Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 22 play submission opportunities with August 2019 deadlines.
Check out the opps for short and full-length play submissions (more opps when you become a member).
Note: What’s written below is just a quick rundown of what the theaters are looking for. For complete submission guidelines, please go to their websites by clicking the theater’s name.
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Arkansas Theatre Festival | 60 mins | For Black Box Production. Any genre. Playwrights must produce. | 8/1/19 | Little Rock, Arkansas | Participation Fee: $400 |
| Arkansas Theatre Festival | max 60 mins | For Main Stage Production. Any genre. Playwrights must produce. | 8/1/19 | Little Rock, Arkansas | Participation Fee: $1,500 |
| Black Girlz Productions | max 350 words | Seeking monologues or open letters to a black male. Previous prods ok. Int’l submissions ok. | 8/1/19 | Houston, Texas | No Fee |
| Tennessee Women’s Theater Project | See right. | Full-length plays, musicals, one-acts, short plays, one-woman shows. Women playwrights only. | 8/1/19 | Nashville, Tennessee | Fee: $25 |
| Village Theatre | Full Length | Musicals only (still in development). Seeking professional-level writers. Emerging, mid-career, and master writers are encouraged to submit. | 8/1/19 | Everett/Issaquah, Washington | n/a |
| Native Voices at the Autry | Full Length | Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights. Retreat culminating in public presentations. | 8/5/19 | Los Angeles, California | n/a |
| Polyphone Festival of New and Emerging Musicals | Full Length | Original musicals that are in development. Authors and lead creatives must be based in the NYC or Philadelphia regions during the rehearsal and festival period. | 8/12/19 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | n/a |
| A.D. Players at The George Theater | Full Length | US playwrights / librettists / bookwriters only. Open to all styles and genres. | 8/15/19 | Houston, Texas | $1,000 honorarium |
| Book Pipeline Fiction Competition | Full Length | Open to unpublished and published plays for film/TV adaptation. No genre restrictions. Open to writers worldwide. | 8/15/19 | Santa Monica, California | Fee: $55 Prize: $5,000 |
| Brave New World Repertory Theatre | Full Length | Playwrights must be local to the Tri-state area. Pref. plays that address Women’s Rights and/or Environmental Challenges. | 8/15/19 | Brooklyn, New York | “small stipend” |
| PLAYA | 10-15 pages (sample) | Residency: 2-week, 3-week, or 4-week session. If accepted, each resident is asked to submit a $150 security deposit. Int’l submissions ok. | 8/15/19 | Lake County, Oregon | App Fee: $35 |
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| The Crossroads Project | Full Length | Playwrights of color. One-week new play development workshop culminating in a public staged reading. No restrictions in subject matter or style. | 8/15/19 | Bloomington-Normal, Illinois | No Fee Prize: $500 |
| Theatre Odyssey | 25-35 mins | US playwrights. Comedy, drama, mystery, thriller or monologue. | 8/15/19 | Bradenton, Florida | Fee: $10 Prize: $500 |
| Theatre Viscera | Full Length | Plays written by queer playwrights for queer actors about queer characters. | 8/15/19 | Portland, Oregon | n/a |
| Urban Stages | Full Length | Plays must be written by women-identified playwrights. Encourages casts with a majority of women and plays exploring social issues facing women today. | 8/19/19 | NYC | n/a |
| The Players Theatre Short Play & Musical Festival | max 15 mins | Theme: “Boo!” Horror plays and musicals including a great spoof. Playwrights must produce. | 8/22/19 | NYC | $100 REFUNDABLE deposit + $50 NON-refundable tech fee |
| American Blues Theater | Full Length | Original, unpublished plays. Int’l submissions ok. Adaptations ok. | 8/31/19 | Chicago | Fee: $5 Prize: $1,250 |
| Qu (Queens University of Charlotte) | max 8000 words | For lit magazine. Excerpts or full pieces written for stage. Unpublished works only. | 8/31/19 | Charlotte, North Carolina | Payment Upon Publication: $100 |
| Ten-Minute Musicals Project | 7-25 mins | Original musicals. Previous prods ok. Excerpts from full-length shows ok. Maximum of 10 performers — 5 women and 5 men. Int’l submissions ok. | 8/31/19 | West Hollywood, California | $250 royalty advance |
| Yellow Rose Productions | Full Length, One Act | Original works, not have been previously produced or fully staged. Women playwrights only. | 8/31/19 | Knoxville, Tennessee | Fee: $28 Prize: 1,000 |
| Playwrights Offering Free Feedback | Full Length | Full-length trade program. You must read a play and give feedback, and in return will have an opp to send a play and get feedback from other playwright. | Year Round | n/a | n/a |
| 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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