ACTOR CASTING REGISTRATIONS OPEN! | CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR ACTORS POOL
Join our casting pool for the 2023 Short+Sweet Illawarra Theatre Festival! We have multiple directors currently looking to fill roles for their short plays!
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN | SUBMIT NOW
Thank you for your interest in submitting a play to the Short+Sweet Illawarra Theatre Festival!
PLEASE NOTE DIRECTOR APPLICATIONS FOR SHORT+SWEET ILLAWARRA HAVE CLOSED FOR 2023
Registrations are now open for new and experienced directors to take the helm of one of our shortlisted local and international scripts for Short+Sweet Illawarra 2023.
Thank you for your interest in submitting to the SHORT+SWEET MANILA FILM FESTIVAL!
All our short films are submitted via FILMFREEWAY.
CLICK HERE to go to our Filmfreeway submission page.
If you are unable to make payment for, or cannot afford the submission fee. You can apply for a fee waiver code. Click here to apply for a fee waiver. Please note, each festival has limited fee waiver codes allocated.
Thank you for your interest in submitting to our inaugural SHORT+SWEET CEBU FILM FESTIVAL!
All our short films are submitted via FILMFREEWAY.
CLICK HERE to go to our Filmfreeway submission page.
If you are unable to make payment for, or cannot afford the submission fee. You can apply for a fee waiver code. Click here to apply for a fee waiver. Please note, each festival has limited fee waiver codes allocated.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR VOCAL & CHOIR GROUPS
An exciting new showcase festival of a cappella singing will make its Short+Sweet Illawarra debut this year and is now calling for entries.
It promises to stretch the boundaries of choral performance, rewarding innovation, excellence and creativity with the winning acts as voted by the audience and industry judges to take part in the first Short+Sweet Illawarra Gala Final Showcase alongside the best acts from its Theatre, Cabaret and Dance festivals.
Short+Sweet provides audiences with a ‘tasting plate’ of bite-sized morsels of creative work, while priding itself on the development of emerging artists and new work through its consistent format of 10-minute performance.
Short + Sweet Illawarra now launches its latest endeavour – a festival aimed at showcasing and developing the extraordinary vocal talent found across Australia. The Festival Director is well-known Wollongong actor, director and producer Luke Berman who enthused about the new addition to the Short+Sweet Illawarra stable – now making the Wollongong arm the most versatile of any of Short+Sweet festival in the world.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR VOCAL & CHOIR GROUPS | Short+Sweet Illawarra 2023
All performances will be presented at Bridge Street Theatre in Coniston this coming August.
Check out this sample of Short+Sweet Voices Sydney 2015
ENTRY/COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS
The two favourite acts as voted by our Judges and audience will also return in our end of season Short+Sweet Illawarra Gala Final Showcase.
FURTHER INFORMATION contact luke.berman@shortandsweet.org.
Play Registrations For Short+Sweet Sydney 2024 have closed
GOOD NEWS:
You can still enter as an ITC/independant theatre company (FREE entry) https://shortandsweet.org/form/itc-registration-shortsweet-sydney
NEW OPPERTUNITY
Director Applications have now opened: Click here to beome a Short+Sweet director: https://shortandsweet.org/form/clone-director-registration-shortsweet-sy...
About Short + Sweet Sydney 2024:
Short + Sweet Sydney 2024 will bring about a revitalized and bold festival headed by the new festival director Liviu Monsted.
Short +Sweet Sydney 2024 aims to focus on new and unique ideas with an added emphasis on spotlighting the individual writers behind the works and their process.
We will be introducing the following new initiatives into the program to better acknowledge the writing and to support the production process.
1. A new award!
Short + Sweet Sydney 2024 will be introducing a new award category:
The Unique Play Award – This award is designed to put a spotlight on plays that have an original or unique premise. We are looking for plays that push boundaries and are utterly like no other, whether that be in structure, premise, tone or style.
2. The mentor program
It is most important that we encourage first timers into the festival on all fronts, from writers to directors and so on. To facilitate the newcomers, we will have 6 Short+Sweet alumni who will act as mentors to the newcomers.
3. A Short + Sweet Sydney Blog
This blog will follow up on Short +Sweet Sydney alumni, we will have interviews, thought pieces, insights and more. If you have ever been part of short + Sweet Sydney and have a project youd like to share, let us know what your up to and we'll post about it.
https://ashortcatchup.wixsite.com/a-short-catch-up
4. Screen to Play Initiative
We are accepting 10 min screenplay's.
Adapt your screenplay for the stage. This is a cheap and affective way to see if your screenplay has legs.
> Get valuable audiance feedback
> See if the narrative/ dialogue is affective
> find a cast and director
> Get lots of publicity
> Save a ton of money on script development
How to enter screenplay:
You simply enter your adapted screenplay at our script entry portal and write in inverted comas (screenplay) next to play title.
If you don't want to adapt the work yourself, you can opt for a director to help adapt the work, simply write (director adapt) at the head of the synopsis section.
5. The School Initiative
Short + Sweet Sydney 2024 is opening its doors to your drama students!
Short + Sweet Sydney is accepting ITC applications from HSC group performances. We are also opening our doors to writers in your drama class and are offering interships for studants wanting a Cert 3 in Live Production, Theatre and Events.
Short + Sweet Sydney 2024 is putting the spotlight back on the writer and we look forward to reading your works.
Play submissions close 1st August.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Liviu Monsted
Festival Director - Short + Sweet Sydney
Ph: 0402940275
Email: liviumonsted.shortandsweet@gmail.com
Thank you for your interest in submitting to the SHORT+SWEET ILLAWARRA FILM FESTIVAL!
All our short films are submitted via FILMFREEWAY.
CLICK HERE to go to our Filmfreeway submission page.
If you are unable to make payment for, or cannot afford the submission fee. You can apply for a fee waiver code. Click here to apply for a fee waiver. Please note, each festival has limited fee waiver codes allocated.
Short+Sweet Illawarra is proud to bring back our CABARET strand into its epic 2023 season, performing alongside our Theatre, Film, Dance and Voices strands.
Short+Sweet Cabaret is a festival of 10 minute cabaret pieces. We provide a professional platform for artists to create and present new works while providing the audience with an intimate entertainment experience.
By merging theatre and music, we create an atmosphere of inspiration and exploration. Stories, characters and songs are tested, risks are taken, and the audience participates in original and exciting projects.
We encourage all forms of cabaret - song, burlesque, magic, comedy, political - you name it! But remember at Short+ Sweet you only have 10 minutes!
Submissions and expressions of interest are now open!
Enter your cabaret act now or email luke.berman@shortandsweet.org