WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM BBTF

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We're dedicated to providing playwrights a professional venue and all the tools they need to effectively and affordably produce the premiere of their plays. This includes workshops, regular information packets, access to our interactive online forum, personal relationships with our key festival staff members, an audience talk back, and complimentary tickets to attend every other show in the festival.

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• Our Critiques -- BBTF is a festival where playwrights take center stage. Part of that process is offering them professional feedback from the moment they send in their submission. In exchange for their application fee, each playwrights received a critique, regardless of whether or not they are accepted, that covers the major structure points of their play. If you are selected to participate in BBTF, you can rest assured your play was picked based on its quality alone, since the festival utilizes a double-blind submission process. Our professional playwright readers DO NOT KNOW the authorship of the play they're reading​

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• Our Dramaturgy -- Each playwright/producer works one-on-one in weekly sessions with the festival director (and a musical dramaturg, in the case of a musical) for six to eight weeks prior to locking their script. These sessions culminate with an online reading of the revised script with their fellow playwrights before starting the casting process. This invaluable aspect of the process allows the playwright ample opportunity to craft the strongest version of their work before the production process commences. 

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• Our Team -- BBTF prides itself in our team members, all of whom are theatre professionals networked and employed within the theatre industry in NYC. Participants receive full technical support from our Production Director, Production Manager, Sound and Lightening Designers, and Tech Supervisors. 
   

• Our Training -- From acceptance through rehearsal, we teach our playwrights about every aspect of producing. With the expert help of our mentors, who work individually with each playwright/producer, BBTF guarantees that our playwrights will not fail. This hands-on care creates an atmosphere of mutual trust through creating community and collaboration. By learning the ins-and-outs of self-producing with our guidance, feedback and care, they walk away from the experience with valuable knowledge based on experience, an enhance sense of confidence and the success of producing their own work in a professional Off-Broadway venue.
   

• Our Community - All playwrights interface with each other and all of our team members from the moment of acceptance. By working with each other on the rewrite of their work, collaborating with prop sharing, attending each other's shows and sharing a bond that is often overlooked in professional theatre, BBTF seeks to create an ongoing community of artists who champion each other rather than compete. 

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• Our Venue - AMT Theater is located at 354 West 45th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. This newly renovated, 99-seat, state-of-the-art Off Broadway venue is conveniently located in Times Square Theatre District, walking distance from the major subway, train and bus stops.