Apply to Zoom Fest!
Application for the Winter Planet Connections Online Fest
Application-for-Winter-Zoom-Fest Download
Welcome! We’re so happy you’re considering presenting with us. Please read all of this information carefully.
In order to secure your date, email the following information to Assistant Artistic Director Kim Jones at PlanetKimJ@gmail.com. Please cc: Artistic Director Glory Kadigan at PlanetGlory@gmail.com. Once this information is completely submitted, we will email you a date of performance. Applications are rolling.
We are currently seeking productions that are 10-60 minutes in length. If your play is under 30 minutes, it may be paired with other short plays to create an evening of shorts.
Show Title:
Name of Playwright:
Summary (2-3 sentences):
Image (For Marketing/Website):
Approximate run Time of your play:
Name of Main Contact:
Position on Project of Main Contact:
Phone number of Main Contact:
Email of Main Contact:
Name of Secondary Contact:
Position on Project of Secondary Contact:
Phone number of Secondary Contact:
Email of Secondary Contact:
Please list your cast and crew to be listed on our website. Please include union information:
Please note - we do not wish to present writers who also wish to act in their own show. In general, we discourage people wearing more than one hat. Please only apply if you are someone who is only wearing one hat for your show meaning you’re just writing or just directing or just acting.
How did you hear of us and/or what inspired you to apply to present with us?
A full cast list, including the cast members emails and payment information, must be submitted in full, 14 days prior to your production. Please provide a full contact list including emails 14 days prior to your reading to: PlanetKimJ@gmail.com and PlanetCharlesC@gmail.com
Please email your script or idea of presentation to: PlanetKimJ@gmail.com and PlanetGlory@gmail.com
Please read the below information carefully before submitting. Please inform your Stage Manager, Cast and Crew of the following as needed:
Please note – We are asking our artists to create theatrical experiences. Please meditate on inventive ways you can create a theatrical experience for your audience. We’re encouraging off-book fully realized productions but realize this might not be completely possible depending on the group. Regardless, please attempt to create a theatrical experience. In the past for this medium our artists have created scenery out of items from their apartment, done a sing-along with the audience, used flashlights to light themselves, altered the Zoom background behind the actors, interspersed video with live performances and much more. We encourage you to be creative.
Planet Connections is a community. We request that all productions cast/hire 50% from our community members. For a list of community directors, stage-managers, virtual designers, and actors, please email Glory Kadigan at PlanetGlory@gmail.com If this is your first production with us, and you wish to become a community member, the best way to become involved, is to attend other artists productions and introduce yourself to the other artists after their shows.
You must take-on a stage manager for your show. Planet Connections has a list of Stage Managers we work with regularly. Fees vary based on experience. Planet Connections is not responsible for your Stage Managers fee. You may also hire outside of our network and make your own financial arrangements. But you do need someone to call/run the cues for your show.
Your actors, directors, writers, designer and stage manager should submit their 50 word bios to Sydney Prince at PlanetSydney1@gmail.com by your tech date. It would be easiest if your Stage Manager collected these into one document and then emailed them all to Sydney as a unit. These bios will be given to all your audience members who have registered with Eventbrite so that your audience can read about the creators of your production.
Your audience members need to register on the Eventbrite link for your show by 5pm on the day of the performance. Planet Connections cannot be responsible for providing a link or admitting your guests last minute. Anyone not on the Eventbrite list, will not be admitted. To get your Eventbrite link, please contact PlanetKimJ@gmail.com
Planet Connections will set up the Zoom room for you and will email you a link. Please do not send this link out to mass mailing lists. Please only give the link to people you know.
House will open ten minutes to curtain. Please encourage audience members to arrive 10 minutes to curtain as it’s impossible for us to check everyone off the Eventbrite list simultaneously. Questions about ticketing or guests lists can be directed to PlanetKimJ@gmail.com. Kim and her team will act as House Managers for your production.
We ask that you and your team, sign-in to the Zoom room, 30 minutes prior to curtain, to work out the details of top and end of show, with our staff. Please have your stage manager with your show image ready/downloaded so that it can be screenshared. This is so you have an image the audience sees, with the title of your show, prior to us opening the zoom room. Please also have your house music/sound design ready for your stage manager to operate. We’ll be doing a check 30 minutes to curtain.
Planet Connections Associate Artistic Director Kim Jones will monitor the room while your show is in progress. Please discuss with our monitors in advance regarding “late comers” and whether or not you wish to admit them. Please direct these questions to PlanetKimJ@gmail.com
An emcee will be making a speech at the top of your show. Planet Connections writes this speech and any changes must be cleared with Glory in advance of your tech. Please make sure your Stage Manager contacts the emcee as well as Glory and Kim regarding your tech time. The emcee, Glory and/or Kim will be present at your tech to work out the transition between the emcee and the top of show as well as between the end of your show and the curtain call/emcee wrap up.
Your show image: you are responsible for creating this yourself just as you would create a postcard for a show within a festival. Your image should say “Planet Connections Zoom Fest Presents” followed by the title of your show, the date and time. Please list all actors, stage-manager, director, designers and playwrights along with their union. Your image must be approved by Planet Connections before you can begin distributing it on social media. Please email your image to PlanetGlory@gmail.com, as soon as possible. Please refrain from using images involving drugs, excessively violence, or anything illegal. Please refrain from selecting an image that might be triggering to audience members particularly during the pandemic. The sooner you have a conversation with Glory regarding the marketing of your show, the better. Planet Connections can provide designers to design your image for a small fee.
Changes to the website should be emailed to: and Gabrielle Filloux at planetgabriellef@gmail.com
Changes to the Newsletter/Planet Connections e-blast should be emailed to: Sydney Prince at Planetsydney1@gmail.com
Changes to the Eventbrite Link/Image should be e-mailed to PlanetKimJ@gmail.com
Please note that you must submit your complete casting information to PlanetSydney1@gmail.com by the 20th of the month proceeding your show, regardless of when your show is performing. Planet Connections sends out a Newsletter announcing the line-up for the entire month on the final week of that month. After the newsletter has been sent out, changes to casting and/or your show image may not be possible. So please do insure you are fully cast by the 20th of the month prior to your show – to insure you are part of the newsletter. If this is not possible, we will simply write TBA but updates later – may not be able to be included.
Planet Connections will accept donations on your behalf via our website. Collected money will be dispersed amongst you cast members, director, playwright, and designers evenly. We prefer that everyone sign up for Zelle as this is the safest way to compensate you. Your entire team should submit their payment info to their Stage Manager who will send it to our Managing Director Charles Casano at planetcharlesc@gmail.com Any questions regarding payment should be directed to Charles. Please give us 7-10 business days to get the payment out to your team. If you do not hear anything with in 10 days, please contact Charles Casano.
If you have Equity actors in your cast, then you must partner with an organization like Broadway Cares or Actors Fund and file for the Theater Authority Code. Actors Equity does not allow Union actors to perform on Zoom – even if it’s just a reading – unless they are performing under Theater Authority Code (cheapest) and/or you file a Special Guest Artist agreement with Equity resulting in about $270 per week per union actor plus health care. If you are considering union performers, Planet Connections is happy to meet with you to go through all the parameters regarding this.
For non-union shows, Planet Connections keeps 10% of the collected donations to cover our staff, and to cover admin charges from Zelle, Fractured Atlas, Venmo, Paypal and other financial services that may be used to compensate you. Planet Connections will give you the names and emails of all your donors and we request that you write a personal thank you, thanking them for their donation to your art.
Please note: Planet Connections also presents “Curated Evenings” within the line-up. “Curated Evenings”, have their financials handled directly by Planet Connections. “Curated Evenings” also have different parameters for marketing and organizational structures. These evenings usually include 90 percent Community Members and are frequently evenings of short plays with multiple directors, writers and casts. “Curated Evenings” should include only one stage-manager for the entire evening to make organizing easier. We also request that directors agree on one designer for the evening to create a cohesive look. For curated one-act evenings, Artistic Directors Glory Kadigan and Kim Jones do reserve the right to alter your running order after your tech. A discussion with the director and producer would occur beforehand. To apply to curate your own evening, please speak with Glory Kadigan directly. Curators should be Planet Connections Community Members.
Once you’ve submitted all your information, we will contact you regarding a date. This is a first come, first served situation so the sooner you complete this application, the sooner you’ll be given a date.
Thanks so much and keep creating!
-Planet Connections