APPLICATIONS INSTRUCTIONS FOR

WHAT THE HELL IS AN ANTIDEPRESSANT THEATER FESTIVAL?
It's a festival about happiness. Questionable happiness. Medicated happiness.
This festival is on happy pills. Show us what that might look like.

WHAT KIND OF WORKS ARE CONSIDERED?
We're looking for theater works which showcase all aspects of questionable and medicated happiness. These applications should be proposed theatrical productions which have directors attached. Premieres are preferred.

WHAT DOES IT COST YOU ?
Nothing. There are no application fees or entrance fees. Box office ($15 per ticket) from each production will be split equally between the production’s artists and The Brick Theater, Inc. 

HOW MANY WORKS WILL BE ACCEPTED?
A MODEST amount. While The Brick would be thrilled to present as many quality projects as apply, the Festival will be able to showcase only a limited number of works.

WHAT ARE THE THEATER'S SPECIFICATIONS?
The primary space at The Brick is a raised, sprung wood floor that incorporates audience and stage space. The stage area in the festival setup will be approximately 21 feet wide by 25 feet deep. The depth may be lesser to include a curtained off area in the back for backstage use and light storage. The height is 12 feet to the lighting grid, not including obstruction from lights that hang below the grid. The stage space is covered with black dance marleys.

LIGHTING AND SOUND SYSTEMS
The theater has 21 Source Fours, 1 Parcan, 2 Birdie lights (mounted on floor stands), 2 color scrollers and 2 moving I-Cue lights (controllable from the light board). The light board is a 24-channel ETC Express programmable light board. The sound system includes two CD players, an amplifier, a soundboard (with inputs for iPods and laptops), an equalizer, four speakers, 1 XLR snake, and four microphones with stands.

VIDEO PROJECTION
The theater has at least one video projector connected to a DVD player. The theater has a removable film screen that is approximately 20 feet long by 12 feet high. These are available to all festival productions.

SETS AND STORAGE
While we would love to give significant storage options to all festival productions, The Brick has minimal options for storage, especially with multiple productions running on any given day. As necessary, we will make space available, but we ask that you conceive your production with our space limitations in mind-the more storage space we must provide the smaller the playing area becomes. The Brick will have available an upright piano, chairs and tables and a sofa for each production at a minimum.

PRESS
The Brick Theater, Inc. will publicize the festival and all its artists. The Brick Theater, Inc. will create postcards or informational flyers for the festival, free of charge. However, any production company that wishes to print its own postcards or publicize itself in any other form may do so. If you already have press materials, please send them with your application so that we may get buzz started early. Good press photos given to us early are CRITICAL to your publicity.

TECH REHEARSALS
Each participating company will have one tech/dress rehearsal scheduled on a date ranging from May 25 to the day before your show ‘s first performance. It will be at least twice the length of your production.

ALL-FESTIVAL PASSES
All Participants in the festival will receive passes that allow them to see any festival production for FREE, provided there is room.

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE BRICK?
The way to communicate with and receive information from The Brick is through e-mail at info@bricktheater.com. Please be sure you give us a valid e-mail address and check it daily. 

APPLICATIONS
Mail an Application Packet to

Hope Cartelli
1114 Avenue of the Americas, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10036

postmarked no later than February 14, 2009. The Application Packet must include the following:

1.            A cover letter

2.            The Antidepressant Festival Application Form (available here), printed and filled out as completely as possible.

3.            A script or DETAILED proposal for the performance to be created. The show does not have to be complete in its proposal, however, the more information we have, the better.

4.            A representational video cassette or DVD of your work. THIS IS MANDATORY. The footage may be from a previous production of a different show, as long as it represents the type of work that you intend to create. This media will NOT be returned. Please do not send originals.

5.            Complete Bios for the primary artists

6.            Any press materials (clippings, images, promotional cds and dvds) you would like us to send out with our first round of press releases, should you be accepted in the festival. Send us as many copies of such materials as you care to part with. You may also submit this material after being accepted, but the sooner we receive this material, the
sooner it can be sent out.

7.            Any additional materials that may help in adjudicating your show.

CONFIRMING THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE APPLICATION
If you wish to have receipt of your application confirmed, please send it by Federal Express or Certified Mail with Return Receipt or via messenger.  Please do not email or call us to find out this information.

Please do not send anything to be returned in a self-addressed stamped envelope or otherwise. We cannot return any part of your application once sent.

FINDING OUT IF YOU HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED
Productions will be selected and notifications sent out by March 15th. You will be contacted by email. If you do not receive an acceptance or rejection by March 15th, please send an e-mail to follow up.

Please address any questions to info@bricktheater.com.