The Best of Fresh Blood 2014

LA PETITE MORGUE is proud to announce our selections for The Best of Fresh Blood 2014! We have received over 270 submissions, and since the Fresh Blood reading series began in August 2012, we have shared over FIFTY short horror plays with our audience. Every playwright who has had their work read at Fresh Blood should be proud of their work. Narrowing down our choices was very difficult, but we are pleased to be producing the following works of horror this July:

The next step is to recruit some fearless directors - so, if you know any masochists with God complexes, please, send them our way - and once we have built our team, we will be announce our audition dates!

In the meantime, don't forget to join us on Wednesday, May 7 - in your best blood-splattered formal wear! - for A Night to Dismember: The Fresh Blood PROM, at 8pm at The Dressing Room in lower Manhattan.

Seeking Fearless Directors

We have the dates! We have the times! We have the shows! And now we need the directors to bring The Best of Fresh Blood to life! If you are interested in directing, you can send your resume to: LaPetiteMorgue@gmail.com. If you're not sold on the idea, here's some more information:

What We're Offering:

• Your choice of scripts. We will let you read the selected scripts and choose the one you like best. If you don't like any of the scripts, no hard feelings! We'll still keep your resume on file for next time. You won't get stuck directing a script you don't like. That's for people who are getting a paycheck.
• Fancy lighting and a real sound system. The space (Stage Left Studio) has very fancy lighting, plus a projector and a sound system. No need to bring your own heat lamps or run the sound cues off your iPod - LPM is moving up in the world!
• Air conditioned performance space. If you've ever done a show in July that didn't offer AC, you realize how important this is.
• An assistant. Not only do you get to boss around your actors (that is why Kellie directs plays), you also get to boss around (within reason) a wannabe future director - someone with limited directing experience who wants to study at your feet, learn from you, and more importantly, be on book when actors call "Line?"
• Help finding props and costumes. We can't promise to reimburse you for all of your expenses, but we can promise to help you buy, beg, borrow, and/or steal what you need from our vast network of fans and horror enthusiasts.
• Marketing, publicity, and programs. Yes, we want you to invite your family and friends. When it comes to indie theatre, word of mouth is the most important form of marketing. But the burdens of writing the press release, printing the programs, running the box office, sucking up to critics, and otherwise attempting to drum up an audience is on the company, not on you.
• A special effects makeup designer/artist. To handle any special effects makeup your show may need! (Not to do your laundry. Pervert.)
• All the Fake Blood you can drink. It's sticky, but delicious!
• We can help you find your cast, but you are under no obligation to use "our" actors. If you have friends you want to work with, you can skip the auditions and recruit them.
• You determine your own rehearsal schedule, with the exception of a communal first read-through (TBA), tech rehearsal/dress rehearsal (July 16), and performances (July 17-19).
• You get to see the other shows for free. Depending on how fundraising goes, you might even be able to bring a guest.
• Our undying gratitude.*

But wait, there's more!

Upcoming Fresh Blood Themes!

Hey, scary playwrights!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that we are currently seeking horror & suspense plays for the following themes:

"Revenge Served Cold"
Submissions due by: March 24, 2014
Reading: April 2, 2014

"Prom Night"
Submissions due by: April 16, 2014
Reading: May 7, 2014

Make sure to review our general submission guidelines, then send your play to: lapetitemorgue@gmail.com

<3,
LPM

"Seven Years" by Margaret Donahue

Did you miss Fresh Blood last night? Check out this video of the La Petite Morgue crew reading Seven Years by Margaret Donahue!
 And don't forget to join us April 2 for the next edition of Fresh Blood!