Get in Touch
Three ways in. Write with a question, take a short route through the site if you are not sure where to begin, or sign up for a letter that arrives twice a year and never more often than that.
Where to go
Three pages in this section
Two addresses, two purposes
Pick the one that fitsJeanmarie
Enquiries, collaborations, workshops, residencies, and guest discussions. This address reaches her rather than an office.
Upstage Left Press
Performance rights, scripts, review copies, and educator resources, including invoices and purchase orders.
If you write to the wrong one, nothing is lost. The message is passed along.
Most messages are answered within a few days. Licensing enquiries that need a quotation can take a little longer, because each one is read against the play before a figure is given.
When a production is in rehearsal or on tour, replies slow down for a week or two. Write anyway, and say if a decision is waiting on it.
There is no contact form that disappears into a queue. A person reads every message, and a student from a small programme is answered as carefully as a producing theatre.
Who gets in touch most often
Four kinds of letterEducators
Asking for a review copy, a scene packet, or a play that fits a term and a class.
Directors
Looking for a script they can actually stage, with a known cast size and running time.
Actors and students
After audition material, solo pieces, or coaching with Jeanmarie directly.
Readers and press
Wanting the book, an interview, an image, or forty years of coverage in one place.
Build a shortlist as you read
Every play on the site carries a star. Press it and the play joins your shortlist, which follows you from page to page. When you are ready, send the whole shortlist in one message rather than writing about each title separately.
Send a short message
For anything at allIf your message is about rights or scripts, the contact page carries a subject line that routes it to Upstage Left Press.
The company and the press
Who is behind the workArizona Theatre Matters, based in Phoenix, produces live and digital performance and amplifies underrepresented voices. Jeanmarie has been its Founding Artistic Director since 2012.
Upstage Left Press publishes the plays in print and handles licensing and permissions for every title in the catalogue, including the second edition of When Churchyards Yawn and Other Plays.
New plays, new productions, twice a year
A short letter when a play is finished, when a production opens, or when new classroom material becomes available. Nothing else.