Below is a list of 15 Chicago-based play submissions opportunities that accept submissions year-round!
Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity |
Adapt Theatre Productions | Full Length | Local playwrights. Adaptations, works by/about people of color, female-identifying and/or gender nonconforming playwrights/artists. |
AstonRep Theatre Company | Full Length | Chicago playwrights are especially encouraged to submit. |
Commission Theatre Co | See right. | Writing samples only. |
eta Creative Arts Foundation | Full Length | Seeking new works to develop and produce. |
Genesis Theatrical Productions | See right. | Synopsis or sample only. |
Goodman Theatre | 10 pages (sample) | Synopsis and sample only. |
Red Theater | 10 pages (sample) | Emerging playwrights. |
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company | Full Length | Translations of foreign-language plays. New versions of existing plays, fictions, histories, memoirs, or other source materials. |
Stage Left Theatre | 10 pages (sample) | Plays that raise debate on political and social issues. |
Steep Theatre Company | 10 pages (sample) | New plays. |
The Side Project | Full Length | Emerging and established playwrights. |
Urban Theater Company | 10 pages (sample) | Scripts that align with the theater’s mission of “creating thought-provoking theater, in the Chicago area.” |
Windy City Playhouse | Full Length | Comedies. |
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble | See right. | Women playwrights. Synopsis submissions only. |
Sideshow Theatre Company | Full Length | Writers in the greater Chicagoland area. |
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Yes – I wish to submit my Musical Play, “YOU GOTTA B LOW YOUR HORN” To Be Heard, 18 Ballads of Truth, Fun and Trust “, based on my Memoir, “Trusting The Song That Sings Within, Pioneer Woman Cantor” .(An excerpt of the song, “My BAR MITzVAH Will Be Sensational” highlights closing credits of film, “Keeping Up With The Steins” ) Will send further pertinent data via e-mail. Hope we Connect.
Sincerely,
Dora Brenner Krakower