What does Feltering mean?
OED 3.b.
c1400
To mingle in carnal intercourse.
c1400 (?c1380)
& fylter folyly in fere, on femmalez wyse.Similar words?
meddle @1398
felter c1400
intransitive. To mingle in carnal intercourse.
company a1425–
intransitive. To have sexual intercourse or a sexual relationship. Chiefly with with. Also figurative. Cf. company, n. 2b. Now archaic and rare.
swive c1440–
intransitive. To copulate.
jape a 1450–1589
intransitive. To have sexual intercourse. Obsolete.
mell c1450–1832
intransitive (in Middle English also reflexive). To copulate; to have sexual intercourse. Frequently with with. Obsolete.
Latest (but definitely NOT final) version of RETROSPECTIVE
Equity Showcase Code
We will be an Equity Showcase in the BBTF
Acceptance Letter from BBTF
Dear T.J.,
Congratulations! We would like to invite you and your play Retropective to participate in Broadway Bound Theatre Festival 2025. We’re excited to begin working alongside you to ensure your production’s success.
Please let us know within 24 hours by sending us the back page of the contract that is attached to this email. Your signature indicates that you will be a part of this year’s festival.
A non-refundable payment of $1000 will secure your slot in the festival. Once we have received your signatory page, we will send you a link to make your payment.
Please note that you have not secured your play’s slot in the festival until we have received your signed contract and participation fee.
If you don’t want to accept this offer, please be kind enough to let us know ASAP out of courtesy for another playwright who does want to participate.
Feel free to share this good news with family and close friends, but we ask that you don’t post anything on social media or other websites until we’ve officially announced our 2025 lineup. We will notify you when you can make your good news public.
Again, congratulations and welcome to BBTF!
Sincerely,
Rick Sayers
General Manager
BBTF
What BBTF provides I
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM BBTF
- We’re dedicated to providing playwrights with a professional venue and all the tools they need to effectively and affordably produce the Off-Broadway premiere of their play. This includes workshops, access to our interactive online forum, full time support from BBTF staff, an audience talk back, rewriting sessions and dramaturgy.
- We’re most proud of the support we at BBTF give our playwrights. If a production is selected to participate in BBTF, we promise to never put our stamp on it should it go on to be a successful post festival. BBTF neither requires any acknowledgment of its festival in future productions, nor does it take a percentage of any future revenues or require the distribution of producer points, nor will it instigate negotiations for credit should any participating production be approached with financial interest during or after the festival.
- OUR CRITIQUES – BBTF is a festival where playwrights take center stage. Toward that end, everything we do within the festival framework is to help educate and support the playwrights to produce their own shows.
- OUR FORUM – All playwrights are expected to join BBTF’s private Facebook community, which serves as a sounding board and a social forum for our participants, their directors and technical crew. In the past, we’ve used this forum to host digital workshops, to enable expedient distribution of materials, to communicate directly with playwrights about time sensitive topics, to discuss our prop/set sharing lists, to share videos of our festival light plot channel check, venue tour, and to promote each other’s projects as well as get to know each other.
- OUR WORKSHOPS – Every season we host a number of Zoom workshops during which our playwrights have the opportunity to interact with working industry professionals and discuss things that both relate directly to the festival experience and to the theatre industry overall.
- OUR TEAM – We limit our seasons to up to 15 plays so that personal relationships can be maintained with each of our playwrights throughout the production process.
○ Our Festival Director is readily available to discuss the development of your script and work with your one-on-one throughout the rewrite process, as is the rest of
the writing team
○ Our General Manager handles cross promotion, ticket sales and box office, including comps and industry invites
● OUR VENUE – Right on 45th Street, nowhere could be more exciting (or impressive) to present your Off-Broadway premiere. Participants and their SMs and Design Teams are
expected to attend a pre-festival tour of the theater followed by Q&A with the festival staff. This site tour is scheduled for Monday, July 21st, 2025 after load-in. (Tentatively
from 5:00 to 8:00 PM)
● OUR TALKBACKS – Every playwright has the option of Audience Feedback Forms after every show, and one sit-in audience talkback. We know the future of theatre is the collaboration between theatre-makers and an actively engaged audience.
● OUR COMPS – All our playwrights are given up to 15 complimentary tickets (one for every other show in the festival as well as their own) and all festival participants (including actors, directors, stage managers, operators, etc.) are invited to see any
participating production without charge on a standby basis. We’re committed to creating a community of encouragement where theater professionals can meet, discuss, collaborate, and freely network with their fellow theatre makers.
● OUR PROGRAM – Each playwright and play is showcased on the BBTF website, social media as well as in multiple email blasts. Every production is given a page in the BBTF program, which includes the title of play, playwright name, list of actors and crew, show dates/times, show synopsis, and production artwork. Productions are encouraged to print their own handouts if they so choose, in order to highlight their individual casts
and acknowledgments.
● OUR PARTNERS – BBTF participants reap the benefits of our staff’s industry network in hiring their technical crew and creative teams. We facilitate the process by offering you lists of proven professionals familiar with the Festival and its restrictions and within budget.
■ Directors
■ Stage Managers
■ Music Directors
■ Lighting Designers
■ Sound Designers
■ Production Designer (props, costumes, backstage needs, etc.)
● OUR STAFF AND TECH SUPPORT: Our festival staff is experienced in the festival tradition and commercial theatre: Festival Director Lenore Skomal, professional playwright/producer and festival founder, General Manager Rick Sayers, co-founder, and our professional technical team of seasoned Production Manager Sarah Schetter, and award-winning Sound Designer and Coordinator Kimberly O’Loughlin.
What BBTF Provides II
DEDICATED MARKETING EFFORTS:
BBTF is responsible for marketing the festival as a whole and will feature all participating shows in its marketing material. (Notable past listings include: The New York Times, TimeOut New York, Playbill, The Huffington Post, and The Village Voice, among many others.)
BBTF’s responsibility is to build interest in the festival and our marketing is geared toward this goal. We were established in 2016
and have developed a strong network in the community and throughout the industry.
However, it is the responsibility of each individual production to build interest and attract an audience for their specific play and their publicity should work in conjunction with ours toward that goal. Promoting your work is the business side of playwriting.
Publicity is the playwright’s responsibility. BBTF does not endorse any NY-based freelance publicists or industry professionals.
The BBTF organizers will coordinate all press announcements regarding the general Festival and will provide playwrights with notice of such announcements if necessary.
Festival organizers reserve the right to refuse any media opportunity. Only when festival press announcements have been released may applicants begin to share their press
releases.
Playwrights are not to use the name “Broadway Bound Theatre Festival” or any other trademarks or logos of the Festival without prior written approval from the Festival.
What BBTF provides III
- Our email is monitored 24-hours. This ensures that no question is left unanswered.
- Our Festival Production Manager will attend your tech, to facilitate and troubleshoot, ensuring it will go smoothly
- Our Festival Sound Designer will work with your production’s Sound Designer to ensure that the quality of your production is top notch
- One of our inhouse Technical Directors/Board Op will run your lighting and sound (straight plays), so you will not need to hire your own
- A fully outfitted Theatrical Lighting System. This includes:
- ■ An ETC Element 2 Lighting console
- ■ A Repertory Lighting Plot consisting of dimmable RGB LED fixtures
Our qualified staff on site for each performance
● Light Board Op/Lighting Programmer
● Sound Engineer/A1
○ Festival Repertory paperwork and files:
■ Lighting and Sound Plots
■ Lighting Magic Sheet
■ Sound Input-Output Sheet and Signal Line Diagram
■ EOS Show File
■ Sound Console and QLab Files
■ Example Tech Schedule
WHAT BBTF EXPECTS FROM KWT
● PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS: BBTF is a professional environment and we hold our participants to a professional standard from your signing of the contract. We expect
open communication during the rehearsal process as well as permission to visit
rehearsal to ensure you will confidently present a quality finished production,
completely off-book, and in adherence to BBTF festival rules.
● ENGAGEMENT: By choosing to participate in BBTF, you’re choosing to be active in our community. Collaboration is one of our cornerstones. Once accepted into BBTF, playwrights become part of something much bigger than just themselves and their
plays. Playwrights are expected to attend multiple workshops, participate in the interactive online playwrights forum, as well as attend other shows in the festival and their talkbacks, creating a supportive and constructive environment.
● ADHERENCE TO DEADLINES: Deadlines include, but are not limited to:
○ LOGLINE/SYNOPSIS/ARTWORK FINALIZED: Monday, June 10, 2025. We will work with you to create the ideal logline and synopsis. If you are providing key art for your play, this must be submitted in a final form by that date as well.
○ REHEARSAL VISIT: MID TO LATE JUNE, 2025. Submit rehearsal schedule and expect a BBTF staffer to attend your rehearsals.
○ BRING-IN LIST FINALIZED: Monday, June 17, 2025. A complete list of all equipment (props/set/costumes) you intend to bring into the building must be
provided to BBTF. Please note you will be given dimensions for a plastic tub that
you will have to adhere to with no exceptions. Storage is very limited at NYC
theatres, and AMT is no exception. BBTF is built on scripts alone. We vigorously
enforce our minimal sets and costumes rule.
○ CAST/CREW/DESIGN TEAMS FINALIZED: Monday, June 30, 2025. Your final cast,
crew and designers list must be submitted for security and standby lists.
○ PROP FIREARMS/WEAPONS DUE: Two weeks before Tech.
○ FIREPROOFING AFFIDAVITS DUE: One week before Tech. All productions must fireproof all necessary production pieces, if applicable (soft goods and flats).
Productions shall provide the proper affidavits attesting to the fireproofing of its stage scenery, equipment and paraphernalia and make the proof of fireproofing available at all times said items are in the theater building.
○ MANDATORY SOUND & LIGHTING DESIGNER ZOOM MEETINGS: Week of Monday, July 14, 2025.
○ MANDATORY SITE TOUR AT VENUE: Monday, July 21, 2025 from 5-8:00 PM.
TECH is August 12th at 9AM
at AMT 354 West 45th Street
PREPARATION FOR TECHS: Each performance gets a 4-hour tech. Before your tech, you
are required to prepare.
○ A dry/paper tech is mandatory. You should make sure that you’ve integrated the lighting, sound, etc. efficiently so you are prepared
○ Our Production Manager will follow up to ensure that you have thoroughly rehearsed your show on paper prior to your tech.
○ THIS IS IMPORTANT
TICKETING
TICKETING
Box Office and Prices:
● AMT uses an outside vendor to handle ticket sales for your shows, which will be utilized by BBTF for the sale of your tickets.
● Productions may not sell tickets directly.
● Tickets are priced at $30 online (playwrights will be informed when sales go live on the BBTF website — probably around Memorial Day). Only tickets purchased through the box office, or through the online ticketing service provider shall be valid for admission to the plays.
● All audience members must be ticketed. No audience members will be granted entry to the theater without a ticket, electronic or printed, unless cleared by the General Manager ahead of time via BBTF’s comping system.
● Videographers must be confirmed with the General Manager at least 24 hours prior to the performance being filmed.
Comp Tickets:
● Participating playwrights are provided with 1 complimentary ticket to every other production in the festival (a total of up to 15 comp tickets per playwright). Participants may select which of the three performances they would like to attend from each
production and must confirm attendance with the General Manager at least 24 hours before the scheduled performance so a seat can be held.
● Playwrights and directors are comped into all three performances of their own production.
● All BBTF 2025 participants, including actors, directors, stage managers, operators, etc., are invited to see any participating production without charge on a standby basis. To be admitted, their name must appear on their production’s pre-approved cast/crew list and show ID at the box office.
○ No ID, no ticket, no exceptions.
● BBTF makes no guarantee to have any essential industry attend performances, though this is a priority for the Festival. The producing playwright is responsible for soliciting industry interest, if this is one of their festival goals. BBTF will keep open communication with the playwright if/when we are approached by an industry member wishing to attend a performance. Playwrights will be notified if reviewers and/or other essential
members of industry attend their shows in advance of the performance. (Please note: the comp policy is limited to industry professionals who can advance the playwright’s
work, such as producers, reviewers, angel investors and the like.) All names submitted are vetted ahead of time by BBTF and must be approved.
● If a playwright or production member purchases a block of tickets to be distributed, BBTF must be provided with a full list of names of the individuals to whom those tickets
will be distributed, in writing, at least 24 hours in advance of the performance for which the block was purchased.
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