@gmail.com.

About Moving

Over the span of thirty years in one apartment, couples move in, move out, come together, fall apart, and move on through life’s choices.

About the Playwright

Sean Michael McCord is a writer living in Charlottesville, Virginia. He studied film at UCLA and spent his twenties as a struggling screenwriter in Los Angeles before moving first to New York and then crossing south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Sean works at the University of Virginia Library and is a founding member of the Charlottesville Playwrights Collective, a company of writers dedicated to producing new works. He also hosts a monthly radio program on WPVC-FM.

Sean has had plays produced in Virginia, Kentucky, Colorado, California, and Stuttgart, Germany. He is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting as a member of the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University.

2018 Respondent

Craig Pospisil

Craig Pospisil is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. He’s the author of Months on End, Somewhere in Between, The Dunes and Life Is Short, published by DPS. His work has been seen in New York, LA, around the U.S., and in 17 countries, and has been translated into seven languages. His short film January was screened at over a dozen film festivals, including Bahamas, Berkshire, Big Apple, Hollywood Sky and Roma Cinema. He has written more than 60 short plays, including It’s Not You (theAtrainplays), Dissonance (Best American Short Plays 2010–2011), and There’s No Here Here (Best American Short Plays 2014–2015).