Ill maintain this list on occasion adding new opportunities or removing old ones that have been discontinued. If you have a full-length script that has been developed and produced that you would like them to consider for a future Native Voices production in Los Angeles follow the Checklist for All Submissions on the website in the Native Voices Script Submission form check and check the box for 2023 General Production Consideration. It is our aim to support artists who have a demonstrated commitment to the craft, art, and profession of playwriting. Workshops and readings are fine. Submission details: Theatre 503 - International Playwriting Award The Magnetic Theatre 4th Annual One Act Play Festival Plays 5-15 minutes in length. The IPA World Conference 2023 will be held at Glasgow Caledonian University located right in the middle of the vibrant city centre, 6-9 June 2023. Information: National Theatre Playwriting Masterclasses, Full Length Plays a minimum of 65 minutes in length. Each year, The Foundation administers the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award. The Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays is an annual festival with a focus on one-act plays. If the deadline has passed then take note for the following year. Plays that have not received a professional productionPlaywrights that reside in Canada. Scripts may be for plays, musicals, multimedia, video, film, TV, podcasts, or other writing for performance. We encourage applications from writers of all genres who have one to four published and/or professionally performed works to their credit. Plays may not be under option, commission, or scheduled for professional production or publication at the time of submission. 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 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. Since 1999, PLAY International has realized humanitarian and educational missions in more than 20 countries. New and established playwrights are encouraged to submit. Submission details: Scripts on Fire New Play Competition, Full-Length Plays with a minimum length of 75 minutes. The competition is in line with The New American Theatres ongoing commitment to inspire, educate and nurture artists and our community toward a thoughtful and humane worldview through the art of storytelling. Currently looking for plays based on popular works in the public domain, such as Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, The Jungle Book, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Anne of Green Gables, The Scarlet Letter, The Sword in the Stone, The Velveteen Rabbit, Swiss Family Robinson, and others. WHAT IT'S FOR Our script submissions system is a point of access for writers to share their work with the Royal Court. Play Submissions. Young writers with disabilities are invited to submit a ten-minute script of any genre. New Full-Length Plays In EnglishPlaywright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK. The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico (HWF) is a private, 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational and charitable organization committed to supporting the arts. The Great Plains Theatre Commons was founded by Metropolitan Community College as the Great Plains Theatre Conference in 2006 and in 2020, the Conference became an independent theatre nonprofit organization, the Great Plains Theatre Commons, in order to expand its programming and service to the local and national community. All genres and styles of drama, including one-acts and solo piecesPlaywrights must be 18 years of age and have the right to work within the United States. If sending a musical work, please include mp3 files of songs. The OOB Festival is one of Samuel French/Concord Theatricals primary initiatives to work with the next wave of emerging playwrights. Submission details: Eden Prairie Players Womens One Acts. Submit one full-length play, or a long one-act play (an hour or more). Submission details: The Road Theatre Company Annual Summer Playwrights Festival. 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. The ten winning plays will then go on to a Script Slam in Theatr Gwaun, Fishguard where the audience will vote for their favourite script and the winner walks away with the coveted Pint-sized Plays Pint-pot. The winning playwright awards the Dayton Playhouse the option to produce the winning play as part of its main stage season royalty-free. The winner will also receive a professionally produced staged reading in The Blank Theatres Living Room Series new play development program. Play Submissions : Playwrights Horizons. Each has found privacy in which to create along with ample opportunities to interact with fellow artists in the vibrant and friendly community of Nebraska City located an hours drive south of Omaha. Submitted works can not be currently attached to a theatre or production company. Submission details: The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It was first held in 1937 and has been won by a whos who of Canadian literary luminaries. The Atlanta Shakespeare Company is launching a new playwriting initiative for historically marginalized artists. The Retreat culminates in public staged readings of the plays at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. We follow the international theatre scene closely and solicit plays that have had seasons in major theatre companies via agents. The National Arts Centre supports bold and ambitious work representing a diversity of disciplines, abilities, genders, ethnicities, languages, cultures, and regions. Submission details: Eugene ONeill Theater Center Young Playwrights Festival. To be eligible, an artist must be a resident or citizen of Canada, although you may be pursuing your work outside the country. International applicants must be ages 15-18, have a disability, and submit all materials in English or ASL. We are thrilled to announce that the play submission process is now open for new and diverse plays to be considered for our Summer Playwrights Festival. The Ottawa Little Theatre One-Act Playwriting Competition is the oldest in Canada. Submissions are welcome fromJuly 1st until August 31stand will be read by a committee of writers, theatre artists, and producers. The Odyssey is grateful to writers who entrust us with their work. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31 . Plays no longer than 15-minutes in length. Each applicant for the Fred Ebb Award must be a composer/lyricist or composer/lyricist team wishing to create work for the musical theatre, and must not yet have achieved significant commercial success. This competition is open to writers of any ability or experience, and our new writing initiative will support you throughout your script development. Full length plays by Black Playwrights, Playwrights of Colour, Indigenous Playwrights residing in the U.S. with the legal right to work, Submission details: PWC Many Voices Fellowship. To date, their investments have ranged from $80,000 to $240,000. Many Voices Fellows will receive a $20,000 stipend and $3,000 in development support. Plays should be between 30 and 40 minutes long, with practicable casting, props and effects and a maximum of five performers. Original one-acts by Canadian playwrights. Full-Length playsBlack Playwrights, Playwrights of Colour, and Indigenous Playwrights residing in the U.S. with the legal right to work. Investments provide the additional time and resources that bold, ambitious projects need to be successful on the national and international stage. Proposals are accepted throughout the year, and the curatorial team reviews them on an on-going basis. Playwrights residing in the UK or Republic of Ireland or British Overseas Territory or with a British Forces Post Office address. The Centers intention with the Festival is to promote playwrights and their work. 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. He was a boxing champion, a welder, an actor, a poet, and a playwright. Submission details: Atlanta Shakespeare Co. MUSE OF FIRE BIPOC PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL. Submission details: Little Fish Theatre Pick of the Vine. Founded in 1992 and managed by a volunteer board of directors, Ashland New Plays Festival is a nonprofit theatre that encourages playwrights in the creation of new works through public readings. Family Friendly Submissions between 15 minutes and two hours. Three winning scripts will be selected for fully staged performances during the Windsor Fringe Festival. Submission Method: Email Deadline: 3 / 5 / 2023 Become a member for access to this opportunity and more benefits. Read more The Loft Ensemble seeks plays Submission details: University of Calgary Canadian Writer-in-Residence, Full-length plays and other full-length works for theatre that address the question, What does it mean to be human in a computerized world?, Submission details: The Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting. A panel of judges named by the NETC Executive Board will administer the award. Please know that each and every submission is read by trusted and paid literary personnel within four months. Submission details: Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Awards. 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. Only unproduced works will be accepted. Complete information about Drama Notebook and how the company works with authors can be found on their website. Theatre503 is the home of new writers and a launchpad for the artists who bring their words to life. Playwright's Email address. Plays of any length and any genre are accepted but plays must be unproduced on the West Coast and remain unpublished until after the festival. The winner will be selected in November and will receive $60,000. The Alberta Playwriting Competition is presented by the Alberta Playwrights Network in association with Theatre Alberta. We look forward to hearing from you! 2023 OPEN Submission for Production Consideration Native Voices accept scripts all year long. Each year the Lab welcomes Canadian playwrights and their collaborators, providing each writer with a residency tailored to their specific needs with the goal of nurturing, challenging, and inspiring the next phase of their work. The Foundation accepts applications from painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters, composers, photographers, and filmmakers of national and international origin. Submission details: Green Man Theatre Troupe 10 Minute Play Festival for Midwestern Playwrights. Supplied. 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: Theatre Oxford 10-Minute Play Contest, Full-Length PlaysVermont, New Hampshire or Maine Playwrights. BLOG POST Last Updated on Saturday February 24th, 2023. Submission details: Playwrights Horizons Submission Opportunity. VetRep provides opportunities for veterans interested in writing. Submission details: Bloomington Playwrights Project Woodward/Newman Award. Plays must contain at least 60% heightened language and be longer than 40 minutes. Performing International Plays is a site featuring 20 plays from 6 continents, in 15 languages. We support new and established playwrights and incubate new plays. Last year was our first year running the International Scratchpad program. Four to five finalists are selected for a public Equity. Past winners include prominent playwrights Robertson Davies, John Murrell, Erika Ritter, Catherine Banks and Ken Mitchell. Each session uses discussions, exercises, and a Q&A with a different playwright each month. The winning script in each category will receive a full production, along with a cash prize. 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 . 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. The art is exhibited, we perform the play and ask the audience for feedback. Full-Length Plays with a maximum of 85 minutesPlaywrights 18 years of age and older. Scotland is recognised as one of the world's leading nations for its support and practical action for children's play. Submission details: Red Dragonfly Productions Taking Flight 2022, Full-Length PlaysPlaywrights from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Deleware. Submission deadline August 2, 2022. Premiere Stages is committed to supporting a diverse group of writers, and playwrights of all backgrounds, ages, and experience levels are encouraged to apply. Unfortunately, the Child's Play publishing programme is complete for the foreseeable future and we are unable to accept your work for publication. The festival will be held in August 2023. The conference will examine how UN General Comment No 17 on . Playwrights, composers andlibrettists without representation are welcome. Full-length plays that have not been published or produced professionally. QP is seekingnew plays for Suburban Holidays XI for 2022, our popular annual holiday-themed play festival and fundraiser. The Canadian Writer-in-Residence is expected to spend 50% of their time working on their own writing, and 50% of their time on community outreach, including one-on-one consultations with the public and public lectures or readings. Produced once every two years, ReOrient Festival showcases the diversity of voices and aesthetics from the Middle East and its worldwide diaspora in a curated festival of short plays produced biennially in San Francisco. Submission details: Three Rivers Theatre Company Faith-Based Family Friendly Play Competition. Submission details: Lake Tahoe WordWave One-Act Play Competition, One-Act Plays 25 to 45 minutes in lengthCanadian Playwrights. Submission details: The Premiere Play Festival, Full-Length Plays no longer than 120 minutesUK Writers. Each play selected will be given a black box production with non-Equity actors. The goal of Plays-in-Development is to help playwrights improve plays that have yet to be produced by working with a director and actors and a talkback with the audience after the reading. Submissions must be original full-length plays written in English. Musicals that are complete and ready for readings, workshops and/or productions. Staged readings/workshop productions are not necessarily disqualifying factors. Each year American Blues Theater accepts worldwide submissions of original, unpublished full-length plays. Submission details: Theatre in the Raw One-Act Contest, Full-Lenth plays with a minimum length of 80 minutes.Canadian Playwrights. International submissions are accepted. Theatre 503 is a 63-seat theatre based in Battersea, London. Only musical theatre work will be considered. 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. MUSE OF FIRE BIPOC PLAYWRITING FESTIVAL, The Seymour J. and Ethel S. Frank Festival of New Plays: JETFest, The Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing, Pioneer Drama Service: Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest, Alleyway Theatre Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award, Know Theatre Playwrights and Artists Festival, Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Awards. The development process draws on principles and techniques used during the ONeills renownedNational Playwrights Conference. Applications will be accepted from June 1st June 30th. Please check out the submission guidelines for each festival or playwriting development opportunity before deciding whether or not you want to submit your work. Submission details: Gloucester Stage Play Submissions, Plays a maximum of 60 minutes in length.Playwrights that identify as female. Submissions are now open for the 25th Alfred Fagon Award! Submission details: THEATRE THREE 25th Annual Festival of One-Act Plays (2024). Theatre Roulette is Ohios longest-running shorts festival. That is the beauty of art and the challenge to our playwrights. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading or virtual performance. When we look at a piece of art, each person has a different interpretation. Part of Diversionarys mission is to tell the story of the LGBTQIA+ community, which we accomplish by considering works that have queer characters, themes, or are by queer playwrights. Submission details: Ottawa Little Theatre National One-Act Playwriting Competition. Playwrights maintain full rights over their plays beyond publication and are not held back from further publishing or future productions. The New American Theatre One-Act Play Competition. 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