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
  1. Story Elements
  • Powerful, well-crafted script — well written, telling a dynamic story
  1. 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
  1. 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.