Scrypt Lab application

Now Accepting Applications

Please read the info below before applying at the bottom of the page

Have a script that’s feral, fragile, grotesque, or gloriously queer?

StageFright Festival is opening applications for a one-on-one Script Development Lab devoted to bold, text-driven performance rooted in queer horror, surrealism, absurdity, clown logic, and genre rupture.

This is individualized development. Not a group class. Not a passive residency.

We’re looking for scripted shorts, solo works, and text-forward performance pieces that are in progress and ready to be sharpened.

Selected Artists Receive:

• Dedicated one-on-one dramaturgy to strengthen structure, stakes, and thematic clarity

• Individual budgeting guidance. practical support on how to realistically budget your work, from bare-bones survival mode to sustainable production planning

• Support navigating self-producing fundamentals

• A promo strategy session to craft a strong, compelling promotional image

• Producing consultation (timeline, scope, technical needs)

• Support with casting strategy and finding actors, if needed

• CoHo Resource Center membership for July-Sept to help with rehearsal space needs

• Optional directorial collaboration — I am available to direct the staged presentation or support your team in shaping it, depending on your needs and vision

• A staged reading or developmental presentation during the festival

This lab is for work in motion. The final presentation is a testing ground, not necessarily a finished premiere.

If your script needs clearer bones, deeper danger, sharper edges, apply!