Below is a list of 12 literary agencies that accept submissions from playwrights.
| Name | Description | Location |
| Access Artiste Management Ltd | Represents a diverse and acclaimed roster of talent in every current and emerging area of entertainment, including Actors, Dancers, Singers, Actor-Musicians, Musical Directors, Directors, Choreographers, Composers, Writers and Playwrights. | London |
| Gurman Agency LLC | Theatrical literary agency representing playwrights, composers, lyricists, directors, designers around the world. | n/s |
| ICM Partners | Represents a diverse group of writers, composers, directors, choreographers, and designers. | LA, NYC, DC, London |
| International Performing Rights Ltd | Literary agency representing only foreign authors, playwrights, film and television writers. Specialises in selling the rights to foreign plays, musicals as well as theatrical adaptation rights for film and book. | London |
| MadCatch Entertainment | Management company representing some of the most amazing theatrically trained actors, singers and writers in the Los Angeles, and NY area. | Los Angeles, California |
| Paradigm Talent Agency | Represents playwrights, directors, set designers and choreographers. | West Hollywood, California |
| Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency, Inc. | A boutique, independent agency representing playwrights, composers, lyricists and a select group of film and television writers. | NYC |
| Sheil Land Associates | Represents playwrights, film and TV writers (including animation and children’s), documentary makers and directors, radio and TV presenters. | London |
| The Curtis Brown Group | A world-renowned literary agency representing leading screen writers, directors, producers, playwrights, and writer-performers. | London |
| The Rohm Agency | Provides literary representation and management for a wide range of authors including novelists, journalists, politicians, scientists, business leaders, screenwriters, filmmakers and playwrights. | New York |
| United Agents | Represents playwrights, screenwriters, directors, composers and producers. | London |
| Washington Square Films | Represents an international roster of actors, directors and writers in the worlds of film, television and theater. | New York & Los Angeles |
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I am a playwright based in NYC seeking literary representation. Here are three of my plays that I would like you to read:
1) SOUVENIR FROM COPENHAGEN, an LGBTQ play, is probably my most commercial play. Here is a brief synopsis:
Souvenir from Copenhagen is a two-act LGBTQ memory play for a cast of 12, with minimal scenery. Set in New York City, we meet David Sinclair, a young gay actor on his way to great success, but now haunted by the memory of his husband, Jonathan, who committed suicide in Copenhagen, in the same hotel room where the two men spent their honeymoon. Jonathan left no suicide note, and David has to find out why Jonathan killed himself.
Along the way, we encounter David’s supportive parents; Jonathan’s homophobic Evangelical parents; Father Ray, a celibate gay priest and once Jonathan’s mentor; Dennis, David’s flamboyant confidant; Nina Nelson, a lesbian in a lavender marriage and an LGBTQ talent agent; Eddy, a Latino nurse and David’s new love interest; Monica, Eddy’s niece, an orphaned teenager in search of an identity; and last but not least, Clarence Littleworth, an elderly, asexual playwright who believes he is Edgar Allan Poe reincarnated. In this comedy-drama, the various characters will help David become not only a better actor, but also a better man.
2) OUR LAST SPRING TOGETHER is a full-length one-act play. Here is a brief synopsis:
Canadian twins, William and Madeleine, octogenarians and both terminally ill, are determined to fulfill their last wishes before it is too late, despite objections from their spouses. The play, tinged with humor, dramatizes the plights, courage and joys of the elderly, a group that is under-represented onstage. Other themes include: same-sex and opposite-sex marriages; love at first sight; the difference between living in a big city and living in a small town; the still controversial issue of physician-assisted suicide; and the importance of leaving a meaningful legacy.
3) STRINDBERG and WOMEN is a three-act play, based on the life and works of the Swedish writer August Strindberg.
Here is a 3-sentence keynote description:
August Strindberg, famous Swedish writer and infamous misogynist, may despise women, but cannot live without them as they are his greatest source of inspiration. Unfortunately, he loses his first wife to a lesbian lover, his second wife to a literary rival, and his third wife to her independence. The play, tinged with humor, dramatizes the emotional and psychological effects of abandonment, fame, sexual passion, and perhaps the beginning of the feminist movement.
Please let me know which plays you are interested in reading, and I will gladly send you an email attachment in pdf format.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Michael C. James
I have written a play of poems, like “Mama Mia, but with “Immortal Poems of the English Language” [edited by Oscar Williams. 30 from that book and two poems that I saw on “Poems from the Underground” in London]. 3 poems in it are still in copyright. I got permission for one for $50. The other two have never done this before as their emails clearly show, asking me what to charge. So I told them about the $50, but they have not replied, nor said no.
I need an agent who knows what is fair and can negotiate the permissions – and represent me to get venues.
At this point, I have recorded most of them and I am closing in on the end. My goal is either a mixed multi-media and live performance – or just the finished video in theaters.
Thank you for reading this and any direction you can give me
jimmy Walter