Playwriting Opportunities for the E-Merging Writer
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Last Minute Opps:

Brief Acts (division of Love Creek) is looking for plays 10-25 min., cast size 5 or less, prefer at least 50% of cast female, for production in NYC. Send to Love Creek Productions, 21-44 45th Avenue #4, Long Island City, NY 11101. Sorry, I have no link or email for them.

Strings Attached Theatre of NYC seeking full-length plays with interesting plot twist, contemporary time and place, young cast (20s-30s), by January 31.

The deadline for the Dubuque Fine Arts Players National One-Act Playwriting Contest is also January 31. They require a $10 fee and that you fill out this application.

Playwriting contests
and opportunities
by deadline

January 2008
February 2008
March 2008

Other:
Links for Playwrights
Ongoing Submissions

Site Suggestion:
Have you registered ALL your plays at Doollee?
Then go Doollee it now!

Playwriting Opportunities Updates:
1/19/2008 - February and March postings are done ... for now. Lots of March people haven't posted this year's info. Continuing other edits over the next week.

Submissions are gathered from a variety of sources including Internet sites, word-of-mouth, email submissions to the webmaster, publications, etc. Every effort is made to verify the information but this is a free site and maintained in our "free time." We depend on our users to share information with us. Still, it is amazing that many competitions will continue to seem like they’re accepting submissions (and even accept your fees) but they no longer exist. This is a reference tool, not the playwriting competition bible. Desktop References for the E-Merging Playwright
  • Dictionary ... Mirriam-Webster – gotta love that girl
  • Thesaurus ... When you've found the right word but you prefer its knock-off
  • Open Source Shakespeare ... Steal from the unapologetic thief himself
  • Shakespeare ... I stole this link from the School of Info Tech at the University of Sydney – God bless ‘em
  • Greek plays - text ... Before Brits and Romans, these guys knew how to play
  • Theatre History ... Written by the victors, natch
  • Wikipedia ... The controversial encyclopedia that must be verified to believe
  • Bible ... Bible Gateway – you can get the quote that best suits you … just like a right-wing politician/evangelist!
  • The Q’ran (the Koran) ... It’s not only for radical insurgents, they just hijacked it (see politician/evangelist reference “Bible,” above)
  • Encyclopedia of Mythology ... Muses can be located alphabetically
  • Library of Congress ... As if anyone in Congress has time to read
  • HowToDoThings.com ... how to: create a hero, write a play, write reviews, write rejections ....

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