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.

Proposals will be accepted starting September 1st, 2014.
Deadline for artist proposals and script submissions: November 1, 2014
Deadline for regional development grants: December 1, 2014

Notification: March 2015
Award Period: September 8, 2015 - May 27, 2016
Stipend: $70,000

This is a call for short plays (10 minutes) that explore freedom. We invite playwrights to consider different manifestations of freedom, including personal, political, religious, historical, romantic, and philosophical. Dramas and comedies are both welcome. We encourage creative interpretations of the idea.

Plays should be in English and submissions from playwrights outside of the US are strongly encouraged. Plays must not have had New York productions before March 2015.