Howdy, Playwrights! This could be the busiest time of the year, but I hope that you’ll still find time to send out your plays. Please check out below to find your 33 play submissions opportunities w/ January 2018 deadlines. Happy Holidays! And Happy submitting!
Name | Length | Nature of Opportunity | Deadline | Location | Add’l Info |
| Wilmington Film Mob | max 20 mins | One-act plays. Must be emailed in PDF form to wfmcafenostraseries@gmail.com | 1/1/18 | Wilmington, Delaware | No Fee |
| 8-12 mins | Original, unproduced plays for mature audiences (18+). Comedy, drama, horror, fantasy, sci-fi, parody, and/or musical. | 1/5/18 | Seattle, Washington | Fee: $5 (w/no fee options) | |
| Lotus Lee Foundation | Full Length | Original works, unproduced and unpublished. Children’s plays ok. Open to making use of new technology. | Deadline Extended 2/18/18 | NYC | Fully-produced tour in China. |
| Full Length | New musicals. Workshop opp and staged reading. | 1/7/18 | Muncie, Indiana | n/a | |
| Garry Marshall Theatre | Full Length | Plays that have never had a professional AEA production and have never been published. | 1/7/18 | Burbank, California | Fee: $20, $100 honorarium |
| 45-60 mins | One or multiple-person plays written by women. Shows cannot have had full prods in Indianapolis in the previous six months. | 1/8/18 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Fee: $50 | |
| SETC Ready to Publish Award | Full Length | Opportunity to “pitch” your play or musical. | 1/8/18 | Mobile, Alabama | No Fee |
| max 15 mins | Plays and musicals. Theme: “SEX!” Playwrights must produce. | 1/8/18 | NYC | Fee: $150 if selected ($100 refundable) | |
| Village Playwrights | max 10 mins | Metro New York area playwrights. Theme: “LGBTQ and Valentine’s Day.” Playwrights must produce the reading of their own play. | 1/8/18 | NYC | No Fee |
| max 10 mins | Int’l submissions ok. Any genre. The play should not have been previously produced in any form. | 1/12/18 | Canada | Fee: $15 Prize: $300 | |
| Qu Literary Magazine | max 8000 words | For literary magazine. Excerpts or full pieces written for stage. Unpublished works only. | 1/15/18 | Charlotte, North Carolina | Payment Upon Publication: $100 |
| 10 mins | Young writers with disabilities or ensembles that include a student with a disability. | 1/17/18 | Washington, D.C. | n/a | |
| Jewel Box Theatre | Full Length | Unproduced plays only. | 1/19/18 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Fee: $5 |
| Full Length | The play may not have had more than two prods, must be unpublished, cannot have had more than 10 performances in NYC. | 1/19/18 | NYC | n/a | |
| Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs | 10 mins | Previous performances, prods and/or readings are ok. Must have NO previous publication. Comedy or drama. | 1/20/18 | Bonita Springs, Florida | Fee: $15 |
| 10 mins | 3-week play dev’t opp that culminates in a staged reading. Theme: Immigration | 1/20/18 | NYC | No Fee | |
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| Ars Nova | max 90 mins | Playwrights must produce. Interested in shows that have not yet premiered in New York. | 1/21/18 | NYC | n/a |
| 10 mins | Theme: Can You HEAR Me? | 1/26/18 | NYC | n/a | |
| Fresh Fruit Festival | See right. | Any kind of performance art featuring LGBTQ characters or themes, including full-length plays, one-act plays, and musicals. | 1/29/18 | NYC | No Fee |
| 53 mins | Radio plays. New and established writers, aged 18 or over, living outside the UK. | 1/31/18 | London | Prize: £2200 + trip to London | |
| Centre Stage – South Carolina | 60-120 pages | Open to any playwright. Plays must be unpublished and unperformed. | 1/31/18 | Greenville, South Carolina | Fee: $15 |
| 30-40 mins | Int’l submissions ok. | 1/31/18 | Arundel, UK | No Fee Prize: £250 | |
| Dubuque Fine Arts Players | max 40 mins | Original, unproduced one-act plays that concentrate on character, relationships, and a good story. | 1/31/18 | Dubuque, Iowa | Fee: $20/$15 |
| Full Length | New, unproduced, unpublished plays and musicals on Jewish themes. | 1/31/18 | NYC | n/a | |
| Midland Community Theatre | Full Length | New comedy scripts suitable for production in community theatre. | 1/31/18 | Midland, Texas | Fee: $10 |
| 10-20 mins | Plays suitable for audiences age 5-10. Must be family friendly, no strong language. Must be original, unproduced or unpublished. | 1/31/18 | Newport, Washington | Fee: $10 | |
| Republican Theater Festival | Any length | New plays that present a conservative theme or message and do not stereotype or vilify conservative principles. Previous prods ok. | 1/31/18 | Atlanta, Georgia | n/a |
| 5 mins | The play must speak to Jewish identity, heritage, cultural experiences or values. | 1/31/18 | San Diego, California | No Fee | |
| Seattle Playwrights Salon | 10 mins | Plays that meet the Bechtel test: Two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Playwrights must be female-identifying, with primary residence is Washington State. | 1/31/18 | Seattle, Washington | No Fee |
| Full Length | Original, unpublished plays that have not been performed in Southern California. | 1/31/18 | Culver City, California | Fee: $45 Prize: $100 | |
| Theatre Suburbia | 90-120 mins | Family-friendly mellerdrammer. | 1/31/18 | Houston, Texas | n/a |
| 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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