Our Selection Process
The company seeks to recommend a play if it fulfills the following criteria:
- Dramaturgy
- Great roles for actors — bravura roles attractive to leading talent
- Story Elements
- Powerful, well-crafted script — well written, telling a dynamic story
- 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
- 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.