| Opportunity | Deadline | Type **see guide |
Address | Phone | Notes/Email/Website NOTE: PPOK=previous productions okay; NoPP=No previous productions or publications, workshops usually OK |
| New Plays from the Heartland: Midwest One-Act Play Competition | Gail Dobbins Midwest One-Act Play Competition |
NoPP. Writers in IL, IN, IA, KY, MI, MO, WI only. Winners receive $150 honorarium. Theme: Anything that happens in a private hospital room. "The patience of patients." All plays must relate to this theme and local - from the ridiculous to the serious. Rules and guidelines at: http://www.heartlandtheatre.org/NewPlays.htm | |||
| TriArts Young Playwrights Festival | Pamela Chassin, Coordinator TriArts Young Playwrights Festival |
NO FEE. Young Playwrights Contest open to students in 3rd-12th grades, living or attending school in CT, MA and NY. Sponsored by TriArts Sharon Playhouse. | |||
| New South Young Playwrights Festival | New South Young Playwrights Festival Horizon Theatre Company P.O. Box 5376 Atlanta, GA 31107 |
Horizon Theatre’s New South Young Playwrights Festival seeks One Act play submissions from high school and college students (full or part-time undergraduates currently enrolled). 20 playwrights will be selected to participate in the Festival—a free week-long residency at the theatre that consists of workshops, seminars, and a reading of their works by professional actors. Submitting playwrights MUST be able to come to Atlanta June 2 - 6, 2009. Two ways to enter your script: 1. Attach as 2 copies as a Word or PDF document and email OR - 2. Send 2 copies typed and securely bound via US mail. | |||
| Towne Street Theatre | Towne Street Theatre 4101 Budlong Avenue #4 Los Angeles, CA 90037 (213) 624-4796 |
NO FEE. Towne Street Theatre ("L.A.’s premiere African-American Theatre Company") is seeking scripts for our 3rd Anual Ten Minute Play Festival. We welcome plays featuring all ethnicities. One play per playwright. Please include short synopsis, number of characters and location play takes place in. http://homepage.mac.com/threeamsoundnorth/townestreet//page56/page56.html | |||
| Coe College Festival Bienniel (odd) |
Coe College Playwriting Festival and Symposia Theater Arts Dept. 1220 First Ave., NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 | http://www.public.coe.edu/departments/theatre/playwriting.htm | |||
| Actors Playhouse National Childrens Theatre Festival |
Earl Maulding, Director of Theatre for Young Audiences, Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre 280 Miracle Mile Coral Gables, Fl. 33134 |
Musicals for young children FEE: $10 | |||
| Funniest Play on Earth/ Cheshire Comedy Publishing | Cheshire Comedy Publishing 49 Congress Street, Suite 29 Nashua, NH 03062 |
NO FEE. Enter your most hilarious comedy plays for a chance at a $500 advance, being published, produced, and forever known as the winner of... The Funniest Play on Earth 2008! Entries must be full-length, unpublished, comedy plays. PPOK. No previously published. A winner will be chosen and contacted by July 1, 2008. The Winner will be chosen by theater companies, producers, and actors from around the country! For multiple entries, use separate emails for each play. Email the play to: 2008@cheshirecomedy.com. | |||
| Heller Theatre | Frank Gallagher, Contest Administrator 5328 S. Wheeling Tulsa, OK 74105 |
Nothing new on site – if you hear anything, let me know. The winning playwright will also receive a $300 prize. Heller Theatre is a small black box theatre that has been producing contemporary theatre for 26 years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | |||
| New York Mills Arts Retreat | 24 N. Main Ave. New York Mills, MN 56567 |
For July through December retreats. | |||
| Children’s Theatre Grants and Fellowships Aurand Harris Children’s Theatre Grants & Fellowship |
CTFA Awards Committee 1114 Red Oak Drive Avon, IN 46123 |
http://www.childrenstheatrefoundation.org/guide.html | |||
| write a play! NYC | Young Playwrights 306 W. 38th St., #300 NY, NY 10018 |
High School student playwrights only | |||
| Grande Prairie Public Library Clem and Muriel Collins Short Story Contest |
(rec’d by) |
9910-99 Avenue Grande Prairie, Alberta T8V 0R5 |
Contest is broken down into grade levels for youth and includes an a category for adults to enter. | ||
| World Premiere Weekend | University of California Irvine California Campus |
NO FEE. A smorgasbord and an extravaganza of new work on the UC Irvine campus. We're looking for original plays to be performed. You can write it for us or it can be something you've already written, as long as it can be considered a "world premiere." All playwrights in the world are encouraged to submit one play (and one play only) to the festival. We have several performance venues available, ranging from theaters to classrooms to sidewalks, but the sky is the limit. Feel free to write for whatever venue you want (or disregard the idea of a venue all together). http://www.worldpremiereweekend.com/pages/nittygrittyplaywrights.html | |||
| Youth Education On Stage | Jack Dyville, Artistic Director 304 71st Street Apt. 5 Guttenberg, NJ 07093 (mailing address) |
NO FEE. Eight 10-Minute plays will be selected for 3 Fully-staged Performances given by Youth ages 8-18 at WHS in Williston North Dakota. Playwrights will receive a DVD of the Festival, a festival tee-shirt + program bios. press, etc. A panel of adjudicators consisting of Community Theatre actors and college and HS educators will select the Top 3 plays and the Audience will select the Audience Favorite. Certificates presented to playwrights plus the credit and honor. Open to Everyone. No Fee to submit. Remember this is rural North Dakota. Age appropriate material, family -oriented plays only. Simple sets. Prefer 3-8 characters. | |||
| Pittsburgh New Works Festival | Box 42419 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 |
FEE$. Playwrights are limited to one submission. To enter your play, you must submit a hard copy of play and an electronic copy (Word document). The first page of your play must contain only the name of the play, the characters and a physical description of each. See website | |||
| McKnight Theater Artist Fellowships | The Playwrights' Center 2301 Franklin Ave. East Minneapolis, MN 55406-1099 |
For MN residents ONLY | |||
| CAT Tales: City Attic Theatre's Biennial Playwriting Competition | Literary Manager Melissa Gawlowski NYC |
Biennel, not this year. Three finalists receive a public reading in New York City this June; audience and CAT panelists will vote to select a winner. The winning play will be will be considered for production in CAT's regular season. City Attic Theatre provides a home for theatrical artists, creating new opportunities to nurture their craft in a collaborative setting while developing powerful theatrical masterpieces. | |||
| EBE Ensemble "You Fill in the Blank" New Play Festival | EBE Ensemble c/o Joshua Luria 15 Cliff St., #22C New York, NY 10038 |
FEE $5 per play. Plays may have received readings, workshop productions, or small full productions outside of the New York area, but may not have received their New York premiere. Special consideration will be given to plays that focus on characters under 30. Three plays selected to receive $100 prizes and readings in May, 2009, NY. From those three plays, a mix of audience votes, ensemble member votes, and votes from a panel of judges including Richard Price (Lush Life, The Color of Money, HBO’s The Wire), Hilton Als (The New Yorker), and Kristen Johnston (NYSF’s Much Ado About Nothing, The Lights, 3rd Rock from the Sun) will determine a winner that will receive a workshop production in New York in August and an additional $50 prize. To submit by email, please send all requested materials in PDF, DOC, or RTF | |||
| John Gassner Award | New England Theatre Conference, Inc. 215 Knob Hill Drive Hamden, CT 06518 |
FEE $10 -- (NO FEE for NETC members) -- The John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award Competition fosters new playwrights and scripts through this important competition established by Molly Gassner, wife of theatre historian John Gassner. The Award was created in 1967 to honor the late John Gassner (1903-1967) for his lifetime dedication to all aspects of professional and academic theatre. Two cash prizes will be awarded: First Prize of $1000, and Second Prize of $500. The judges may withhold prizes if in their opinion no play merits the award. Only full-length scripts are accepted. | |||
| Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences | Box 339 Rabun Gap, GA 30568 |
Application FEES$ | |||
| MacDowell Colony | The Admissions Coordinator The MacDowell Colony 100 High Street Peterborough, NH 03458 |
FEE$ - $20 application fee for Fall residency | |||
| Luna Stage | Cheryl Katz, Director of Play Development Luna Stage 695 Bloomfield Avenue Montclair , NJ 07042 |
Not a contest – this is for production in regular season – and their submission policies have changed … read them. Accepted from 9/15-4/15. Limit one script per season. | |||
| Essential Theatre Playwriting Award | Essential Theatre 1414 Foxhall Lane #10 Atlanta, GA 30316 |
Must be resident of GA | |||
| Stormy Weather Players 2009 New Plays Festival | Stormy Weather Players, Inc c/o Stephen Sywak, New Plays Festival Co-Producer P.O. Box 506 Cornwall, NY 12518 |
FEE $5. Will only accept plays that have not been performed in front of a paying audience as of April 25, 2009. Published plays are not eligible, nor are plays that have won awards. Check or money order payable to “Stormy Weather Players.” There are no contractual obligations or royalties paid to playwrights whose works are selected for the Festival. While plays with running lengths of 10-15 minutes are preferred, we are accepting plays up to 30 minutes in length (30 pages playwright format). There is no restriction on subject matter. However, we are looking for plays that have a broad appeal. Please exercise caution when using violence, obscenity, etc. -- make sure it is artistically justified. Each play will be performed twice. Currently, Stormy Weather Players is only accepting payment through PAYPAL. The payment address for PAYPAL is the same as the submittal address. | |||
| Rome Community Theater (RCT) | Arnold Galin, Play Contest Chair PO Box 91 Rome, NY 13442 |
MUST be resident of NY state. FEE $5.00. Submit bound script; blind cover; application form; fee; character breakdown; set requirements; SASE for notification. There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit. Each entry must have a separate cover sheet. Selected author must grant a royalty-free right of performance during the RCT One-Act Play festival. Application: http://www.romecommunitytheater.org/1Act.html | |||
| Lebanon Community Theatre | L.C.T P.O Box 592 Lebanon, Pa 17042 |
NO FEE. Theme: "Corner, Cornered, and Corners" Aspiring playwrights of all ages and experience are invited to submit scripts for LCT's 11th annual play writing contest. Plays will be judged on content, dialogue, ingenuity, use of theme, and ability to be staged. Plays with special effects, lighting or elaborate sets cannot be produced. | |||
| Three Wise Monkeys | Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company Literary Department PO Box 640326 San Francisco CA 94164-0326 |
"Short Leaps" theme. NO FEE. Plays must not have had a production in San Francisco. Limit two submissions per playwright. Email submissions need to be in either Word (.doc) or PDF format. (SHORT LEAPS must be in the subject line). Plays can also be snail-mailed | |||
| Eyebrow Productions - WriteBites 5-minute plays | WriteBites, Eyebrow Productions 13 Charterhouse Square London, EC1M 6AX |
NO FEE. Call for five-minute play submissions: Eyebrow Productions is asking writers what they think can happen in 5 minutes. From the fantastical to the mundane, whether you're waiting at a bus stop or witnessing the apocalypse, Eyebrow is inviting writers to submit their five-minute plays for an exciting evening of new writing. | |||
| Turnstyle Theater | NYC Email to request a mailing address |
NO FEE. THEME: "Yes We Do/Yes We Do Not" We are currently seeking submissions! We are looking for new songwriters, composers, playwrights, comedians, writers, to showcase in an upcoming, themed revue. We are seeking creative, collaborative individuals who are looking to be showcased.Our working title is "Yes We Do/Yes We Do not," and will focus on themes of commitment (or failure to commit). Ideas can involve a wide spectrum touching on commitment to faith, culture, government, relationships and self. The submission can be stand-alone, or can be an excerpt of a greater body of work-one of the goals is to showcase a wide variety of artistry. This revue will be work-shopped and performed late spring in New York City, then be performed in other major cities subsequently. | |||
| Hand-to-Mouth Players | Trinity Boscobel United Methodist Church 275 Church Street Buchanan, NY |
FEE $10. Hand-to-Mouth Players seek one-act plays. One-Act plays - no more than 45 min. in length, minimal staging, casts of 5 or less preferred. | |||
| Philadelphia Theatre Workshop: for PA, NJ, DE Playwrights | Philadelphia Theatre Workshop P.O. Box 17590 Philadelphia, PA 19105 |
Philadelphia Theatre Workshop: for PA, NJ, DE Playwrights ONLY. NO FEE. Philadelphia Theatre Workshop (www.philadelphiatheatreworkshop.org) is currently reading plays for its 2010-11 season. Currently in our fifth season, PTW presents Philadelphia premieres of high quality scripts from playwrights living in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware. Our plays are chosen because they reflect diverse, contemporary human stories and present characters, situations, and perspectives not seen on other area stages. We are looking for unproduced, full-length, contemporary plays that require simple sets and costumes, with small casts and low technical requirements. Visit website to see the kind of plays PTW has produced. Please submit a cover letter, synopsis, and 10-page dialogue sample by email. | |||
| The Strawberry One-Act Festival The Riant Theatre | The Riant Theatre New York, NY |
NO FEE … Production-ready! Form: http://www.therianttheatre.com/applications/strawberry_application.html | |||
| Pacific Repertory Theatre : Hyperion Competition | PacRep Hyperion Competition III c/o Dan Gotch, Dramaturg & Literary Manager PO Box 222035 Carmel, CA 93922 |
FEE $10.00 (they reduced their admin fee!!). Pacific Repertory Theatre has staged almost 100 new works in its 26 year history. For CALIFORNIA WRITERS in 2007/2008, with a workshop production of the winning play staged as part of the '08 season. NoPP. Mail 2 ccs of cover letter, synopsis, 10pp sample of play, character and set breakdown, and resume. SASP for confirmation; SASE for script return. Cast limit=10. Single, naturalistic set or a theatrical setting which can represent any number of locations. One submission per calendar year is allowed. The play chosen for a 2009 production will be announced in December 2008 and every entrant will have received a response by that date. |
** "TYPE" Guide
1=One act play
T=Ten-minute play
F=Full-length play
M=Musical
S=solo shows
ch=Children’s
cab=cabaret
rad=radio plays
ñ=translation
A=adaptations
sc=Screenplay
tv=teleplay
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