Playwrights will experience an inspiring, interdisciplinary, and inclusive environment to work on their plays while surrounded by performing artists from across the country and around the world. Submitted works can not be currently attached to a theatre or production company. The Summer Playwrights Festival is the largest staged reading festival in the nation, with playwrights from across the country and around the world participating. Starting April 1, 2023, participating playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists will be challenged to write a brand new play or musical, or revise an old draft. The ONeill strives to foster an inclusive, collaborative environment in which artistic exploration and experimentation are encouraged at every step in the process. This covers our copying and administrative costs. For our 2022 Short Play Festival, we invite you to tell a story inspired by a Trickster. Playwright's home address. The Woodward/Newman Award presents the best-unpublished play of the year with a cash prize of $3,000 and a full production as part of BPPs Mainstage season, along with travel reimbursement. Full-length drama or comedy, intermission preferred. We strive to explore the multiplicity and complexity of American culture and experience. Submission details: Femme Fatale Play Festival, Full-Length PlaysPlaywrights based in Europe. Submission details: Eugene ONeill Theater Center Young Playwrights Festival. We help theatre artists find their voices, cultivate social consciousness and prepare for a lasting career. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31 . Due to the number of submissions we receive and our limited capacity, we cannot personally respond to every submission. Gloucester Stage is committed to upholding the work of local authors and stories from under-represented communities. *Source: Casemore, L. (2021). Each year, we offer three works of art and ask writers for plays from 15 to 20 minutes in length based on how they are moved or inspired by the artwork. Play Submissions. The Lab supports challenging, multi-disciplinary, provocative approaches to telling stories and is proud to gather on Treaty 7 territory to create, share, and explore theatrical storytelling. Gallery Players is seeking plays for its 26th Annual Black Box New Play Festival to be held in January 2023. Submission details: Titchfield Festival Theatre Playwriting Competition. Investments provide the additional time and resources that bold, ambitious projects need to be successful on the national and international stage. Full-Length Plays with a maximum of 85 minutesPlaywrights 18 years of age and older. Submission details: OOB Short Play Festival, Native Voices is seeking short plays and full-length plays written for the stage by American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nation Artists, Short Plays Many Native stories involve a Trickster, a cunning, crafty, clever, mischief-making being who often teaches humankind how to be while embodying what not to be. Performing International Plays is a site featuring 20 plays from 6 continents, in 15 languages. Last year was our first year running the International Scratchpad program. appears on your submission. The Femme Fatale Play Festival was created to promote and support women playwrights. Submission details: Yale Drama Series Rules and Submission Guidelines. Playwrights leading the sessions will be associated with the National Theatre and will have work currently on at the National Theatre or coming up or recently staged by the National Theatre. Students receive a rigorous exploration of their work guided by professional artists as well as a script-in-hand public reading of their new play. Please put "PLAYWRIGHT'S NAME, New Works Submission" in the subject line. Now in its 31st season THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, remain committed to our meaningful mission to produce and develop new work for the stage. Workshops and readings are fine. Full-length plays that have not been published or produced professionally. Submission details: Golden Thread Productions ReOrient Festival of Short Plays, Plays that are 10 to 30 Minutes in Length. Scripts should not be submitted from April to November. Ill maintain this list on occasion adding new opportunities or removing old ones that have been discontinued. Two-thirds of Canadian playwrights agree that greater compensation and access to programming opportunities would provide the highest impact in satisfying their current needs as a playwright. We are also eager to support projects that originate with artists other than playwrights, such as designers, directors, dramaturgs, and activists. Submission details: The Premiere Play Festival, Full-Length Plays no longer than 120 minutesUK Writers. Submissions accepted from new and emerging writers with East and South-East Asian heritage and those from the British East and South-East Asian communities in the UK. The ten winning plays will then go on to a Script Slam in Theatr Gwaun, Fishguard where the audience will vote for their favourite script and the winner walks away with the coveted Pint-sized Plays Pint-pot. Scotland is recognised as one of the world's leading nations for its support and practical action for children's play. Gloucester Stage Co. is looking for new plays that reflect a cultural competency with cunning, intelligence, and passion. This residency is a full-time term position, dates are non-negotiable. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration of two students that includes at least one student with a disability. Plays no longer than 15-minutes in length. Any Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine resident is eligible to submit one or more original, full length, non-musical plays for consideration, providing the play has not been produced on stage before and has not been previously published. All submissions must be original unpublished plays intended for a college-aged cast and audience. 2023 OPEN Submission for Production Consideration Native Voices accept scripts all year long. We support new and established playwrights and incubate new plays. Plays must be a minimum of one hour or longer in running time. Submit one full-length play, or a long one-act play (an hour or more). Submission details: Ashland New Plays Festival, Full-length and one-act playsCanadian Playwrights. Each resident receives a $100 stipend per week, free housing, and a private studio. Selected playwrights receive artistic support as well as an honorarium; out-of-town artists receive roundtrip airfare plus lodging in Southern California. Mid Vermont Christian School (MVCS) was set to . Past winners include prominent playwrights Robertson Davies, John Murrell, Erika Ritter, Catherine Banks and Ken Mitchell. The window for submissions is open from October 1 to November 15, 2017 and should be sent to Stuart Bousel at sbousel@custommade.org. Playwrights will be notified when their script is received, but only contacted further if the show is selected for production. Entry must be an original work that has not been published or produced where admission was charged. Any works submitted must not have had a prior professional production. Submission details: Jewish Plays Project Annual National Jewish Playwriting Contest. All genres and styles of drama, including one-acts and solo piecesPlaywrights must be 18 years of age and have the right to work within the United States. The Goodman Playwrights Unit is a season-long residency program for Chicago-area playwrights. Submission details: Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit Applications. ANPFs flagship Fall Festival is an international playwright competition that culminates in the reading of four new plays chosen by a team of volunteer readers from hundreds of submissions. The Odyssey is grateful to writers who entrust us with their work. Submission details: Stage It! Full-length plays only: - Bind plays in 3-ring binders, in presentation folders, with brass fasteners, with paperclips, etc (spiral binding is discouraged) - No changes or revisions accepted after submission - No double-sided pages. Original one-acts by Canadian playwrights. Submission details: National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals. . Script submissions will be accepted through spring 2023, and three finalists will be invited to Atlanta to see their scripts receive staged readings in summer 2023. Playwrights should be of Middle Eastern heritage. The Alpine Fellowship is a charitable foundation that supports, commissions and showcases artists, writers, academics and playwrights. Submission details: Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, UK Writers with East and South-East Asian Heritage. Entry fee of $10 per play. Theatre Roulette is Ohios longest-running shorts festival. Full-length competition winners will receive a $10,000 grant, second place finalists will receive a $7,500 grant, and the third-place finalist will receive a $5,000 grant. Submit plays to: Urban Stages 555 Eighth Avenue, RM 1800 New York, NY 10018 We prefer mailed submissions. He was a boxing champion, a welder, an actor, a poet, and a playwright. Prizes to be Awarded to Winners at the BBC International Radio Playwriting Contest 2023 The two winners will: attend an award ceremony in London, receive cash awards. Playwrights accepted into the One Act Play Festival will be notified by May 30, 2023. There are currently 104 opportunities listed. Part of Diversionarys mission is to tell the story of the LGBTQIA+ community, which we accomplish by considering works that have queer characters, themes, or are by queer playwrights. Submission details: Three Rivers Theatre Company Faith-Based Family Friendly Play Competition. Submission details: The Road Theatre Company Annual Summer Playwrights Festival. It was recently announced that with the blessing of the Pollock family, APN is renaming the Grand Prize to now be know as The Sharon Pollock Award in recognition of the Most Outstanding Un-produced Play written by an Alberta Playwright. Cash prizes of $10,200 for the winner and five $600 prizes for the runners-up. They are committed to discovering emerging talent, to disseminating new ideas and to sharing thoughts about art, literature and philosophy. Thank you for your interest in working with the Asolo Rep. Their goal is to find exceptional playwrights who will define the canon for the next generation. Playwrights residing in the UK or Republic of Ireland or British Overseas Territory or with a British Forces Post Office address. 1 kicks off in Albertas hidden treasure of the north, Grande Prairie. Young writers with disabilities are invited to submit a ten-minute script of any genre. If youre a writer, poet, academic, playwright or visual artist, then consider entering one of their prizes based on this years theme Flourishing. Play Submission Policy. Unproduced and unpublished full-length plays. Interested artists are asked to make a maximum two-page submission that includes an outline of their play, as well as a description of its production history and/or stage of development. How to apply: Scripts can be submitted by email to writers@thecourtyard.org.uk or sent as a hard copy to: Literary Department, The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, London, N1 6EU (if submitting a hard copy, please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope to return your script and send you your feedback report). The submission widow for the 2023 festival ends on February 28th, 2023. This competition is open to writers of any ability or experience, and our new writing initiative will support you throughout your script development. The Fund is open to professional artists, producing companies and organizations. Submission details: Red Dragonfly Productions Taking Flight 2022, Full-Length PlaysPlaywrights from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Deleware. The Atlanta Shakespeare Company is launching a new playwriting initiative for historically marginalized artists. Shubert Fendrich founded Pioneer Drama Service in 1963 and was the heart and soul of the business for more than twenty-five years. Submission period opens June 1, 2019 and closes September 15, 2019. Produced once every two years, ReOrient Festival showcases the diversity of voices and aesthetics from the Middle East and its worldwide diaspora in a curated festival of short plays produced biennially in San Francisco. New and established playwrights are encouraged to submit. Submission details: The Road Theatre Company 14th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival. Full length plays by Black Playwrights, Playwrights of Colour, Indigenous Playwrights residing in the U.S. with the legal right to work, Submission details: PWC Many Voices Fellowship. The Festival presents between five and seven plays each season. Submissions should be completely original stage musicals that play between seven and twenty minutes. Plays to End Gun Violence creates space for teens to confront gun violence by creating new works of theatre that will spark critical conversations and inspire meaningful action in communities across the country. Also, looking for plays by BIPOC writers and plays that celebrate cultural diversity and equity. Playwrights may send one play per season for consideration. All submissions must be made before midnight GMT on 12 February 2023. The competition aims to give voice to the stories of this generation and to bring into the spotlight important works that have been crafted. We seek to make a lasting, life-long impression on our community inspiring the audience to continue provocative conversations long after the curtain closes. Submission details: Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest, Full-Length PlaysVermont, New Hampshire or Maine Playwrights. The Muse Of Fire Playwriting Festival invites playwrights of the global majority to create a full-length play that reimagines Shakespeares themes and plots through the lens of BIPOC America. Submission details: Fade to Black: Play Festival. The conference will examine how UN General Comment No 17 on . Finalists must acknowledge the Dayton Playhouse when their script is published. This season we will only be able to accept submissions from people living in the United States. We look forward to hearing from you! The 22nd International Play Association Triennial World Conference is coming to Glasgow! Submission details: Atlanta Shakespeare Co. MUSE OF FIRE BIPOC PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL. Literary agents and playwrights with professional representation may submit full-length electronic manuscripts to playsubmissions@asolo.org. One script per writer with a maximum cast of 9 and must include realistic and substantial roles for women. Plays should not have received more than 1 professional production in the Louisville, KY area. Each play selected will be given a black box production with non-Equity actors. Submissions are accepted from January 1 through to March 31. Where Can You Submit a Play? No more than three (3) entries per playwright - send us only your best! be led by Canadian creators in theatre, dance, music and inter-disciplinary performing arts; have a strong artistic team and be artistically ambitious and compelling; have committed Canadian and/or international producing and presenting partners; have long-term national or international impact, including through touring; and. Since the inception of The Ten-Minute Musicals Project, over sixteen hundred submissions have been received, from librettists, lyricists and composers in seventeen nations: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Uruguay, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine. The New American Theatre One-Act Play Competition. The Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest is an ongoing contest, with a winner selected by June 1 each year from all eligible submissions received during the previous year. All holidays are welcome! Plays featuring children are also welcome. Through a combination of community-building events, motivation, and that all-important deadline, DG hopes to inspire countless new works. Playwrights may submit up to 2 scripts.so send your best! Submission details: Theatre 503 - International Playwriting Award The Magnetic Theatre 4th Annual One Act Play Festival Plays 5-15 minutes in length. 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