Our Selection Process

The company seeks to recommend a play if it fulfills the following criteria:

1. Dramaturgy 

• Great roles for actors — bravura roles attractive to leading talent

2. Story Elements

• Powerful, well-crafted script — well written, telling a dynamic story

3. Potential Audience/Market

• Universal market appeal — of interest to a large potential audience
• Significant subsidiary market opportunity — first production leading to worldwide royalties and rights for the investors

4. Cost to Produce 

• Modest budget — smaller casts, simple scenery

With recommended scripts, SLP takes an advocacy stance and champions scripts by:

• Recommending and promoting scripts to appropriate theatre and production companies
• Working with playwrights to develop plays
• Optioning appropriate candidates for production
• Raising production capital,
• Producing the best of The Project’s findings
• Working with other producers to bring new projects to the stage
• Leveraging productions to a wider audience through other media.