Works which have been previously produced are acceptable, as are excerpts from full-length shows if they can stand up on their own. Fee: No fee Restrictions: Open to all playwrights. Play must be unpublished and unproduced and have a running time between 8-10 minutes. The Woodward/Newman Award presents the best-unpublished play of the year with a cash prize of $3,000 and a full production as part of BPPs Mainstage season, along with travel reimbursement. Submission details: Native Voices: Annual Call for Scripts. I had sent a board book script to Child's Play International. If the deadline has passed then take note for the following year. QP is seekingnew plays for Suburban Holidays XI for 2022, our popular annual holiday-themed play festival and fundraiser. Submission details: Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award. These plays can be funny, sad, triumphant, or anything in between. Full-length plays between 90 minutes to 2 hours and 30 minutesNew Works no previously published or produced plays will be accepted. GreenMan will be presenting Eight to the Bar/ista, an evening of eight 10 minute plays. This years MSG Lab runs from May to December, with a series of 6 writers seminars and two 5-day writing/creation residencies (non-live-in). 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. PLAY International continues to carry out its missions around the world, with the same ambition: to emerge through sport collective solutions to enable education, inclusion and well-being of each. Submission details: Screen Craft Stage Play Writing Competition. Submission details: Ottawa Little Theatre National One-Act Playwriting Competition. Every year, we feature eight musicals in short presentations for an audience of over 700 industry professionals. Scripts on Fire is open to all residents of Canada and scripts entered in other competitions that have received workshops or been given public readings are eligible, but scripts that have a planned production at the time of submission are NOT eligible. The number of actors needed (Indicate if there . The donations collected at the memorial formed the basis of the Alfred Fagon Award to recognize Black British playwrights from the Caribbean. Each year three one-act plays no longer than 60 minutes are selected and playwrights receive a $500 cash prize and are invited to a 2-night stay in South Lake Tahoe in order to see their work directed and produced as a staged reading at the historic Valhalla Boathouse Theatre. Applications are reviewed by a selection committee consisting of professionals who specialize in the artistic discipline of the applicant. Playwrights accepted into the One Act Play Festival will be notified by May 30, 2023. Their mission is to promote playwriting as a tool for self-expression and social change, harnessing this generations spirit of activism and providing a platform for Americas playwrights of tomorrow to discover and develop their voices today. 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. Submission details: MadLab Theatre Roulette. While the lead producing company must be based in Canada, the project can include international partners and co-producers. The winning playwright receives $3,000 U.S. Submission details: Synecdoche Works The Frank Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language, KHN Centre for the Arts Artist Residency, National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award, The Magnetic Theatre 4th Annual One Act Play Festival, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Program, National Theatre Playwriting Masterclasses, Jewish Plays Project Annual National Jewish Playwriting Contest. The 2023 Pint-sized Plays competition is now open for short 5-10 minute plays able to be performed in the actual bar areas of pubs during Tenby Festival week in September. Southeastern Theatre is committed to developing emerging voices in theatre by providing full productions of yet-to-be-published winning full-length plays as part of its Mainstage Season. Selected applicants will receive development support including: The application deadline for the 2023 MSG Lab is Monday February 27th, 2023. The Centers intention with the Festival is to promote playwrights and their work. Playwrights in the United States, Canada, and the UK may submit. Ultimately, the aim of End of Play is to get writers to the finish line with inspirational prompts, motivational events, and the support of their End of Play community. Plays which have won an award or prize in any other playwriting contest are not eligible. The STAGE IT! This award represents a unique collaboration between the prestigious Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, where artists from all disciplines have been supported by residencies since 1983, and The Blank Theatre in Hollywood, which has been developing new plays and new artists since 1990.The Future of Playwriting Prize will be given annually to an early-career playwright who personifies the future of theatre someone whose voice will shape theatre for decades to come, and who will bring new thoughts and views to the American theatrical conversation.The winner will be awarded a $5,000 cash prize and an all-expenses-paid, two-week residency at Ucrosss ranch at the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. Full-length, One-act, 10-minute scripts, musicals, adaptations, translations, virtual/Zoom plays. 2023 OPEN Submission for Production Consideration Native Voices accept scripts all year long. When the Open Call is accepting submissions the link to submit a script and other supporting information via our online E-Submissions system will be made available below. *Source: Casemore, L. (2021). Ive listed several submission opportunities for playwrights below and provided a short description as well as a link to each opportunitys website for further information. Playwrights, actors, and production team members participating in the Festival receive a small stipend. Only musical theatre work will be considered. Each year American Blues Theater accepts worldwide submissions of original, unpublished full-length plays. Submissions are now open for the 25th Alfred Fagon Award! Full-Length or Two-Act plays.Female-identifying playwrights. Playwriting contests are just one place you can submit your play to get more exposure and feedback on your work, but you can also send your play directly to theaters in hopes that they'll produce it, or to publishers who can help your work reach more people. There are cash prizes and youll be invited to attend their 2023 symposium. The NAMTs Festival of New Musicals is the cornerstone of NAMTs mission to be a catalyst for nurturing musical theatre development and production. The Peggy Ramsay Foundation continues to support the Award and the prize this year for the winning writer is 6,000. Submission details: Theatre 503 - International Playwriting Award The Magnetic Theatre 4th Annual One Act Play Festival Plays 5-15 minutes in length. We receive around 2000 plays every year, all of which are considered as part of our commitment to encounter and support new playwrights. Plays that are of a timely or educational nature, such as Christmas plays, Cinco de Mayo or Day of the Dead plays, plays that explain nature, geography, math, history or science. The National Arts Centre supports bold and ambitious work representing a diversity of disciplines, abilities, genders, ethnicities, languages, cultures, and regions. The program invites up to four playwrights each year to meet bi-monthly with the Goodmans literary staff and other cohort writers to develop their new Goodman commissions. One script per writer with a maximum cast of 9 and must include realistic and substantial roles for women. The right to play is backed by policy and practice across all sectors. The New American Theatre helps theatre artists find their voices, cultivate social consciousness and prepare for a lasting career. Please check out the submission guidelines for each festival or playwriting development opportunity before deciding whether or not you want to submit your work. New Play Submissions. Edwin Wong Presents: The Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition, Alfred Fagon Award Supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, Screencraft Stage Play Writing Competition, The Road Theatre Company Annual Summer Playwrights Festival, American Stages 21st Century Voices: Emerging Plays, Southeastern Louisiana University Inkslinger Playwriting Contest, THEATRE THREE 25th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays (2024), Playwrights Horizons Submission Opportunity, National Arts Centre National Creation Fund, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity Playwrights Lab, Synecdoche Works The Frank Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language, Artificial Intelligence Perfect Match Beautiful Ruins, Murder on the Orient Express at Vertigo Theatre Interview with Director Jovanni Sy, 16 hours of in-studio workshop time with actors and collaborators. Some theatres currently accepting open submissions are: - Royal Court: https://royalcourttheatre.com/script-submissions/ - National Theatre: Contacting the New Work Department | National Theatre - Theatre 503: Theatre503 | 503 Script Submissions About us THE INSPIRE PROGRAMME OPEN SCRIPT SUBMISSIONS PHOEBE FRANCES BROWN AWARD If we are interested in requesting the full script, you will hear from us before the new year. 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. We welcome international applications. Only unproduced works will be accepted. (Note there is also a New American Theatre Full Length Competition). Full-length plays that have not been published or produced professionally. 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. American Stage is committed to producing powerful and relevant professional live theatre. Participation details: Dramatist Guild of America End of Play. Drawing on a long history of playwrights transitioning to screenwriting, this competition seeks to celebrate excellent plays that have great film or TV adaptation potential. The Foundation accepts applications from painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters, composers, photographers, and filmmakers of national and international origin. Submission details: Edwin Wong Presents: The Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration of two students that includes at least one student with a disability. New Works of Merit seeks full-length plays that are powerful, heartfelt new works that not only entertain, but also educate, enlighten, and uplift humanity. The Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women was founded by Yellow Rose Productions, with the permission of Beth Henley, to encourage and recognize the new works of female playwrights. The Alberta Playwriting Competition is presented by the Alberta Playwrights Network in association with Theatre Alberta. 21st Century Voices programming includes an annual staged reading festival, workshopping of new scripts, playwriting residencies and fully produced new plays receiving one of their first three professional productions at American Stage. Gloucester Stage Co. is looking for new plays that reflect a cultural competency with cunning, intelligence, and passion. Lost and Found Theatre Project: New Works Series. The award winner receives $2,500. There is NO submission fee, NO production fee. Womens One Acts is an annual selection of short plays that are written and directed by women. Any works submitted must not have had a prior professional production. Plays must be the original work of a single writer. Submission details: The Valley Players Playwright Award. Submission details: The Ten-Minute Musical Project. Submission details: Long Wharf Theatre Submit a Play for Consideration. Sharon Pollock was an untiring champion of the Alberta Playwrights Network and anyone that devoted themselves to the craft of playmaking. Plays may not be under option, commission, or scheduled for professional production or publication at the time of submission. (Fire Exit Theatre will have the option for inaugural production as a part of their 2022-2021 season).Honourable Mentions: A prize of $200 may be awarded for Honourable Mention (up to 2 per competition). Every summer, a select number of unproduced works are selected from a pool of 1,000+ submissions for a playwright-driven workshop on the ONeills campus in beautiful Waterford, CT. Playwrights may only submit once, and must be willing to produce evidence of residency in the Bay Area upon request. Playwrights may send one play per season for consideration. A panel of judges named by the NETC Executive Board will administer the award. Please feel free to share this list with your fellow playwrights through the Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn share buttons at the bottom of the post. Women's T20 World Cup. appears on your submission. Submission details: Theatre in the Raw One-Act Contest, Full-Lenth plays with a minimum length of 80 minutes.Canadian Playwrights. Submission details: Three Rivers Theatre Company Faith-Based Family Friendly Play Competition. Applicants need to be over eighteen. The winners are recognized in a ceremony that takes place in the fall each year at The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto. Submission details: Titchfield Festival Theatre Playwriting Competition. Submit plays to: Urban Stages 555 Eighth Avenue, RM 1800 New York, NY 10018 We prefer mailed submissions. The Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays is an annual festival with a focus on one-act plays. Young writers with disabilities are invited to submit a ten-minute script of any genre. There is no deadline. For Deborah, Jane and Heather, If you followed all the submission instructions and have not heard back within 6 weeks, please write to us at with subject line "query follow-up.". Our eleven artistcasitas, or guest houses, are fully furnished and provide residents with a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavours. Prizes are awarded to top judges choice as well as the audiences favourite. After his untimely death in 1986, his friends held a memorial evening at Tricycle Theatre to commemorate his life and work. The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation is now accepting original theatrical play submissions for awards of $150,000, $100,000, and $75,000. With brand new adaptations, translations, video excerpts, education packs, essays and author's and translator's notes for each of the plays - delve into our huge, free online resource to diversify your cl . International students are welcome to apply, however, play submissions must be in English. The proposed play must still be in development and cannot have received a professional production, or a production that has been reviewed, prior to August 2022. Through this festival, Theatre Oxford encourages creativity and advances its mission to make the theatre accessible and enjoyable for all. The winning play will be selected by Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside and the theatres Ensemble. Proposals are accepted throughout the year, and the curatorial team reviews them on an on-going basis. Playwrights Horizons is in pursuit of storytelling that is rich in self-expression and theatrical imagination that explores the multiplicity and complexity of American culture and experience and it is their aim to support artists who have a demonstrated commitment to the craft, art, and profession of playwriting. Shubert Fendrich founded Pioneer Drama Service in 1963 and was the heart and soul of the business for more than twenty-five years. The competition is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, for the best original, new full-length stage play in English. We are also eager to support projects that originate with artists other than playwrights, such as designers, directors, dramaturgs, and activists. We help theatre artists find their voices, cultivate social consciousness and prepare for a lasting career. Submissions may be sent via e-mail or snail mail. The International Journal of Play is an inter-disciplinary publication focusing on all facets of play, play theory, policy and practice across the lifespan. Submission Method: Email Deadline: 3 / 5 / 2023 Become a member for access to this opportunity and more benefits. The MSG Lab showcases stories from Asian Canadian perspectives and develops new works for future production opportunities. All submissions should be unperformed, original full-length plays written in English by UK based playwrights. Only plays not previously published, professionally produced, or performed are eligible. Submissions If you would like to submit a new play to Freshwater Theatre, please send an electronic copy (pdf preferred) to submissions@freshwatertheatre.com They are interested in works that tackle politically and ideologically challenging issues using a non-prescriptive approach. Playwright's phone number. Where Can You Submit a Play? Resources for playwrights Contests, theatres seeking new plays, & other resources < List a contest or opportunity here > Note: For reference purposes, postings will remain visible after their application deadline, for the remaining days of that month. The OOB Festival is one of Samuel French/Concord Theatricals primary initiatives to work with the next wave of emerging playwrights. Scotland is recognised as one of the world's leading nations for its support and practical action for children's play. The 13th annual Summer Playwrights Festival will take place from Thursday through Sunday, starting from July 7 to 24, 2022, and is now open for submissions. Due to the number of submissions we receive and our limited capacity, we cannot personally respond to every submission. Theatre Rocks National Playwriting Competition, Golden Thread Productions ReOrient Festival of Short Plays, Gallery Players Black Box New Play Festival, VetRep 10 Minute and Full-Length Play Submissions, Screen Craft Stage Play Writing Competition, University of Calgary Canadian Writer-in-Residence, The Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting, Lake Tahoe WordWave One-Act Play Competition, Ottawa Little Theatre National One-Act Playwriting Competition, Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, Red Dragonfly Productions Taking Flight 2022, Titchfield Festival Theatre Playwriting Competition, The Blank Theatre & Ucross Foundation of Wyoming Future of Playwriting Prize, Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Contest, Diversionary Theatre Submission Guidelines, Long Wharf Theatre Submit a Play for Consideration, Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit Applications, The Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women, Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays, Bloomington Playwrights Project Woodward/Newman Award, The Kennedy Center VSA Playwright Discovery Program Competition, The Road Theatre Company 14th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival, Green Man Theatre Troupe 10 Minute Play Festival for Midwestern Playwrights, Eugene ONeill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, Eugene ONeill Theater Center Young Playwrights Festival, Hampstead Theatre Open Script Submission, The Bread & Roses Theatre Playwriting Award, Atlanta Shakespeare Co. 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