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BASH! Bay Area SHorts open only to playwright currently residing in the Bay Area April 1 Carrollwood Players One Act Weekend Tampa Apr 1 $
Larry Corse Prize for Playwriting Atlanta April 1 Darknight Gallery scripts about the human condition that could scare an audience, yet leave them contemplating who we are as human beings Westchester, IL April 13 Diverse Voices Playwriting Contest from the Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory, NYC (click "Diverse Voices") EATFest Emerging Artists; plays 10 to 20 minutes in length - must not have been produced in NYC, scripts that have a well written plot with a twist ending; NYC April 1 Festival of 10 biennial fest, SUNY Brockport April 26 $ Freemont Centre New Playwright Contest Pasadena CA April 30 $ Funniest Play on Earth full-length, unpublished, comedy plays, previously performed plays are allowed. Nashua, NH April 1 Heller Theatre Playwriting Contest Tulsa OK April 1 Icicle Creek Theatre Festival Washington State John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award from New England Theatre Conference, CT April 15 $ Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest April 30, Lebanon, PA NextFest Willows Theatre Company; Concord CA April 15 Pan Theater Ten Minute Play Festival Oakland CA $ Palm Beach Dramaworks Playwright’s Festival Florida writers only
Pittsburgh New Works Festival $ Shelterbelt Theatre Summer Stock series of new plays performed in repertory; Omaha April 1 Stormy Weather Players New Plays Festival Cornwall NY April 30 $ Strawberry One-Act Festival summer deadline; byo cast Ten Minute New Play Festival from FUSION Theatre, Albuquerque Theatre Southwest Festival of Originals 20 minute plays (link leads to 2006 competition info; 2008 deadline is April 1) Houston TX $ Turtle Shell Productions themed competition, one-act plays 15 – 40 minutes NYC April 9 Unhinged Short Play Festival Vision Fest from Live wire Chicago Theatre themed subject; Feb-April sub dates
Arts Club of Washington Playwriting Awards one-act and first of multi-act scripts Washington DC May 19 $ Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award new full-length plays for young audiences Ct May1 $ Bamff Centre 75th Anniversary Playwriting Competition Canadian writers only; $25,000 prize May 2 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition Canadian writers or those with strong Canadian connections Toronto May 31 Centre Stage New Play Festival South Carolina May 1 $ DrekFest Stage Left’s national search for the worst ten-minute play, Chicago May 1 $ Fusion Theater Co 10 Minute Fest Albuquerque NM May 1 Gippsland Theatre Festival Writer’s Competition short works. Traralgon, Australia May 15 $ Helford Prize Jacksonville University national playwriting competition May 15 Icicle Creek Theatre Festival Washington State May 15 Lake Edun Naturist Play Competition "one-act play dealing with issues of body acceptance from a Naturist’s perspective"; Topeka, Kansas Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award citizens of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland May 2 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. May 1 Practicum Theatre One-Page Play Competition London $ Fusion Theatre Co "The Seven" New Works Fest Albuquerque NM. May 1 $ (for electronic sub; free for hard copy) Red vs Blue: Summer Shorts XI from Playwrights' Roundtable. Orlando, May 1 $ Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab May 16 NYC Tapestry New Opera Works Toronto May 1 Tarragon Theatre Canadian writers only; Toronto Tin Ceiling New Play Competition full-length or 1-act categories St Louis MO $
Ashland 10-Minute Plays Festival Ashland OR EATFest Emerging Artists, Spring; plays up to 50 minutes in length, character driven plays with unusual subjects and settings with a twist. NYC July 1st Firehouse Theatre Project Annual Festival of New American Plays Richmond VA June 30 Havemeyer Playwright Competition $ Max Afford Playwrights’ Award $7,500 prize, awarded every two (even) years; Australian writers between the ages of 18 and 40. July 4 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition Buffalo NY. July 1 $ Rogue Valley 10-Minute Plays Festival Ashland OR July 15 Soho Theatre Verity Bargate Award full-length, open to any writer with fewer than 3 productions, resident in the British Isles and Republic of Ireland. London July 6 Sussex Playwrights Club Play Competition July 31 $
Theatre BC's National Playwriting Competition Canadian writers July 21 $40 fee
Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation Gay-Positive Playwriting Competition Palm Springs, CA Nov 30 BASH! (Bay Area Shorts) $20
Boston Theater Marathon New England writers only Nov 15 Chameleon Theatre Circle New Play Contest Apple Valley, MN Fullerton College Annual Playwright's Festival deadline Nov 1 Greasy Joan & Co Contemporary Classics Series creating new adaptations of classic plays or stories. Chicago Nov 15 Humana 10-minute Play Fest Nov 1 Lakeshore Players Ten-Minute Play Festival Minnesota Nov 5 Madlab Theatre Roulette short plays 5-45 minutes Columbus OH Nov 30
Metamorphosis new writing (as in unproduced writers) from the four London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham Churchill Theatre Nov 26 Mystery Writers' Festival plays, screenplays, teleplays and short stories Owensboro, KY Nov 30 The NewBorn Festival Maieutic Theatre NYC
People's Play Award open to writers living in the North East of England Nov 5 Playwrights' Center of San Francisco Reading Series Nov 15 Playwrights Of Spring Festival Ontario writers only Raymond J. Flores Short Play Series NYC Nov 30 $ Short+Sweet Sydney $ Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival postmarked by November 1 Racine WI Strawberry One-Act Festival winter deadline Sundog Theatre Scenes From The Staten Island Ferry, Nov 13 deadline Women Playwrights' Initiative full-length plays from women residing in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia
15 Minute Play Festival bring your own production NYC Dec 31 6 Women Playwriting Festival 10-minute plays Colorado Springs CO Sept-Dec 31 Acrosstown Repertory Theatre James Sunwall Prize full-length comedies. Gainesville FL Dec 1 Asunción Playwrights Project showcase for Latino writers Pregones Theatre, Bronx NY Bay Area Playwrights Festival Biennial Play Writing Contest $ Black Box New Play Festival NY, NJ and CT playwrights $ Collaboraction Sketchbook Festival collaboration of music, art, dance, and theatrical performances; Chicago Dec15 Do Gooder New Playwright Award $500 and an Equity Off-Broadway production Sept 1-Dec1 acceptance Drip Action Theatre Trail 30-40 minute pieces, performed in site-specific locations. West Sussex Dec 31 Eudora Welty New Play Series Jackson MS Geelong Rep Biannual Competition 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" DEADLINE JAN 1 Herrick Theatre Foundation Play Contest $20,000 first prize One-Act Marathon Attic Theatre, Los Angeles $ New American Playwrights Project readings and residency from Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah July1 - Dec1 Next Generation Playwriting Contest $ North Carolina Central University New Play Project full-length and one-act plays. Durham NC, Dec 1 deadline Panoply Ten-Minute Playwright Competition Huntsville AL Dec 31 Queer Shorts Madison WI, Dec 1 deadline Ruby Lloyd Apsey Play Search new and original plays confronting racial or ethnic issues Seven Devils Playwrights Conference $ Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) plays exploring scientific and/or technological stories, themes, issues and/or events, $10,000 prize Source Festival 10-minute plays Washington DC, Dec 7 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Sundance Resort UT Dec 15 $ Theatre In the Raw Play Writing Contest Dec 31 $ Theatre Odyssey Ten-Minute Play Festival Longboat Key FL Dec 31 $ Turnip/American Globe Theatre New York City 15-minute Play Festival Dec 15
10 In a Bed New Writing Sunday reading series London 13th Street Rep Company's Reading Series NYC Around the Coyote Third Thursday New Play Reading Series local Chicago writers Athena Theatre Company Reading Series "If you would like to submit an original play or screenplay, please submit it." Hollywood Australia Council for the Arts New Work Awards up to $15,000 Black Swan Reading Series new readings every two months Asheville NC Bug Theatre New Playwrights Festival Cheshire Unicorn Gestation Reading Series Toronto Clerkenwell Theatre New Writing Sunday reading series London Cold Cuts Reading Series NY Dixon House Reading Series NYC writers only August Wilson New Play Initiative from the Congo Square Theatre Co, Chicago 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 $ Innovation Reading Series NYC Irish Repertory Theatre readings NYC Lower Ossington Theatre Workshop Performance Series Toronto Manitoba Arts Council individual artists grants deadlines Metropolitan Playhouse NYC The Midtown International Theater Festival $ needcompany monthly series of workshops and staged readings, Beverly Hills CA New Playwrights Reading Series Shotgun Productions, NYC New Sounds Theatre Sandbox reading/concert series, which pairs readings of new plays with performances by a guest composer NYC New South PlayWorks Horizon Theatre, Atlanta New York Theatre Workshop New Zealand Arts Council funding for playwrights The NewBorn Festival Maieutic Theatre Works NYC Northern Stage "First in Three" showcase for new work; Newcastle Patrick White Playwrights' Award Australian writers only Playhouse West New Work Reading Series Walnut Creek, CA Riant Theatre Reading Series NYC SAS Playfest themed contests announced in Feb, March, April and May; somewhere in New England Scottish Arts - Funding for Drama Scottish Arts - Funding for Creative Development Scriptslam Sherman Cymru Theatre; a monthly event where four 10 minute plays are performed script in hand by experienced actors Cardiff Wales Shantz Theatre's Reading Series Chicago The Shaw Festival submissions can be sent throughout the year and can include full-length plays, one-acts, translations, adaptations and musicals. Plays from outside of Canada will also be accepted. Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON 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 The Spiro Ark monthly reading series of plays by Jewish writers or on a Jewish theme. London Stars of the Future New Play Project plays about issues important to women Theatre Tribe Sunday Brunch one-act reading series North Hollywood Thistle Dew Playwrights Workshop reading series, Sacramento CA Towne Street Theatre Staged Reading Series Los Angeles Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award NYC York Theatre Developmental Reading Series NYC
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