At Plays Inverse, we believe that playwriting can be taught, but a unique voice can't. We also believe that cross-pollination within the arts is critically important in fostering new forms of writing and performance. Some of our favorite monologues of the last year were in the form of poems, and some of our favorite dialogue from selections of prose. As a press, we want writers from all genres to consider the unique advantages of dramatic writing, and we want them to know that Plays Inverse is dedicated to supporting experimentation within the form. 

The Franklin Furnace Fund awards grants annually to emerging artists to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York. Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists form all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York. Artists supported by funding from Jerome Foundation must live in the five boroughs of New York City or the state of Minnesota. Full-time students are ineligible. 

Submissions are now being accepted for Capital Repertory Theatre’s Sixth Annual NEXT ACT! NEW PLAY SUMMIT!

Luna Stage is Now Accepting Submissions for the 5th Annual New Moon Reading Series Short Play Festival!

This season, the festival will feature the work of New Jersey-based writers only and will be presented at 7:30pm on Monday, May 15, and Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ.

Luna Stage is now accepting submissions of:

• Monologues of up to 5 minutes in length
• Short Plays between 5 and 10 minutes in length

Corkscrew Theater Festival, currently soliciting submissions, is a brand-new festival to be held in New York City from August 7th to September 3rd at the Paradise Factory Theatre. Presented by The Brewing Dept. and Fortress Productions, Corkscrew will include five fully realized productions receiving eight performances each, along with four reading slots for work to be heard publicly for the first time.

The Outline

Building on the success of our last six festivals, Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival returns in 2017 on Monday, July 24 at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York City.

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Six short plays will be selected from an open submission process and presented in staged readings alongside two new short plays by commissioned writers, ARTHUR KOPIT (Indians, Wings) and DAEL ORLANDERSMITH (Beauty’s Daughter, Yellowman).

PLAYS WILL BE SELECTED BASED ON:

Since 2008, EMERGENYC —the Hemispheric New York Emerging Performers Program— has been training emerging New York-based artists through a yearly program of workshops, lectures and other events. We work with artist-activists who see their work as a vehicle for political expression and social change and who share a vision of New York City and its five boroughs as a portal to hemispheric artistic practices, identities and histories.

Big Apple Theater Festival is a new monthly event which presents a series of 10-12 minute one act plays. Each month the festival will highlight 5 short one act plays from playwrights and cast from the New York City metropolitan area.

Our next festival will take place April 8th, 2017.

Who May Apply? The scholarship is open to U.S. citizens or permanent residents only. Membership in Mystery Writers of America is not required to apply. The McCloy Scholarship is intended for serious aspiring mystery writers who wish to improve their writing skills. Applicants should not have received monetary compensation for novels, short stories, non-fiction, screenplays or play scripts in the crime-writing genre.

Help us crown the Best of the Worst at ANOTHER Taste of Rotten Theatre!   Laughed out of the writer's group?  Great!  Told it would never be staged?  Amazing!  Sure it doesn't work?  WE'LL give it a try!  Dig through your trash with the rest of the rancid meat and find the most terrible, inscrutable, incoherent play you’ve ever written.