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JANUARY
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24:7 Theatre Festival
Manchester byocast/production, like a Fringe deal but cheaper $
Boca Raton Theatre Guild Short Play Reading Festival 10-minute play or monologue Florida
The Brick Playhouse Award for New Plays Philadelphia $
Chautauqua Theater Company New Play Workshop Chautauqua, New York
Drama Association of Wales One Act Playwriting Competition
held to promote the writing of One Act plays (20-50 minutes) in English and Welsh. Open to all
Grove Theater Center New Play Initiative
a play development program in contest form Long Beach CA
Inspirato 10 minute play fest, January 4th email deadline ... don't wait! Toronto
Lakewood Theatre Company Playwriting Competition Oregon
McLaren Comedy Play Writing Competition Midland TX $
New Perspective Festival 15 minute plays; local playwrights only San Diego CA
Nora's Playhouse full-length and one-act plays for future readings. Scripts should have no more than five characters.
Brooklyn NY
NoTechTheatre Playwrighting Contest
full-length plays requiring no scenery lighting and props $
Perishable Theatre International Women’s Playwriting Festival Providence RI $
Premiere Stages open to New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania playwrights Union NJ
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
Tri-State Actors Theater reading series Jan 1 Sussex, NJ
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FEBRUARY
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10 by 10 in the Triangle
"10 plays, 10 actors, 10 minutes, 10 bucks" Carrboro NC
Asphalt Jungle Shorts
short, site specific plays. Kitchener OT
Babes With Blades: Joining Sword and Pen International Playwriting Competition Chicago
Berea Quilt Extravaganza plays with a theme of quilts or quilting are preferred, but not necessary Berea, KY
Blyth Festival New Play Development
BTW Unbound from Boston Theatre Works $
Center Stage South Carolina New Play Festival
Fields of Honor One-Act Play Festival "The Rocky Mountain region's newest swashbuckling theatre company"
Florida Senior Playwright Festival Florida residents 50 or over; 30 minute plays $
Hamilton Fringe Festival New Play Contest click "New Play Contest" link
Heartland Theatre Ten Minute Play Festival Bloomington IL
Hurricane Season Eclectic Theatre Company Valley Village CA $
Icicle Creek Theatre Festival full-length plays in development Seattle WA
Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival
Dallas
Landless Theatre Co. "So Bad, It's Good" Competition Washington DC
LOST Theatre Company One Act Festival London (click "one act festival") $
Mae West Fest's Female Protagonist Project
Moving Arts Premiere One-Act Competition $
New Perspectives Theatre Women's Work Playwrights Lab monthly workshop group NYC
Pandora Festival from the Arizona Women's Theatre Company
Primus Prize awarded to an outstanding female playwright recognizing a single script. From the American Theatre Critics Association $
Source Festival Multidisciplinary Work: Any individual creating work the combines multiple disciplines (such as theater and dance or music and
film) or is considered spoken word, hip hop theater or standup comedy. Washington DC
Theatre Oxford Ten Minute Play Contest $
Trustus Playwrights’ Festival
Trustus Theatre, South Carolina $
Vermont Playwrights Award $1000 for original plays by residents of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine
Windsor Fringe Marriott Award for New Drama Writing £500 prize $
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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
The Arts & Letters Prizes publication and cash prize for fiction, poetry and one-acts; Georgia College & State University $
Backdoor Theatre New Play Project $500 first prize plus production
Bruntwood Playwriting Competition for the Royal Exchange
UK and Ireland only
Circus Theatricals One-Act Festival Culver City CA
East Valley Children’s Theatre must be suitable for children to perform for children; Mesa AZ
EAT Developmental Series 5-week program, one focus per week; One Woman Standing (one woman shows), One
Man Standing (one man shows), Laugh Out Loud (puppetry and clown work), Catch a Cabaret (cabaret performers), Notes From a Page (new ensemble musicals) NYC
Eclectic Company Theatre’s Hurricane Season Playwriting Festival
15-35 minute plays. Valley Village CA $
Fire Rose Productions 10-Minute Play Competition North Hollywood $
Metropolitan Playhouse new plays inspired by the life and history of New York's Lower East Side.
NewWriting NewWorlds
Glasgow
New York Musical Theater Festival an opportunity to produce your own musical (costs a lot of your money) $
NYCollective Ten-minute Play Competition
Rochester Rep 10-minute play comp MN
The Roger Cornish Award for New Plays $
Short Attention-Span Theatre PlayFEST 3-page monologues only
Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest from Pioneer Drama Service
Total Beast Six Minute Theatre East Sussex $
Tympanic Theatre Company plays of any length Chicago
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APRIL |
BASH! Bay Area Shorts
open only to playwright currently residing in the Bay Area
Carrollwood Players One Act Weekend Tampa $
Larry Corse Prize for Playwriting Atlanta
Darknight Gallery scripts about the human condition that could scare an audience,
yet leave them contemplating who we are as human beings Westchester, IL
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
EBE Ensemble "You Fill in the Blank" new
play festival; full-length NYC $
Festival of 10 biennial fest, SUNY Brockport $
Freemont Centre New Playwright Contest Pasadena CA $
Funniest Play on Earth full-length, unpublished, comedy plays, previously performed plays are allowed. Nashua, NH
Grab Our Shorts Florida residents only
Heller Theatre Playwriting Contest Tulsa OK
Icicle Creek Theatre Festival Washington State
John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award from New England Theatre Conference, CT $
Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest Lebanon, PA
NextFest Willows Theatre Company; Concord CA
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
Stormy Weather Players New Plays Festival Cornwall NY $
Strawberry One-Act Festival summer deadline; byo cast
Ten Minute New Play Festival from FUSION Theatre, Albuquerque
Turtle Shell Productions themed competition, one-act plays 15 – 40 minutes NYC
Vision Fest from Live wire Chicago Theatre themed subject; Feb-April sub dates
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MAY |
Arts Club of Washington Playwriting Awards
one-act and first of multi-act scripts Washington DC $
Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award
new full-length plays for young audiences CT $
Bamff Centre 75th Anniversary Playwriting Competition
Canadian writers only; $25,000 prize
Canadian Jewish
Playwriting Competition Canadian writers or those with strong Canadian connections Toronto
Centre Stage New Play Festival
South Carolina $
DrekFest Stage Left’s national search for the worst ten-minute play, Chicago $
Fusion Theater Co
10 Minute Fest Albuquerque NM
Gippsland Theatre Festival Writer’s Competition
short works. Traralgon, Australia $
Helford Prize
Jacksonville University national playwriting competition
Icicle Creek Theatre Festival
Washington State
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
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
Practicum Theatre One-Page Play Competition London $
Fusion Theatre Co "The Seven" New Works Fest Albuquerque NM $ (for electronic sub; free for hard copy)
Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab NYC
Tapestry New Opera Works Toronto
Tarragon Theatre Under 30 National Playwriting Competition
Canadian writers only; Toronto
Tin Ceiling New Play Competition full-length or 1-act categories St Louis MO $ |
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JUNE |
The Albert Benzwie Playhouse Award for New One-Act Plays $
Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble's New Plays Festival
Santa Ana CA
Brevard Little Theatre New Play Competition Aug-June submission $
Chester Horn Short Play Festival NYC
Circus Theatricals One Act Play Festival;
Culver City CA
Ensemble Studio Theatre full-length and one-act plays; sub from April - June. Los Angeles
Estrogenius New Short Play Festival short plays written by women
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
Hidden River Playwriting Award previously unpublished and unproduced full-length play Bala Cynwyd PA $
John Gassner New Play Festival Stony Brook NY
Knutsford Little Theatre Play Festival
Cheshire UK
Nancy Weil New Play Search $
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest $
North Park Playwright Festival
from the North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe Theatre;
15 minute or less scripts. San Diego CA
OxDocs explores issues related to
political, religious, racial, gender-based, and/or
community conflict. Washington DC $
Paines Plough Future Perfect London
Pan Theatre Halloween Plays & Christmas Shorts Oakland CA
Panndora's
Box full-length, small cast; Long Beach CA
PlayFest
Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays, a ten-day theatre
event in Orlando, Florida. new full-length plays based
on, or inspired by works of classic literature, or
historic events and/or persons
Siena International Playwrights Competition biennial contest; Loudenville NY
Stage THIS! TOO E-MergingWriters.com 10-minute play competition NYC $
San Luis Obispo Little Theatre Short Play Festival (fee waved)
Verse Drama Prize honors a living poet over the age of 18 who has written an outstanding original
verse drama in English
Warehouse Theatre Company's International Playwriting Festival
Croyden UK
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JULY |
Brevard Little Theatre New-Play Competition
Brevard NC
EATFest Emerging
Artists, Spring; plays up to 50 minutes in length, character driven
plays with unusual subjects and settings with a twist. NYC
Future 10 Ten Minute Play Fest
Pittsburgh
Havemeyer Playwright Competition $
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 $
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
Sussex Playwrights Club Play Competition $
Theatre BC's National Playwriting Competition Canadian writers
$40 fee
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AUGUST
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The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop
Bonderman Playwriting For Youth National Symposium Avon, Indiana
Brave New Works Festival
Theatre Aquarius Hamilton ON
Le Petit Theatre de Terrebonne Playwrighting Contest (pdf) 30 minute or less Houma LA
Little Fish Pick of the Vine
San Pedro CA
Palm Beach Dramaworks submit between
Pint Sized Plays 10-minute plays Tenby, Wales
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company Black & White Festival Pittsburgh playwrights only
‘Protect the Human’ Playwriting Competition minimum of 50 and maximum of 100 minutes in
length
Rochester Stories flour city theatre company, stories set in, or are about, Rochester, New York.
Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest
Stepping Stone Millennium Playwriting Contest
Brooklyn $
Yale Drama Series 1st prize of $10,000 New Haven CT
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SEPTEMBER |
Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival
juried, three-week festival of new writing, works-in-progress and
experimental theatre. Toronto
Brave New Roles from the Sphinx Theatre, London UK residents
From The Shelterbelt With Love love, loss, romance, relationships and Valentine's themed.
Shelterbelt Theatre Omaha NE
Global Age Project Aurora Theatre Company new play development. Berkeley CA
hotINK International Play Reading Festival
full-length plays NYC
Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation grants for individual creative artists working in musical theatre. NYC
Little Festival of the Unexpected Portland ME
Mercury Rising from Mercury Theater, Madison WI
On Broadway Thespians Coos Bay OR
Pandora's Box full-length plays Long Beach CA
Santa Fe Performing Arts Playwright's Competition
Summer Play Festival NYC
Theatre Three Festival of One-Act Plays Port Jefferson NY
Valencia Character Company
Florida playwrights
Y.E.S. Festival full-length plays and musicals; Northern Kentucky University
"You GOT it?... We WANT it!" Playwriting Competition NYC
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OCTOBER
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10 Minute Playwriting Festival
San Juan Capistrano CA $
Actors' Theatre Full-Length Play Competition Santa Cruz CA $
Brian Way Award writing for young audiences; £6,000 prize. London
FutureFest
from the Dayton Playhouse
Groundswell Playwright’s Unit
new work by women Toronto
Jewish Ensemble Theatre Festival of New Plays West Bloomfield, MI
Kansas City Women’s Playwriting Festival scripts not less than 10 minutes and not more than 20 minutes from
women playwrights
Longwood Ten-Minute Play Fest Farmville VA
New Theatrical Works for Young Actresses 10-minute plays Baltimore, MD
New Works Winter Festival from Acme Theatre, MA 10-minute plays deadline
One-Act Playwriting Competition from the Little Theatre Alexandria VA $
Panowski Playwriting Competition
Marquette, MI
Phare Play Productions one-act erotica plays NYC
PlayPenn New Play Development Conference Philadelphia, PA
Playwrights' Revolution from Capital Stage
Reva Shiner Full Length Play Competition from Bloomington Playwrights Project $
rock.paper.sistahz Festival Toronto
Scriptfest Oct
31 North Carolina
TNT's Production of Original Plays (POPS) emailed and Postmarked by midnight, October 15 Fort Worth TX
Zeitgeist Theater New
Play Competition London $
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NOVEMBER
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7th Inning Stretch
ten minute plays about baseball from Mile Square Theatre Hoboken NJ
Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation Gay-Positive Playwriting Competition Palm Springs, CA
BASH! (Bay Area Shorts) $20
Boston Theater Marathon
New England writers only
Chameleon Theatre Circle New Play Contest Apple Valley, MN
Greasy Joan & Co Contemporary Classics Series creating new adaptations of classic plays or stories. Chicago
Hightide
Festival open to international writers
Humana 10-minute Play Fest
Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition
Lakeshore Players Ten-Minute Play Festival Minnesota
Metamorphosis new writing (as in unproduced writers) from the four London
Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham Churchill Theatre
Mystery Writers' Festival
plays, screenplays, teleplays and short stories Owensboro, KY
The NewBorn Festival
Maieutic Theatre NYC
People's Play Award
open to writers living in the North East of England
Playwrights Of Spring Festival Ontario writers only
Raymond J. Flores Short Play Series
NYC $
Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival Racine WI
Strawberry One-Act Festival winter deadline
Summer Play Festival (SPF) plays
and musicals NYC
Sundog Theatre Scenes From The Staten Island Ferry
Women Playwrights' Initiative full-length plays from women residing in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia
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DECEMBER
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15 Minute Play Festival
bring your own production NYC
6 Women Playwriting Festival 10-minute plays Colorado Springs CO
Acrosstown Repertory Theatre James Sunwall Prize full-length comedies. Gainesville FL
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
Do Gooder New Playwright Award $500 and an Equity Off-Broadway production
Drip Action Theatre Trail 30-40 minute pieces, performed in site-specific locations. West Sussex
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"
MultiStages multidisciplinary/multicultural full-length plays including dance, music composition (play with music, opera, or NOT traditional music
theatre), visual arts, puppetry, poetry, masks, multimedia, etc NYC
New American Playwrights Project readings and residency from Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah
Next Generation Playwriting Contest $
One-Act Marathon Attic Theatre, Los Angeles $
Panoply Ten-Minute Playwright Competition
Huntsville AL
Pillars
Playwriting Prize Georgia College and State University
Milledgeville, GA $
Queer Shorts
Madison WI
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
Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Sundance Resort UT $
Theatre In the Raw Play Writing Contest $
Theatre Odyssey Ten-Minute Play Festival Longboat Key FL $
Turnip/American Globe Theatre New York City 15-minute Play Festival
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ONGOING
COMPETITIONS, FUNDING AND READING SERIES |
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
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
Boca Raton
Theatre Guild monthly readings
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
Doorway Arts Washington DC
Freshworks Reading
Series from Portland Theatre Works, OR
Funding for Playwrights from the Arts Council
FUSE Scottish writers, Glasgow
Galapagos
Art Space Natural Selection: Sunday Play Reading Series Brooklyn
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 $
Irish Repertory Theatre readings NYC
Live Girls! THaetre
Lower Ossington Theatre Workshop Performance Series Toronto
Manitoba Arts Council individual artists grants deadlines
Metropolitan Playhouse NYC
The Midtown International Theater Festival $
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
Playwrights' Center of San Francisco Reading Series
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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Boards & Forum Listings |
Backstage Jobs - Playwrights an unusual place to look for freelance work
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 one of the best newsletters for writing opportunities
Latebreaking Performance script opportunities
NewsFlashes from Small-Cast One-Act Guide calls for scripts
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
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| Theatre submission guidelines |
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Theatre Company female playwrights Minneapolis
4th Line Theatre Millbrook ON
7th Sign NYC
About Face
Theatre Chicago
ABYDOS Theater San Francisco
ActNow Foundation focuses on the minority experience in the US; Brooklyn NY
Actors Art Theatre Los Angeles
Actor's Express Atlanta
Alley Stage Mineral Point WI
Alleyway Theatre Buffalo NY
Alliance Theatre Submissions Atlanta's own theater
American Conservatory Theatre San Francisco
American Repertory Theatre Cambridge MA
And Toto Too Theatre Company women playwrights only; Denver CO
Atlantic Theatre Company NYC
Arden Theatre Company Philadelphia
Arena Stage a place for BIG plays; Washington DC
Arizona Theatre Company
Atwater Playhouse Los Angeles
Available light [theatre]
Azuka Theatre Philadelphia
Babes With Blades New Play Development
Backdoor Theatre’s New Play Project Wichita Falls TX
Bailiwick Rep Chicago
Balagan
Theatre Seattle
Barebones Theatre Group Charlotte NC
Barefoot Theatre Company NYC $
BareStage Theatre Red Bluff CA $
Barrington Stage Pittsfield MA
Barter Theatre Company Abingdon VA
BBC Writers Room Submissions
Black Swan Theater Asheville NC
Blank Theatre Company
mainstage and workshops Los Angeles
BoarsHead Theater Lansing MI
Boomerang Theatre Company NYC
Boston Court Pasadena, California
Buffalo Nights Theatre Company Los Angeles
Bush Theatre Shepherds Bush
Cahoots Theatre Project Toronto
CanStage Toronto
Cap21 NYC
Cape Cod Theatre Project
Celebration Theatre gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered stage plays; Hollywood
Centastage Boston
CENTERSTAGE Baltimore MD
Center Theatre Group Los Angeles
Cheeky Maggot Productions
Circus Theatricals Culver City CA
City Theatre Pittsburgh
Cleveland Public Theatre
Clockworks Theatre click "in the works" Brooklyn NY
Clubbed Thumb plays with "a reasonable representation of women". NYC
Conejo Players Theatre works for children Thousand Oaks CA
Counting Squares Theatre new work NYC
Coup de Theatre Atlanta
The Curan Repertory Company NYC
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.
Detroit Repertory Theatre
Druid Theatre Company Galway
Echo Theatre St Louis
Emerging Artists Theatre NYC
Encore Theatre Company San Francisco
Epiphany Theater Company reading series and short play fest NYC
Everyman Playhouse Liverpool
Factory Theatre Script Submissions open to Canadian
writers only; Ontario
Falcon Theatre Jan-March acceptance; California
The Fire Dept NYC
Florida Studio Theatre New Play Festival reading series and staged Sarasota FL
Fountain Theatre Hollywood CA
Full Circle Watford
Full Dress Productions
Furious Theatre Company Pasadena CA
FUSE NTS initiative for new Scottish writing
Germinal Stage Denver
Geva Theatre Rochester NY
Gloucester Stage Company Massachusetts
Goodman Theatre Chicago
Great Canadian Theatre Company Ottawa ON
Grey Coast Theatre Glasgow
Griffin Theatre Kings Cross NSW
Halcyon Theatre
Chicago
Hampstead Theatre London
History Theatre recommendation required St. Paul MN
Horizon Theatre Atlanta
Horse Trade Theater Group NYC
Hull Truck Theatre Hull, Yorkshire
Hunger Artists Theatre Company Fullerton CA
Huntington Theatre Company unsolicited‚ unagented scripts from playwrights who are residents of the Greater Boston area
Hypatia Theatre Company Chicago
Impact Theatre San Francisco
Inneract Productions NYC
Insight Out Theatre Collective Portland OR
InterAct Theatre Company Philadelphia
Intiman Theatre Seattle WA
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre December to April submissions; Louisville KY
Kaliyuga Arts NYC
Kitchen Theatre Ithaca NY
LAByrinth Theater Company NYC
Live Bait Chicago area playwrights only
Live Girls! Theatre
plays by women Seattle
Live Theatre free script reading feedback for local writers, Newcastle
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People Toronto
Luna Stage September 15th through April 30th, Montclair NJ
Lyric Stage
Company "Growing Voices" Boston
Madcap Players Washington DC
MadLab Theatre Columbus OH
Magic Theatre San Francisco
Magnetic North Edinburgh
Manitoba Theatre Centre
Marin Theatre
MCC Theatre NYC
Menagerie Theatre Company Cambridge
Merely Players Owensboro KT
Milk Can Theatre NYC
Mill Mountain Theatre one-acts only; Roanoke VA
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
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; NYC
Mixed Blood Theatre Minneapolis
National Theatre of Scotland
The Necessary Theatre Louisville KY
Net Curtains Theatre Company click "contact us"
New Jersey Repertory Company
New Musical Theatre Submission Opportunities list of theaters that accept submissions
New Sounds Theatre Sandbox pairing playwrights with composers
New Theatre "home of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"; Coral Gables FL
The New Theatre Newtown NSW
New World Theatre full-length and one-acts NYC
Next Theatre Company Evanston IL
No Strings Theatre Company Las Cruces NM
Northlight Theatre Skokie IL
Odyssey Productions Arlington VA
Off Square Theatre Jackson WY
The Old Globe San Diego
Operating Theatre London
Outlaws Theatre NYC
Pittsburgh Public Theater
Playwrights' Forum Memphis TN
Playwrights Horizons NYC
Playwrights' Platform a "developmental theatre" in Boston
Playwrights Premiere Theatre Williamsburg VA
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey
Polka Theatre new writing for children and young people, London
Port Tobacco Players La Plata MD
Portland Stage Portland MN
Portland Theatre Works reading series, local authors preferred; Portland OR
Potluck Productions
short scripts by women Kansas City MO
The Production Company Van Nuys CA
Proteus Theatre Basingstoke
Provincetown Theatre Company
The Public Theater NYC
Public Theatre of South Florida (email address at bottom of page)
Queensland Theatre Company
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater NYC
Red Hen Productions Feminist Theatre Cleveland OH
Red Ladder Theatre Company Leeds
Red Room London
Renegade Theatre Experiment San Jose CA
REVOLUTION Theatre Company Chicago
Riprap Writers' Playhouse readings done via local access television, North Hollywood
Road Theatre Company North Hollywood CA
Robert Fox Limited producer, London
Roseneath Theatre work for young audiences Ontario
Santa Monica Playhouse Santa Monica CA
Serendipity Theatre Collective Chicago
Shelterbelt
Theatre Omaha NE
Sherman Cymru Cardiff, Wales
Sgript Cymru Wales
Script Online newsletter for UK screen, TV and theatre writer opps
Soho Theatre several opportunities; London
South Coast Repertory several submission opportunities; Costa Mesa CA
Southern Rep New Orleans
Southern Writers' Project of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival southern writers or southern themes
The Spiro Ark monthly readings of Jewish plays London
Stage Left plays to raise debate on political and social issues, Chicago
Stages Repertory Theatre "stay tuned" Houston
Steppenwolf Chicago
Simpatico Theatre Project Philadelphia
Team Venture Productions Chicago
Ten Grand and a Burger NYC
The 7th Sign NYC
The Tank "slam" theater; bring a script, do it up on stage, let the audience decide. NYC
Tarragon Theatre
Theatre503 London
Theatre Limina Summer Shorts Festival Minneapolis
Theatre Neo Los Angeles
Theatre Out Anaheim CA
Theatre Passe Muraille hunt for "submissions" Toronto
Theatre Rats NYC
Theatre Royal Stratford East London
Theatre Seven Chicago
Theatre West submit before June for August selection; Bristol
TheatreWorks "We do not accept: Unsolicited manuscripts, One-acts or plays with togas"; Palo Alto CA
This Woman's Work Theatre Co female playwrights only NYC
Tight Fit Theatre Beaconsfield
TimeLine Theatre Company Chicago
Tinfish Productions Chicago
Traverse Theatre Edinburgh
Two Chairs Theatre Colorado
Unicorn Theatre Kansas City MO
Unity Theatre UK writers Liverpool
Urban Samurai
Minnesota
Victory Gardens Theater Chicago
Victory Theatre Center Burbank CA
Vineyard Theatre NYC
Watford Palace Theatre
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Williamstown Theatre Festival for the
Friday@3 reading series, Sept-March
only; NYC
Willows Theatre Company comedies only; Concord CA
The Wilma Theater Philadelphia
Wings Theatre Company musicals or work for the Gay Plays Series; NYC
Wizard Oil Productions NYC
Women’s Theatre Project seeks submissions of full-length plays with
all female casts by female playwrights. Ft. Lauderdale
Woolly Mammoth Washington, DC
The Working Theatre plays about issues of concern to working people NYC
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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
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
Samuel French
Theatrical Rights Worldwide musicals
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