Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 35 play submission opps with July+ 2024 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Sapphest NYC Summer 2024 | 8-10 mins | Queer woman/sapphic playwrights. Plays inspired by the title of a classic sapphic pop song. | 6/26/24 | Brooklyn, New York | n/a |
| Chain Theatre | 10-60 mins | One-act plays. All themes or genres are welcome. Playwright must produce. | 6/28/24 | NYC | No Fee |
| Actors’ Theatre | max 10 pages | Int’l submissions ok. | 6/30/24 | Santa Cruz, California | Fee: $10 |
| Athena Project | Full Length | Playwright must be a woman. | 6/30/24 | Denver, Colorado | n/a |
| The New Jersey Play Lab | 20 pages (sample) | Plays in all styles and traditions that center around social justice (locally, nationally, or globally). | 6/30/24 | Jersey City, New Jersey | n/a |
| CRY HAVOC Company | 10 pages (sample) | New play dev’t opp, culminating in an Equity 29-hour reading of scripts for the public. Theme: Duets | 6/30/24 | NYC | n/a |
| Fault Line Theatre | max 20 pages (sample) | Dev’t opp. Socially relevant, character-driven plays. | 6/30/24 | NYC | $1,800 stipend |
| Fred Ebb Award | Full Length | Composer/lyricist or composer/lyricist team wishing to create work for the musical theatre. | 6/30/24 | NYC | Prize: $60,000 |
| Hominum Journal | One Act | Publication opp. One-act plays accepted. | 6/30/24 | n/a | n/a |
| IATI | Full Length | Int’l submissions ok. Original works in English or Spanish. | 6/30/24 | NYC | No Fee |
| North Park Playwright Festival | max 12 pages | Int’l submissions ok. Any subject matter. No nudity or off color humor. | 6/30/24 | San Diego, California | No Fee |
| Playhouse on the Square | Full Length | Original plays or musicals. | 6/30/24 | Memphis, Tennessee | Fee: $15 Prize: $750 |
| City Theatre | short plays | US playwrights. Bilingual scripts & 10-min musicals ok. BIPOC, women, and LBGTQ+ playwrights encouraged. Note: Open for submissions until max number of submissions are received. | No deadline (see left) | Miami, Florida | n/a |
| Centre Stage | max 120 pages | Int’l submissions ok. Musicals and plays with music ok. | 7/1/24 | Greenville, South Carolina | n/a |
| Echo Theater Company | 60-150 pages | Non-musical plays. | 7/1/24 | Los Angeles, California | Fee: $40 Prize: $1,000 |
| Frostburg State University | max 40 mins | One-act plays. One person plays are accepted. | 7/1/24 | Frostburg, Maryland | Fee: $20 Prize: $750 |
| New Works, New Voices | Full Length | Musicals by writers and composers whose perspectives have been historically underrepresented in the musical theater canon. | 7/1/24 | Syracuse, New York | n/a |
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| One Night Stand Theater | short play | Plays can be new or old. See website for the themes. | 7/1/24 | Aurora, Colorado | “small honorarium” |
| Pan Theater | max 10 pages | Plays must include a cat in the background. Plays that are dramatic, absurd, comedic, or any combination of all three. | 7/1/24 | Oakland, California | Prize: $100 |
| PLAYA | max 10 pages (sample) | 12 or 26 day residency. Int’l submissions ok. *Provide 3-5 writing work samples with a total of no more than 10 pages. | 7/1/24 | Lake County, Oregon | App Fee: $30 |
| Smith & Kraus | max 10 mins | Plays for the gender minority. Preference will be given to POC, Women, and LGBTQIA writers. | 7/1/24 | n/a | No Fee |
| WordWave One-Act Play Competition | max 60 mins | Plays must be written within the last 5 years. | 7/1/24 | South Lake Tahoe, California | Fee: $30 |
| Exposition Review | max 4 pages | Publication opp. Accepts a complete scene for stage. Theme: Persona | 7/6/24 | California | Fee: $5 “cash prize” |
| Nomad Theatre | 8-12 pages | US playwrights. Plays must be unpublished and unproduced. Theme: The Polling Place | 7/14/24 | Normal, Ilinois | $15 honorarium |
| People’s Theatre Project | One Act | Work-in-progress. Latiné, Black, Queer, and/or immigrant playwrights. Preferably local NYC playwrights. | 7/15/24 | NYC | $1,000 stipend |
| Ucross Foundation | “sample” | Residency. Apps from playwrights accepted. | 7/15/24 | Ucross, Wyoming | App Fee: $40 |
| Soapbox Stage Works | max 10 mins | Int’l submissions ok. | 7/25/24 | Monterey, California | Fee: $15 |
| Midwest Dramatists Center | 10 mins | US playwrights. | 7/30/24 | Olathe, Kansas | No Fee |
| Gather by the Ghost Light | max 20 pages | Horror audio play. Adult language and situations are allowed. Int’l submissions ok. | 7/31/24 | Augusta, Georgia | No Fee |
| Masque & Spectacle | 10 mins | Publication opp. Plays accepted. | 7/31/24 | n/s | n/a |
| PlayZoomers | 10-15 mins | Holiday scripts. Must be suitable for online production. | 7/31/24 | online | No Fee “small stipend” |
| Quannapowitt Players | 10-20 mins | Play submissions should focus on a holiday. Plays featuring children are ok. Must be family friendly. | 7/31/24 | Reading, Massachusetts | $100 stipend |
| Springhouse Journal | max 30 pages | Publication opp. Plays accepted. | 7/31/24 | n/a | n/a |
| William Faulkner Literary Competition | One Act (less than 1 hr) | NO excessive violence, sex or religious extremism. | 7/31/24 | New Albany, Mississippi | Fee: $20 Prize: $600 |
| Trade A Play Tuesday | 10 mins | Send in 10-min play and get same-day feedback. You must also read 10 pages of another playwright’s work, and give thoughtful feedback. Runs every Tuesday. | Year Round | n/a | n/a |
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