Website Deadline: June 1, 2024 11:59 p.m ACCEPTING FIRST 200 SUBMISSIONS ONLY Send to: LRE@westhartforduu.org Second Annual Fern Street Play Festival ~ November 1 and 2, 2024 NO FEE Familiar in the neighborhood as the church on Fern Street, The Universalist Church of West Hartford, Connecticut has a history of using theatre to build connections across our own progressive congregation and the local community. We continue to widen the circle of this tradition by inviting voices from far and wide to be part of our second annual play festival. Our mission is to uplift and examine the human ..read more

Website Deadline: June 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM ET  *Please note that the application form on Submittable will automatically close & stop accepting applications at this time. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award is open to New York State playwrights and screenwriters, including those who live within the five boroughs of New York City. Applicants must meet the following criteria:Must be a working playwright or screenwriter. Acceptable forms of playwriting or screenwriting include stageplays, screenplays, teleplays, libretti, radio plays, and audio drama ..read more

Website Deadline: June 1, 2024 SUBMISSION FORM This nine-month course explores the fundamentals of writing book for the musical theatre. Drama Desk Award winning bookwriter Adam Mathias (he/him) unlocks the toolkit for musical theatre librettists. Through lecture, discussion, and assignments students learn how to apply the fundamentals of playwriting to the craft of creating musicals. As a class, writers deep-dive into the DNA of the musical theatre canon — from the Golden Age through today — dissecting what works and why and then applying it to their own work. Applicants should have a bo ..read more

Website Deadline: May 1, 2024 5PM The submission form will be accepted until 5PM, May 1, 2024. The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College – in collaboration with Northern Stage – is excited to announce the 2024 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards for Playwriting, for full-length plays and other full-length works for the theater addressing the question “What does it mean to be a human in a computerized world?”. The award comes with a $5,000 honorarium as well as a 29-hour workshop and public reading produced by Northern Stage (https://northernstage.org/) i ..read more

Website Deadline: July 31, 2024 PlayZoomers, a live, online theater company, seeks short (10-15 min.) holiday scripts for our December 2024 production. We seek light, humorous, clever plays with themes related to Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, or other December holidays. Scripts should be suitable for online production. There will be no script submission fees required. If we produce your play, you will receive a small stipend. Please email scripts to playzoomers@gmail.com  In the email’s subject line, put “Holiday script submission: [title ofplay] by [playwright]”. If you ..read more

Website Deadline: April 29, 2024 at 11pm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murmurationtheatreco/ Submit via Form: https://forms.gle/9ZPsgY9ZzTFfxjFz6 No submission or participation fee No eligibility restrictions; preference given to early-career writers Multiple submissions allowed Murmuration is now accepting work for 2024/2025 consideration in the following categories: (1-45 pages) New Works Showcase: a selection of new short or one-act plays, fully staged and directed by our creative team. (45-140 pages) Mainstage Production: a full length play, produced and directed by our crea ..read more

Website Deadline: June 30, 2024 Our goal in building the North Park Vaudeville and Candy Shoppe was to provide a small theater to produce new, untested plays. In support of this goal we have produced the North Park Playwright Festival each October. The festival provides a platform for brand new, short (ten minute), plays written by playwrights from around the world. Over the past seventeen years more than 600 new plays have been produced. We encourage new directors and actors to become involved in theater through the festival as well. Through the North Park Playwright Festival over ninety pla ..read more

Website Deadline: July 1, 2024 11:59 PM SUBMIT VIA SUBMITTABLE Submissions are open to any playwright whether from South Carolina, the region, country, or from around the world!  Multiple entries per playwright/playwright’s representative is permitted. Playwrights must submit a cover letter along with their script that includes a brief summary of the play, a description of the playwright's connection to South Carolina, and a suggestion of the unique perspective or experience provided by the playwright's body of work. NO entries may be previously published. Likewise, NO entries may have ..read more

Website Deadline: April 26, 2024 at 11:59 PM SUBMIT VIA SUBMITTABLE Is the WP Lab the right fit for you? As a writer, this program is for you if you crave dramaturgical input and creative collaboration both from a director and producer, and if you’re ready to collaborate with storytellers in other mediums to deepen your work. This program is for you, if you’re looking for practical skills in how to strategically and holistically develop your work. LAB STRUCTURE Meetings: The lab consists of two monthly meetings–one full Lab meeting for all three cohorts on the first Monday evening of the m ..read more

  NY THEATER FESTIVAL SPRING/SUMMER and FALL/WINTER 2024 25TH CONTINUOUS SEASON   THE NEW YORK THEATER FESTIVAL COMPETITION  for PLAYS and MUSICALS  TOTAL PRIZES $8,000 • FIRST PRIZE $3,500 • FULL LENGTHS • ONE ACTS • SHORTS • SOLOS Producing your play or musical is the best way to review and develop your work.   TESTIMONIALS https://newyorktheaterfestival.com/testimonials/   ALL PRODUCTIONS CAN OBTAIN A VIDEO RECORDING OF THEIR SHOWS     WE MAKE A VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PRODUCTION AVAILABLE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS – WE USE FOUR CAMERAS SO PAR ..read more