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Contests, reading series, competitions calendar ($ = entry fee)
	JANUARY
24:7 Theatre Festival Manchester byocast/production, like a Fringe deal but cheaper $ Blyth Festival New Play Development Grove Theater Center New Play Initiative a play development program in contest form Long Beach CA Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival Dallas Pandora Festival from the Arizona Women's Theatre Company Theater Company of Lafayette Comedy Festival Colorado
	FEBRUARY
CCCT Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival full-length play/musical for children or young adults. Huron, OH Center Stage South Carolina New Play Festival Durango Arts Center 10-Minute Play Contest Colorado $ Hamilton Fringe Festival New Play Contest McLaren Comedy Play Writing Competition Midland TX $ Primus Prize awarded to an outstanding female playwright recognizing a single script. From the American Theatre Critics Association $ Trustus Playwrights’ Festival Trustus Theatre, South Carolina $ Vermont Playwrights Award $1000 for original plays by residents of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine
	MARCH
Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights plays must be written by an Appalachian playwright (New York State to Alabama) or the plays must contain Appalachian settings and themes. Abingdon, VA The Arts & Letters Prizes publication and cash prize for fiction, poetry and one-acts; Georgia College & State University $ East Valley Children’s Theatre must be suitable for children to perform for children; Mesa AZ Eclectic Company Theatre Hurricane Season Hollywood CA $ PlayFest - The Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays Orlando FL Salem Theatre 10 Minute Fest Salem, Mass Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival Silver Spring MD Sky Blue Theater Co one-acts Cambridge $ Woodward/Newman Drama Award full-length plays; $3,000 and full production first prize Bloomington, IN $ (waived for Dramatists Guild members)
	APRIL
Artemisia Theatre reading series Chicago Elephants on Parade one acts NYC Fusion Theatre Co "The Seven" New Works Fest Albuquerque NM $ (for electronic sub; free for hard copy) Indie Boots John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award from New England Theatre Conference, CT $ Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest Lebanon, PA McKinney Repertory Theatre New Play Competition McKinney, Texas Ohio State Newark New Play Contest full-length, $500 first prize. Newark OH Pittsburgh New Works Festival $ Strawberry One-Act Festival summer deadline; byo cast Tarragon Theatre Under 30 National Playwriting Competition Canadian writers only; Toronto Vision Fest from Live wire Chicago Theatre themed subject; Feb-May sub dates
	MAY
9Thirty Theatre Company full length and one-act, plays and musicals Astoria NY American Stage full-length, female-centered stories St. Petersburg FL Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award new full-length plays for young audiences CT $ Magnolia Arts Center Greenville NC One-Act Marathon Attic Theatre, Los Angeles $ P73 Playwriting Fellowship year-long comprehensive support to one early-career playwright who has received neither wide public recognition nor substantial production opportunities in New York City Pint-Sized Plays Wales $ United Solo one-person shows NYC Weathervane Playhouse 10 Minute Play Festival $
	JUNE
American Avant-Garde Arts Festival one-act plays, performance art, cabaret acts, dance pieces or short films NYC $ (pay own costs) Firehouse Theatre Project Annual Festival of New American Plays Richmond VA Fred Ebb Award recognizes excellence in musical theatre songwriting by a lyricist, composer, or songwriting team that has not yet achieved significant commercial success, includes a $50,000 award Good Luck MacBeth: The Doc Jim Martin Playwright Competition one acts Reno NV Grove Theatre New Play Initiative Long Beach CA Hot City Theatre Greenhouse New Play Fest St. Louis Madlab Theatre full-length plays The NewBorn Festival Maieutic Theatre NYC North Park Playwright Festival from the North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe Theatre; 15 minute or less scripts. San Diego CA Panndora's Box full-length, small cast; Long Beach CA $ Shelterbelt Theatre Shelterskelter Omaha NE
	JULY
Future Ten Playwrights 10 minute plays Pittsburgh Havemeyer Playwright Competition $ International Playwriting Festival Max Afford Playwrights’ Award $7,500 prize, awarded every two (even) years; Australian writers between the ages of 18 and 40 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition Buffalo NY $ New Works of Merit NYC $ Sussex Playwrights Club Play Competition $ Write Now New Play Competition Tempe AZ
	AUGUST
Aurora Theatre Company Global Age Project Berkeley CA $ The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop (next 2013) Blowout Theatre Company NYC Marin Theatre Company Sky Cooper New American Play Prize and David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize Mill Valley CA Players Theater Short Play & Musical Fest NYC PlayFest Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays, Orlando Playwrights Association of New Zealand one-act play competition Provincetown Theater Company 10-minute plays and one-acts Cape Cod writers only Shelterbelt Theater From The Shelterbelt With Love Omaha Neb. The Three Leaches One Act Competition Denver $ VisionFest 1-10 minute plays Livewire Theatre Chicago Yale Drama Series 1st prize of $10,000 New Haven CT
	SEPTEMBER
Acme Theater New Works Winter Festival 10 minute plays Maynard, MA Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival juried, three-week festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre. Toronto Astor Street Opry Company Playwriting Contest one-act plays and 5 minute monologues Astoria, Oregon $ Black Ship Co 10-minute plays Chicago Heartland Theatre Ten Minute Play Festival Bloomington IL Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation grants for individual creative artists working in musical theatre. NYC Kansas City Women’s Playwriting Festival original scripts from women playwrights, revolving festival deadline each September Metropolitan Playhouse Founders Festival NYC New Voices for a New Generation Charlotte NC Panowski Playwriting Competition Marquette, MI Ruby Lloyd Apsey Play Search new and original plays confronting racial or ethnic issues Santa Fe Performing Arts Playwright's Competition SART ScriptFEST full-length Mars Hill NC Southern Playwrights Competition Playwrights must be native to or resident of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, or West Virginia. Sept-Jan submission. Jacksonville, Alabama Theatre Three Festival of One-Act Plays Port Jefferson NY TNT's Production of Original Plays (POPS) Fort Worth TX $ Valencia College Theatre Florida playwrights The Valley Repertory Company 15 Minute New Play Contest Enfield CT
	OCTOBER
0 to 60: Longwood Ten-Minute Play Festival Farmville VA 6 Women Playwriting Festival 10-minute plays by women playwrights Colorado Springs CO 10 Minute Playwriting Festival San Juan Capistrano CA $ Bellarmine University 10-minute Play Festival Louisville KY Castillo Theatre Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest NYC City Theatre of Independence Playwriting Festival children’s plays for children ages 12 and under. Plays must be under 15 minutes and must be unproduced. Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon short plays NYC FutureFest from the Dayton Playhouse Greenhouse New Play Festival full-length plays from HotCity Theatre of St. Louis "you are encouraged to submit not only finished plays but plays that you are still actively exploring" Mississippi Theatre Association Adult and Youth Playwriting Competition Starkville MS $ Mystery Writers' Festival plays, screenplays, teleplays and short stories Owensboro, KY One-Act Playwriting Competition from the Little Theatre Alexandria VA $ Source Festival 10 minute plays Washington DC Strawberry One-Act Festival winter deadline
	NOVEMBER
Asunción Playwrights Project showcase for Latino writers Pregones Theatre, Bronx NY Boston Theater Marathon New England writers only Circus Theatricals One-Act Festival Culver City CA Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project new works delving into how we view and are affected by the scientific world NYC Humana 10-minute Play Fest Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition Beverly Hills CA $ Lakeshore Players Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest White Bear Lake MN Reva Shiner Full Length Play Competition from Bloomington Playwrights Project $ Rising Sun One-act plays NYC Seven Devils Playwrights Conference $ Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival Racine WI Stage Door Productions One-act Festival Fredericksburg, VA Studio@620 Next Great Play competition St. Petersburg FL $ Tennessee Williams Fest One-act Competition $1500 first prize plus production New Orleans Working Theatre Collective: 20 Erotic Shorts Portland OR
	DECEMBER
15 Minute Play Festival bring your own production NYC. Jan 1 deadline Bold Hope CAST Players One-Act Playwriting Competition Beaumont CA $ Drury University One-act Play Competition small cast, one-set shows with running times of no less than 20 minutes and no more than 45 minutes. Biennial, next deadline 2012. Springfield MO Eudora Welty New Play Series Jackson MS InspiraTO Playwriting Contest Toronto Metropolitan Playhouse East Village Chronicles NYC New York Children’s Theater Festival Musicals, plays, puppetry, event presentations and any other live theatrical form of children’s entertainment $ Next Generation Playwriting Contest $ Playwrights' Revolution from Capital Stage Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) plays exploring scientific and/or technological stories, themes, issues and/or events, $10,000 prize Stone Soup Double (XX) Fest Seattle Theatre Odyssey Ten-Minute Play Festival Longboat Key FL $
	ONGOING READING SERIES, COMPETITIONS
10 In a Bed New Writing Sunday reading series London 13th Street Rep Company's Reading Series NYC Ars Nova Out Loud Reading Series NYC Athena Theatre Company Reading Series "If you would like to submit an original play or screenplay, please submit it." Hollywood August Wilson New Play Initiative from the Congo Square Theatre Co, Chicago Australia Council for the Arts New Work Awards up to $15,000 Black Swan Reading Series new readings every two months Asheville NC Clerkenwell Theatre New Writing Sunday reading series London Dixon House Reading Series NYC writers only Doorway Arts Washington DC Freshworks Reading Series from Portland Theatre Works, OR Funding for Playwrights from the Arts Council FUSE Scottish writers, Glasgow Grants to Individual Theatre Artists from the Canada Council for the Arts Grants for Individual Theater Artists from the Fund for Women Artists The Griffin Award $ I Can't Believe It's Not Shakespeare reading series NYC Irish Repertory Theatre readings NYC Key City Public Theatre local reading series Port Townsend WA Long Beach Playhouse ongoing new works festival, revolving around Sep 30 deadline Manitoba Arts Council individual artists grants deadlines The Midtown International Theater Festival NYC $ Monarch Theater Monday reading series NYC Moveable Piece Series Hollywood New South PlayWorks Horizon Theatre, Atlanta New York Theatre Workshop New Zealand Arts Council funding for playwrights Patrick White Playwrights' Award Australian writers only Playwrights' Center of San Francisco Reading Series Playwriting Australia Postcript Project 30 ongoing collaborative NYC Reston Community Players New Play Project monthly readings and production Herndon VA SAS Playfest themed contests announced in Feb, March, April and May; somewhere in New England Scriptslam Sherman Cymru Theatre; a monthly event where four 10 minute plays are performed script in hand by experienced actors Cardiff Wales Shelterbelt Theatre four productions each season, from collections of short one-acts to full lengths and welcomes submissions of new scripts of all lengths and subject matter. Omaha NE Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest from Pioneer Drama Service Soho Think Tank 6th Floor Reading Series byo cast NYC Taragon Theatre Canadian writers only Towne Street Theatre Staged Reading Series Los Angeles Toy Box Pub Theatre monthly reading series NY writers only NYC Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award NYC
Theatre submission guidelines
	NYC AREA
ActNow Foundation focuses on the minority experience in the US; Brooklyn Alleyway Theatre Buffalo ARS Nova Astoria Performing Arts Center really strict on proper script formatting Atlantic Theatre Company Boomerang Theatre Company Bread and Water Theatre Rochester Chautauqua Theater Company Chautauqua Clockworks Theatre Brooklyn Clubbed Thumb plays with "a reasonable representation of women" Davenport Theatrical NYC Dixon Place several floating deadlines Emerging Artists Theatre The Fire Dept Geva Theatre Rochester Horse Trade Theater Group La Petite Morgue Lark Play Development Center Less Than Rent MCC Theatre Milk Can Theatre Mind The Gap plays must be either by English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland playwrights, or must focus wholly or in large part on British subject matter New Jersey Repertory Company Nylon Fusion Collective Pan Asian Repertory Theatre writers of Asian decent Passage Theatre Company Trenton NJ Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey Point Of You Productions Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Second Generation Asian American writers Studio 42 "unproducible" plays Sundog Theatre Company Staten Island Theater for The New City Thespian Production one-acts This Woman's Work Theatre Co female playwrights only Toy Box Theatre NY writers only Treehouse Theatre Vineyard Theatre Wing Space Theatre Company Ithica NY The Working Theatre plays about issues of concern to working people Yale Rep
	CALIFORNIA
Actors Art Theatre Los Angeles Blank Theatre Company mainstage and workshops Los Angeles Circus Theatricals Culver City CA Fountain Theatre Hollywood CA Furious Theatre Company Pasadena CA Hunger Artists Theatre Company Fullerton CA Impact Theatre San Francisco Magic Theatre San Francisco Marin Theatre Mill Valley New Conservatory Theatre Center San Francisco Lorraine Hansberry Theatre San Francisco Renegade Theatre Experiment San Jose CA Santa Monica Playhouse Santa Monica CA South Coast Repertory several submission opportunities; Costa Mesa CA Theatre Out Anaheim CA Theater Tribe NoHo CA TheatreWorks Palo Alto CA Victory Theatre Center Burbank CA Wily West Productions San Francisco writers only
	CANADA
4th Line Theatre Millbrook ON Canadian Stage Toronto Citadel Theatre Edmonton Canada Factory Theatre Script Submissions open to Canadian writers only; Ontario Great Canadian Theatre Company Ottawa ON Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People Toronto Manitoba Theatre Centre Roseneath Theatre work for young audiences Ontario Tarragon Theatre Toronto
	CHICAGO
About Face Theatre Chicago Adventure Stage young audiences American Blues Theater American Theatre Company Caffeine Theatre Chicago Fine Print Theatre Co Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre Evanston Goodman Theatre Chicago Halcyon Theatre Chicago Jackalope Theatre Co Northlight Theatre Profiles Theatre Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Stage Left plays to raise debate on political and social issues, Chicago Steppenwolf Chicago TimeLine Theatre Company Chicago Tinfish Productions Chicago Urban Theater Co
	THE SOUTH
Actor's Express Atlanta Alliance Theatre Submissions Atlanta's own theater Barebones Theatre Group Charlotte NC Barter Theatre Company Abingdon VA Black Swan Theater Asheville NC Coup de Theatre Atlanta Empire Stage comedies. Ft. Lauderdale FL Florida Studio Theatre New Play Festival reading series and staged Sarasota FL Fly By Night Greensboro NC Horizon Theatre Atlanta Juneteenth Legacy Theatre December to April submissions; Louisville KY Merely Players Owensboro KY Mill Mountain Theatre one-acts only; Roanoke VA The Necessary Theatre Louisville KY New Theatre "home of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"; Coral Gables FL Odyssey Productions Arlington VA Playwrights' Forum Memphis TN Playwrights Premiere Theatre Williamsburg VA Public Theatre of South Florida (email address at bottom of page) Southern Rep New Orleans Southern Writers' Project of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival southern writers or southern themes Virginia Premiere Theatre Foster VA Women’s Theatre Project seeks submissions of full-length plays with all female casts by female playwrights. Ft. Lauderdale
	MIDWEST
20% Theatre Company female playwrights Minneapolis Alley Stage Mineral Point WI Available light [theatre] Columbus OH Bloomington Playwrights Project Indiana BoarsHead Theater Lansing MI Cleveland Public Theatre Detroit Repertory Theatre Echo Theatre St Louis Emigrant Theater Minneapolis History Theatre treatment and sample first St. Paul MN MadLab Theatre Columbus OH Milwaukee Repertory Theater Mixed Blood Theatre Minneapolis Next Theatre Company Evanston IL Northlight Theatre Skokie IL Portland Stage Portland MN Potluck Productions short scripts by women Kansas City MO Purple Rose Theatre Company Chelsea, MI Raconteur Theatre Company Columbus OH Red Hen Productions Feminist Theatre Cleveland OH Shelterbelt Theatre Omaha NE Theatre Limina Summer Shorts Festival Minneapolis Unicorn Theatre Kansas City MO Urban Samurai Minnesota
	UK, IRELAND & SCOTLAND
Abbey Theatre Dublin BBC Writers Room Submissions Bush Theatre Shepherds Bush Cork Arts Theatre Carroll's Quay, Ireland $ Druid Theatre Company Galway Everyman Liverpool Playhouse ‘Everyone Has The Right’ Playwriting Competition minimum of 50 and maximum of 100 minutes in length Finborough Theatre London Fishamble Dublin Full Circle Watford FUSE NTS initiative for new Scottish writing Grey Coast Theatre Glasgow Hampstead Theatre London Hull Truck Theatre Hull, Yorkshire Live Theatre free script reading feedback for local writers, Newcastle Menagerie Theatre Company Cambridge National Theatre of Scotland Net Curtains Theatre Company London Operating Theatre London Orange Tree Theatre Surrey Paines Plough London Red Room London Soho Theatre several opportunities; London Theatre503 London Theatre Royal Stratford East London Theatre West submit before June for August selection; Bristol Tight Fit Theatre Beaconsfield Tinderbox Belfast Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Upstart Theatre London Watford Palace Theatre West Yorkshire Playhouse Writers & Actors Collaboration Theatre Company Scottish writers only; Aberdeen
	THE REST
American Repertory Theatre Cambridge MA And Toto Too Theatre Company women playwrights only; Denver CO Arden Theatre Company Philadelphia Arena Stage a place for BIG plays; Washington DC Arizona Theatre Company Azuka Theatre Philadelphia Babes With Blades New Play Development Backdoor Theatre’s New Play Project Wichita Falls TX Balagan Theatre Seattle Barrington Stage Pittsfield MA Cape Cod Theatre Project Celebrationworks Theatre Ensemble Denver Centastage Boston CENTERSTAGE Baltimore MD Childsplay Tempe AZ City Theatre Pittsburgh Curious Theatre Company Denver Dangerous Theatre Denver Denver Center Theatre Company plays by Rocky Mountain States residents in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Full Dress Productions Gamm Theatre Pawtucket RI Germinal Stage Denver Gloucester Stage Company Massachusetts Griffin Theatre Kings Cross NSW Huntington Theatre Company unsolicited‚ unagented scripts from playwrights who are residents of the Greater Boston area Indiana Repertory Theatre Indianapolis Insight Out Theatre Collective Portland OR InterAct Theatre Company Philadelphia Intiman Theatre Seattle WA Little Festival of the Unexpected Portland ME Live Girls! Theatre plays by women Seattle Luna Theater Philadelphia Lyric Stage Company "Growing Voices" Boston Madcap Players Washington DC Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company Hawaii New Musical Theatre Submission Opportunities list of theaters that accept submissions The New Theatre Newtown NSW Nice People Theatre Philadelphia No Strings Theatre Company Las Cruces NM Off Square Theatre Jackson WY Pittsburgh Public Theater Playwrights' Platform a "developmental theatre" in Boston Port Tobacco Players La Plata MD Portland Theatre Works reading series, local authors preferred; Portland OR Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Queensland Theatre Company Renaissance Guild San Antonio TX Sherman Cymru Cardiff, Wales Single Carrot Theater Baltimore Sgript Cymru Wales Stages Repertory Theatre "stay tuned" Houston Strand Theater Company Baltimore Simpatico Theatre Project Philadelphia Two Chairs Theatre Colorado The Wilma Theater Philadelphia Woolly Mammoth Washington, DC Zeitgeist Theater Grand Slam very short works London $
Boards & Forum Listings
Community Theater Play Competitions good list of opportunities The Constant Creator Susan Johnston's blog, including sub opps En Avant Playwrights bulletin board with opportunities Fund for Women Artists great newsletter with submission possibilities — and investigate the rest of the site Impact Playwrights newsletter Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild newsletter Latebreaking Performance script opportunities NYFA Source free national database of grants, awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines nytheatre buzz news and announcements from New York's nonprofit theatre community — includes submission announcements and contests OzScript Notice Board competitions and calls for scripts The Playwrights' Center competition, fellowships and grant programs Playwrights Ink calls for scripts The Playwrights' Noticeboard markets, competitions, meetings and production opportunities Playwright Opportunities international listings from Interplay Playwriting Opportunities The Loop weekly newsletter for playwrights
Publisher submission guidelines - please contact any publisher before you submit to ask about royalty agreements
Anchorage Press PLAYS YA market only Aurora Metro Press Australian Script Centre Baker's Plays Big Dog Plays school market Broadway Play Publishing Brooklyn Publishers publishes non-musical plays, one-acts and full-lengths, 10-minute monologues, duets, and skits for high school, junior high, and middle school, and forensics. Currency Press Drama Source Dramatic Publishing Dramatists Play Service Eldridge Plays & Musicals community theater and school market Heartland Plays Professional, Community, Summer Stock, College, High School, and Theatre for Children and Youth Heuer Publishing educational and community theatre markets JD Drama Publishing school, speech tournament market Lazy Bee Scripts specialize in English pantomimes and school plays New Plays for Children New Theatre Publications the publishing company owned by the members of the New Playwrights Co-operative Next Gen schools and youth theatre market Original Works Publishing play publishers offering booklet-type "Acting Editions" (click "submissions") Pioneer Drama Service Plays for Theatre a theatre writer cooperative Playscripts Inc Playwrights Canada Press Playwrights Publishing Company Nottingham Samuel French Theatrical Rights Worldwide musicals Youthplays one-act plays and full-length plays for teen actors and audiences
	Playwriting & Theater Resources
Academy for New Musical Theatre Actors and Writers London London's oldest professional play-reading forum for actors and writers African American Playwrights Exchange Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights American Association of Community Theatre the national voice of community theatre American Theater Web more than 2,500 shows from nearly 1,000 theaters nationwide Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes The Association for Jewish Theatre Austin Script Works Australian Script Centre collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes unpublished Australian plays Australian Writers' Guild Recommended Rates Bunraku Japanese puppet theater - a lifetime to master The Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society Chicago Dramatists Community Theater Green Room "articles, tips, tricks, and a way to share information" Copenhagen Theatre Circle Copyright Laws for Theatre People Drama League of Ireland The Dramatists Guild of America the only professional association for playwrights, composers, and lyricists Federation of Scottish Theatres everything you need to know about Scottish theatre Footlight Notes theater and music hall entertainment during the 1850s to the 1920s Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms now when somebody says "we could really use a gobo on that fresnel in the fly" you'll know what it means Independent Theatre Council Instituto Nacional del Teatro (Argentina) International Amateur Theatre Association members in 80 countries on 5 continents International Centre for Women Playwrights Internet Broadway Database the official database for Broadway theatre information The Internet Theatre Database searchable archive of theatre past, present, and future for Broadway and London's West End Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Jam! Showbiz Canadian theatre news La Comedia de Campana (Argentina) Literary Agents US, UK, Canadian and Aussie-New Zealand agents and the playwrights they represent Manuscript Format from the Playwriting Seminars Marketing On The Cheap good tips for self-producing playwright too Medieval Drama Links resources for texts, costuming, music and set design Melbourne Writers Theatre Metro Arts funding opportunities, Brisbane Musical Theater Script Format National Music Theater Network Neo-Futurists produce the ongoing show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) fifty weekends a year think about it New Play Map get yourself on it New York Theatre Wire news from Broadway and beyond North West Playwrights develop and promote new writing for the theatre in the North West of England Nuffield Theatre Writers Group Southampton NYCPlaywrights a collective of writers to develop new work through weekly, informal, script-in-hand readings Pier Playwrights open to all dramatic writers in South East England Playbill Online among other things, lists of theater companies Playlab script development and playwright development agency, funded by the Queensland State GovernmentPlaywrights Association of New Zealand Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre Playwrights Cafe San Francisco group, including list of local theaters The Playwrights' Center Minneapolis, MN writing workshops Playwrights' Center of San Francisco Playwrights' Development Centres of Canada Playwrights Forum a non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic development of talented playwrights from the Washington D.C. area Playwrights Guild of Canada Playwrights Horizons a theater whose mission is the discovery and development of new and distinctive American writers, and accepts unsolicited full-length manuscripts Playwrights Platform Boston area writers Playwrights Project research and development facility for stage and screenwriters Playwrights' Studio Scotland Playwrights' Workshop Montral a professional theatre centre dedicated to developing contemporary work and new writers for the Canadian stage Playwriting101 explains the basics Playwriting Seminars focus on the kinds of new plays most often produced by the nation's 250 regional theatres - a step-by-step guide Preparing Scripts for Submission inquiry, synopsis and format explained, from the Playwriting Seminars Producing It Yourself a very (very) basic guide to hitting the stage The Puppetry Home Page news of productions, history, festivals - highly recommended Scottish Community Drama Association over 1,200 individuals and theatre clubs throughout Scotland, including Britains largest competition for new short plays Scottish Screenwriters social network Scottish Society of Playwrights Script Yorkshire support and advocacy organization for script writers Scriptsmart Formats free templates for stage and radio scripts, from the BBC Sign Language in the Theater a resource for both novice and experienced terps, as well as for theatre staff wanting to learn about sign language interpreted performance Small-Cast One-Act Guide odd name for a great index of plays available - sign up for free to get noticed online Southwest Scriptwriters, Bristol The Stage news from the UK theatrical world The Stage Channel fascinating way of presenting plays, from Chicago Street Biz Australian street performers network The Loop social network for playwrights The Money Flow article by Victor Knapp and Ralph Sevush about the monetary part of play script production Theatre Australia Theatre Literary Agents Canada Theatre Literary Agents UK Theatre Literary Agents US Theatre in Wales Theater Services Guide international theater, educational and tv station listings Theatre Writing Partnership set up to enable a greater creative collaboration on the development of new theatre writing in the East Midlands region UK Theatre Web guide to professional and amateur performing arts West End Festival music, theatre and arts in Glasgow every June Western Australian Playwrights' Consortium promoting the development of playwrights and performance writing Women Playwrights' Initiative to encourage the development of women playwrights, primarily in the Southeast Woodstock Fringe Playwrights Unit Working Title Playwrights Atlanta
	Online Audio Theater and Radio Writing
Association of Independents in Radio Atlanta Radio Theatre Company Colonial Radio Theatre Decoder Ring Theatre How to Write a Radio Play secrets of the trade from the BBC How to Format Radio Dramas Icebox Radio Theatre Ira Glass on Making Radio National Audio Theatre Festivals submission guidelines Night Kitchen Radio Theater Principles of Writing Radio Drama Radio College resource for US radio producers, including writing and marketing tips, freelance journalist advice, and a Jobs Opportunities section Radio Theater News news of script competitions and new projects for radio and online drama Right Between the Ears guidelines for radio comedy series Shoestring Radio Theater Sonic Society radio drama online, with submission guidelines Stories1st.org an online paying market for written and audio work Suggesting Story Ideas to NPR Transom.org an experiment in submission of new and fresh material for public radio Virtually Audio internet radio drama site of American fiction and non-fiction Wireless Theatre Company Writing Drama or Comedy for BBC Radio 4 Writing for Radio for radio news reporters and writers