Below is a list of 10-minute play submissions opps with early 2025 deadlines.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Edmonds Driftwood Players | 10-12 mins | Theme: “CROSSROADS: a choice or event that changed courses” | 3/2/25 | Edmonds, Washington | n/a |
| Black Men Talk Play Festival | 8-10 mins | New and emerging Black male playwrights. | 3/15/25 | Chicago | n/a |
| Broom Street Theater | 10 mins | Plays about the states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, or Washington. | 3/15/25 | Madison, Wisconsin | Prize: $25 |
| Ponder Review | 10-15 pages | Script excerpt or short play. | 3/15/25 | n/a | Fee: $2 |
| T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre | 10 mins | Theme: It Happened | 3/15/25 | NYC | Fee: $5 stipend of $75 |
| Red Bull Theater | max 10 mins | Play that makes use of heightened language, and/or is in conversation with a classical theme, style or story from any cultural tradition. Theme: DEFIANCE | 3/24/25 | NYC | Fee: $10 |
| Weathervane Playhouse | 7-12 mins | Each play must take place on the 2025 set, a subway car. No characters under the age of 16. | 3/31/25 | Akron, Ohio | Fee: $10 Prize: $500 |
| The Coachella Review | 10-12 pages | Publication opp. Also accepts monologues of up to 1,500 words. | 4/4/25 | Coachella Valley, California | n/a |
| Equity Library Theater of New York | max 10 mins | Plays and musicals. Monologues ok, max 4 mins. Int’l submissions ok. Playwrights must produce. | 4/30/25 | NYC | No Fee |
| Emerald Theatre Company | max 10 pages | Original vignettes inspired by the classic nursery rhyme: Monday’s Child | 5/30/25 | Memphis, Tennessee | Fee: $15 Prize: $100 |
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