Only UNPRODUCED works will be accepted. 
Plays that have had staged readings are eligible.
No adaptations or children’s plays.
Cast size maximum:  8
Length:  40-minutes maximum.  No minimum.
Settings should be simple or suggested.
Playwrights may make multiple submissions. (These need not be made under separate cover.)
Please do not submit works that have been previously submitted.
Scripts must be post-marked by September 30, 2014.

The Grex Group Theatre is pleased to announce our 2nd Annual Insomniacs 24 Hour Play Festival set for October 17th and 18th in at Theatre 54 in New York City!

How Does It Work?

Friday night, October 17th, at 6:30pm we will meet for our Insomniacs orientation meeting. Directors, playwrights, and actors will be introduced and assigned to a groups. The groups will have time to meet and briefly get to know one another before the writing begins!

Submit to Lady Bits: Unsolicited Commentaries on Womanhood, an original piece of collaborative, devised, feminist theater! All college age/older individuals are welcome to submit a 2 to 5 minute monologue about an experience that shaped, defined, or otherwise influenced your perspective on what it means to be a woman in the spaces you inhabit.

The Lark is now accepting submissions for their 2015 Playwrights Week.

The Lark is committed to providing access to all playwrights and is proud to seek out plays that reveal underrepresented and vital perspectives. All playwrights will receive consideration without regard to demographics, professional experience, geographic location or history with the organization. Our Open Access Program serves as the central entry point for play submissions at the Lark and encourages the development of new voices.

Playwrights First announces its 2014-2015 playwright competition.

We require that the one play submitted be by one author, original, full-length, unproduced prior to submission, and in English.

No adaptations, translations or musicals will be accepted.

Please submit a resume of your experience as a playwright with your play.

No electronic submissions will be accepted.

Plays cannot be returned.

Submission period: August 1, 2014 - October 15, 2014

Notification of winner: June 2015

The Castillo Theatre (NYC) sponsors the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest and reading series bi-annually. In its seventh year, the political play contest is intended to encourage the writing of scripts for the stage that engage the political/social/cultural questions affecting the world today and/or historical events and issues that impact on our heritage.

What is Cross My Heart Hope To Die? 

Cross My Heart Hope To Die is a  Broadway bound 4D horror experience where you, the audience, will not only hear and see the production, but you will smell and feel the fear. It is to be written by the Grand Prize winner of the Broadway Comes to the Big Easy contest, as hosted by Big Dreamer Productions.  

Who is Dalton M. Dale, Big Dreamer Productions? 

Institute Fellows will read, see, discuss, and make, all through the lens of our core company principles:

DIFFERENCE: We strive to discover, to do something not known, to make it new. We really mean it and we really do it. We value form-breaking work and artistic originality above all.

QUESTIONING: There are no assumptions in the Institute and in our work. Do you know what a play/production is? We don’t. Let’s locate the assumptions and set them aside. Consider everything.

In celebration of their 5th year anniversary, The Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company is accepting submissions of full-length plays for our mainstage production.

Performances will be held in New York City in May 2015.

We are only accepting original work.

All plays must be production-ready, typewritten, have 1-6 characters, and must have a running time of 90 minutes or less, with minimal scene and set changes.

Any genre (comedy, tragedy, etc) is accepted, but the plays must have a fresh plot, sufficient conflict, and a provocative and engaging text.

Beginning September 2, PlayPenn will be accepting applications for its 2015 new play development conference; we are pleased to request your full length, unproduced script for consideration. Please review the guidelines carefully and completely before making application. Application materials will be accepted between September 2 and September 30, 2014. Your application must be uploaded and complete by September 30, 2014 or it cannot be considered.

Currently, PlayPenn is not considering musicals or plays for young audiences.