Howdy, Playwrights! Check out below to find your 27 Play Submissions Opps w/ July deadlines (and late June).
| Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Addt’l Info |
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| What’s On Tom? Productions | 15 mins | Open to established & emerging playwrights. Theme: FAKE | 6/29/18 | Ireland | n/a |
| Playhouse Creatures Theatre Co | Full Length | New works. | 6/30/18 | NYC | Fee: $35 Prize: $500 |
| Steel River Playhouse | Full Length | Non-musical, unpublished plays that have not yet had a professional production. | 6/30/18 | Pottstown, Pennsylvania | n/a |
| Emerging Artists Theatre | See right. | Full length play/musical, one-man show, one-woman show, short musical/play. | 7/1/18 | NYC | n/a |
| Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase | 8-11 mins | Entries may not have been performed for a paying audience. Also accepts submissions from high school students (fee waived). | 7/1/18 | Flagstaff, Arizona | Fee: $12 |
| Panndora Productions | 60+ mins | New works, full length or long one acts, which have not been previously produced. | 7/1/18 | Long Beach, California | Fee: $10 |
| Phoenix Theatre | Full Length | Plays and musicals (both dramatic and comedic) should be original and un-produced. | 7/1/18 | Phoenix, Arizona | Fee: $10 |
| Playing on Air | 10-25 pages | Short comedic play for radio and podcast. Must be original, unproduced. | 7/1/18 | NYC | No Fee Prize: $7,500 |
| Creede Repertory Theatre | 10-20 page excerpt | Young audience outreach tour. Bilingual (English/Spanish) plays are preferred, but not required. | 7/2/18 | Creede, Colorado | n/a |
| New Works Of Merit Playwriting Contest | max 2 hrs | Full-lengths, one-acts, shorts, children’s play, published scripts, scripts that received a workshop, a staged reading, or a production. | 7/31/18 | NYC | Fee: $25 Prize: $300 |
| WordWave One-Act Play Competition | One Act (max 60 mins) | Plays written within the last five years only. Drama or comedy. | 7/3/18 | South Lake Tahoe, California | Fee: $20 Prize: $500 |
| South Street Players | 10-15 mins | Original comedic & dramatic short plays from playwrights in the Tri-State area. Must be suitable for a family theatre. | 7/4/18 | Spring Lake, New Jersey | No royalties or payment |
| Weekend Theater | One Act (10-40 mins) | The playwright must reside in or be a former resident of Pulaski County, the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, or West Gulf Coast Plain regions of Arkansas. The script must not have had a full production in Arkansas AND must address a social justice issue. It can be of comical, dramatic, tragic, mysterious, or absurd nature. | 7/11/18 | Little Rock, Arkansas | Fee: $15 |
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| 3Girls Theatre | Full Length | The playwright must identify as a woman & must reside in the SF Bay Area. At least one full-length professional production required. | 7/15/18 | San Francisco, California | n/a |
| Experimental Theatre Coop | 8-12 mins | Montana playwrights. The play must be brand new, unpublished or unproduced. Theme: Apocalypse | 7/15/18 | Helena, Montana | Prize: $50 |
| Five & Dime Drama Collective | See right. | New, not previously produced 10-min play or one-act play (20-30 mins). | 7/15/18 | Eureka Springs, Arkansas | n/a |
| Manhattan Repertory Theatre | 10-40 mins | Fully produced plays (cast, directed & ready to be performed June 29-August 2018). | 7/15/18 | NYC | Fee: $59 once accepted |
| Pride Films & Plays | Full Length | Playwrights who identify as women. Stories with lesbian characters and themes. The script must not have been professionally produced. | 7/15/18 | Chicago | Fee: $30 Prize: $400 |
| Tennessee Women’s Theater Project | Full Length | Women playwrights only. | 7/15/18 | Nashville, Tennessee | Fee: $25 |
| Native Voices at the Autry | max 15 pages | Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights. Theme: FOOD | 7/20/18 | Los Angeles, California | Prize: $1,000 |
| The Blank Theatre | Full Length | New work by both established and emerging writers. Submissions by women, playwrights of color, and other under-represented voices are strongly encouraged. | 7/21/18 | Los Angeles, California | n/a |
| Funhouse IV | 8-10 mins | Original, unproduced plays for mature audiences. Comedy, drama, horror, fantasy, sci-fi, parody, musical. $40 honorarium. | 7/31/18 | Seattle, Washington | Fee: $5 (w/ no-fee options) |
| Theatre Odyssey | 20-45 mins | The play must be original, unpublished and not previously performed before a paying audience. US playwrights only. | 7/31/18 | Sarasota, Florida | Fee: $20 Prize: $1,000 |
| WildClaw Theatre | max 10 mins | Radio plays, horror. | 7/31/18 | Chicago | Prize: $100 |
| William Faulkner Literary Competition | One Act | Open to all ages. Original, unpublished, one act play, less than one hour. | 7/31/18 | New Albany, Mississippi | Fee: $20 Prize: $600 |
| 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 another playwright’s work and give feedback. | Year Round | n/a | n/a |
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